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98 free Bible Stories trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Bible Stories trivia questions with answers. These easy Bible trivia questions and answers walk through the stories most people meet first: creation, Noah's ark, Joseph's coat, Moses and the plagues, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions' den, Jonah, the Nativity, the parables and miracles of Jesus, and the first Easter. Fifty questions in all, most of them answerable by anyone who has sat through Sunday school, with a handful of trickier ones (how tall was Goliath, exactly?) to keep the adults honest. It is a ready-made round for Sunday school, youth group, Bible study icebreakers and family game night. Every answer is checked against the text of Scripture, and each question shows the explanation and the citation once you answer, so you can look the passage up yourself. Work through the whole set for a score to share, or use the questions one at a time as a warm-up.
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Q 01According to Genesis, what did God create on the first day?
Light
Light came first, with the words 'Let there be light' (Genesis 1:3), yet the sun, moon and stars are not made until the fourth day.
Q 02What fruit is commonly depicted as Eden's forbidden fruit, though the Bible never specifies?
Apple
Apple imagery is often traced to a Latin pun, since malum can mean both 'evil' and 'apple', though some scholars doubt the link; Genesis 3 says only 'the fruit of the tree'.
Q 03Who was the first person the Bible records as committing murder?
Cain
Cain killed his brother Abel in anger after God accepted Abel's offering but not his own, then answered God's question with 'Am I my brother's keeper?' (Genesis 4:3-9).
Q 04Which bird did Noah release from the ark that, on its third flight, did not return?
A dove
Noah's dove went out three times: it first found no resting place, then returned with an olive leaf, and on the third flight did not come back (Genesis 8:8–12).
Q 05What sign did God place in the sky as a promise never to flood the entire earth again?
A rainbow
A rainbow in the clouds seals God's covenant with Noah, and Genesis says it is God who will look at it and remember the promise (Genesis 9:13-16).
Q 06What were the people building when God confused their languages in Genesis 11?
A tower
The people of Babel were building a tower "with its top in the heavens" to make a name for themselves. God confused their language and scattered them across the earth (Genesis 11:1-9).
Q 07In Genesis, which son does God tell Abraham to offer as a sacrifice in the land of Moriah?
Isaac
God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac, but provided a ram as a substitute at the last moment (Genesis 22).
Q 08What did Esau sell to his brother Jacob in exchange for a bowl of stew?
His birthright
His birthright went for bread and lentil stew: Esau came in famished and reasoned, 'I am about to die; what good is the birthright to me?' (Genesis 25:29-34).
Q 09Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but whom did her father Laban trick him into marrying first?
Leah
Leah, the elder sister, was swapped in on the wedding night because local custom married the older daughter first; Jacob wed Rachel a week later and worked seven more years for her (Genesis 29:21-30).
Q 10What gift from his father Jacob made Joseph's brothers jealous?
A coat of many colors
Jacob gave Joseph a richly ornamented robe (often called a "coat of many colors"), which fueled his brothers' jealousy and led them to sell him into slavery (Genesis 37).
Q 11Which of Joseph's brothers, the eldest, talked the others out of killing him and suggested a cistern instead?
Reuben
Reuben urged his brothers to throw Joseph into a cistern rather than kill him, planning to rescue him later; while he was away, Judah proposed selling Joseph to Ishmaelite traders (Genesis 37:21–28).
Q 12Who found the infant Moses in a basket among the Nile reeds and raised him as her son?
Pharaoh's daughter
Pharaoh's daughter spotted the basket at the river, pitied the crying baby, and ended up paying his own mother to nurse him after his sister offered to find a Hebrew nurse (Exodus 2:5-10).
Q 13Through what unusual natural phenomenon did God first speak to Moses in the wilderness?
A burning bush
Q 21Who betrayed Samson by discovering and revealing the secret of his strength?
Delilah
Delilah, bribed by the Philistine rulers, pressed Samson day after day until he told her everything; three times before that he had fooled her with false answers (Judges 16:4-17).
Q 22Which Moabite woman told her mother-in-law Naomi, "Where you go I will go"?
Ruth
Ruth refused to turn back as her sister-in-law Orpah did, went with Naomi to Judah, and there married Boaz and became the great-grandmother of King David (Ruth 1:14-16; 4:13-17).
Q 23What weapon did the young shepherd David use to defeat the giant Goliath?
A sling and stone
A sling and stone did it: David shed King Saul's armor, saying he had not tested it, and one smooth stone from a brook sank into Goliath's forehead (1 Samuel 17:38-50).
At Horeb a bush burned without being consumed, and from the burning bush God commissioned Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus 3:2–10).
Q 14What was the tenth and final plague that God sent upon Egypt before Pharaoh released the Israelites?
Death of the firstborn
Death of the firstborn struck every Egyptian household at midnight, while Israelite homes marked with lamb's blood on the doorposts were passed over, the origin of Passover (Exodus 12).
Q 15What body of water did Moses part so the Israelites could escape the Egyptian army?
The Red Sea
Moses stretched out his hand and God parted the Red Sea (or Sea of Reeds), allowing the Israelites to cross on dry ground before the waters closed over the pursuing Egyptians (Exodus 14).
Q 16On which mountain did Moses receive the Ten Commandments?
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai, which Deuteronomy calls Horeb, is where Moses received the Ten Commandments; he smashed the first tablets in anger and later chiseled a second set (Exodus 32-34).
Q 17What idol did the Israelites make while Moses was on the mountain receiving the commandments?
A golden calf
Fearing Moses would not return, the people had Aaron melt their gold earrings into a golden calf, which they worshipped with feasting (Exodus 32:1–6).
Q 18What did the Israelites gather from the ground each morning during their years in the wilderness?
Manna
Manna appeared with the morning dew six days a week; anything hoarded overnight bred worms, except the double portion gathered before the Sabbath (Exodus 16:13-26).
Q 19What happened when the Israelites, after marching around Jericho for a week, blew trumpets and shouted?
The walls fell down
The walls fell down flat after the Israelites circled Jericho once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh; only Rahab's household was spared, because she had hidden Israel's spies (Joshua 6).
Q 20What was the source of Samson's extraordinary physical strength?
His uncut hair
His uncut hair marked him as a Nazirite, set apart from before his birth (Judges 13:5); once his lover had it shaved while he slept, his strength left him and the Philistines seized him (Judges 16).
Q 24Which king settled two women's claim to one baby by ordering it cut in half?
Solomon
Solomon's order was a test: the real mother begged him to give the baby to her rival rather than see it killed, and that plea told him whose child it was (1 Kings 3:16-28).
Q 25Which married woman did King David see from his palace roof and send for?
Bathsheba
David saw Bathsheba bathing, committed adultery with her, and then arranged for her husband Uriah to be killed in battle to cover it up (2 Samuel 11).
Q 26Which prophet challenged the prophets of Baal to a contest of fire on Mount Carmel?
Elijah
Elijah challenged 450 prophets of Baal to call down fire from heaven on an altar. When Baal's prophets failed and God consumed Elijah's drenched sacrifice with fire, the people turned back to God (1 Kings 18).
Q 27In 2 Kings, who sees his master taken to heaven in a whirlwind and takes up his fallen mantle?
Elisha
Elisha watched his master carried up by a whirlwind amid a chariot and horses of fire, then picked up the fallen mantle and struck the river with it, parting the water (2 Kings 2:11-14).
Q 28What punishment did Daniel face for praying to God in defiance of King Darius's decree?
Being thrown to the lions
Being thrown to the lions was the penalty in a decree Daniel's rivals tricked Darius into signing; Daniel came out unharmed, and the king had his accusers thrown in instead (Daniel 6).
Q 29Which Babylonian king had Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego thrown into a fiery furnace?
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar had the three thrown into the furnace for refusing to worship his golden statue, then saw a fourth figure walking unharmed in the flames with them (Daniel 3:25).
Q 30What mysterious event occurred during King Belshazzar's feast that terrified him and his guests?
A hand wrote on the wall
A hand wrote on the wall 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin', which Daniel read as judgment that the kingdom would fall to the Medes and Persians; the idiom 'the writing on the wall' comes from this scene.