ADVANCED QUIZ
1. Q. Where was George Washington made a Mason?
Answer
2. Q. When and where did George Washington take his 1st Degree? Answer
3. Q. When did George Washington take his Fellowcraft Degree? Answer
4. Q. Who was the Charter Master of Alexandria Lodge #22 at
Alexandria Va.? Answer
5. Q. What change in the name was made in this lodge? Answer
6. Q. Did George Washington have a Masonic burial? Answer
7. Q. What other Presidents besides Washington took his oath of
office on the Bible belonging to St. John's Lodge of New York City? Answer
8. Q. Who owns the Presidents Bible? Answer
9. Q. Did George Washington ever attain the position of Grand
Master? Answer
10. Q. Who gave General Washington an embroidered apron? Answer
11. Q. What was the last public occasion where George Washington
acted as Master of Ceremonies? Answer
12. Q. Did Washington adhere to the Masonic tradition when he
laid the cornerstone of the Capital building? Answer
13. Q. What Grand Lodge has possession of the Washington Urn? Answer
14. Q. When was the mystic Shrine organized? Answer
15. Q. What is Grotto? Answer
16. Q. How many movable jewels are there? Answer
17. Q. What are the immovable jewels? Answer
18. Q. What are the cardinal virtues? Answer
19. Q. In what degree is the chisel a working tool? Answer
20. Q. What is the significance of the Cable Tow? Answer
21. Q. Did only Freemasons make use of "marks"? Answer
22. Q. What workman's metal tool swam? Answer
23. Q. What is a Plumb Line? Answer
24. Q. What is the indented Tassel? Answer
25. Q. What are the 3 ornaments of a Lodge? Answer
26. Q. What is the definition of Ashlar? Answer
27. Q. What is the covering of a Masonic Lodge? Answer
28. Q. What are the furnishings of a Lodge? Answer
29. Q. What are the 3 principle supports of a Masonic Lodge? Answer
30. Q. Who was the first "Deputized Grand Master in the North
American Colonies"? Answer
31. Q. How is the Grand Master addressed when presiding over the
Grand Lodge? Answer
32. Q. What are the officers of a Grand Lodge? Answer
33. Q. To whom does the property of the Lodge belong upon its
dissolution? Answer
34. Q. Was there any division in the Grand Lodges of the United
States during the War Between the States? Answer
35. Q. Who only may make Masons at sight? Answer
36. Q. What is the badge of office of the Deacons? Answer
37. Q. What is the badge of office of the Stewards? Answer
38. Q. What is the origin of the title Tyler? Answer
39. Q. Which of the Presidents have been Grand Master of his
state? Answer
40. Q. Who was the first native-born American to be made a
Mason? Answer
41. Q. Who was the first Mason recorded as coming to this
country and when? Answer
42. Q. Who was the first Mason, of whose affiliation we have
positive evidence to come to the colonies? Answer
43. Q. What is the oldest thing in the Western Hemisphere of
Masonic interest? Answer
44. Q. What is the oldest Masonic document in the Western
Hemisphere? Answer
45. Q. What is the 1st regular and duly constituted Lodge in
America? Answer
46. Q. Give the date of the oldest existing Masonic record in
America. Answer
47. Q. What did the Masons have to do with the Boston Tea Party? Answer
48. Q. What happened to St. Andrews Lodge on the night of the
Boston Tea Party? Answer
49. Q. What well known Mason and patriot was killed at the
Battle of Bunker Hill? Answer
50. Q. Was Paul Revere our Revolutionary hero and Grand Master
of Mass. of English decent? Answer
51. Q. What action did the Lodges in the colonies take during
the War of Independence? Answer
52. Q. How were Lodges operating in the colonies prior to 1730? Answer
53. Q. What Lodge did Benjamin Franklin join during his long
residence in Paris? Answer
54. Q. What famous French nobleman, who was an officer in the
American army, was a mason? Answer
55. Q. How did the Colonial Lodges take sides in the
Revolutionary War? Answer
56. Q. What was the alleged reason for the succession of the
Ancients at the time of the schism of 1738? Answer
57. Q. When did the "Ancients" begin to operate in the state of
Pa.? Answer
58. Q. Do any of the States continue to use the work of the
"Ancients"? Answer
59. Q. What Lodge in Va. has the distinction of holding the
oldest charter in that state? Answer
60. Q. How many lodges have been charted in the original 13
colonies at the close of the Revolution in 1783? Answer
61. Q. What is the 1st Lodge of which we have documentary
evidence in Canada? Answer
62. Q. When was the cornerstone of the Capital laid? Answer
63. Q. Give the location of the first Masonic Temple in America. Answer
64. Q. Which is the best known of the military Lodges? Answer
65. Q. Did the British and Colonial troops exchange Masonic
Courtesies during the War of Independence? Answer
66. Q. When did Mass. discontinue giving numbers to Lodges under
its Jurisdiction? Answer
67. Q. Is there any historic record of a Mason saving his life
through the use of a Masonic Sign? Answer
68. Q. Who was Nebuchadnezzar? Answer
69. Q. What is the Biblical definition of the title Rabbi? Answer
70. Q. What is a yod? Answer
71. Q. What 2 tribes constituted the Kingdom of Judea? Answer
72. Q. What was psaltery? Answer
73. Q. What was the idol most chosen by the Hebrews on one of
their periodic defections to idolatry? Answer
74. Q. What were the boundaries of Canaan? Answer
75. Q. How many words in the Old Testament are there? Answer
76. Q. How many books are there in the old Testament? Answer
77. Q. When was the King James or Authorized Version of the
Bible published? Answer
78. Q. Who were the Ammonites? Answer
79. Q. What Lodge was known as the Mother Lodge in the days of
Pioneering ? Answer
80. Q. What is the root of the word Lodge? Answer
81. Q. Which is the northernmost Masonic Lodge in the U.S.A.? Answer
82. Q. Has there ever been a uniform work all over the 50
states? Answer
83. Q. Why is at he floor of a Lodge and oblong square? Answer
84. Q. What is the principal link binding all Masonic Lodges
everywhere? Answer
85. Q. Are there any insurance benefits in Masonry? Answer
86. Q. Can a woman be a mason? Answer
87. Q. What is the meaning of "Brithering"? Answer
88. Q. What is the difference between Esoteric and Exoteric
Masonry? Answer
89. Q. What does the ground floor of the Lodge represent? Answer
90. Q. What is called a Clandestine Lodge? Answer
91. Q. What is Masonic Law in relation to "Clandestinisum? Answer
92. Q. In which of the states are there some Lodges without
names, using only numbers? Answer
93. Q. Who presides over the Lodge when called from labor to
refreshment? Answer
94. Q. Is the use of any kind of decorations on a Masonic apron
proper? Answer
95. Q. What is the meaning of the "Substitute Word "? Answer
96. Q. Do you know the difference between a cowan and an
eavesdropper? Answer
97. Q. Where is Joppa? Answer
98. Q. What was the location of Ethiopia? Answer
99. Q. Is the choice of Ethiopia as a place to hide regarded by
Masonic historians as a good one? Answer
100. Q. What is the location of the land of Nod? Answer
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ANSWERS
Answer 1. In Fredericksburg Lodge in Va. At the 3rd or 4th
communication after its organization, which took, place Sept. 1, 1752
Question
Answer 2. Nov4, 1752. At the Lodge at Fredericksburg, Va. The
record of the lodge, still in existence shows that he paid the fee of 2
pounds,3 shillings Question
Answer 3. March 3, 1753 and on August 4 following the record shows
that he was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason. Question
Answer 4. Gen. George Washington Question
Answer 5. In 1805 the name was changed to Alexandria-Washington
Lodge #22 Question
Answer 6. Washington was buried with Masonic honors at Mt. Vernon 4
days after his death. With one exception all of the pallbearers were members
of Lodge #22 Question
Answer 7. Warren G. Harding who was also a mason. Question
Answer 8. St. John's Lodge #1 N.Y., N.Y. Question
Answer 9. No. When the Convention of the Lodges of Va. Nominated
him as Grand Master of the Independent Grand Lodge of the Commonwealth,
Washington declined the honor. Question
Answer 10. Madame Lafayette, the wife of the Marquis, who sent from
Paris to George Washington at Mt. Vernon. It is now in possession of the
Washington Benevolent Society of Philadelphia. Question
Answer 11. At the laying of the cornerstone of the Capital in
Washington D.C. September 18, 1793 Question
Answer 12. No. The cornerstone was laid at the Southeast Corner. Question
Answer 13. The Mass. Grand Lodge. It bears the following
inscription: This urn encloses a lock of hair of the Immortal Washington.
PRESENTED JAN.27 1800 to the Mass. Grand lodge by HIS amiable WIDOW. Born
2-11-1732 obt.12-14-1799. Question
Answer 14. Wm. J. Florence, the actor, on a tour to the near East in
1870, meet the Sultan in Cairo Egypt. The Sultan, who was head of a society
after which the Shrine was patterned, was intrigued by Florence's whit and
charm and had him inducted in the order. Florence upon his return to America
had the ritual translated into English, and with Dr. Walter M. Fleming, he
became a co-founder of the Mystic Shrine. Membership from its inception was
confined to either Knights Templar or Scottish Rite Masons, to insure a
"select" class of men to compose its membership Question
Answer 15. An organization similar to the Shrine, of no connection
with Masonry, excepting that qualification for membership. It is the
playground of Blue Lodge Masons as membership in the higher Degrees is no
necessary qualification.. It is known as the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets
of the Enchanted Realm. Its main concern is to forget your troubles and have
a hilarious time. It started in Hamilton, N.Y. in 1899 Question
Answer 16. 3 the rough Ashlar, the Perfect Ashlar, and the Trestle
board. Question
Answer 17. The Plumb, Square, and Level. Question
Answer 18. Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice. Question
Answer 19. In the Mark Master Degree. Question
Answer 20. This was called "cable rope" in the old rituals. Cable
Tow is from the German "Kabel Tau", is symbolic of the cord binding
thee new
born infant to it's mother, and the tie by which the initiate is attached to
his Mother Lodge. Question
Answer 21. No. They were in use by practically all of the building
craftsmen. Question
Answer 22. The Axe, caused to swim by Elisha. (II Kings 6:6) Question
Answer 23. A line to which a piece of lead is attached to cause it
to hang perpendicularly, a working tool of a Fellowcraft. Question
Answer 24. The tessellated border, one of the 3 principal ornaments.
Question
Answer 25. The Mosaic Pavement, the Indented Tassel, and the Blazing
Star. Question
Answer 26. A free stone as it comes out of the quarry. Question
Answer 27. We are told in the lectures that our ancient brethren met
in a high hill or a low vale; hence the covering must have been the
overhanging vault of heaven. So in the symbolism of Masonry the covering of
the Lodge is said to be " a clouded canopy or starry decked heaven.
Question
Answer 28. The Holy Bible, Square and Compasses with the Charter
from the Grand Lodge. Question
Answer 29. Beauty to adorn it, Strength to support it and Wisdom to
contrive it. Question
Answer 30. Daniel Coxe, in 1730. However there is no record of his
having officiated as such. He was a member of Lodge #8 in London, at the
Devil Tavern within Temple Bar. Question
Answer 31. Most Worshipful (except Pa. Where the Ancient Right
Worshipful is used). All officers below Grand Master are addresses as Right
Worshipful. Question
Answer 32. Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, Senior Grand Warden,
Junior Grand Warden, Grand Treasurer, and Grand Secretary. Two each Grand
Deacons and formed by the Grand Master is said to be done "in ample
form". Question
Answer 33. As the Lodge owes its existence and all rights and
prerogatives to the Grand Lodge from whom it received its Charter or
Warrant, it is a principle of Masonic Law that when such a Lodge ceases to
exist, either by withdrawal or surrender of its Charter, all of the property
reverts to the Grand Lodge. Should the Lodge be restored by revival of its
Charter, its property should be returned because the Grand Lodge held it
only as a trustee. Question
Answer 34. No. Question
Answer 35. Grand Masters. The prerogative of the Grand Master to
make masons at sight is described as the 8th landmark of the Order. It is
but right to say that this doctrine is not universally received as
established by the Craft. Question
Answer 36. The Senior Deacon carries a rod and wears as a jewel of a
square and compass with the sun in the middle. The Junior Deacon also has a
rod and has a somewhat similar jewel excepting that the square and compass
has a moon in the center. Question
Answer 37. They carry a rod and the jewel of their office is the
cornucopia, which is the symbol of plenty. Question
Answer 38. He was called Tiler or Tyler because the man who put the
roof or tiles completed the building secure from intrusion, so the officer
who guarded the door, by analogy was named Tiler Question
Answer 39. Andrew Jackson, who had been Grand Master of Tenn. and
Harry S. Truman who has been Grand Master of Missouri. Question
Answer 40. Jonathan Belcher. Born in Boston in 1681 and graduated
from Harvard about 1699. During a visit to England he received his Masonic
degrees in 1704. He was governor of Mass. and New Hamp. For over 10 years,
and was a man of standing in civil and political life in his community.
Question
Answer 41. John Moore, the Kings collector at the port of
Philadelphia, who in a letter to James Sandllands, Esq. Of Chester, Pa.
wrote under date of 3-10-1715,"Ye winter has been very long and dull and we
have no mirth or pleasure except a few evenings spent in festivity with my
Masonic Brethren". Question
Answer 42. John Skane, merchant who was a member of Aberdeen Lodge,
Scotland in 1670 migrated to New Jersey in 1682 Question
Answer 43. A flat slab of rock found on the shore of Goat Island in
Annapolis Basin of Nova Scotia by Dr. Charles T. Jackson while making a
survey in 1827. On it were cut the date 1606 with the emblem of the square
and compass. Question
Answer 44. The ledger of St. John's Lodge, Philadelphia, Pa. for the
year 1731 Question
Answer 45. First Lodge in Boston, 7-30-1733. Question
Answer 46. 1st Lodge in Boston 12-27-1738. Question
Answer 47. All who participated were Masons and the entire planning
was done in a Masonic Lodge. Question
Answer 48. It was the night of their stated communication and the
record for that meeting states" that the Lodge was closed until the next
night on account of the few members in attendance". Question
Answer 49. General Warren, who was Worshipful Master of his Lodge.
HE died 6-17-1775. Question
Answer 50. No, he was born in Boston son of a French Nobleman,
Rivoire de Romegneu, who after suffering financial reverses became a
silversmith and became plain Monsieur Rivoire. Question
Answer 51. The Mass. Grand Lodge declared its independence in early
1777, and established itself as a Sovereign Grand Lodge, this was
immediately followed by Virginia, and within a few years each state had its
own Grand Lodge. Question
Answer 52. By what is called a prescriptive right. It was not until
1733 that there was any legal authority to constitute Lodges according to
the English regulations adopted in 1717. Question
Answer 53. The Lodge of the Nine Muses of which many literary
celebrities were also members. It was in this lodge that he participated in
the initiation of Voltaire. Question
Answer 54. Marquis de Lafayette, who General Washington made a mason
in the army lodge at Valley Forge. Question
Answer 55. In most of the Colonies the "Ancients" favored the
revolutionist and the "Moderns" were loyal to King George III
Question Answer 56.
Question
Answer 57. In 1758 Question
Answer 58. Pa. continues the work as it was done prior to the union
of the Grand Lodges. Question
Answer 59. Kilwinning Crosse Lodge #2-237-1 dated December 1, 1775.
The name used in the application for charter was "Kilwinning Port Royal
Crosse Lodge". They received a 2nd charter from the Grand Lodge of Va.
12-3-1796. Becoming dormant it received a 3rd charter 12-122-1865 but lived
only 4 years. It is now operating under a 4th charter issued 12-14-1881. It
is now #237 and all of these charters are in possession of the present
Lodge. During the Civil War, Union troops raided the Lodge rooms and carried
away much of the belongings, some of the articles were restored in 1885 and
1887 which had originally come from Scotland. The records from 1754 to 1859
were found in an Antiquarian shop in Philadelphia in 1909. These records
furnish the data given here. Question
Answer 60. 167. The Grand Lodges of England, Scotland and Ireland or
subordinate Grand Lodges chartered all of them Question
Answer 61. St John's Grand Lodge of Mass. Established a Lodge at
Annapolis, under date of 1740. His Excellency Edward Cornwallis was First
Master. It is an interesting historical fact that Edward Cornwallis was
uncle to the Lord Cornwallis who surrendered to George Washington at
Yorktown in 1781. Question
Answer 62. Sept 18,1763, with Masonic Ceremonies, conducted by the
President, Brother George Washington, who came up from Alexandria,
accompanied by Alexandria Lodge #39 and was joined by Potomac Lodge #9. The
gavel used on that occasion, made by one of the workmen, was presented to
General Washington, after the ceremonies it was given to the Worshipful
Master of Potomac Lodge #9 and has been in the possession of that Lodge ever
since. Question
Answer 63. It was erected in 1784 on Lodge Alley, near 2nd and
Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Question
Answer 64. American Union Lodge, warranted in 1776 by St. John's,
Grand Lodge of Mass. This Lodge followed throughout the Revolution, and then
into the Northwest Indian Campaigns. It is still in existence as American
Union Lodge #1 of Marietta, Oh. Its war time records are preserved and make
most interesting reading. Question
Answer 65. Yes. Once the British, during a retreat after a battle,
left the emblems of their Lodge and a copy of their constitution behind.
Gen. Washington returned them with an escort and guard of honor. This is
only one of a number of similar occasions. Question
Answer 66. Up to 1804 there were Lodges of both English and Scottish
charters. When these were merged, they ceased giving numbers, to avoid any
questions of seniority. Question
Answer 67. Yes. General Israel Putnam was about to be tortured at
the stake by the Indians under the French command. A French officer
recognized the sign and caused his release immediately. Question
Answer 68. A king of Babylon, who in the 11th year of the reign of
Zedekiah, King of Judah, captured Jerusalem after a siege of about 12
months. The city was destroyed and most of the citizens taken as captives to
Babylon. Question
Answer 69. A teacher and interpreter of the law. It was a title of
great honor. Question
Answer 70. A Hebrew letter phonetically equivalent to i or y. In
symbolic Masonry the letter G has replaced the yod, but in the higher
degrees it is retained and within a triangle is the symbol of Deity.
Question
Answer 71. The tribes of Benjamin and Judah. Known as the Davidian
dynasty. Question
Answer 72. A stringed musical instrument used by the ancient
Hebrews. Question
Answer 73. Baal or Bael or Belus, chief divinity representing the
sun among the Phoenicians. Question
Answer 74. Low Country. Original boundaries were Mt. Lebanon,
Arabia, the Jordan, and at some points the Mediterranean. At the coming of
Christ it was divided into 5 providences: Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Perea,
and Idumea, being 180 miles long and 75 miles wide. Question
Answer 75. 592,439 Question
Answer 76. 39 Question
Answer 77. In 1611. It has been said that Shakespeare and the King
James version will preserve the English language for all time. Question
Answer 78. Descendants of Lot, and the perennial enemies of the
ancient Hebrews. Question
Answer 79. Western Star Lodge #107, at Kaskaskia, on the Mississippi
in what is now the state of Ill. The Grand Lodge of Pa. chartered it in
1805. Due to conditions of travel in those days the dispensation did not
reach Kaskaskia until 1806. Question
Answer 80. It cones from the Sanskrit "loga" which in the sacred
language of the Ganges, signifies "world", of which every lodge is a
representation, to what we call Lodge the Persians gave the name "Jehan"
whence by corruption comes our expression, a Lodge of St. John. Question
Answer 81. The Lodge in Fairbanks, Alaska. Question
Answer 82. No. The adoption of a uniform ritual throughout all the
50 states in all probability will never occur. Question
Answer 83. Because it is half as wide as it is long. Patterned after
the Ark of the Covenant, Moses had made for the children of Israel on their
journey to the Promised Land. Question
Answer 84. Lawful authority. No Lodge can be formed and work without
this essential element. Question
Answer 85. No. Question
Answer 86. According to Masonic law, No. However in France and many
Latin American countries women have been made Masons. The Hon. Mrs. Aldworth
was initiated in Doneraile Ireland, in 1734. Another authenticated case is
that of Mrs. Beanton, who died in Norwitch, England in 1802 at the age of
85. Both of these women had acquired Masonic secretes surreptitiously and
were compelled to submit to initiation. Question
Answer 87. The Scotch word for Masonic initiation. Question
Answer 88. That secret portion of Masonry, which is known only to
the initiates, is esoteric as distinguished from exoteric or monitorial. The
words are from the Greek and were first used by Pythagoras who divided his
classes according to the degrees of knowledge they had attained. Question
Answer 89. Mt Moriah, on which the Temple of Solomon was built. Question
Answer 90. A body of Masons uniting in a lodge without the consent
of the Grand Lodge, or even if legally constituted to continue to work after
its Charter has been revoked. Question
Answer 91. Regular Masons are forbidden to converse with clandestine
Masons on Masonic matters. Question
Answer 92. 12 Lodges in Pa. Jurisdiction that have numbers only. Question
Answer 93. The Junior Warden. Question
Answer 94. No. All extraneous ornaments and devices are in bad
taste, and distract from the symbolic characters of the investiture.
Question
Answer 95. It is a symbol of the unsuccessful search after "Divine
Truth" and the attainment in this life, of which the first temple is a
type. Question
Answer 96. Cowan, a purely Masonic term technically means an
intruder whereas eavesdropper signifies an unauthorized listener. The word
came to England from the Scotch Operatives as a term of contempt. Question
Answer 97. A town of Palestine about 40 miles west of Jerusalem.
This was the port to which the King of Tyre sent his ships with materials
for King Solomon's Temple Question
Answer 98. A tract of country to the south of Egypt and watered by
the upper Nile. Question
Answer 99. No. The selection of Ethiopia as a refuge by the
ritualist seems to be inappropriate, when we consider the character of that
country in the age of Solomon. Question
Answer 100. The mysterious land of which Cain journeyed after killing
Abel (Genesis 6:1-16) Question
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