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Trivia Question: Where was Jesus born?
Answer: Bethlehem
Trivia Question: Who recognized Jesus as the Messiah when he was presented to the Temple as
a baby?
Answer: Simeon
Trivia 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 pregnancy
Answer: From the angel Gabriel
Trivia Question: Who is the high priest of Jerusalem that put Jesus on trial?
Answer: Caiaphas
Trivia Question: According to the Gospel of Matthew, where does Jesus give his first public
sermon?
Answer: On the mount
Trivia Question: How does Judas notify the Roman Officials of Jesus’ identity?
Answer: Judas kisses Jesus
Trivia Question: Which insect did John the Baptist eat in the desert?
Answer: Locusts
Trivia Question: Who were the first apostles called to follow Jesus?
Answer: Peter & Andrew
Trivia Question: After Jesus was arrested, which apostle disowned him three times?
Answer: Peter
Trivia Question: Who asked Pilate for Jesus’ body after he was crucified?
Answer: Joseph of Arimathea
Trivia Question: What is the shortest book in the New Testament?
Answer: 2 John
Trivia Question: Who worked as a tax collector prior to preaching the word of God?
Answer: Matthew
Trivia Question: Paul says Christians should follow whose example? (Ephesians 5)
Answer: Christ’s example
Trivia Question: What did Saul encounter when he was traveling to Damascus?
Answer: A great and blinding light
Trivia Question: What was Simon Peter’s profession prior to becoming an apostle?
Answer: Fisherman
Trivia Question: In the Gospel According to John, which apostle doubts Jesus’ resurrection
until he sees Jesus with his own eyes?
Answer: Thomas
Trivia Question: Which Gospel is mostly speaks on the mystery and identity of the person of
Jesus?
Answer: The Gospel According to John
Trivia Question: According to the Gospels, which literary genre does Jesus implement to help
preach his message?
Answer: The parable
Trivia Question: What is the name of the village where Christ turned water into wine?
Answer: Cana of Galilee
Trivia Question: How many days and nights did Jesus fast for?
Answer: 40 days & 40 nights
Trivia Question: Which prophet is known for turning his rod into a bronze snake?
Answer: Moses
Trivia Question: How many days did it take God to create the heavens and the earth?
Answer: Seven
Trivia Question: What did God use the rib of Adam to do?
Answer: Create Eve
Trivia 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 eat
Trivia Question: How did God appear to Moses in the book of Exodus?
Answer: Through a burning bush on the mountain of God
Trivia 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 children.
Trivia Question: Who did Moses drown by closing the Red Sea?
Answer: The Egyptians
Trivia 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?
Answer: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image”; Thou shall not make idols
Trivia 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?
Answer: “Thou shalt not covet”
Trivia Question: What is the river where John the Baptist did most of his baptizing?
Answer: Jordan River
Trivia Question: How many Bible books did both Moses and the apostle John write?
Answer: Five
Trivia Question: Which place is called “Zion” and “the city of David”?
Answer: Jerusalem
Trivia Question: What is the town in Galilee that Jesus grew up in?
Answer: Nazareth
Trivia Question: All who look to the Son and believe in him will have what?
Answer: Eternal life
Trivia Question: What is the area of Palestine where the tribe of Judah lived after the exile?
Answer: Judea
Trivia Question: On which day did Jesus rise from the dead?
Answer: The third day
Trivia Question: Which men came from the East to worship Jesus after he was born?
Answer: The Magi
Trivia Question: Which group was the ruling council of the Jews who plotted to kill Jesus?
Answer: The Sanhedrin
Trivia Question: The Bible has how many divisions and sections?
Answer: Eight
Trivia Question: Which prophet was called by the Lord as a boy and anointed Saul as Israel’s
first king?
Answer: Samuel
Trivia Question: What is a violation of God’s law called?
Answer: Sin
Trivia Question: Which two rivers border Eden in modern day Iraq?
Answer: Tigress and Euphrates
Trivia Question: At which mountain did Moses receive the Ten Commandments?
Answer: Mount Sinai
Trivia 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 Turkey.
Answer: Tarsus
Trivia Question: What is the name of a person who is called by God to speak for Him?
Answer: A prophet
Trivia Question: In which town did Jesus drive an evil spirit out of a man who called him the
Holy One of God?
Answer: Capernaum
Trivia Question: In which town did Jesus meet the woman at Jacob’s well?
Answer: Sychar
Trivia Question: What was the first town where Jesus began his ministry and was rejected?
Answer: Nazareth
Trivia Question: Who cut off the ear of the high priest?
Answer: Peter
Trivia Question: King Herod promised what to his daughter on his birthday?
Answer: John the Baptist’s head
Trivia Question: What Roman Governor presided over Judea during the trial of Jesus?
Answer: Pontius Pilate
Trivia Question: In 2 Kings 8, how long is the famine that Elisha prophesizes?
Answer: 7 Years
Trivia Question: How many blemishes was a sacrificial beast allowed to have?
Answer: Zero
Trivia Question: If a person sinned ignorantly at the time of Moses, what happened to them?
Answer: They had to sacrifice something
Trivia Question: How many years did Sarah live?
Answer: 127
Trivia Question: Who does God tell Abraham to sacrifice to prove his loyalty to Him?
Answer: Isaac
Trivia Question: What is the name of the well that Abraham and Abimelach quarrel over?
Answer: Beersheba
Trivia Question: In the Song of Songs, how much is the bride’s dowry?
Answer: 1,000 silver pieces
Trivia Question: In 2 Sam 14, how did the wise woman disguise herself?
Answer: As a mourner
Trivia Question: Who was the governor that heard the council’s case against Paul?
Answer: Felix
Trivia Question: What did Felix feel when Paul told him of Christ?
Answer: Fear
Trivia Question: How many days after birth is circumcision performed according to the Laws
of Moses?
Answer: Eight
Trivia Question: Who must we become like in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?
Answer: Children
Trivia Question: Who was the King that crowned Esther the queen?
Answer: Ahasarus
Trivia Question: To create the plague of frogs, who stretched his rod over the waters of Egypt?
Answer: Aaron
Trivia Question: Who did God say would worship at the feet of the angel of the Church of Phil-
adelphia?
Answer: The false Jews of the synagogue of Satan
Trivia Question: What happened when the crew threw Jonah overboard?
Answer: The storm calmed
Trivia Question: What are the four Gospels in the New Testament?
Answer: Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John
Trivia Question: Who is the book of Acts addressing?
Answer: The churches
Trivia Question: What color are the the four horses in the book of Revelation?
Answer: White, Red, Dark, & Pale
Trivia Question: Who did Peter raise from the dead in the city of Joppa?
Answer: Dorcas
Trivia Question: How long did the Israelites wander through the wilderness?
Answer: 40 years
Trivia Question: How many times did Noah send out a dove from the Ark?
Answer: Three times
Trivia Question: What did the dove bring back that let Noah know that the water was receding?
Answer: A freshly plucked olive leaf
Trivia Question: What was the name of the forbidden tree Adam and Eve ate from?
Answer: The Tree of Life
Trivia Question: What were the gifts the Wise Men brought when they went to visit Jesus?
Answer: Gold, Frankincense, & Myrrh
Trivia Question: What did God use to create Adam in the book of Genesis?
Answer: Dust
Trivia Question: In the Old Testament, which prophet foretold of Jesus’ birth?
Answer: Micah
Trivia Question: Who were the three men that were thrown into the fiery furnace?
Answer: Shadrach, Mishach, & Abednego
Trivia Question: Which of the 12 apostles did not have his feet washed by Jesus?
Answer: Trick question, they all had their feet washed
Trivia Question: What book of the Bible contains the Ten Commandments?
Answer: Exodus
Trivia Question: Why did King Solomon threaten to cut a baby in half?
Answer: Two women were fighting over a child, each one claiming it was theirs, he offered to
cut the baby in half and give each woman a half
Trivia Question: How did King Solomon know which woman was the real mother?
Answer: She told him to give the other woman the baby
Trivia Question: Who was the first hunter mentioned in the Bible?
Answer: Nimrod
Trivia Question: Who was the only female judge mentioned in the Bible?
Answer: Deborah
Trivia Question: What language is the New Testament originally written in?
Answer: Greek
Trivia Question: How many pairs of each “clean” animal did Noah take on the ark?
Answer: Seven pairs
Trivia Question: How old was Noah when the flood began?
Answer: 600 years old
Trivia Question: Where did the ark come to rest after the flood?
Answer: The mountains of Ararat
Trivia Question: What was the covenant God made with Noah and his sons?
Answer: To never again send a flood to destroy the Earth
Trivia Question: What was the sign of God’s covenant with Noah and his sons?
Answer: A rainbow
Trivia Question: How does Christ communicate his Holy Spirit to us today?
Answer: Through the sacraments
Trivia Question: How many loaves and fishes did Jesus Christ feed the 5,000 with?
Answer: Five loaves and two fishes
Trivia Question: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” What Psalm does this Bible verse
come from?
Answer: Psalm 23
Trivia Question: What is the first verse of the Bible?
Answer: “In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth.”
Trivia Question: Complete this Bible verse: “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee
out of the land of…”
Answer: Egypt
Trivia Question: This Bible verse is from which Psalm? “Blessed is the man that walkith not
in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standith in the way of sinners, nor sittith in the seat of the
scornful,”
Answer: Psalm 1
Trivia Question: What is the name of the river baby Moses floated down to escape?
Answer: The Nile
Trivia Question: Who did King David have an affair with and then kill her husband?
Answer: Bathsheba
Trivia Question: Who did the Jews set free that led to Jesus’ Crucifixion?
Answer: Barabas
Trivia Question: What did Jesus mean when he said to his disciples, “Do this in remembrance
of me,”?
Answer: Communion
Trivia Question: What were the crimes of the two men who were crucified with Jesus?
Answer: They were thieves
Trivia Question: How many days did it take for Jesus Christ to arrive after Lazarus’ death?
Answer: Four
Trivia Question: Who was Jesus weeping over in the verse “Jesus wept”?
Answer: Lazarus
Trivia Question: Finish the phrase, “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death…”
Answer: “I will fear no evil for Thou art with me.”
Trivia Question: What did the devil offer Jesus if he bowed down and worshipped him?
Answer: All the kingdoms of the world and their splendor
Trivia Question: Where did David spare Saul’s life the first time?
Answer: In a cave
Trivia Question: Where did David spare Saul’s life the second time?
Answer: In the camp where Saul was sleeping
Trivia Question: Finish the Beatitude: “Blessed are they that mourn…”
Answer: “…for they shall be comforted.”
Trivia Question: Finish the Beatitude: “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteous-
ness…”
Answer: “…for they shall be filled.”
Trivia Question: Finish the Beatitude: “Blessed are the pure in heart…”
Answer: “…for they shall see God.”
Trivia Question: Finish the Beatitude: “Blessed are those who are persecuted because they are
good…”
Answer: “…for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.”
Trivia Question: Who was thrown into the lion’s den by Darius
Answer: Daniel
Trivia Question: After Jesus’ crucifixion, who took his body down from the cross?
Answer: Joseph of Arimathea
Trivia Question: After his resurrection, to whom did Jesus appear first?
Answer: Mary Magdalene
Trivia Question: Who was the doubting disciple?
Answer: Thomas
Trivia Question: In Ephesians, what does Paul say we should not let the sun go down upon?
Answer: Anger
Trivia Question: In Philippians, what does Paul say we should think upon?
Answer: Things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, good, virtue, and praise.
Trivia Question: Finish this phrase: “I can do all things through Christ…”
Answer: “…who strengthens me.”
Trivia Question: Finish this phrase: “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man…”
Answer: “…avails much.”
Trivia Question: Finish the phrase: “It is appointed to man once to die, after that…”
Answer: “…the judgement.”
Trivia Question: Finish the phrase: “Faith is the substance of things hoped for…”
Answer: “…the evidence of things not seen.”
Trivia Question: When Samuel picked David as king, God reminded us that while people look
at the outward appearance, what does God look at?
Answer: The heart (Samuel 16:7)
Trivia Question: Finish the phrase: After Jesus was baptized, God said, “This is my son whom
I…”
Answer: “…love.”
Trivia Question: Who was the first person to come upon the injured man in the parable of the
Good Samaritan?
Answer: The priest
Trivia Question: Which New Testament book has Jesus’ sermon on the Mount?
Answer: Matthew
Trivia Question: How many times does the Bible mention the word “snow”?
Answer: 24
Trivia Question: What did King Solomon ask God to give him?
Answer: Wisdom
Trivia Question: What location does Jesus say to light a lamp for all to see?
Answer: On a stand
Trivia Question: How many days was Jonah in the belly of the big fish?
Answer: three days & three nights
Trivia Question: How much of his wealth did Zacchaeus give to the poor?
Answer: Half of it
Trivia Question: What will be the outcome of honoring your father and your mother?
Answer: You will live long in the land
Trivia Question: In Luke, the woman cleans Jesus’ feet with what two things?
Answer: Her tears and her hair
Trivia Question: In which book of the Bible is this verse found: “Train up a child in the way he
should go and when he is old he will not turn from it.”
Answer: Proverbs
Trivia Question: In Revelation, Jesus says: “Do not be afraid, I am the _____ and the ______ .”
Answer: First & Last
Trivia Question: Complete the verse: “The _____ ______ of the wise are more to be heeded
than the shouts of a ruler of fools.”
Answer: Quiet words
Trivia Question: Where in the New Testament does it talk about the perseverance of Job?
Answer: James
Trivia Question: What is the name commonly given to the first five books of the Old Testa-
ment?
Answer: The Pentateuch
Trivia Question: What are the names of the twins that wrestled in their mother’s womb?
Answer: Jacob & Esau
Trivia Question: When Jesus died, what three things happened?
Answer: Earthquake, veil in the temple torn, tombs broke open
Trivia Question: Noah sent two birds from the ark, what were they?
Answer: A dove & a raven
Trivia Question: Out of the two birds Noah sent from the ark, which did he send first?
Answer: The raven
Trivia Question: Whose father tied him up and put him on the altar as a sacrifice until Jehovah
provided a sheep?
Answer: Isaac
Trivia Question: Which Egyptian wife caused Joseph to be thrown into prison?
Answer: The wife of Potiphar
Trivia Question: In the book of Daniel, the beast is described as being as swift as what animal?
Answer: Leopard
Trivia Question: How many years were the Israelites in captivity when Ezekiel received his
Vision of Jerusalem?
Answer: Six years
Trivia Question: What was the one thing Elijah left behind when God took him to heaven?
Answer: His cloak
Trivia Question: “We are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things
unto this day,” wrote Paul, referring to what?
Answer: The apostles
Trivia Question: Which mischievous woman tricked Samson into revealing the secret of his
strength?
Answer: Deliilah
Trivia Question: After the start of his trials, Job calls down evil upon which day?
Answer: His birthday
Trivia Question: When Jesus cast out demons, they entered into which animals, causing them
to go off a cliff?
Answer: Swine
Trivia Question: Which number of commandment is honor thy father and mother?
Answer: Fifth
Trivia Question: Who said: “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
Answer: Moses
Trivia Question: What prophet fled to Tarshish when he got caught up in a storm?
Answer: Jonah
Trivia Question: Who was Jesse’s grandson and was the richest and most powerful kind in Isra-
el’s history?
Answer: Solomon
Trivia Question: Who was the king to which the Lord said, “Let my people go”?
Answer: Pharaoh
Trivia Question: What will we receive when the Holy Spirit comes upon us?
Answer: Power
Trivia Question: Where do we read the nine Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
Answer: 1 Corinthians 12:8-11
Trivia Question: Why did the man who had to be lowered through the roof want to be healed?
Answer: He was paralyzed
Trivia Question: What happened to Lots wife when she looked back at the city of Sodom?
Answer: She turned into a pillar of salt
Trivia Question: Out of the mouth of which animal did a coin appear in the book of Matthew?
Answer: Fish
Trivia Question: As the Israelites were marching, which animal approached them and had a
discussion?
Answer: A donkey
Trivia Question: Which animal were men mauled by when they insulted Elisha?
Answer: Bears
Trivia Question: Men were mauled by bears when they insulted Elisha for what?
Answer: Being bald
Trivia Question: How did the Holy Spirit descend onto the apostles during Pentecost?
Answer: In a flaming fire
Trivia Question: What is Pentecost?
Answer: When the Holy Spirit descended onto the apostles in flaming fire to give them the gifts
to courageously proclaim the good news of Jesus
Trivia Question: What is the sacrament in which we first become children of God?
Answer: Baptism
Trivia Question: Which Queen visited King Solomon because she had heard of his fame?
Answer: The Queen of Sheba
Trivia Question: True or False, the word “Easter” appears in the Old Testament?
Answer: False
Trivia Question: The Easter sunrise service, a distinctive Protestant observance in North Amer-
ica, comes from what Biblical event?
Answer: A reenactment of Mary Magdalene’s visit to Jesus’ tomb on the morning of his Resur-
rection
Trivia Question: Who is the man that wanted to kill baby Jesus?
Answer: King Herod
Trivia Question: How many books of poetry are in the Old Testament?
Answer: Five
Trivia Question: Ten men with what condition were healed by Jesus?
Answer: Leoprasy
Trivia Question: In the book of Genesis, God did what to Adam and Eve when he found that
they had sinned?
Answer: He expelled them
Trivia Question: What was the animal Satan appeared as to Eve in the book of Genesis?
Answer: Serpent
Trivia Question: Which book tells of seven seals and seven trumpets?
Answer: Revelation
Trivia Question: What does “Epistle” mean?
Answer: Letter
Trivia Question: Which prophet had to lay on his left side for six months?
Answer: Ezekiel
Trivia Question: What was the name of the demon who possessed the man in the tomb?
Answer: Legion
Trivia Question: What happened to Joseph when he refused to commit sin with his master’s
wife?
Answer: He was put in jail
Trivia Question: What is it called to have an unusual happening that goes against the laws of
nature?
Answer: Miracles
Trivia Question: Which Pharisee had a private meeting with Jesus at night?
Answer: Nicodemus
Trivia Question: Finish this phrase: We are not saved by our own works, we are saved by ____ ?
Answer: Grace
Trivia Question: Why is Easter considered the most important Christian celebration?
Answer: The Resurrection means that God’s promise to save His people (Salvation) is fulfilled.
Trivia Question: Even though he promised Jesus he would die for him, what did Peter do when
Jesus was arrested?
Answer: He denied that he knew Jesus three times.
Trivia Question: Where did the term “the kiss of death” come from?
Answer: The signal that Judas used to betray Jesus (he kissed Jesus on the cheek).