Old Testament — Genesis through Kings
Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David. The foundational stories of the Old Testament are the entry point for most Bible trivia.
Q1.In Genesis, what is the name of the garden where the first man and woman are placed?Tap to reveal
Answer: Eden
Genesis places it "in the east" and traces four rivers out of it, of which only the Tigris and the Euphrates can still be matched to rivers on a modern map.
Q2.Who is told to build an ark before the flood in Genesis?Tap to reveal
Answer: Noah
The vessel's measurements are spelled out in the text as 300 cubits long, 50 wide and 30 high, making it a long floating box rather than a ship with a keel.
Q3.In Genesis 4, which brother does Cain kill?Tap to reveal
Answer: Abel
The narrative first identifies the two by their work, one a keeper of sheep and the other a worker of the ground, which is why their offerings differ.
Q4.In Exodus, on which mountain does Moses receive the Ten Commandments?Tap to reveal
Answer: Mount Sinai
Deuteronomy calls the same mountain Horeb, so readers meet two names for one location depending on which book they are in.
Q5.Who leads Israel across the Jordan River into Canaan after the death of Moses?Tap to reveal
Answer: Joshua
The text says the river was at flood stage during the crossing, and twelve stones taken from the riverbed were set up at Gilgal as a memorial.
Q6.Which judge defeats the Midianites with an army cut down to only 300 men?Tap to reveal
Answer: Gideon
The force is reduced in two stages, and the final selection is made by watching how the men drink water at the stream.
Q7.Who is anointed by Samuel as the first king of Israel?Tap to reveal
Answer: Saul
The account makes a point of his coming from Benjamin, the smallest of the tribes, which sets up the contrast with his eventual rejection.
Q8.Which king oversees the building of the first temple in Jerusalem?Tap to reveal
Answer: Solomon
1 Kings dates the start of construction to the fourth year of his reign and counts the years back to the exodus, one of the few places the Bible gives that kind of arithmetic.
Q9.According to Genesis 5, how many years did Methuselah live?Tap to reveal
Answer: 969
The same chapter breaks its own pattern with Enoch, listed at just 365 years before the text says he was taken by God.
Q10.Which of Jacob's sons talks the other brothers out of killing Joseph, urging them to throw him into a pit instead?Tap to reveal
Answer: Reuben
A second brother, Judah, intervenes later with the idea of selling Joseph to passing traders, so two of the twelve step in at different moments.
Q11.In the book of Ruth, which relative of Naomi's late husband marries Ruth and redeems the family land?Tap to reveal
Answer: Boaz
A nearer kinsman holds the first right of redemption and publicly declines it at the town gate, which is the legal step that clears the way.
Q12.In 2 Kings, which foreign army commander is cured of leprosy after washing seven times in the Jordan?Tap to reveal
Answer: Naaman
He serves the king of Aram, and the suggestion to seek out the prophet Elisha comes from a captive Israelite girl working in his household.
Prophets and wisdom literature
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel. Plus Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes. Beyond the famous figures, the prophets and wisdom books have their own rich trivia.
Q1.Which prophet is swallowed by a great fish after boarding a ship for Tarshish?Tap to reveal
Answer: Jonah
The city he was sent to warn is Nineveh, capital of Assyria, and the book closes not with the rescue but with an argument about mercy.
Q2.Which prophet is thrown into a den of lions during the reign of King Darius?Tap to reveal
Answer: Daniel
The trap laid for him is a royal decree banning prayer to anyone but the king for thirty days, aimed squarely at his known daily habit.
Q3.Which book of the Bible is a collection of 150 songs and prayers?Tap to reveal
Answer: Psalms
The collection is traditionally divided into five books, and each of the first four ends with a short burst of praise that marks the seam.
Q4.Which prophet is called in a temple vision dated to the year King Uzziah died?Tap to reveal
Answer: Isaiah
The vision includes six-winged seraphim and a burning coal touched to the prophet's lips before he is sent out.
Q5.Which wisdom book opens with the words "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Ecclesiastes
The Hebrew word behind "vanity" also means vapor or breath, which is why newer translations render it as "meaningless" or "fleeting".
Q6.Which prophet sees a valley of dry bones come together and live?Tap to reveal
Answer: Ezekiel
The text supplies its own interpretation on the spot, calling the bones the exiled house of Israel and the reassembly a return home.
Q7.Which prophet is told to marry a woman named Gomer as a living picture of Israel's unfaithfulness?Tap to reveal
Answer: Hosea
The children born in that marriage are given bleak symbolic names that the book later reverses as a sign of restoration.
Q8.Which prophet is lowered into a muddy cistern in Jerusalem for telling the city its defense would fail?Tap to reveal
Answer: Jeremiah
He is pulled out by Ebed-Melech, a court official from Cush, who lets down old rags with the ropes so they will not cut into him.
Q9.How many friends come to sit with Job before the cycle of speeches begins?Tap to reveal
Answer: Three
A fourth speaker named Elihu arrives much later and is pointedly left out when the others are rebuked at the end of the book.
Q10.Which prophet describes himself as a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs from Tekoa?Tap to reveal
Answer: Amos
He says it while being told by a priest at Bethel to take his preaching somewhere else, using his trade to argue he never chose the job.
Q11.Which is the shortest book in the Old Testament, a single chapter aimed at Edom?Tap to reveal
Answer: Obadiah
Edom is presented as the nation descended from Esau, so the oracle reads as a quarrel between brothers rather than between strangers.
Q12.Which prophetic book stands last in the Old Testament in the common Protestant order?Tap to reveal
Answer: Malachi
The name means "my messenger", and the closing lines promise the return of Elijah before the great day of the Lord.
New Testament — Gospels
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Jesus's life, teachings, miracles, parables. The Gospels are the most-studied trivia section.
Q1.In which town do Matthew and Luke place the birth of Jesus?Tap to reveal
Answer: Bethlehem
Luke explains the family's presence there with a census, while Matthew ties the location to a line quoted from the prophet Micah.
Q2.Who baptizes Jesus in the Jordan River?Tap to reveal
Answer: John the Baptist
The Gospels describe him living in the wilderness on locusts and wild honey, and Luke makes him a relative of Jesus through Elizabeth and Mary.
Q3.In the Gospels, how many apostles does Jesus appoint and send out to preach?Tap to reveal
Answer: Twelve
The four New Testament lists of their names agree almost exactly but differ over one, given as Thaddaeus in some and Judas son of James in others.
Q4.Which disciple steps out of the boat to walk on the water and then begins to sink?Tap to reveal
Answer: Peter
Matthew places the scene immediately after the feeding of the five thousand, on the same night the crowd is sent away.
Q5.In which town does John's Gospel set the wedding where water is turned into wine?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cana
John counts the miracle explicitly as the first of the signs, and later numbers a second one performed in the same town.
Q6.Which tax collector climbs a sycamore tree in Jericho to get a look at Jesus?Tap to reveal
Answer: Zacchaeus
Luke calls him a chief tax collector, meaning he took a cut from other collectors rather than working a booth himself.
Q7.Which Roman governor questions Jesus before the crucifixion?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pontius Pilate
He is one of the few figures in the Gospel narratives whose name and office also turn up on a stone inscription, found at Caesarea Maritima in 1961.
Q8.Which parable of Jesus begins with a man beaten by robbers on the road from Jerusalem down to Jericho?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Good Samaritan
The story is told as the answer to a lawyer's follow-up question, "and who is my neighbor?", which is why it ends with a question back to him.
Q9.According to John's Gospel, how many days had Lazarus been in the tomb when Jesus arrived at Bethany?Tap to reveal
Answer: Four
John underlines the length through Martha's blunt objection about the smell, making the point that the death was past any doubt.
Q10.Which of the four Gospels is the shortest?Tap to reveal
Answer: Mark
It moves fastest of the four, using the word usually translated "immediately" dozens of times to stitch scenes together.
Q11.In Luke's Gospel, who is the devout old man in the temple who takes the infant Jesus in his arms?Tap to reveal
Answer: Simeon
The prophetess Anna appears in the very same scene and is identified as belonging to the tribe of Asher, a rare tribal note in the New Testament.
Q12.Luke names only one of the two travelers who meet Jesus on the road to Emmaus. Who is he?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cleopas
His companion is never named, and the pair recognize their fellow traveler only at the moment he breaks the bread at supper.
Acts, Epistles, and Revelation
Paul's missionary journeys, the early church, his letters (Romans, Corinthians, etc.), and the apocalyptic Revelation. The post-Gospel sections reward deep readers.
Q1.In Acts, on the road to which city is Saul struck blind?Tap to reveal
Answer: Damascus
He is led the rest of the way by hand and stays without sight for three days until a disciple named Ananias is sent to him.
Q2.On which festival day does Acts 2 describe a rushing wind and tongues of fire?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pentecost
It was already a long-standing harvest festival, which is why the account can describe Jerusalem full of pilgrims from so many regions at once.
Q3.Which book stands last in the New Testament?Tap to reveal
Answer: Revelation
It opens as a circular letter to specific congregations in the Roman province of Asia, in what is now western Turkey.
Q4.How many churches receive individual messages in the opening chapters of Revelation?Tap to reveal
Answer: Seven
Ephesus comes first and the rest follow the order of a practical mail route looping through the province and back.
Q5.In Acts 1, who is chosen by lot to take the place of Judas among the apostles?Tap to reveal
Answer: Matthias
Two candidates were put forward and the lot decided between them, and the man passed over, Joseph called Barsabbas, is never mentioned again in the New Testament either.
Q6.Which letter of Paul contains the passage beginning "Love is patient, love is kind"?Tap to reveal
Answer: 1 Corinthians
The famous chapter sits in the middle of a longer argument about spiritual gifts in a congregation that was pulling itself apart.
Q7.Which younger companion of Paul receives two letters that are grouped with Titus as the pastoral epistles?Tap to reveal
Answer: Timothy
Acts introduces him at Lystra and notes that his mother was Jewish while his father was Greek.
Q8.On which island is Paul shipwrecked while being taken as a prisoner to Rome?Tap to reveal
Answer: Malta
The stay there includes the famous scene of a viper fastening on his hand at a fire without doing him any harm.
Q9.Which New Testament letter is the shortest in the original Greek, a single chapter addressed to a man named Gaius?Tap to reveal
Answer: 3 John
Its neighbor is only a few words longer and is addressed to "the elect lady", so exact word counts differ slightly between manuscript editions.
Q10.In Acts, which dealer in purple cloth at Philippi is the first named convert in Europe?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lydia
She is described as being from Thyatira, a city known for its dye trade, and she puts her house at the disposal of Paul's group.
Q11.Which runaway slave is the subject of Paul's letter to Philemon?Tap to reveal
Answer: Onesimus
Paul builds a pun into the appeal, since the man's name means "useful" and the letter argues he will now live up to it.
Q12.Which member of the seven chosen to serve tables is stoned after a long speech to the council, becoming the first Christian martyr?Tap to reveal
Answer: Stephen
Acts notes almost in passing that the witnesses piled their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul, planting him in the story before his own conversion.
Hosting Bible trivia
Bible trivia works for any audience familiar with the text. Run rounds by Testament — Round 1: OT highlights, Round 2: Gospels, Round 3: Acts/Epistles, Round 4: 'name the prophet' or 'name the parable'.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Bible trivia category works best for kids?
Old Testament stories (Noah's Ark, Daniel and the Lions, David and Goliath). These are taught in Sunday school early.
How can Bible trivia work for mixed-knowledge groups?
Mix difficulty by category. Easy: famous OT/NT stories. Medium: prophet names. Hard: specific parables or epistles.
Where can I find Bible trivia packs?
Trivio.NET's Religion category has Bible-specific packs covering OT, NT, parables, and figures.
Are these Bible trivia questions denomination-neutral?
Yes — focused on text content, not interpretation. Both Christian and study-focused audiences can engage.
