I am doing a pub quiz and been challenged to do a 5 question round on popes any help please?

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I am doing a pub quiz and been challenged to do a 5 question round on popes any help please?

Answer 1

You will find enough questions on these websites to do five good questions or even the whole quiz.

Answer 2

Longest-reigning Popes

Pope Pius IX, the longest-reigning pope

Although the average reign of the pope from the middle ages was a decade, a number of those whose reign lengths can be determined from contemporary historical data are the following:

   1. Pius IX (1846–1878): 31 years, 7 months and 23 days (11,560 days).

   2. John Paul II (1978–2005): 26 years, 5 months and 18 days (9,665 days).

   3. Leo XIII (1878–1903): 25 years, 5 months and 1 day (9,281 days).

   4. Pius VI (1775–1799): 24 years, 6 months and 15 days (8,962 days).

   5. Adrian I (772–795): 23 years, 10 months and 25 days (8,729 days).

   6. Pius VII (1800–1823): 23 years, 5 months and 7 days (8,560 days).

   7. Alexander III (1159–1181): 21 years, 11 months and 24 days (8,029 days).

   8. St. Sylvester I (314–335): 21 years, 11 months and 1 day (8,005 days).

   9. St. Leo I (440–461): 21 years, 1 month, and 13 days. (7,713 days).

  10. Urban VIII (1623–1644): 20 years, 11 months and 24 days (7,664 days).

Saint Peter is thought to have reigned for over thirty years (AD 29 - 64?/67?), but the exact length is not reliably known.

Shortest-reigning Popes

Pope Urban VII, the shortest-reigning pope

Conversely, there have been a number of popes whose reign lasted less than a month. The number of calendar days includes partial days. Thus, for example, if a pope's reign commenced on 1 August and he died on 2 August, this would count as having reigned for two calendar days.

   1. Urban VII (September 15–September 27 , 1590): reigned for 13 calendar days, died before consecration.[34]

   2. Boniface VI (April, 896): reigned for 16 calendar days

   3. Celestine IV (October 25–November 10, 1241): reigned for 17 calendar days, died before consecration.

   4. Theodore II (December, 897): reigned for 20 calendar days

   5. Sisinnius (January 15–February 4, 708): reigned for 21 calendar days

   6. Marcellus II (April 9–May 1, 1555): reigned for 22 calendar days

   7. Damasus II (July 17–August 9, 1048): reigned for 24 calendar days

   8. Pius III (September 22–October 18, 1503): reigned for 27 calendar days

   9. Leo XI (April 1–April 27, 1605): reigned for 27 calendar days

  10. Benedict V (May 22–June 23, 964) and Pope John Paul I, (August 26 – September 28, 1978: both reigned for 33 calendar days each.

    * Stephen (March 23–March 26, 752), died of apoplexy three days after his election, and before his consecration as a bishop. He is not recognized as a valid Pope, but was added to the lists of popes in the fifteenth century as Stephen II, causing difficulties in enumerating later Popes named Stephen. He was removed in 1961 from the Vatican's list (see "Pope-elect Stephen" for detailed explanation).