Bible Trivia Questions & Answers - Thought Catalog

1 Trivia QuestionsBible Trivia Questions & AnswersTrivia Question: Where was Jesus born?Answer: BethlehemTrivia Question: How many books are in the New Testament?Answer: 27 Trivia Question: Paul was shipwrecked on what island?Answer: MaltaTrivia Question: Who recognized Jesus as the Messiah when he was presented to the Temple as a baby?Answer: SimeonTrivia Question: After Jesus fed the 5,000, how many baskets were left over?Answer: 12 Trivia Question: In the Gospel of Mark, how does the Virgin Mary learn of her pregnancyAnswer: From the angel GabrielTrivia Question: Who is the high priest of Jerusalem that put Jesus on trial?Answer: CaiaphasTrivia Question: According to the Gospel of Matthew, where does Jesus give his first public sermon?Answer: On the mountTrivia Question: How does Judas notify the Roman Officials of Jesus identity?Answer: Judas kisses JesusTrivia Question: Which insect did John the Baptist eat in the desert?

2 Answer: LocustsTrivia Question: Who were the first apostles called to follow Jesus?Answer: Peter & AndrewTrivia Question: After Jesus was arrested, which apostle disowned him three times?Answer: PeterTrivia Question: Who wrote the book of Revelation?Answer: JohnTrivia Question: Who asked Pilate for Jesus body after he was crucified?Answer: Joseph of ArimatheaTrivia Question: What is the shortest book in the New Testament?Answer: 2 JohnTrivia Question: Who worked as a tax collector prior to preaching the word of God?Answer: MatthewTrivia Question: Paul says Christians should follow whose example? (Ephesians 5)Answer: Christ s exampleTrivia Question: What did Saul encounter when he was traveling to Damascus?Answer: A great and blinding lightTrivia Question: What tribe is Paul from?Answer: BenjaminTrivia Question: What was Simon Peter s profession prior to becoming an apostle ?Answer: FishermanTrivia Question: In the acts of the Apostles, who is Stephen?

3 Answer: The first Christian martyrTrivia Question: In 1 Corinthians, which is the greatest of the imperishable qualities?Answer: LoveTrivia Question: In the Gospel According to John, which apostle doubts Jesus resurrection until he sees Jesus with his own eyes?Answer: ThomasTrivia Question: Which Gospel is mostly speaks on the mystery and identity of the person of Jesus?Answer: The Gospel According to JohnTrivia Question: According to the Gospels, which literary genre does Jesus implement to help preach his message?Answer: The parableTrivia Question: Which biblical narrative is connected to Palm Sunday?Answer: Jesus entry into Jerusalem before his deathTrivia Question: Which Gospel is written by a doctor?Answer: LukeTrivia Question: Who baptizes Jesus?Answer: John the BaptizerTrivia Question: Which group of people are righteous enough to inherit the Kingdom of God?Answer: The GentilesTrivia Question: What is the name of the village where Christ turned water into wine?

4 Answer: Cana of GalileeTrivia Question: How many people boarded Noah s Ark?Answer: EightTrivia Question: How many days and nights did Jesus fast for?Answer: 40 days & 40 nightsTrivia Question: Which prophet is known for turning his rod into a bronze snake?Answer: MosesTrivia Question: What is the Holy Trinity?Answer: Father, Son, & the Holy SpiritTrivia Question: What did Joshua command to stay still?Answer: Moon & SunTrivia Question: How many days did it take God to create the heavens and the earth?Answer: SevenTrivia Question: What did God use the rib of Adam to do?Answer: Create EveTrivia Question: What did the serpent tempt Eve to do in the Garden of Eden?Answer: Eat the fruit from the trees that God forbid them to eatTrivia Question: Who were Adam & Eve s first children?Answer: Cain & AbelTrivia Question: What did God divide when He created Earth?Answer: The light from the darknessTrivia Question: Who is Abraham s wife?

5 Answer: SarahTrivia Question: How many books are in the Bible ?Answer: 66 Trivia Question: How many books are in the Old Testament?Answer: 39 Trivia Question: Where did God send Moses to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt?Answer: PharaohTrivia Question: How did God appear to Moses in the book of Exodus?Answer: Through a burning bush on the mountain of GodTrivia Question: How many plagues are in Exodus?Answer: TenTrivia Question: What are the ten plagues in order from Exodus?Answer: blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn Question: Why did God send the ten plagues?Answer: Pharaoh refused to set the Israelites freeTrivia Question: Who did Moses drown by closing the Red Sea?Answer: The EgyptiansTrivia Question: What is the first commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: You shall have no other gods before me Trivia Question: What is the second commandment out of the Ten Commandments?

6 Answer: You shall not make for yourself a carved image ; Thou shall not make idolsTrivia Question: What is the third commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain Trivia Question: What is the fourth commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Trivia Question: What is the fifth commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: Honor thy mother and father Trivia Question: What is the sixth commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: Thou shalt not kill Trivia Question: What is the seventh commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: Thou shalt not commit adultery Trivia Question: What is the eighth commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: Thou shalt not steal Trivia Question: What is the ninth commandment out of the Ten Commandments?Answer: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor Trivia Question: What is the tenth commandment out of the Ten Commandments?

7 Answer: Thou shalt not covet Trivia Question: What did God create on the first day?Answer: LightTrivia Question: What did God create on the second day?Answer: Atmosphere/FirmamentTrivia Question: What did God create third day?Answer: Dry ground/PlantsTrivia Question: What did God create on the fourth day?Answer: The sun, moon, and starsTrivia Question: What did God create on the fifth day?Answer: Birds/Sea animalsTrivia Question: What did God create on the sixth day?Answer: Land animals/HumansTrivia Question: What did God create on the seventh day?Answer: Nothing, He restedTrivia Question: Who wore clothing made of camel hair?Answer: John the BaptistTrivia Question: What is the river where John the Baptist did most of his baptizing?Answer: Jordan RiverTrivia Question: What is the longest chapter of the Bible ?Answer: Psalm 119 Trivia Question: How many Bible books did both Moses and the apostle John write?Answer: FiveTrivia Question: Who cried after hearing a rooster crow?

8 Answer: PeterTrivia Question: What is the last book of the Old Testament?Answer: MalachiTrivia Question: Who is the first murderer in the Bible ?Answer: CainTrivia Question: What was the final wound to the dead body of Jesus on the cross?Answer: His side was piercedTrivia Question: What was Jesus crown made of?Answer: ThornsTrivia Question: Which place is called Zion and the city of David ?Answer: JerusalemTrivia Question: What is the town in Galilee that Jesus grew up in?Answer: NazarethTrivia Question: Who took Judas Iscariot s place as an apostle ?Answer: MatthiasTrivia Question: All who look to the Son and believe in him will have what?Answer: Eternal lifeTrivia Question: Which book is the Gospel of the second chance?Answer: JonahTrivia Question: What is the area of Palestine where the tribe of Judah lived after the exile?Answer: JudeaTrivia Question: Who is the Savior?Answer: Jesus ChristTrivia Question: What is the last book in the New Testament?

9 Answer: RevelationTrivia Question: On which day did Jesus rise from the dead?Answer: The third dayTrivia Question: Which men came from the East to worship Jesus after he was born?Answer: The MagiTrivia Question: Which group was the ruling council of the Jews who plotted to kill Jesus?Answer: The SanhedrinTrivia Question: The Bible has how many divisions and sections?Answer: EightTrivia Question: Which prophet was called by the Lord as a boy and anointed Saul as Israel s first king?Answer: SamuelTrivia Question: What is a violation of God s law called?Answer: SinTrivia Question: Which two rivers border Eden in modern day Iraq?Answer: Tigress and EuphratesTrivia Question: Which apostle walked on water?Answer: PeterTrivia Question: When was the Trinity revealed?Answer: At Jesus baptismTrivia Question: At which mountain did Moses receive the Ten Commandments?Answer: Mount SinaiTrivia Question: Who is the mother of all living?

10 Answer: EveTrivia Question: What did Pilate ask Jesus when he was arrested?Answer: Are you the King of the Jews? Trivia Question: Where is the birthplace of Paul, also known as Saul? This is now located in modern day : TarsusTrivia Question: What is the name of a person who is called by God to speak for Him?Answer: A prophetTrivia Question: How do we give thanks in memory of Jesus?Answer: The Lord s SupperTrivia Question: God s forgiveness provides what to all people?Answer: SalvationTrivia Question: In which town did Jesus drive an evil spirit out of a man who called him the Holy One of God?Answer: CapernaumTrivia Question: In which town did Jesus meet the woman at Jacob s well?Answer: SycharTrivia Question: What do you drink from to have eternal life?Answer: Living WaterTrivia Question: Crafted by Aaron, the Israelites worshipped what idol while Moses was away?Answer: The Golden CalfTrivia Question: What was the first town where Jesus began his ministry and was rejected?