Bible trivia questions and answers
130 questions for every age, from Noah's ark to Paul's shipwreck. Play a random round of 15 below, or pick a set for your group. Every answer comes with its Bible verse.
Who built the ark?
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Bible Trivia for Kids
1. Who built the ark?
Answer: Noah — Genesis 6:14
2. What did God make on the first day?
Answer: Light — Genesis 1:3
3. What was the name of the first man?
Answer: Adam — Genesis 2:19
4. What was the name of the first woman?
Answer: Eve — Genesis 3:20
5. What sign did God put in the sky after the flood?
Answer: A rainbow — Genesis 9:13
6. Who was swallowed by a great fish?
Answer: Jonah — Jonah 1:17
7. Which young shepherd defeated the giant Goliath?
Answer: David — 1 Samuel 17:50
8. Who was put in a den of lions?
Answer: Daniel — Daniel 6:16
9. Who led the people of Israel out of Egypt?
Answer: Moses — Exodus 3:10
10. What special coat did Jacob give Joseph?
Answer: A coat of many colours — Genesis 37:3
11. Whose strength was in his long hair?
Answer: Samson — Judges 16:17
12. What instrument did David play for King Saul?
Answer: A harp — 1 Samuel 16:23
13. In which town was Jesus born?
Answer: Bethlehem — Matthew 2:1
14. Who was the mother of Jesus?
Answer: Mary — Matthew 1:18
15. How many disciples did Jesus choose?
Answer: Twelve — Luke 6:13
16. What did Jesus walk on?
Answer: Water — Matthew 14:25
17. What did Jesus turn water into at a wedding?
Answer: Wine — John 2:9
18. What food did Jesus use to feed five thousand people?
Answer: Five loaves and two fishes — Matthew 14:17
19. Which short man climbed a tree to see Jesus?
Answer: Zacchaeus — Luke 19:4
20. Who betrayed Jesus?
Answer: Judas Iscariot — Matthew 26:14
21. On which day did Jesus rise again?
Answer: The third day — 1 Corinthians 15:4
22. What is the first book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis — Genesis 1:1
23. What is the last book of the Bible?
Answer: Revelation — Revelation 22:21
24. How many of every sort of animal did Noah bring into the ark?
Answer: Two — Genesis 6:19
25. What did God rest from on the seventh day?
Answer: All his work — Genesis 2:2
Bible Trivia for Adults
1. Who lived longer than anyone else recorded in the Bible?
Answer: Methuselah — Genesis 5:27
2. Who walked with God and was taken, without dying?
Answer: Enoch — Genesis 5:24
3. Who interpreted Pharaoh's dreams of the fat and lean cattle?
Answer: Joseph — Genesis 41:25
4. What did Esau sell to Jacob for a meal?
Answer: His birthright — Genesis 25:33
5. For how much was Joseph sold by his brothers?
Answer: Twenty pieces of silver — Genesis 37:28
6. Who was the brother of Moses?
Answer: Aaron — Exodus 4:14
7. Whose walls fell down after Israel marched around them?
Answer: Jericho — Joshua 6:20
8. Who led Israel into the promised land after Moses died?
Answer: Joshua — Joshua 1:2
9. Who was the first king of Israel?
Answer: Saul — 1 Samuel 10:1
10. Which prophet confronted King David about Bathsheba?
Answer: Nathan — 2 Samuel 12:1
11. What did Solomon ask God to give him?
Answer: An understanding heart — 1 Kings 3:9
12. Who built the first temple in Jerusalem?
Answer: Solomon — 1 Kings 6:14
13. On which mountain did Elijah defeat the prophets of Baal?
Answer: Mount Carmel — 1 Kings 18:19
14. Which prophet was taken up to heaven by a whirlwind?
Answer: Elijah — 2 Kings 2:11
15. Who was the mother of John the Baptist?
Answer: Elisabeth — Luke 1:57
16. Which tax collector left his work to follow Jesus?
Answer: Matthew — Matthew 9:9
17. Who is called "the beloved physician"?
Answer: Luke — Colossians 4:14
18. Who was the first to walk on water toward Jesus?
Answer: Peter — Matthew 14:29
19. Whom did Jesus raise from the dead after four days in the tomb?
Answer: Lazarus — John 11:39
20. In which garden did Jesus pray before he was arrested?
Answer: Gethsemane — Matthew 26:36
21. Which disciple denied Jesus three times?
Answer: Peter — Matthew 26:75
22. Who washed his hands before the crowd at Jesus' trial?
Answer: Pilate — Matthew 27:24
23. Who was made to carry the cross of Jesus?
Answer: Simon of Cyrene — Matthew 27:32
24. Who was the first Christian martyr?
Answer: Stephen — Acts 7:59
25. On the road to which city was Saul converted?
Answer: Damascus — Acts 9:3
26. By what other name was Saul of Tarsus known?
Answer: Paul — Acts 13:9
27. What did Isaac's son Jacob do to receive his father's blessing?
Answer: Pretended to be Esau — Genesis 27:19
28. Who was the father of King David?
Answer: Jesse — 1 Samuel 16:1
29. What was the name of the giant David defeated?
Answer: Goliath — 1 Samuel 17:4
30. Which disciple wanted to see the nail prints before he would believe?
Answer: Thomas — John 20:25
Hard Bible Trivia
1. Who was the father of Methuselah?
Answer: Enoch — Genesis 5:21
2. How old was Methuselah when he died?
Answer: 969 years — Genesis 5:27
3. Which king of Salem brought out bread and wine to Abram?
Answer: Melchizedek — Genesis 14:18
4. Who was Jacob's first wife?
Answer: Leah — Genesis 29:25
5. What was the name of Moses' wife?
Answer: Zipporah — Exodus 2:21
6. Which left-handed judge killed Eglon, king of Moab?
Answer: Ehud — Judges 3:15
7. Who was the high priest at Shiloh when Samuel was a boy?
Answer: Eli — 1 Samuel 3:1
8. Who was the servant of the prophet Elisha?
Answer: Gehazi — 2 Kings 4:12
9. What was Daniel's Babylonian name?
Answer: Belteshazzar — Daniel 1:7
10. Which king saw a hand writing on the wall during a feast?
Answer: Belshazzar — Daniel 5:5
11. Which prophet was told to marry Gomer?
Answer: Hosea — Hosea 1:3
12. What is the longest name in the Bible?
Answer: Maher-shalal-hash-baz — Isaiah 8:1
13. What is the shortest verse in the King James Bible?
Answer: Jesus wept. — John 11:35
14. Who was the father of John the Baptist?
Answer: Zacharias — Luke 1:13
15. What was the name of the servant whose ear Peter cut off?
Answer: Malchus — John 18:10
16. Who was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot?
Answer: Matthias — Acts 1:26
17. Whom did Peter raise from the dead at Joppa?
Answer: Tabitha — Acts 9:40
18. In which city were the disciples first called Christians?
Answer: Antioch — Acts 11:26
19. Which seller of purple from Thyatira was baptized in Philippi?
Answer: Lydia — Acts 16:14
20. Which young man fell from a third-floor window while Paul preached?
Answer: Eutychus — Acts 20:9
21. On which island was Paul shipwrecked?
Answer: Melita — Acts 28:1
22. Which two of the twelve spies brought a good report?
Answer: Joshua and Caleb — Numbers 14:6
23. What did Gideon use to ask God for a sign?
Answer: A fleece of wool — Judges 6:37
24. Who was the mother of the prophet Samuel?
Answer: Hannah — 1 Samuel 1:20
25. On which island was John when he wrote Revelation?
Answer: Patmos — Revelation 1:9
Jesus Quiz
1. In which town did Jesus grow up?
Answer: Nazareth — Matthew 2:23
2. Who baptized Jesus in the river Jordan?
Answer: John the Baptist — Matthew 3:13
3. What descended upon Jesus like a dove at his baptism?
Answer: The Spirit of God — Matthew 3:16
4. How many days did Jesus fast in the wilderness?
Answer: Forty — Matthew 4:2
5. Where did Jesus do his first miracle?
Answer: Cana of Galilee — John 2:11
6. Where did Jesus preach the Sermon on the Mount?
Answer: On a mountain — Matthew 5:1
7. How does the prayer Jesus taught begin?
Answer: Our Father which art in heaven — Matthew 6:9
8. What did Jesus say to calm the storm?
Answer: Peace, be still — Mark 4:39
9. Jesus said, "I am the bread of ..."
Answer: life — John 6:35
10. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the ..."
Answer: life — John 14:6
11. Jesus said, "I am the good ..."
Answer: shepherd — John 10:11
12. On what did Jesus ride into Jerusalem?
Answer: A colt — Mark 11:7
13. What did Jesus share with his disciples at the Last Supper?
Answer: Bread and the cup — Matthew 26:26
14. Which Roman governor sentenced Jesus?
Answer: Pontius Pilate — Matthew 27:2
15. What title was written above Jesus on the cross?
Answer: THE KING OF THE JEWS — Matthew 27:37
16. Who asked Pilate for the body of Jesus and buried him?
Answer: Joseph of Arimathaea — Matthew 27:58
17. On which day after his death did Jesus rise again?
Answer: The third day — 1 Corinthians 15:4
18. From which mount did Jesus' disciples return after he was taken up?
Answer: The mount called Olivet — Acts 1:12
19. How many lepers did Jesus heal at once, of whom only one returned to give thanks?
Answer: Ten — Luke 17:17
20. What did Jesus say is the first and great commandment?
Answer: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart — Matthew 22:37
Women of the Bible Quiz
1. Who was the first woman?
Answer: Eve — Genesis 3:20
2. Who laughed when she heard she would have a son in her old age?
Answer: Sarah — Genesis 18:12
3. Who was the mother of the twins Esau and Jacob?
Answer: Rebekah — Genesis 25:28
4. Who was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin?
Answer: Rachel — Genesis 35:24
5. Who was the sister of Moses and Aaron, a prophetess who led the women in song?
Answer: Miriam — Exodus 15:20
6. Who hid the two Israelite spies on her roof in Jericho?
Answer: Rahab — Joshua 2:4
7. Which prophetess judged Israel under a palm tree?
Answer: Deborah — Judges 4:4
8. Who defeated the captain Sisera with a tent peg?
Answer: Jael — Judges 4:21
9. Who betrayed Samson to the Philistines?
Answer: Delilah — Judges 16:18
10. Who said, "whither thou goest, I will go"?
Answer: Ruth — Ruth 1:16
11. Who prayed for a son at Shiloh and gave him to serve the LORD?
Answer: Hannah — 1 Samuel 1:20
12. Which wise woman, the wife of Nabal, later married David?
Answer: Abigail — 1 Samuel 25:3
13. Which queen came to test Solomon with hard questions?
Answer: The queen of Sheba — 1 Kings 10:1
14. Which wicked queen was the wife of King Ahab?
Answer: Jezebel — 1 Kings 16:31
15. Which Jewish queen risked her life to save her people?
Answer: Esther — Esther 4:16
16. Which sister sat at Jesus' feet while Martha served?
Answer: Mary — Luke 10:39
17. To whom did the risen Jesus appear first?
Answer: Mary Magdalene — Mark 16:9
18. Which widow and prophetess served God in the temple with fastings and prayers?
Answer: Anna — Luke 2:37
19. Which disciple at Joppa was full of good works and almsdeeds?
Answer: Tabitha (Dorcas) — Acts 9:36
20. Which woman worked as a tentmaker with her husband Aquila?
Answer: Priscilla — Acts 18:2
Ten Commandments Quiz
1. On which mountain did God give Moses the Ten Commandments?
Answer: Mount Sinai — Exodus 19:20
2. On what were the commandments first written?
Answer: Two tables of stone — Exodus 31:18
3. What wrote the first tables of the testimony?
Answer: The finger of God — Exodus 31:18
4. Which commandment comes first in Exodus 20?
Answer: Thou shalt have no other gods before me — Exodus 20:3
5. Which day are we told to remember and keep holy?
Answer: The sabbath day — Exodus 20:8
6. What promise comes with the command to honour your father and mother?
Answer: That thy days may be long upon the land — Exodus 20:12
7. The last commandment says, "Thou shalt not ..."
Answer: covet — Exodus 20:17
8. What did Moses do with the tables when he saw the golden calf?
Answer: He broke them — Exodus 32:19
9. How long was Moses on the mount with God?
Answer: Forty days and forty nights — Exodus 24:18
10. In which other book are the Ten Commandments repeated?
Answer: Deuteronomy — Deuteronomy 5:6
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