15 Bible Trivia Questions That Test How Well You Know Scripture

The Bible is one of the most widely read and widely translated books in the world, with billions of copies distributed across centuries. Its books were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and its stories, laws, letters, poetry, and teachings have shaped religion, literature, history, art, and culture around the globe.

Whether someone reads the Bible for faith, history, literature, or general knowledge, it contains a huge range of people, places, events, and teachings to remember. This Tempo trivia quiz features 15 Bible questions designed to test how much you know about scripture, from well-known stories to details that may be harder to recall.

Editors created this list using sources such as Christianity.com and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

• Answer: Genesis
• What books would be included in the Bible was determined at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D.
• Although there are different versions of the Bible, Genesis is the first book in the canon.

• Answer: A rainbow
• After the flood, God made a covenant with Noah, and the rainbow was the sign of his covenant.

• Answer: Saul
• In 1 Samuel, the first king of Israel was chosen after God spoke to Samuel about sending a man from the land of Benjamin.
• Saul was chosen by God to be the first king of Israel and to save God’s people from the Philistines.

• Answer: Gold, frankincense, and myrrh
• The three wise men are also known as the Three Kings or the Three Magi.
• When the three wise men came to worship Jesus, they brought him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

• Answer: 10
• In Exodus, God descended upon Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain.
• After Moses went to the top of the mountain, God gave him the Ten Commandments.

• Answer: Bethlehem
• The birthplace of Jesus fulfilled a prophecy from the Old Testament of the Bible.
• It states in Micah that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, where Mary and Joseph were traveling for the census before she gave birth.

• Answer: The Angel Gabriel
• When Mary was betrothed to Joseph, God sent someone to tell her she would give birth to Jesus.
• The Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary in what is commonly known as the Annunciation.

• Answer: 40 days and 40 nights
• In the Gospels, it states that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
• Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights.

• Answer: 10
• When Pharaoh would not let God’s people go, there were many plagues in Egypt.
• The 10 plagues sent to Egypt were water turned to blood, frogs, gnats, flies, disease that killed the cattle, boils, hail, locusts, darkness for three days, and death of all the firstborn children.

• Answer: Judas
• One of the twelve apostles of Jesus betrayed him in the Garden of Gethsemane by turning him over to the Sanhedrin.
• Judas kissed Jesus on the cheek to show the Sanhedrin who to arrest. After Judas realized what he had done, it says in the Gospel of Matthew he hanged himself.

• Answer: Carpenter
• Before Jesus started his ministry, he would have been taught a trade by Joseph.
• In Mark 6, Jesus is referred to as the carpenter, when people in the synagogue are surprised at his wisdom and the miracles he performed. In Matthew, he is also referred to as the carpenter’s son, showing that Joseph was also a carpenter.

• Answer: Hebrew
• Most of the Old Testament was written in the same language; since then, it has been translated into over 700 languages.
• The majority of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, although some parts were written in Aramaic.

• Answer: Peter
• Before Jesus is arrested, he predicts that one of his apostles will deny him three times before the rooster crows.
• Even though Peter tells Jesus that he will never deny or disown him, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny him three times.

• Answer: Through a burning bush
• In Exodus 3, Moses led his flock to the wilderness before coming to the mountain of God where an angel of God appeared to him.
• At the mountain of God, there was a burning bush that was not consumed by the fire. God spoke to Moses once Moses stopped to see why the bush was not burning up.

• Answer: A golden calf
• When Moses was speaking to God on Mount Sinai, the Israelites were waiting for him and asked Aaron to make them a god because Moses hadn’t come down from the mountain.
• Aaron used all the gold rings from the Israelites and made them into a golden calf, which they began to worship. (Check out these 17 world-changing events that shaped the Earth as we know it.)