Hard Bible Quiz Questions
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- After the resurrection, the disciples were on the shore of what body of water when Jesus appeared to them?
- Job shows his humility (in Job 1:20) by?
- At the beginning of the Book of Job, how many children does Job have?
- In which book is the story of Gideon recounted?
- How did Gideon ask the Lord to show him that he had been chosen to lead the Hebrews?
- Who was Abimelech's father?
- Nehemiah was cup-bearer to whom?
- Which two Old Testament books were originally combined in a single book?
- Where did Samson meet Delilah?
- What was Simon Peter's surname?
- Which of the following people might Isaiah have known during their lives?
- In John 5, how does Christ explain why his judgment is just?
- About when was the Acts of the Apostles written?
- Why did the Pharisees chastise the guards who were impressed by the teachings of Jesus and had therefore failed to arrest him (in John 7)?
- Who was the first leader of the Jewish Christians in Jerusalem?
- According to 1 Peter, how should we answer someone who asks us about the hope that we have as Christians?
- From which book of the Bible do the Jehovah's Witnesses take their name?
- Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will come to convict the world concerning all except what?
- Where is the Garden of Gethsemene located?
- How many people did Peter convert with his first public sermon?
- When Peter healed a lame man in Acts 3, what part of the man's anatomy was unsound?
- Who wrote the "St. Cecelia Mass"?
- What was the name of the man who stopped the Sanhedrin from executing all of the apostles?
- According to Stephen, how long did Moses' parents care for him?
- Who, in the Book of Acts, gives a long speech to the Sanhedrin, reciting the history of the Hebrews?
- Who is the first apostle mentioned in Acts to travel to a foreign land, to spread the good news?
- Why did the centurion Cornelius send soldiers to bring Peter to him?
- Who was Sergius Paulus?
- When the Jews of Antioch (in Pisidia) rose up against Paul and Barnabas, what did they do?
- Who was Antioch named after?
- Why did the priest of Zeus bring oxen and garlands to the town gate, for sacrifice?
- What specific thing were Gentiles forbidden to eat by the early church, in order to be admitted?
- Who did the Council of Jerusalem send to Antioch with a letter accepting Gentiles into the Christian church?
- Where was Lydia baptized?
- Where was Lydia (second journey of Paul) from?
- What was the name of the man who housed Paul and Silas during their first trip to Thessalonika?
- In his third journey, why did Paul not sail from Greece (Achaeia) to Syria?
- When Paul said farewell to the elders of Ephesus, at Miletus, when did they believe they would see him again?
- How did Paul manage to avoid conviction during his trial before the Jerusalem Sanhedrin?
- Who was the Roman governor of Judea when Paul was sent to Caesarea for trial?
- Which of the following is NOT a reason Felix, the Roman governor, left Paul in prison for two years without deciding his case?
- On his fourth journey, where did Paul’s ship try to find shelter from the winter storms?
- What was the figurehead on the ship that carried Paul from Malta to Italy?
- Which book tells us that Jesus will lead the saved “to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes”?
- In 1 Kings, when Elijah despairs of Israel, how many Israelites does God promise him will remain faithful?
- When Paul wrote in Romans that "if the root is holy, so are the branches", what specifically was he referring to?
- According to Romans 12:15, what can we always rejoice in, no matter how hard things get?
- Which chapter of Romans gives us rules for living a Christian life?
- What is the Jewish Bible properly called?
- What is the significance of Jesus being the first to open the womb of his mother?
- In Romans 16, who does Paul say "risked their necks for my life"?
- After Jesus fed the 5000, what did the people want?
- Who were the Perizzites?
- The daughters of Lot gave birth to sons who became the patriarchs of what people?
- Which of the following did Abimelech NOT give to Abraham, in penance for having taken Sarah from him?
- Where did Ishmael grow up, after he was expelled by Abraham?
- By what other name is Hebron called in the Bible?
- The servant of Abraham, when he met Rebekah, gave her a ring. Where did she wear it?
- Who was Keturah?
- How did Abraham make his chief servant swear an oath to him?
- According to 1 Peter, how do we purify our souls?
- Which epistle writer flirted with the doctrine of predestination?
- Which book in the New Testament comes directly after the Gospels?
- According to 1 Peter, where will judgment begin?
- Which poem illustrates that Pride goeth before a great fall?
- What happened when the king of Nineveh heard that Jonah was prophesying the destruction of the city?
- What translation of the Bible was written by Eugene Peterson?
- According to Proverbs 15, whose house will the Lord tear down?
- From which book come the famous phrase, Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice?
- Where was Paul when he wrote the First Epistle to the Corinthians?
- At the beginning of 1 Corinthians, who does Paul mention by name as joining him in sending greetings?
- In 1 Corinthians 4, who does Paul call the scum of the earth?
- In 1 Corinthians 5, what does Paul compare boasting to?
- Where was Apollos from?
- What is the theme of Psalm 13?
- Which of his brothers did not want to murder Joseph?
- What did the brothers of Joseph receive for selling him into slavery?
- Which of the following was a child of Joseph?
- How many stone jars of water did Jesus turn into wine, at the wedding at Cana?
- Which of the sons of Jacob convinced him to let them return to Egypt, with Benjamin, to buy grain a second time?
- What was the total number of Israelites who emigrated to Egypt with Jacob, as stated in Genesis 46?
- How did Jacob characterize his sons Simeon and Levi?
- Who was with Paul when an earthquake broke them out of prison?
- Under Mosaic law (in Exodus), what punishment was given to a thief who could not make restitution?
- What other name is used to distinguish between the Bethlehem where Jesus was born and other town(s) named "Bethlehem"?
- Who was the tetrarch who ruled over Nazareth when Jesus returned there from Egypt?
- How old was Abram when God told him to change his name to Abraham?
- According to Exodus, what name did God call Himself for the Hebrews in Egypt, which he had not given to Abraham?
- What does Exodus 10 strongly imply that God's primary purpose was, when He brought the ten plagues upon Egypt?
- After which plague on Egypt did Pharaoh finally offer to let the Hebrew men go into the wilderness to worship, before the plague actually occurred?
- In John 5, where was Jesus when he healed the man by the pool, what structure were they near?
- In John 5, who did Christ say would accuse us before the Father?
- How many of his "best" chariots did Pharaoh send out after the Hebrews, in Exodus?
- What is another name for the "Song of Moses"?
- In Exodus 15 (Song of Moses), a characterization of Yahweh is almost identical to the name of what famous race horse?
- Complete this quote from John 6: "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh _____."
- Where were the Hebrews, in Exodus, when the crisis over water arose?
- What was the name of the tribe that the Israelites first fought, after the exodus from Egypt?
- Who first devised the idea of a system of judges for the Israelites?
- When does Psalm 113 tell us we should praise God?