Animals in the Bible
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50 free Animals in the Bible trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Animals are everywhere in the Bible. They carry prophets, feed them, swallow them and occasionally talk back. They fill an ark, swarm over Egypt, wander off in parables and turn up as monsters in the poetry of Job and the visions of Revelation. This quiz starts with the stories most people meet first, such as the Garden of Eden, Noah's flood, Daniel's night in the den and the plagues of Egypt. It then moves on to the animals in the teaching of Jesus, the food laws of Leviticus and a few creatures that only careful readers remember. It works for Sunday school classes, youth groups, family quiz nights and anyone brushing up on Bible knowledge. The early questions are easy enough for kids, the later ones will test adults, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which animal spoke aloud to the prophet Balaam after he struck it three times on the road to Moab?
A donkey
A donkey saved Balaam's life: she had swerved three times from an angel with a drawn sword that the prophet could not see.
Q 02Daniel was thrown into a den of which animals after praying to God in defiance of King Darius's decree?
Lions
Lions left Daniel unharmed all night, and in the morning he told the king that God had sent an angel to shut their mouths.
Q 03Which prophet spent three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish after fleeing toward Tarshish?
Jonah
Jonah had been told to preach in Nineveh but boarded a ship going the other way, and the sailors threw him overboard to calm a storm.
Q 04Which bird returned to Noah's ark carrying a freshly plucked olive leaf, showing the flood waters had gone down?
A dove
A dove brought the leaf back at evening, and when Noah released her again seven days later she never returned.
Q 05Jesus said it is easier for which animal to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter heaven?
A camel
A camel squeezing through a needle so astonished the disciples that they asked who could possibly be saved; Jesus answered that with God all things are possible.
Q 06In the second plague of Egypt, which animals swarmed out of the Nile into beds, ovens and kneading bowls?
Frogs
Frogs covered Egypt until Pharaoh begged Moses to pray them away; they died in such numbers that they were piled in heaps and the land stank.
Q 07Which birds brought bread and meat every morning and evening to the prophet Elijah at the brook Cherith?
Ravens
Ravens fed Elijah while he hid during a long drought; when the brook dried up, he moved on to a widow's house in Zarephath.
Q 08On a mountain in Moriah, Abraham sacrificed which animal, caught by its horns in a thicket, instead of Isaac?
A ram
A ram appeared just as an angel called out to stop Abraham's hand, and he named the place for it: the Lord will provide.
Q 09In Genesis, which creature persuades Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden?
A serpent
A serpent, described as craftier than any other wild animal, was cursed for it to crawl on its belly and eat dust.
Q 10In a parable of Jesus, a man leaves ninety-nine of which animals in the wilderness to search for one lost?
Sheep
Sheep, a hundred in all: the owner carries the stray home on his shoulders and calls his friends and neighbors to celebrate.
Q 11Jesus sent demons calling themselves Legion into a herd of which animals, which then rushed into the sea?
Pigs
Pigs, about two thousand of them, drowned; the herdsmen ran to tell the town, and the locals begged Jesus to leave their region.
Q 12Besides wild honey, which insects did John the Baptist eat while preaching in the wilderness of Judea?
Locusts
Locusts were lawful fare: Leviticus names them among the few insects the Israelites were allowed to eat.
Q 13While Moses was on Mount Sinai, Aaron melted gold earrings to make an idol shaped like which animal?
A calf
A calf of gold so angered Moses that he burned it, ground it to powder, scattered it on water and made the Israelites drink it.
Q 21Which animals came out of the woods and mauled forty-two youths who had mocked the prophet Elisha's bald head?
Bears
Bears, two females, appeared after Elisha cursed the jeering crowd on the road to Bethel; he then walked on to Mount Carmel.
Q 22Which animals did Samson tie tail to tail in pairs, with burning torches, to set Philistine grain fields alight?
Foxes
Foxes, three hundred of them, carried the fire through the standing grain and on into the olive groves in Samson's revenge for losing his wife.
Q 23In Jesus's parable of the rich man, which animals came and licked the sores of the beggar Lazarus?
Dogs
Dogs came to the beggar as he lay at the rich man's gate; after death he was carried by angels to Abraham's side while the rich man suffered in Hades.
Q 14According to Genesis, who gave names to all the livestock, the birds and every wild animal?
Adam
Adam named every creature God brought to him, but none proved a suitable partner, so God made the first woman.
Q 15On which day of creation in Genesis did God make the land animals, the same day as the first humans?
The sixth day
The sixth day came after the sea creatures and birds, which were made a day earlier; God then rested on the seventh.
Q 16Noah's ark, carrying pairs of every kind of animal, came to rest on the mountains of which region?
Ararat
Ararat is where the ark grounded in the seventh month, but the surrounding mountaintops stayed hidden under water until the tenth.
Q 17In the dream Joseph explained to Pharaoh, seven fat and seven thin of which animals came out of the Nile?
Cows
Cows stood for years: the seven thin ones ate the seven fat ones, which Joseph read as seven years of plenty followed by seven of famine.
Q 18In the wilderness, which birds covered the Israelite camp at evening, giving the people meat with their morning manna?
Quail
Quail arrived again in the Book of Numbers, blown in from the sea by a wind, and the people spent two days and a night gathering them.
Q 19The prophet Jeremiah asks whether which animal can change its spots, a line that became an English proverb?
The leopard
The leopard appears beside an Ethiopian who cannot change his skin; Jeremiah's point was that people long used to doing evil cannot simply start doing good.
Q 20The King James Bible names which mythical animal nine times, where most modern translations say wild ox instead?
The unicorn
The unicorn got there from the Hebrew word re'em, by way of older Greek and Latin translations that had turned it into a one-horned beast.
Q 24Jesus said not one of which small birds, sold two for a penny, falls to the ground unnoticed by God?
Sparrows
Sparrows made his point about worth: Jesus told his followers not to be afraid, because even the hairs of their heads were all numbered.
Q 25The Book of Proverbs tells the sluggard to study which insect, which stores its food at harvest without any ruler?
The ant
The ant returns later in Proverbs, listed among four creatures that are little on the earth yet exceedingly wise.
Q 26According to Isaiah, those who wait for the Lord will renew their strength and rise up on wings like which birds?
Eagles
Eagles carry the promise further: the same verse says such people will run without growing weary and walk without fainting.
Q 27Psalm 42 compares a soul longing for God to which animal panting for streams of water?
A deer
A deer opens the psalm, credited to the sons of Korah, whose writer says tears have been his food day and night.
Q 28On the Day of Atonement in Leviticus, which animal was sent away into the wilderness carrying the people's sins?
A goat
A goat picked by casting lots was led away, and William Tyndale's 1530 English translation gave the language the word scapegoat for it.
Q 29Jesus told a disciple to pay the temple tax with a coin he would find in the mouth of which creature?
A fish
A fish, the first one hooked, would hold a silver stater, worth exactly enough to cover the tax for two people: Jesus and the disciple sent to catch it.
Q 30Which apostle saw a vision of a great sheet full of animals and heard a voice say to kill and eat?
Peter
Peter protested that he had never eaten anything unclean; the vision came three times and prepared him to visit the centurion Cornelius.