60 free Angel trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Angels turn up everywhere: in the Bible and the Quran, in Renaissance paintings, on top of Christmas trees, in baseball, on the A1 outside Gateshead and in Joss Whedon's Los Angeles. This quiz covers all of them. The first half is the religious and mythological angels: where the word comes from, the archangels Gabriel, Michael and Raphael, six-winged seraphim and four-faced cherubim, the nine choirs of Pseudo-Dionysius, guardian angels, Metatron and Lucifer, and Islam's Azrael, Israfil and the grave-questioners Munkar and Nakir. The second half is angels in the wider world: Angel Falls and Jimmie Angel, the Angel of the North, the Los Angeles Angels and Angels in the Outfield, Charlie's Angels, Buffy's Angel and his spin-off, Clarence from It's a Wonderful Life, Robbie Williams's 'Angels', angel food cake, angel sharks, the Blue Angels and the Hells Angels. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on the angels, places, shows and songs involved, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01The word 'angel' comes from the Greek angelos, which literally means what?
Messenger
Its earliest form is Mycenaean a-ke-ro in Linear B, and it may itself be a loan word related to the Persian mounted courier, the angaros.
Q 02How many orders of angels are there in Pseudo-Dionysius's 6th-century hierarchy?
Nine
They are arranged in three spheres of three; the author claimed to be a convert of St Paul, a fiction exposed by Erasmus a thousand years later.
Q 03How many wings do the seraphim have in Isaiah's vision of the throne of God?
Six
Two cover the face, two the feet and two are for flying, while they cry 'holy, holy, holy'; the Hebrew saraph means 'burning'.
Q 04In Ezekiel's vision, a cherub has four faces: a human, a lion, an eagle and which other creature?
An ox
Cherubim also guard the entrance to the Garden of Eden in Genesis, a long way from the chubby babies of Renaissance art.
Q 05Which archangel tells Mary she will bear a son in the Gospel of Luke?
Gabriel
He had already announced John the Baptist's birth to Zechariah, and Muslims believe he delivered the first Quranic verses to Muhammad.
Q 06Which archangel is described as the warrior of God and chief of the heavenly armies?
Michael
He is called the Taxiarch in the East and is the guardian prince of Israel in the Book of Daniel.
Q 07In the Book of Tobit, which archangel poses as a man named Azariah and heals Tobit's blindness with a fish?
Raphael
His name means 'God has healed', and he uses the same fish to bind the demon Asmodeus.
Q 08How many archangels does the Book of Enoch list?
Seven
Uriel, Raguel, Sariel and Remiel round out the list alongside the three archangels most people can name today.
Q 09In Jewish mystical tradition, which biblical patriarch was transformed into the angel Metatron?
Enoch
Metatron is sometimes cast as the celestial scribe, and appears in the Talmud three times but nowhere in the Torah.
Q 10In Roman folklore, Lucifer, meaning 'light-bringer', was the name for which planet?
Venus
The Greeks called the morning star Phosphoros; the fallen-angel reading came from a passage in Isaiah 14 filtered through the Vulgate.
Q 11According to Genesis 6 as read in the Book of Enoch, what were the Nephilim?
Offspring of fallen angels and human women
The Watchers who fathered them fell from heaven, and God sent the Flood partly to purge their monstrous children.
Q 12Which 12th-century theologian first laid out a scheme of guardian angels, one per soul at conception?
Honorius of Autun
Aquinas agreed that guardians came from the lowest order of angels; the Catholic feast of the Guardian Angels falls on 2 October.
Q 13Which biblical figure's donkey saw the Angel of the Lord blocking the road before he did?
Balaam
Q 21Which sculptor created the Angel of the North in Gateshead?
Antony Gormley
Like much of his work it is based on a cast of his own body, and its wingspan is wider than a Boeing 757's.
Q 22How wide is the Angel of the North's wingspan?
54 metres
The 208-tonne steel figure stands 20 metres tall and is seen by an estimated 33 million people a year from the A1.
Q 23Which singing cowboy founded the American League's Angels baseball franchise in 1961?
Gene Autry
They were one of MLB's first two expansion teams and the first to originate in California, later called the California and Anaheim Angels.
God was angry that he had set out with the princes of Moab, and the sword-bearing angel was invisible to him at first.
Q 14In Islam, which angel is the canonical angel of death, responsible for transporting souls?
Azrael
He is said to hold a scroll recording the fate of mortals, writing names at birth and erasing them at death.
Q 15In Islamic tradition, which angel will blow the trumpet to announce the Day of Judgment?
Israfil
He is unnamed in the Quran but counted as one of the four archangels, and is often seen as the counterpart of the archangel of healing.
Q 16What do the angels Munkar and Nakir do in Islamic eschatology?
Question the dead in their graves
Their names translate roughly as 'The Denied and The Denier', and tradition says tongues of fire come from their mouths.
Q 17According to Joseph Smith, which angel guarded the golden plates that became the Book of Mormon?
Moroni
Latter Day Saints hold he was a pre-Columbian prophet-warrior who buried the plates and later returned as an angel; a golden statue of him tops many temples.
Q 18The Catholic Angelus prayer takes its name from its opening words about which angel's message?
Gabriel's to Mary
'Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae' opens the devotion, and it is traditionally accompanied by the ringing of the Angelus bell.
Q 19Angel Falls, the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, is in which country?
Venezuela
It plunges nearly a kilometre off the Auyán-tepui in Canaima National Park.
Q 20Angel Falls is named after Jimmie Angel, who was what?
A US aviator who flew over it in 1933
His ashes were scattered over the falls in 1960; Hugo Chávez later floated renaming it with its indigenous Pemon name.
Q 24Which future Inception actor played the lead child, Roger, in Angels in the Outfield (1994)?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Christopher Lloyd plays Al the Boss Angel, and Adrien Brody and Matthew McConaughey are among the ballplayers.
Q 25Which actress starred in only the first season of Charlie's Angels yet became its most famous face?
Farrah Fawcett
Her red swimsuit poster sold six million copies in its first year, and Cheryl Ladd replaced her as Kris Munroe in 1977.
Q 26How did the unseen Charlie Townsend communicate with his Angels?
Via a speakerphone
John Forsythe recorded his lines in an audio studio and was never on set.
Q 27In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the vampire Angel was cursed with a soul by whom?
A Romani clan
Born Liam in 18th-century Ireland, he had rampaged across Europe as Angelus before the curse gave him a conscience.
Q 28In which city is the Buffy spin-off series Angel set?
Los Angeles
David Boreanaz's vampire works as a private detective there for five seasons and 110 episodes on The WB.
Q 29Which former Sunnydale cheerleader joins Angel's detective agency in the spin-off's first season?
Cordelia Chase
Charisma Carpenter's character starts out vain and self-absorbed and inherits Doyle's painful visions from The Powers That Be.
Q 30What is the name of George Bailey's guardian angel in It's a Wonderful Life?
Clarence Odbody
He is an angel second class trying to earn his wings, played by Henry Travers.