Question: What is the first book in the Old Testament?
Answer: Genesis
Question: What is the name of the transportable chest carrying the Ten Commandments?
Answer: Arch of the Covenant
Question: Who presented baby Jesus at the temple?
Answer: Simeon
Question: What is the last book in the Old Testament?
Answer: Malachi
Question: What are the four gospels?
Answer: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
Question: Name 3 books in the New Testament containing letters written by Paul.
Answer: Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Philemon, Galatians, Philippians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus
Question: Who lost everything he had and has a book in the Old Testament named after him?
Answer: Job
Question: Who turned into a pillar of salt?
Answer: Lot’s wife
Question: Where did Adam and Eve first live?
Answer: Garden of Eden
Question: Where did Jesus walk on water and calm the storm?
Answer: Sea of Galilee

Question: Who did Jesus raise from the dead?
Answer: Lazarus
Question: Who is Martha’s sister?
Answer: Mary (of Bethany)
Question: How did David defeat Goliath?
Answer: Slingshots a stone to the head and cuts off his head
Question: Where was Daniel cast with the expectation he would die?
Answer: Lion’s den
Question: What profession was Joseph?
Answer: Carpenter
Question: What was the name of the angel who appeared to Mary?
Answer: Gabriel
Question: What did John the Baptist eat in the desert?
Answer: Locusts and honey
Question: How many people did Jesus feed with five loaves of bread and two fish?
Answer: 5000 men
Question: After Jesus was arrested, who denied knowing him three times?
Answer: Peter
Question: Where was Saul traveling to when he saw a great and blinding light?
Answer: Damascus

Question: What was Simon Peter’s job before he became an apostle?
Answer: He was a fisherman
Question: Who doubted Jesus’ resurrection until he saw Jesus himself?
Answer: Thomas
Question: How does Judas show the Roman officials who Jesus is?
Answer: He kisses Jesus
Question: Who murdered John the Baptist?
Answer: Harod Antipas
Question: Who baptized Jesus?
Answer: John the Baptist
Question: How long did the Israelites wander in the wilderness?
Answer: 40 years
Question: Name 3 of the 10 plagues sent to Egypt.
Answer: Blood, frogs, bugs, wild animals, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of the first-born
Question: How did the Israelites stay safe from the final plague in Egypt?
Answer: The put the blood of a lamb on their door frames
Question: How did Joseph of Egypt end up in Egypt?
Answer: His brothers sold him
Question: Why did God send plagues to Egypt?
Answer: Pharaoh would not let the Israelites go

Question: Who is known for their gift of interpreting dreams?
Answer: Joseph of Egypt
Question: How many sons did Jacob have?
Answer: 12
Question: How many days did God take to create the world?
Answer: 6
Question: Who were Adam and Eve’s three sons listed in the Bible?
Answer: Cain, Abel, Seth
Question: Who did God tell to build an ark?
Answer: Noah
Question: How many days and nights did it rain while Noah and his family were on the ark?
Answer: 40
Question: How did Moses’ mother save him from Egyptian soldiers?
Answer: She put him in a basket in the river
Question: What did God speak to Moses through in the desert?
Answer: A burning bush
Question: What golden image did the Israelites make at Mt. Sinai?
Answer: A golden calf
Question: Where was Jesus born?
Answer: Bethlehem

Question: One of Jesus’ miracles was turning water into…
Answer: Wine
Question: What is the shortest verse in the Bible?
Answer: John 11:35 – Jesus wept
Question: Name the apostle who betrayed Jesus.
Answer: Judas Iscariot
Question: What day of the week did Jesus rise back to life?
Answer: Sunday
Question: How many books have the name John in the title?
Answer: 4
Question: What is the first of the 10 Commandments?
Answer: You shall have no other gods before me
Question: What is the last book of the Bible?
Answer: Revelation
Question: What were men trying to do at the Tower of Babel?
Answer: Build a tower to reach Heaven
Question: Who got Joseph of Egypt thrown into prison by lying about him?
Answer: Potiphar’s wife
Question: What catastrophe did Joseph predict from Pharaoh’s dream?
Answer: A seven-year famine

Question: How many sling-throws did it take David to kill Goliath?
Answer: One
Question: What did Joseph of Egypt tell his brothers to do when they came back to Egypt?
Answer: Bring Benjamin back with them
Question: Who eventually came from the lineage of David?
Answer: Jesus
Question: What happened when Jesus went into the wilderness?
Answer: He was tempted by Satan
Question: Which New Testament book has Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount?
Answer: Matthew
Question: Who was David’s son that became king?
Answer: Solomon
Question: How many books are in the New Testament?
Answer: 27
Question: Who were the first apostles called to follow Jesus?
Answer: Peter and Andrew
Question: Who asked Pilate for Jesus’ body after the crucifixion? 
Answer: Joseph of Arimathea
Question: Paul was shipwrecked on what island?
Answer: Malta

Question: What is the shortest book in the New Testament?
Answer: 2 John
Question: Who is the author of the Book of Revelation?
Answer: John
Question: Who was the first person to come upon the injured man in the parable of the Good Samaritan?
Answer: Priest
Question: Whose example does Paul say Christians should follow in Chapter 5 of Ephesians? 
Answer: Christ’s
Question: After Jesus fed 5,000+ people with two fish and five loaves of bread, how many baskets were left over? 
Answer: 12
Question: What does Paul say may “abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgment?” 
Answer: Love
Question: What tribe is Paul from?
Answer: Benjamin
Question: According to the Beatitudes who will be filled? 
Answer: Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
Question: In the Gospel of Mark, how does the Virgin Mary learn of her pregnancy?
Answer: From the angel Gabriel
Question: Who is Stephen in Acts of the Apostles?
Answer: The first Christian martyr

Question: By what name is Paul of Tarsus known before he begins his missionary activity?
Answer: A Saul
Question: According to Paul’s formulation in 1 Corinthians, which is the greatest of the imperishable qualities? 
Answer: Love
Question: Who is the high priest of Jerusalem who put Jesus on trial? 
Answer: Caiaphas
Question: Which Gospel is most concerned with the mystery and identity of the person of Jesus?
Answer: John
Question: When Christians observe Palm Sunday, what biblical narrative are they celebrating?
Answer: Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem before his death
Question: According to the Gospels, what is the unique literary genre Jesus employs to preach his message?
Answer: The parable
Question: Who takes Jesus’s body off the cross?
Answer: Joseph of Arimathea
Question: Which Gospel is written by a doctor?
Answer: Luke
Question: How many apostles did Jesus have? 
Answer: 12
Question: How did Jesus die?
Answer: He was crucified.

Question: Who gave Jesus gifts when he was born?
Answer: The wise men
Question: With what did Jesus feed 5000 people?
Answer: Loaves and fishes
Question: Who are the religious leaders who continually tried to trap Jesus with their questions?
Answer: Pharisees
Question: What is the name of Jesus’ mother? 
Answer: Mary
Question: What is the collective name of the stories Jesus told?
Answer: Parables
Question: Who wanted to kill Jesus when he was a baby?
Answer: Herod
Question: What happened to Jesus after the resurrection?
Answer: He ascended into heaven.
Question: What did the Holy Spirit look like when the disciples received it?
Answer: Tongues of fire
Question: Who went on missionary journeys to preach to the Gentiles?
Answer: Paul
Question: How did Paul escape from Damascus?
Answer: In a basket down the city wall

Question: What was the name of Adam’s third son?
Answer: Seth
Question: At the time of the census conducted by Moses in the first chapter of Numbers, which of the twelve tribes of Israel was the smallest?
Answer: Manasseh
Question: Who was Samuel’s mother?
Answer: Hannah
Question: What kind of bird brought Elijah food while he hid in the Kerith Ravine, east of Jordan?
Answer: Raven
Question: Which of the following is NOT a book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Enoch
Question: What is the last word in the Old Testament?
Answer: Curse
Question: How many books are there in the Old Testament?
Answer: 39
Question: In what language was the Old Testament written?
Answer: Hebrew
Question: What relation was Jacob to Abraham?
Answer: Grandson

Question: From which country did Moses help the Israelites escape from their lives of slavery?
Answer: Egypt
Question: Which tribe of Israel looked after the religious aspects of life?
Answer: Levi
Question: On which day of the year could the High Priest enter the Holiest Place, the inner most part of the temple where the covenant box was kept?
Answer: Day of Atonement
Question: Israel split into two kingdoms after the reign of King Solomon, with Israel in the north, but what was the name of the southern kingdom?
Answer: Judah
Question: Who was king of the southern kingdom when the northern kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria?
Answer: Hezekiah
Question: The southern kingdom eventually fell also, but to which great power?
Answer: Babylon
Question: After the exile, the Israelites returned and started to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, but which other prophet along with Zechariah was sent to encourage the completion of the partly built temple?
Answer: Haggai
Question: One title of God is El Shaddai, which means what?
Answer: Almighty God
Question: Which king had the longest reign over the Kingdom of Israel?
Answer: Jeroboam II
Question: What does Israel mean?
Answer: Prevails with God

Question: In which prophecy do we read about the valley of dry bones?
Answer: Ezekiel
Question: Which one of these books is not classed as a book of history?
Answer: Psalms
Question: Which of these Old Testament prophets lived during the reign of King Josiah?
Answer: Jeremiah
Question: How were sins forgiven in the Old Testament?
Answer: Animal sacrifice
Question: How many ‘minor prophets’ are there?
Answer: 12
Question: What is the name commonly given to the first five books of the Old Testament?
Answer: Pentateuch
Question: Who wrote the first five books of the Old Testament?
Answer: Moses
Question: What time period does the Old Testament cover?
Answer: The beginning of man to the time of the Messiah
Question: From which part of Adam’s body did God create Eve?
Answer: Rib
Question: What was the name of Abraham’s nephew?
Answer: Lot

Question: What did God ask Abraham to sacrifice to him on Mount Moriah?
Answer: His only son
Question: What did Rachel steal from her father, Laban, when she left home with her husband Jacob?
Answer: Laban’s household gods
Question: What was the name of Joseph’s youngest brother?
Answer: Benjamin
Question: When Joseph was in prison, whose dream did he correctly interpret to mean he would be restored to his job?
Answer: Butler
Question: What was the first plague the Lord sent on Egypt?
Answer: Water turned into blood
Question: On what mountain did Moses receive the law from God?
Answer: Mount Sinai
Question: What was the ‘tabernacle’ for?
Answer: To worship God in
Question: How did Rahab let the invading Israelites identify her house?
Answer: She tied a red cord in the window
Question: What weapons did Gideon use to defeat the Midianites?
Answer: Trumpets, pitchers, and lamps
Question: Which judge was betrayed to the Philistines by a woman?
Answer: Samon

Question: Who did Samuel anoint as the first King of Israel?
Answer: Saul
Question: How did Uriah die?
Answer: David had him placed in the most dangerous spot in the battle.
Question: What was Cain’s punishment for the murder of Abel?
Answer: He was banned from his occupation and made a restless wanderer on the earth.
Question: What was the secret of Samson’s great strength?
Answer: He would lose his strength if his hair were cut.
Question: Who was Moses’ successor after his death?
Answer: Joshua
Question: What was the name of David’s father?
Answer: Jesse
Question: Which prophet secretly anointed David as king?
Answer: Samuel
Question: How did the Jewish prophet Daniel end up in Babylon?
Answer: He was taken captive in a raid by the Babylonian army.
Question: Why does Cain kill his brother Abel?
Answer: Because God is more pleased by Abel’s sacrifice than by Cain’s.
Question: How does Jacob steal his brother, Esau’s, inheritance rights?
Answer: By tricking his father with the help of his mother

Question: From which catastrophe does Joseph save Egypt?
Answer: Famine
Question: What object that God gives Moses allows him to perform signs and wonders? 
Answer: A wooden staff
Question: How does God feed the Israelites in the desert?
Answer: By a strange bread-like substance from heaven
Question: Why did Moses break the stone tablets inscribed with God’s commandments at Mount Sinai? 
Answer: Because the people are worshipping a golden idol
Question: Why does God curse the Israelites to wander the desert for forty years before entering the Promised Land?
Answer: Because the Israelites vote down Moses as their leader
Question: What do Moses and Joshua forbid the Israelites to do in the Promised Land?
Answer: Intermarry with the native inhabitants
Question: Who betrays Samson to the Philistines?
Answer: Delilah
Question: Why does the prophet Nathan rebuke David?
Answer: David commits adultery with Bathsheba.
Question: How does Absalom flaunt his brief overthrow of David’s throne?
Answer: By sleeping with David’s concubines in public
Question: What event triggers the division of Israel into two kingdoms?
Answer: Rehoboam wants the tribe of Judah to secede from the twelve tribes

Question: Who married Abraham?
Answer: Sarah
Question: Who was David’s original wife? 
Answer: Michal
Question: Who was Ruth’s sister-in-law?
Answer: Oprah
Question: What was the first thing that God created?
Answer: Light
Question: What was the boat Noah built called?
Answer: An ark
Question: How many of each type of animal did Noah have on the ark?
Answer: Two
Question: What is the symbol of God’s promise to Noah?
Answer: The rainbow
Question: Who received the 10 commandments from God?
Answer: Moses
Question: What are we told to do in the fifth commandment?
Answer: Honor your father and mother

Question: What was the name of Moses’ brother?
Answer: Aaron
Question: What food do we ask God to give us in the Lord’s Prayer? 
Answer: Bread
Question: People look on the outward appearance, but what does God look on?
Answer: The heart
Question: This prophet was swallowed by a fish.
Answer: Jonah
Question: What animal was often used for transportation in the Bible?
Answer: Camel or donkey
Question: Who was the Son of God?
Answer: Jesus
Question: What is another name for the Sermon on the Mount?
Answer: The beatitudes
Question: What was the name of the Sea where Jesus calmed a storm?
Answer: The Sea of Galilee
Question: How many days did God take to create the world?
Answer: 6
Question: Who was the first man?
Answer: Adam

Question: What did Joseph tell his brothers about his dreams that upset them?
Answer: The dreams said he would become greater and rule over them.
Question: How did Moses’ mother save him from the Egyptian soldiers?
Answer: Let his people go.
Question: What was the final plague that convinced Pharaoh to let the slaves go?
Answer: The firstborn son of all Egyptian families died.
Question: When Pharaoh changed his mind and sent his army after the slaves, where did they meet at?
Answer: By the Red Sea
Question: What did God through Moses to save the slaves?
Answer: Parted the Red Sea
Question: When the Egyptians tried to follow the Israelites through the Red Sea, what happened?
Answer: The water crashed on them and killed them all.
Question: Who was the first king of Israel?
Answer: Saul
Question: Who spoke from the sky when Jesus was baptized?
Answer: God
Question: What is the name Jesus’ hometown?
Answer: Nazareth
Question: What did Jesus do at the Last Supper to his disciples?
Answer: He washed their feet

Question: What did the woman pour on Jesus’ feet at the home of Simon the Leper?
Answer: Jar of expensive perfume
Question: What happened after Jesus was buried in the tomb?
Answer: He rose again
Question: What is the 2nd commandment?
Answer: You shall not make idols.
Question: What does Jesus say is the first and greatest commandment?
Answer: Love God with all your heart, minds, soul, and strength.
Question: Which book did Jesus directly write?
Answer: None
Question: Who bought Joseph?
Answer: Potiphar, captain of the Pharaoh’s guards
Question: What position of power was Joseph given by the Pharaoh?
Answer: Second in command of Egypt.
Question: Which human author wrote the most books?
Answer: Paul wrote 13 books.
Question: How many lepers did Jesus heal?
Answer: 10
Question: In what language was most of the New Testament given?
Answer: Greek

Question: What was most likely the first of Paul’s letters written?
Answer: 1 Thessalonians
Question: Who were Noah’s three sons?
Answer: Shem, Ham, Japheth.
Question: How many people were saved on the ark?
Answer: 8
Question: How did God make people spread out across the earth?
Answer: Confused their languages.
Question: Who did Laban trick Jacob into marrying?
Answer: Leah
Question: Who was the first son Abram had?
Answer: Ishmael