The Da Vinci Code Trivia Quiz

Think you’re a historian on par with Teabing? Test your knowledge on the art and historical references in The Da Vinci Code to see how well you fare.

Leonardo da Vinci’s real name was:

Leonardo Bonhomme

Just simply Leonardo

Leonardo da Vincenzo

Leonardo’s famous drawing of Vitruvian Man was meant to be:

A study on the proportions of human anatomy

The husband of Mona Lisa

Symbolic of the pentagram; the five points of life

In The Da Vinci Code, the book’s historian, Leigh Teabing, states that the Hebrew male deity Jehovah had a female counterpart Shekinah. What is the modern English translation of the word Shekinah?

a feminine form of the Hebrew noun for god

“The one who dwells”

“I am who I am”

Sophie’s character picks up one of Leonardo’s paintings “the Virgin of the Rocks” described as a five foot tall painting commissioned by the nuns of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception. As she pulls the canvas away from the wall it flexes dangerously. Why is this impossible?

The painting is not five feet tall

The Louvre’s security would make touching the painting impossible

The painting is not at the Louvre, but in London

Mary Magdalene, of whom much of the mystery of The Da Vinci Code lies, was actually:

Both a prostitute and demoniac who followed Jesus

A former prostitute who became a follower of Jesus

A former demoniac who became a follower of Jesus

The Council of Nicaea was called by the Roman Emperor Constantine in which year?

325 A.D.

352 A.D.

322 A.D.

The earliest Christian documents that we have copies of are:

The books of the New Testament

The Nag Hammadi Library

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Legends of the Holy Grail stretch back as far as:

Various Christian sects during the first three centuries after Christ

In 1096 when the Knights Templar first formed

In French fiction written in the late twelfth century.

In the movie, the character Silas is an albino assassin working for the Catholic organization Opus Dei. An albino would be a poor choice for an assassin because: