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Question: What word, meaning "my messenger" is the last book of the Old Testament in the Bible? The relatively short book is made up only 55 verses across 4 chapters.
Answer: Malachi
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100 Bible Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated For 2024)
- From the book of Genesis in the Bible, what was the name of the man who took two of each animal onto the Ark?
Answer: Noah
- A Washington, DC museum that includes a replica of the city of Nazareth is dedicated to what book that's sold a whole lotta copies?
Answer: The Bible
- In 2021 Minnesota priest Mike Schmitz launched a daily podcast which, over the course of a year, discussed the entirety of which book?
Answer: The Bible
- In the New Testament portion of the Catholic Bible, the epistle of St. Jude comes just before what final book of the Bible?
Answer: Revelation
- What 1846 oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn tells the story of the titular Old Testament prophet who brings rain to Israel through his prayers and ascends in a fiery chariot to heaven?
Answer: Elijah
- The first block mined in a blockchain shares what name with the Bible book that features Noah, Cain and Abel, and a very busy six days followed by one pretty chill one?
Answer: Genesis
- What city in Palestine is both the Biblical birthplace of Jesus and the namesake of a city in eastern Pennsylvania?
Answer: Bethlehem
- "I played my best for him" and "He smiled at me" are both lyrics in what popular Christmas song that was first recorded in 1951 and details a poor young boy being summoned by the Magi to Jesus's birth?
Answer: The Little Drummer Boy
- God tells Eve “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing” as a punishment for eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden in which book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis
- What angels of the second order, often portrayed in Christian art as childlike, are prominently featured in the Old Testament of the Bible, such as when God tells Moses to make images of them around the Ark of the Covenant?
Answer: Cherub
- Moses had a very revealing conversation on Mount Horeb with the Angel of the Lord, who spoke to Moses via what kind of unsafe supernatural phenomenon?
Answer: Burning bush
- The British Library holds two complete copies of what incredibly valuable 15th-century edition of the Bible, the earliest major book to be mass-produced using movable metal type?
Answer: Gutenberg Bible
- What "D" book of the Bible exhorts: "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified"?
Answer: Deuteronomy
- Celebrated three days before Easter, what Christian holiday commemorates Jesus Christ's Last Supper with his disciples?
Answer: Holy Thursday
- What man, the first person born to Adam and Eve and therefore the first human in the Bible, was the father of Enoch after being punished for committing a famous murder?
Answer: Cain
- What archangel appears to Daniel in the Old Testament and foretells the birth of both John the Baptist and Jesus in the New Testament?
Answer: Gabriel
- The first plague that God unleashed on the Egyptians when He sent Moses to free the Israelites, was when He turned water into what?
Answer: Blood
- Which popular pet is the only domestic animal that’s not mentioned in The Bible?
Answer: Cats
- Taking the form of letters or epistles, 13 books in the New Testament are attributed to which short-named Apostle and Saint?
Answer: Paul
- In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the man found at the side of the road by the Samaritan was travelling from Jerusalem to what other "J" place? In the gospels of Mark and Luke, Jesus healed a blind man on the outskirts of this city.
Answer: Jericho
- Which Apostle came to be known as “doubting” because at first, he did not believe that Jesus had been resurrected?
Answer: Thomas
- In the Bible's Book of Revelation, there are Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with appropriately dire monikers. With one guess, name one of them.
Answer: Conquest War Famine Death
- In the book of Genesis, Jacob wrestles with an angel all night and is given what name, also the name of a modern-day country, as a result?
Answer: Israel
- According to the Book of Joshua, what city did the Israelites defeat by marching around it every day for six days, then blowing their trumpets on the seventh day and causing the city's walls to tumble down?
Answer: Jericho
- John of Patmos is traditionally said to be the author of what Bible book that includes beasts who are thrown into a lake of fire?
Answer: Revelation
- Made into a film starring Paul Newman, what 1958 novel by Leon Uris is named after a book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Exodus
- In 1580, one of the earliest editions of the printed Bible in Slavic—the Ostrong Bible—was published in what was then called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but today is known as which Eastern European country (the second-largest after Russia)?
Answer: Ukraine
- In 1563, Pieter Breugel the Elder painted three versions of what Biblical structure, an ambitious building God prevented from being built? One version is lost, but the “Great” and “Little” versions are on display in Vienna.
Answer: Tower Of Babel
- What Old Testament book gets its name from a couple of Israelite census counts?
Answer: Numbers
- What is the "G" name associated with hotel Bibles because of a religious organization that places the tomes in bedside tables? The first of these Bibles was placed in a hotel in Superior, Montana.
Answer: Gideons Bible
- The official Canadian national motto is a Latin phrase that comes from the Bible. What does "A Mari Usque Ad Mare" translate to in English?
Answer: From Sea to Sea
- According to Proverbs 18:10 in the New International Version of the Bible, "The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are" what?
Answer: Safe
- The SWORD Project is an open-source project designed to encourage development of software related to what ancient religious text?
Answer: The Bible
- In the book of Numbers, what is the name of the edible substance that feeds the Israelites during their exile in the desert, described as arriving like dew in the night?
Answer: manna
- In the Bible, what four-letter name for the City of David is today used by people who support the existence of a Jewish state?
Answer: Zion
- What bestselling 1997 novel by Anita Diamant is a reimagining of the Biblical story of Dinah, who is a silent character in the Book of Genesis?
Answer: The Red Tent
- What “V” word refers to a late 4th century Latin translation of the Bible, primarily prepared by St. Jerome, that became the official text of the Roman Catholic Church?
Answer: Vulgate
- In Disney's "Fantasia 2000," the story of Noah's Ark is recreated with what quack-tastic character as Noah's assistant in getting animals onto the ark?
Answer: Donald Duck
- "Old and advanced in age" is the description of what king in the first chapter and verse of First Kings?
Answer: David
- What “I” Israelite prophet, the namesake of a book of the Old Testament, described the declarations of Cyrus the Great during his biblical passages?
Answer: Isaiah
- Which book of the Bible comes last alphabetically? This book of the Bible is the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets.
Answer: Zephaniah
- What title character of a Bible book, the wife of King Ahasuerus, foils the plot of the king's evil adviser Haman to murder the Jewish people?
Answer: Esther
- In the Book of Judges, what is the name of Samson’s lover who betrays him to the Philistines?
Answer: Delilah
- Ranking highest in the celestial hierarchy of angels, what type of angel has six wings and stands in the presence of God, as mentioned in the sixth chapter of the book of Isaiah?
Answer: Seraph
- What female royal travelled to visit Solomon with a caravan of gifts because she heard of Solomon's wisdom?
Answer: Queen of Sheba
- What Biblical preacher of the 1st century AD was known as the Forerunner, the Immerser, and the Baptizer, among a more well-known monicker in Christianity? He was famously beheaded after being betrayed by Salome.
Answer: John The Baptist
- The sixth book of the Old Testament— i.e., the first one after its more famous predecessors—is named after what man who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes?
Answer: Joshua
- Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, what 1956 three-hour-plus epic film stars Charlton Heston as Moses, who is raised as a prince of Egypt and leads the Israelites out of slavery?
Answer: The Ten Commandments
- The book of Exodus tells of the Israelite liberation from slavery under which nation?
Answer: Egypt
- Fruits and vegetables retell stories from the Bible in what children's animated series, considered one of the most successful Christian kids' franchises of all times?
Answer: VeggieTales
- What idiom for a revered person with a fundamental flaw comes from a dream of Daniel in the Bible of a statue with a head of gold, chest and arms of silver, and middle and thighs of bronze?
Answer: Feet of clay
- In the Book of Genesis, what five-letter unit of measure, approximately equal to the length of a man's forearm, is used to give the dimensions of Noah's Ark?
Answer: Cubit
- Noah’s Ark was pretty crowded with animals, but there were some humans, too. According to The Bible, how many people were aboard it?
Answer: Eight
- In the Book of Exodus, what did God give Moses ten of atop Mt. Sinai?
Answer: Commandments
- Amos, Obadiah, and Jonah are among how many minor prophets in the Bible?
Answer: 12
- Which book in the Bible is the shortest? (Hint: It starts by introducing Nicodemus).
Answer: John 3
- Deuteronomy 14:3-8 says that it’s OK to eat animals with split hooves divided in two who chew the what?
Answer: Cud
- All and all, there were 10 plagues of Egypt. The first appears in EXODUS 7: 14-17 when the river turns from water into which bodily fluid?
Answer: Blood
- Before he became King, which biblical hero was known for his harp playing and defeating Goliath?
Answer: David
- According to the New Testament, Jesus had four brothers: Joseph, Jude, James, and which outlier bro whose name did not begin with J?
Answer: Simon
- According to the Book of Jonah, Jonah gets swallowed by a big fish as a punishment for fleeing God's commandment to prophesy to the people of what city, which lies outside modern-day Mosul, Iraq?
Answer: Nineveh
- Hagar, Pilate, and First Corinthians are characters whose names are randomly selected from a Bible in what Toni Morrison novel--which itself shares a name with an Old Testament book?
Answer: Song of Solomon
- What popular Bible translation by Eugene H. Peterson, often abbreviated "MSG," is known for its idiomatic language and use of modern day slang?
Answer: The Message
- Jesus is not the only one raised from the dead in the Bible. In the Gospel of John, Jesus proclaims "I am the Resurrection" before raising which man from the dead, four days after his burial?
Answer: Lazarus
- In the Bible, which Egyptian land is noted for being the place that the Pharaoh of Joseph gave to the Hebrews (Genesis 45:9–10)? (Hint: It’s also the place they left in Exodus).
Answer: Goshen
- The Zarqa River is known by which name that starts with J when it’s mentioned as one crossed by Jacob on his way to Canaan? (Hint: It’s not Jordan, he still had a ways to go before he got there)
Answer: Jabbok
- In the Book of Judges, which heroine of The Bible killed Sisera by stabbing him in the skull with a tent peg?
Answer: Jael
- What’s the name of the mountain upon which God gave Moses the Ten Commandments?
Answer: Sinai
- What word, which means something like "Let it be so," is, appropriately enough, the final word of the Book of Revelation and the New Testament?
Answer: Amen
- What hero of the Book of Judges was instructed by God to use trumpets and torches to make the Midianites believe his forces were larger than they actually were?
Answer: Gideon
- What author and poet wrote a "closet drama" titled Samson Agonistes about the famous strongman from the Bible in 1671, four years after the publication of his most famous Biblical adaptation?
Answer: John Milton
- Psalm 51, which begins "Have mercy on me, O Lord," is often known by what name, from the first word in its Latin translation?
Answer: Miserere
- In Genesis 38:29, who was introduced as the son of Tamar and Judah and the twin brother of Zerah? (Hint: Supposedly he was born hands-first)
Answer: Perez
- What was the name of Priscilla’s husband, with whom she worked alongside Apostle Paul as a Christian missionary? (Hint: He was originally from Italy, according to Acts 18:2–3)
Answer: Aquila
- What book of the Catholic Old Testament tells the story of its title heroine's seduction and beheading of a general named Holofernes?
Answer: Judith
- The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are often characterized by what adjective, which refers to the fact that many of the same stories appear in all three, and which comes from a Greek word meaning "seen together?"
Answer: Synoptic
- "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap" is a quote from the King James Bible. Who was the speaker of the quote?
Answer: Jesus
- Why did the lions move at the end of summer? Because the pride goeth before the fall | “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” is Chapter 16, Verse 18 of what Old Testament book known for its little bits of wisdom?
Answer: Proverbs
- Conspiracy theories have existed around deaths of prominent leaders for thousands of years. In the Bible's Book of Revelation, there are allusions to conspiracy theories surrounding the death and possible return of what Roman emperor who committed suicide in 68 AD?
Answer: Nero
- The name of which plant, commonly used as a spice, is mentioned in the name of a parable that appears in each of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke? This large annual plant grows from a small seed.
Answer: Mustard
- What Bible book tells the story of a heroine who refused to desert her mother-in-law after her husband's death, promising her, "Whither thou goest, I will go?"
Answer: Ruth
- The shortest verse in the King James version of the Bible is just what mournful two-word sentence?
Answer: Jesus wept.
- Moses’s older sister, a prophetess, first appears in the Book of Exodus when she sings the Song of the Sea. What’s her name?
Answer: Miriam
- Irish playwright Oscar Wilde wrote what one-act tragedy about the title character from the Bible, who dances the "dance of seven veils?"
Answer: Salome
- Zechariah and Elizabeth are the father and mother of which Biblical figure who was beheaded by Herod Antipas?
Answer: John the Baptist
- The famously Philadelphian Liberty Bell was cast with the inscription: "Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants Thereof." From what book was this quote lifted?
Answer: The Bible
- What celebratory Jewish festival, which celebrates the victory of Esther and her cousin Mordecai over the royal vizier Haman, is based on a story told in the Book of Esther?
Answer: Purim
- Although much of the Old Testament is written in Hebrew, some portions, including about 200 verses of the Book of Daniel, were written in what other Semitic language?
Answer: Aramaic
- When reading the King James version of the Bible, the last word of the Book of Genesis is the name of what Middle Eastern country?
Answer: Egypt
- In the biblical story of the great flood, Noah sent out two birds of different types from the Ark post-flood. Which two types of birds were they?
Answer: Dove and Raven
- The namesake of the singer of "We Can't Be Friends" and "Absolutely Not," what is the name of the only woman judge mentioned by name in the Bible?
Answer: Deborah
- What green-banded mineral crystal is made of copper carbonate hydroxide? Its “M” name is very similar to the minor prophet whose book of the Bible is the final book of the Old Testament.
Answer: Malachite
- What “E” Hebrew prophet, the namesake of his own book in the Old Testament, had a vision of “living creatures with four wheels,” and correctly prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians?
Answer: Ezekiel
- Which of the four canonical gospel authors later went on to write the Acts of the Apostles?
Answer: Luke
- According to I Kings 11:3, which Biblical king of Israel was said to have an entourage including seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines?
Answer: Solomon
- What's the name of Sarah's handmaiden, whom she gave to Abraham to produce an heir with? The handmaiden bore Ishmael.
Answer: Hagar
- What is the common name of the green plant Verbascum thapsus, which is named after a stick belonging to the brother of Moses in the Bible?
Answer: Aaron's Rod
- Located in what is now eastern Turkey, what snow-capped mountain is said to have been the final resting place of Noah's Ark after the great flood described in the Book of Genesis?
Answer: Ararat
- British actor Claude Rains's final film role was as King Herod in what 1965 epic film, a 4-hour, 20-minute-long chronicling of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ?
Answer: The Greatest Story Ever Told
- "You would gamble for the fatherless, and auction off your friend" is a verse from what Old Testament book that comes between Esther and Psalms?
Answer: Job
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