BIBLE QUIZ

1. What is the origin of the word Bible? 2. How many books does the Catholic Bible contain? 3. What are the non-canonical books which are similar to biblical books, called? 4. How many books are not found in the Protestant Bible and what are they called? 5. Which are the deuterocanonical books of the Bible? 6. How many Testaments are there in the Bible? 7. Name three books of the OT named after women. 8. Which book of the Bible is named after a nonJew? 9. Who was the very first murderer as narrated in the Bible? 10. Who was the first person in the Bible to experience death? 11. What are the first five books of the Bible known as and what are they? 12. Who is generally considered to be the author of the Pentateuch? 13. Who was the humblest man on earth? 14. Who does the Bible refer to as the strongest man? 15. Who was considered as the wisest man in the Bible?

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The Greek wore Biblia which means books Seventy-three Apocripha Seven. They are called deuterocanonical books. Tobit, Judith, 1&2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch. 6. Two-the Old Testament and the New Testament. 7. Judith, Esther and Ruth. 8. Ruth 9. Cain 10. Abel 11. Pentateuch. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. 12. Moses 13. Moses (Num 12:3) 14. Samson (Judg chapters 13-16) 15. Solomon (1Kings 3:12) 16. King Solomon (1Kings 11:3) 17. King Solomon (1Kings 9:16) 18. Elijah (1Kings 17:17-24) and Elisha (2Kings 4:32-37) 19. Elijah (Sir 48:9) and Enoch (Sir 44:16) 20. Joseph (Gen 37:24) and Jeremiah (Jer 38:6) 21. Elijah (1Kings 19:4) and Jonah (Jon 4:3) 22. Isaiah (Isa 6:6-7) 23. Isaiah (Isa 20:2-3) 24. Ezekiel (Ezek 37:1-14)

16. Which Israelite king had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines? 17. Which Israelite king married the daughter of Pharaoh? 18. Mention two prophets in the Old Testament who brought the dead back to life. 19. Mention two people in the Old Testament who were taken up to heaven? 20. Mention two people of the Old Testament who were thrown into a dry pit? 21. Mention two prophets who asked the Lord to take their life? 22. Which prophet was purified after being touched by a live coal to his mouth? 23. Which prophet walked naked for three years? 24. Which prophet had the vision of the dry bones? 25. Which prophet spent three days in the belly of a great fish? 26. To whom did God give the Ten Commandments? 27. For which Israelite commander did the sun stand still? 28. Who wrestled all night with God and was left with a permanent limp? 29. What was the first question that God asked man? 30. Who was the first king of Israel? 31. What did God give the Israelites to eat in the wilderness? 32. Who was the non-Jew who became Davids great grandmother? 33. Who was thrown into the lions den by the decree of King Darius? 34. Who was the man who was spoken to by an ass? 35. Which prophet was a shepherd before he was called to the ministry? 36. Which is the longest book of the Bible? 37. Which prophet prophesied that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem? 38. Which Psalm starts with: The Lord is my shepherd? 39. Whom did God command to sacrifice his son? 40. Who in the Old Testament got paid for nursing her own child? 41. To which country did Jacob and his sons migrate during the famine? 42. Who was the Hebrew who became the governor of Egypt? 43. According to the Bible which was the land flowing with milk and honey? 44. Who was the Hebrew woman who became the queen of Persia?

25. Jonah (Jon 1:17) 26. Moses (Ex 20) 27. Joshua (Josh 10:13) 28. Jacob (Gen 32:22-32) 29. Where are you? (Gen 3:9) 30. Saul (1Sam 10:1) 31. Manna and quail (Ex 16) 32. Ruth (Ruth 4:17) 33. Daniel (Dan 6) 34. Balaam (Num 22:28:-29) 35. Prophet Amos (Am 7:14) 36. The Psalms (150 chapters) 37. Micah (Mic 5:2) 38. Psalm 23 39. Abraham (Gen 22:2) 40. The mother of Moses (Ex 2:9) 41. Egypt (Gen. 46) 42. Joseph (Gen 41:41) 43. Canaan (Ex 3:17) 44. Esther (Esth 2:17) 45. King Og 46. Iron 47. Twelve 48. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issah. 49. From the twelve sons of Jacob (Gen 49:2-28) 50. 722 BCE 51. 587 BCE 52. 538 BCE 53. Genesis 54. Beginning 55. Light (Gen 1:3) 56. In Gods image and likeness (Gen 1:27) 57. Adam and Eve (Gen 4:25) 58. In the garden of Eden (Gen 2:8) 59. To humankind (Gen 1:26) 60. Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. (Gen 1:28) 61. The dust of the ground (Gen 2:7) 62. A rib taken from the man (Gen 2:22) 63. Six (Gen 2:1-2) 64. On the seventh day God rested from all the work and made it holy (Gen 2:3) 65. The tree of life and tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen 2:9) 66. The man (Adam) (Gen 2:20) 67. Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Eusphrates (Gen 2:1114) 68. The serpent (Gen 3:1) 69. To eat of the fruit that God told them not to eat (Gen 3:4) 70. They realized that they were naked (Gen 3:7) 71. Fig leaves (Gen 3:7) 72. Animal skins (Gen 3:21)

45. Who was the man whose bed was 9 cubits long and 4 cubits wide? 46. What was the bed of King Og of Bashan made of? 47. Into how many tribes were the Israelites divided? 48. Name the twelve tribes of Israel? 49. Where did the twelve tribes of Israel get their name? 50. In which year did northern Israel collapse? 51. When did the Babylonians capture Judah? 52. When did the Babylonians captivity ends? 53. Which is the first book of the Bible? 54. What is the meaning of the word Genesis? 55. What did God create on the first day? 56. In whose image and likeness did God make humankind? 57. Who were the parents of Seth? 58. Where did God place the man after making him? 59. To whom did God give dominion over all other creatures? 60. After creating human beings what did God command them to do? 61. What did God use to form man? 62. Out of what did God make the woman? 63. How many days did God take to create the universe? 64. What did God do on the seventh day? 65. Which trees stood in the middle of the Garden of Eden? 66. Who named all the living creatures? 67. Name the four branches of the river that flowed out of Eden. 68. Which creature was the craftiest of all other wild animals that God had made? 69. What did the serpent tempt Eve to do? 70. What did Adam and Eve realize after they had eaten the forbidden fruit? 71. What leaves did Adam and Eve use to cover themselves? 72. What kind of garment did God make for Adam and Eve? 73. Why did the man name his wife Eve? 74. Why did God curse the ground? 75. What did God do to the serpent? 76. How did God guard the garden after driving the man and the woman out of it? 77. On which side of the garden of Eden were the cherubim and the sword placed? 78. Give the names of the sons of Adam and Eve. 79. What was the occupation of Cain and Abel? 80. Why was Cain angry with his brother Abel? 81. What did Cain do to his brother?

73. Because she was the mother of all living (Gen 3:20) 74. Because of the sin of man (Gen 3:17) 75. God cursed the serpent (Gen 3:14) 76. He placed the cherubim and a flaming turning sword (Gen 3:14) 77. East (Gen 3:24) 78. Cain, Abel and Seth (Gen 4:1, 2, 25) 79. Cain was a farmer, Abel a shepherd (Gen 4:2) 80. Because God looked with favour on Abels offering, but not on Cains (Gen 4:4) 81. He killed him (Gen 4:8) 82. In the fields (Gen 4:8) 83. He said, I do not know; am I my brothers keeper? (Gen 4:9) 84. The Lord put a mark on Cain (Gen 4:15) 85. In the land of Nod, east of Eden (Gen 4:16) 86. Enoch (Gen 4:17) 87. Jubal (Gen 4:21) 88. Enoch (Gen 4:17) 89. A descendant of Cain (Gen 4:18) 90. Adah and Zillah (Gen 4:19) 91. He was the son of Lamech from Zillah (Gen 4:22) 92. Tubal-cain (Gen 4:22) 93. Jabal (Gen 4:20) 94. Lamech and Adah (Gen 4:20-21) 95. Nine hundred and thirty years (Gen 5:5) 96. Enosh (Gen 4:26) 97. Because the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth (Gen 6:5) 98. Noah (Gen 6:8) 99. Lamech (Gen 5:28) 100. A flood (Gen 6:17) 101. An ark (Gen 6:14) 102. Cypress (Gen 6:14) 103. Seven (Gen 6:18) 104. The Lord (Gen 7:11) 105. Six hundred years (Gen 7:11) 106. Seventeenth day of the second month (Gen 7:11) 107. Forty days and forty nights (Gen 7:12) 108. Shem, Ham and Japheth (Gen 7:18) 109. One hundred and fifty days (Gen 7:24) 110. On the mountains of Ararat (Gen 8:4) 111. Two of every kind (Gen 6:19) 112. When the dove he sent out returned in the evening with a fresh olive leaf (Gen 8:11) 113. He built an altar and offered burnt offerings (Gen 8:20) 114. One each of every clean animal and every clean bird (Gen 8:20) 115. Flesh with its blood (Gen 9:4) 116. A bow in the clouds (Gen 9:13)

82. Where did Cain kill Abel? 83. When God asked Cain, Where is your brother? what did he reply? 84. What did the Lord do to protect Cain so that no one who came upon him would kill him? 85. Where did Cain settle after going from the presence of the Lord? 86. What did Cain call his son? 87. Who was the ancestor of all musicians who play the harp and the flute? 88. Name the city that Cain built. 89. Who was the Lamech? 90. Who were the wives of Lamech? 91. Who was Tubal-cain? 92. Who was the ancestor of metal workers? 93. Who was the ancestor of those who live in tents and have livestock? 94. Who were the parents of Jabal and Jubal? 95. At what age did Adam die? 96. What name did Seth give his son? 97. Why did God decide to destroy all living beings on earth? 98. Who was the man who found favour with God when the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth? 99. Who was the father of Noah? 100. What means did God choose to destroy all living beings on earth? 101. What did God ask Noah to make? 102. What wood was used to build Noahs ark? 103. How many persons were there in the ark with Noah? 104. Who shut the door of the ark? 105. How old was Noah when the flood came on earth? 106. On which day of which month did the flood start? 107. For how many days and nights did it rain on earth? 108. Name the sons of Noah who went into the boat with him and his wife. 109. For how long did the waters swell on the earth? 110. Where did the ark come to rest in the seventh month? 111. How many of each kind of living beings did Noah have with him in the ark? 112. How did Noah know that the water had gone down? 113. What did Noah do as soon as he came out of the ark? 114. What did Noah offer on the altar as a burnt offering to the Lord?

117. To be fruitful and multiply (Gen 9:7) 118. That never again shall all flesh be cut off by a flood (Gen 9:18) 119. Ham (Gen 9:18) 120. Because his father Ham saw the nakedness of Noah and told his brothers (Gen 9:22) 121. Three hundred and fifty years (Gen 9:28) 122. Nine hundred and fifty years (Gen 9:28) 123. In the land of Shinar (Gen 11:2) 124. Because the Lord confused the language of the people (Gen 11:9) 125. Because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth (Gen 11:9) 126. Terah (Gen 11:26) 127. Sarai (Gen 11:29) 128. They were brothers (Gen 11:27) 129. Ur of the Chaldeans (Gen 11:28) 130. Abram, Nahor and Haran (Gen 11:26) 131. Seventy-five years old (Gen 12:4) 132. Shem (Gen 11:10-26) 133. From Haran (Gen 12:4) 134. To Shechem, to the oak of Moreh (Gen 12:6) 135. To your offspring I will give this land (Gen 12:7) 136. To Abram (Gen 12:2) 137. In the hill country on the east of Bethel (Gen 12:8) 138. Egypt (Gen 12:10) 139. Because the king had taken Sarai, wife of Abram (Gen 12:17) 140. Lot (Gen 12:4) 141. Pharaohs house (Gen 12:15) 142. To the Negeb (Gen 13:1) 143. To separate themselves (Gen 13:9) 144. All the plain of the Jordan (Gen 13:11) 145. He settled among the cities of the Plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom (Gen 13:12) 146. By the oaks of Mamre at Hebron (Gen 13:18) 147. The Dead Sea (Gen 14:3) 148. Three hundred and eighteen (Gen 14:14) 149. Abram chased them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus (Gen 14:15) 150. The king of Sodom (Gen 14:17) 151. At the Valley of Shaveh, that is, the kings Valley (Gen 14:17) 152. He was the king of Salem and the priest of God Most High (Gen 14:18) 153. Abram gave Melchizedek one tenth of everything (Gen 14:20) 154. That his reward would be very great (Gen 14:20) 155. Because Abram believed the Lord (Gen 15:6) 156. Hagar (Gen 16:1) 157. Egyptian (Gen 16:1)

115. What is the one thing Noah and his sons were forbidden to eat? 116. What was the sign of the covenant that God established with Noah? 117. What command did God give Noah and his sons? 118. What was the promise of the covenant God made with Noah? 119. Who was the father of Canaan? 120. Why did Noah curse Canaan? 121. How long did Noah live after the flood? 122. How old was Noah when he died? 123. After the flood where did the people go and settle at first? 124. Why were the people unable to continue building the tower of Babel? 125. Why was the tower that the Israelites built called Babel? 126. Who was the father of Abram? 127. Who was the wife of Abram? 128. What was the relationship between Abram and Haran? 129. Where did Abram live with his father before the Lord called him? 130. Name the three sons of Terah. 131. How old was Abram when he set forth to go to the land of Canaan. 132. Which of Noahs sons was the ancestor of Abram? 133. From where did Abram depart when God called him? 134. Where did Abram go after arriving in the land of Canaan? 135. What was the Lords promise to Abram when he appeared to him? 136. To whom God promise that His name would be used as a blessing? 137. Where did Abram pitch his tent? 138. Where did Abram go when there was a famine in the land of Canaan? 139. Why did the Lord afflict Pharaoh and his house with great plagues? 140. What was the name of Abrams nephew who went with him? 141. On arrival in Egypt where was Sarai taken? 142. Where did Abram and his household go after returning from Egypt? 143. What did Abram suggest to end the quarrel between the men of Abram and Lot? 144. After his separation from Abram which place did Lot choose? 145. Where in the Jordan valley did Lot settle? 146. Where did Abram finally settle after his separation from Lot?

158. Hagar looked with contempt on Sarai (Gen 16:4) 159. Because Sarai dealt harshly with her (Gen 16:6) 160. By a spring of water in the wilderness (Gen 16:7) 161. Ishmael (Gen 16:15) 162. Numberless as the stars of heaven (Gen 15:5) 163. Abraham (Gen 17:5) 164. The whole land of Canaan for a perpetual holding (Gen 17:8) 165. Sarah (Gen 17:15) 166. Isaac (Gen 17:21) 167. To go back to her mistress and submit to her (Gen 16:9) 168. I will so greatly multiply your offspring that they cannot be counted (Gen 16:10) 169. Circumcision (Gen 17:11) 170. The Lord God (Gen 17:15) 171. Ishmael (Gen 17:20) 172. He saw three men standing near him (Gen 18:1-2) 173. That they would return in due season and Sarah would have a son (Gen 18:10) 174. She laughed because she was too old to have a son (Gen 18:12) 175. He remained standing before the Lord to plead for mercy (Gen 18:22) 176. That he would not destroy Sodom if he found ten good men there (Gen 18:32) 177. He was sitting in the gateway of Sodom (Gen 19:1) 178. The city called Zoar (Gen 19:20-22) 179. By raining sulphur and fire from the Lord (Gen 19:24) 180. Gomorrah (Gen 19:24) 181. Lot, his wife and two daughters (Gen 19:15) 182. To flee for their life and not to look back and stop anywhere (Gen 19:17) 183. Lots (Gen 19:36) 184. As Lots wife looked back, she was turned into a pillar of salt (Gen 19:26) 185. Moab (Gen 19:37) 186. Lot (Gen 19:36) 187. Abimelech (Gen 20:2) 188. Sheep, cattle, slaves and a thousand pieces of silver (Gen 20:14-16) 189. Abrahams (Gen 20:17) 190. A hundred years (Gen 21:5) 191. Sarah (Gen 21:6) 192. Some bread and a leather bag full of water (Gen 21:14) 193. An angel sent by God (Gen 21:14) 194. In the wilderness of Paran (Gen 21:14)

147. What is another name for the Valley of Siddim? 148. How many people did Abram take with him when he went to rescue Lot? 149. How far did Abram chase the four kings whom he defeated to rescue Lot? 150. Who went out to meet Abram after his return from defeat of the kings? 151. Where did the king of Sodom meet Abram after his victory? 152. Who was Melchizedek? 153. What did Abram give Melchizedek when he brought him bread and wine? 154. What did the Lord promise Abram in a vision? 155. Why was the Lord pleased with Abram? 156. What was the name of the slave-girl of Sarai? 157. What was the nationality of Hagar? 158. What did Hagar do to Sarai when she knew that she was pregnant? 159. Why did Hagar run away from her mistress? 160. Where did the angel of the Lord find Hagar? 161. What was the name of the son that Hagar bore Abram? 162. According to Gods promise, how numerous would the descendants of Abram be? 163. What was the new name that the Lord gave to Abram? 164. What did God promise Abraham and his descendants as their inheritance? 165. What was the new name of Sarai? 166. What was the name of the son of Abraham and Sarah? 167. What did the angel ask Hagar to do as she was running away? 168. What did the angel promise Hagar? 169. What was the physical sign of the covenant between God and Abraham? 170. Who changed Sarais name to Sarah? 171. Whom did God promise to make the father of twelve princes? 172. What did Abraham see as he sat at the entrance of his tent by the oaks of Mamre? 173. What was the visitors promise to Abraham? 174. What did Sarah do when she heard that she would have a son? 175. As the three men went towards Sodom what did Abraham do? 176. What was the Lords promise to Abraham concerning Sodom? 177. What was Lot doing when the two angels came to Sodom? 178. Where did Lot go as he fled from Sodom? 179. How did the Lord destroy Sodom?

195. Beersheba (Gen 21:31) 196. A tamarisk tree (Gen 21:33) 197. God asked Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering (Gen 21:31) 198. A knife and fire (Gen 22:6) 199. Where is the lamb for the burnt offering (Gen 22:7) 200. The angel of the Lord appeared and asked Abraham not to hurt the boy (Gen 22:11)

180. Which other city was destroyed together with Sodom? 181. Who were spared when Sodom was destroyed? 182. What was the instruction of the angels to Lot and his family as they left Sodom? 183. Whose daughters became pregnant by their own father? 184. What happened to Lots wife while running away from Sodom? 185. Who was the ancestor of the Moabites? 186. Who was the father of Moab? 187. Who was the king of Gerar? 188. What gifts did Abimelech give when he gave Sarah back to Abraham? 189. Whose prayer healed Abimelech, the king of Gerar, and his family? 190. How old was Abraham when Isaac was born? 191. Who was given the gift of laughter at the birth of her son? 192. What did Abraham give Hagar and Ishmael while sending them away? 193. Who came to help of Hagar and her son in the wilderness? 194. Where did Ishmael live after he was sent away by Abraham? 195. What is the place where Abraham and Abimelech swore an oath? 196. What tree did Abraham plant in Beersheba after his covenant with Abimelech? 197. After giving Abraham a son, God put him to a severe test. What was this? 198. Isaac carried the wood for the sacrifice. What did Abraham carry? 199. As the father and son walked on together what did Isaac ask his father? 200. What happened when Abraham picked up the knife to kill Isaac?