Pause for a Moment

Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11, 20 July 1969.
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The first question relates to today’s date, 20 July. The remainder, which are not date-related, follow on a theme from the first.

One

I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
— Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 on the Lunar surface, 20 July 1969

Why did Buzz Aldrin choose not to mention over the radio that he was taking Holy Communion on the Moon before the first moonwalk?


Two

The god Khnum was once regarded as the guardian of the source of which river?


Three

The Rehat Maryada is a code of conduct in which religion, founded in the late 15th century?


Four

In ancient myth, what God was the father of Heracles?


Five

William and Catherine Booth established an organisation in 1865 that functions as both a Methodist Christian church and an international charity. What is this organisation, and what is its motto?


Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.


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