Bible Trivia for Teens
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99 free Bible Trivia for Teens trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bible trivia for teens should be harder than a Sunday-school warm-up but not so obscure that only a seminary student could answer. These 99 questions sit in that middle band: the stories most young people have heard (David and Goliath, Jonah, the prodigal son) with a detail or two that separates the kids who actually read the passage from the ones who just remember the flannelgraph. The set moves roughly through the Bible in order, from Genesis and the patriarchs through the judges, kings and prophets, then into the Gospels, Acts and Revelation. Every answer is checked against a cited source, and the explanations add a fact worth repeating at youth group. Use it as a Wednesday-night icebreaker, a lock-in competition or a car-ride quiz on the way to camp. Play a round now and see how you score.
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Q 01When David went out to face Goliath, what did he pick up from the brook to use with his sling?
Five smooth stones
Five smooth stones went into his shepherd's bag after he turned down Saul's armor as untested. He needed only one, which sank into Goliath's forehead.
Q 02Moses smashed the first stone tablets after seeing the Israelites worshipping what?
A golden calf
A golden calf was cast from the people's own gold earrings while Moses spent forty days on the mountain. He ground it to powder, scattered it on water and made them drink it.
Q 03Genesis gives the measurements of Noah's ark in which ancient unit?
Cubits
Cubits ran from elbow to fingertip, about 18 inches, which makes the ark well over 400 feet long. Later Noah sent out a raven, then a dove, to see whether the water had gone down.
Q 04Jonah tried to run from God rather than preach to which city?
Nineveh
Nineveh heard Jonah's forty-day warning, and the whole city fasted until God relented. Jonah, far from pleased, was angry that it had been spared.
Q 05Which king reluctantly had Daniel thrown into the lions' den after Daniel kept praying to God?
Darius the Mede
Darius the Mede had been tricked by his own officials into signing the decree. He spent the night fasting and sleepless, then hurried to the den at dawn calling for Daniel.
Q 06During whose extravagant feast, with the temple's holy vessels used as cups, did a hand write on the wall?
Belshazzar
Belshazzar learned from Daniel, the only one who could read it, that he had been weighed and found wanting. He was killed that very night.
Q 07Which Jewish holiday celebrates Queen Esther foiling Haman's plot to destroy the Jews of Persia?
Purim
Purim recalls a plot that began when Mordecai, Esther's cousin, refused to bow to Haman. Haman ended up hanged on the very gallows he had built for Mordecai.
Q 08Who arranged for Samson's hair to be cut while he slept, costing him his strength?
Delilah
Delilah was bribed by the Philistine rulers and failed three times before Samson told her the truth. Blinded and jailed, he pulled down the temple of Dagon once his hair grew back.
Q 09Whose dreams about seven fat cows and seven thin cows did Joseph interpret?
Pharaoh's
Pharaoh's dreams foretold seven years of plenty and seven of famine, so he put Joseph in charge of Egypt's grain. That famine later sent Joseph's brothers to Egypt to buy food from him.
Q 10Which man in Genesis lived 969 years, longer than anyone else in the Bible?
Methuselah
Methuselah was Noah's grandfather, and by the numbers in the Hebrew text he died in the very year of the Flood.
Q 11Which chapter is the longest in the entire Bible?
Psalm 119
Psalm 119 is an acrostic: each of the 22 Hebrew letters gets a stanza of eight verses, every one starting with that letter. That is how it reaches 176 verses.
Q 12What is the shortest verse in the King James Bible?
Jesus wept
Jesus wept is John 11:35, just two words in English. In the original Greek it takes three, and 'Rejoice always' in 1 Thessalonians is shorter there.
Q 13The tax collector Zacchaeus was too short to see Jesus in the crowd, so what did he do?
Climbed a sycamore tree
He climbed a sycamore tree, and Jesus called him down by name and invited himself to stay. Zacchaeus then promised half of what he owned to the poor.
Q 21Who is traditionally regarded as the first Christian martyr, stoned after addressing the Jewish council?
Stephen
Stephen died asking God to forgive his killers, who had left their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul. That Saul later became the apostle Paul.
Q 22Jesus fed the crowd of 5,000 people starting with what food?
Five loaves and two fish
Five loaves and two fish came from a boy in the crowd, John says, and Andrew doubted they could go far among so many. After everyone had eaten, the leftovers filled twelve baskets.
Q 23Which friend of Jesus had been in the tomb four days when Jesus called him out alive?
Lazarus
Q 14In John's Gospel, Jesus's first miracle, water into wine, was at a wedding in which town?
Cana
Cana's hosts had run out of wine, and Jesus first told his mother his hour had not yet come. He then turned six stone jars of water into wine so good the steward remarked that the best had been kept for last.
Q 15What was the name of Ruth's mother-in-law, whom she refused to leave after both were widowed?
Naomi
Naomi told Ruth to go home to Moab, but Ruth vowed, 'Where you go, I will go.' Ruth later married Boaz and became the great-grandmother of King David.
Q 16After God whittled down his army, how many men did Gideon lead against the Midianites?
300 men
300 men were all that remained of 32,000 after God sent home the fearful and everyone who knelt to drink. They routed the Midianite camp by night with trumpets, torches and smashed jars.
Q 17How much was Judas paid to betray Jesus, according to Matthew?
Thirty pieces of silver
Thirty pieces of silver came back when a remorseful Judas threw the money down in the temple. The priests would not keep blood money, so they bought a potter's field to bury strangers in.
Q 18Saul was struck blind by a light from heaven while travelling to which city to arrest Christians?
Damascus
Damascus is where the blinded Saul was led by the hand, and where he was soon preaching himself. Later he had to flee the city by night, lowered from its wall in a basket.
Q 19Before disowning Jesus three times, Peter had declared he would sooner do what?
Die with him
Die with him, Peter declared, yet that same night he disowned Jesus three times. When the rooster crowed, he remembered Jesus's warning and broke down in tears.
Q 20Which apostle refused to believe Jesus had risen until he could see and touch the wounds himself?
Thomas
His nickname stuck so hard that any skeptic today can be called a doubting Thomas.
Lazarus had been dead so long that his sister Martha warned there would be a smell when Jesus ordered the stone moved. Jesus had stayed where he was for two days after hearing he was ill.
Q 24In the parable of the Good Samaritan, which two people walked past the beaten traveller?
A priest and a Levite
A priest and a Levite each crossed to the other side of the road. Jews and Samaritans were generally hostile to each other, which is exactly why Jesus made the Samaritan the hero.
Q 25After wasting his inheritance, what lowly job did the Prodigal Son take?
Feeding pigs
Feeding pigs meant tending animals that Jewish law called unclean. He grew so hungry that he envied the pigs their food, which is when he decided to go home.
Q 26The walls of which city fell after the Israelites marched around it for seven days and blew their horns?
Jericho
Jericho was circled once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh, then everyone shouted. Only Rahab and her family were spared, because she had hidden Israel's spies.
Q 27The story of the Tower of Babel explains the origin of what?
Different languages
Different languages arise when God confuses the builders' speech, so they abandon the tower and scatter. Genesis puns on the name: Babel sounds like the Hebrew balal, to confuse.
Q 28In Genesis, what did Abel's older brother Cain do for a living?
Farmer
Farmer Cain offered crops, while his shepherd brother Abel offered the firstborn of his flock. God favored Abel's gift, and Cain's anger ended in murder.
Q 29Which king threw Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into a fiery furnace for not bowing to his statue?
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar had the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual, then saw four figures walking unharmed in the flames. The fourth, he said, looked like a son of the gods.
Q 30Which prophet challenged the prophets of Baal to see whose god would send fire?
Elijah
Elijah mocked Baal's prophets, suggesting their god was asleep or away on a trip. He then had his own altar drenched with water three times before fire fell and burned it all up.