Book of Acts Trivia
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140 free Book of Acts trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Acts is the only book of the New Testament that tells what happened next. It opens with Jesus taken up into a cloud and ends, twenty-eight chapters later, with Paul under guard in Rome, and in between the church goes from one upstairs room in Jerusalem to the synagogues and public squares of the Roman world. These 140 questions follow that road in order: the choosing of a twelfth apostle, the day the Spirit came, Peter's healings and prison breaks, the stoning of the first martyr, Saul blinded on the Damascus road, the centurion whose household changed the rules for Gentiles, the council in Jerusalem, the jail at Philippi, the riot at Ephesus, the hearings before governors and a king, the storm, the island and the final voyage to Italy. Expect quotations from the NIV text, a few facts about the book itself, and the occasional detail a pub quiz would never think to ask. It suits a Bible study, a church quiz night or a Sunday-school staff room: play on your phone with instant explanations, or print it and read it aloud.
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Q 01At which festival, with Jews 'from every nation under heaven' in Jerusalem, did the Holy Spirit fill the disciples?
Pentecost
Pentecost was the morning some onlookers decided the disciples had 'had too much wine', and Peter's reply was that it was only nine o'clock. The sound was 'like the blowing of a violent wind'.
Q 02What, in Acts 2, 'separated and came to rest on each of' the disciples after a sound like a violent wind?
Tongues of fire
Tongues of fire is the picture Acts gives, and at once the Galileans were speaking languages understood by Parthians, Medes, Cretans, Arabs and visitors from Rome.
Q 03Who was chosen by lot over Joseph called Barsabbas to replace Judas among the Twelve, in Acts 1?
Matthias
Matthias won the lot before a group 'numbering about a hundred and twenty', the only qualification being to have been with Jesus from John's baptism to the day he was taken up.
Q 04Which field, where Acts says Judas 'fell headlong' and his body burst open, was bought with his reward for betrayal?
Akeldama
Akeldama, 'Field of Blood', gets a different origin in Matthew, where Judas hangs himself and the priests buy the field with the returned silver as a burial ground for foreigners.
Q 05Which wife in Acts 5 dropped dead at Peter's feet three hours after her husband, both having lied about a land sale?
Sapphira
Sapphira had 'full knowledge' that her husband Ananias kept back part of the money, and Peter told her the feet of the men who had just buried him were at the door. 'Great fear seized the whole church.'
Q 06Which of the Seven chosen to wait on tables, his face 'like the face of an angel', became the first Christian martyr?
Stephen
Stephen died praying 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them', while the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul, who approved of the killing.
Q 07What does Acts 9 say fell from Saul's eyes when Ananias laid hands on him, ending three days of blindness in Damascus?
Something like scales
Something like scales fell away and Saul 'got up and was baptized', after Ananias had protested to the Lord that this was the man with authority to arrest everyone who called on the name.
Q 08In which city were followers first called Christians, after Barnabas fetched Saul to teach there for a whole year?
Antioch
Antioch heard the name first, and the same church sent famine relief to Judea by Barnabas and Saul and later set the pair apart for the first missionary journey.
Q 09What happened to King Herod when a crowd hailed him as a god?
He was eaten by worms
He was eaten by worms and died, struck by an angel 'because Herod did not give praise to God'. The historian Josephus tells the story too, adding that the king looked up and saw an owl, an ill omen, before the pain struck.
Q 10On which island, whose people 'showed us unusual kindness', was Paul's ship wrecked after fourteen nights adrift?
Malta
Malta sheltered the castaways for three months of winter, and the island marks the wreck with a public holiday each 10 February, the Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck.
Q 11Which prophet's line 'I will pour out my Spirit on all people' did Peter quote to explain what the crowd was hearing?
Joel
Joel supplied the text, with its 'sons and daughters will prophesy' and a sun turned to darkness, and Peter's sermon ended with about three thousand people being baptized that day.
Q 12At which temple gate did Peter heal a man lame from birth, telling him 'Silver or gold I do not have'?
Beautiful
Beautiful was where the beggar had been carried every day, and the healed man went into the temple courts 'walking and jumping, and praising God'; he was over forty years old.
Q 13Which teacher of the law talked the Sanhedrin out of killing the apostles, citing the failed rebels Theudas and Judas?
Gamaliel
Q 21Which prophet tied his own hands and feet with Paul's belt at Caesarea to act out the arrest awaiting him in Jerusalem?
Agabus
Agabus had earlier predicted 'through the Spirit' a severe famine across the whole Roman world, and Paul answered the belt sign that he was ready not only to be bound but to die in Jerusalem.
Q 22Which apostle did King Herod put to death with the sword in Acts 12 before moving to seize Peter?
James
James, the brother of John, was killed 'with the sword', and when Herod 'saw that this met with approval among the Jews' he seized Peter too, during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.
Q 23Which servant girl, overjoyed to hear Peter's voice at the door after his escape, ran back without opening it?
Rhoda
Gamaliel is the teacher Paul later claims in Acts 22 to have studied under, and his advice got the apostles flogged and released rather than killed.
Q 14What did the sick, laid on mats in Jerusalem's streets, hope would at least reach them as Peter passed by?
His shadow
His shadow was enough of a hope for people to bring the sick into the streets, at a time when 'no one else dared join' the believers meeting in Solomon's Colonnade.
Q 15Which word comes from the Samaritan sorcerer who offered Peter money for the Spirit's power in Acts 8?
Simony
Simony, the buying of church office, takes its name from Simon Magus, whom Peter told 'May your money perish with you'; the sorcerer had earlier been hailed in Samaria as 'the Great Power of God'.
Q 16Which prophet was the Ethiopian treasury official reading aloud in his chariot when Philip ran up on the Gaza road?
Isaiah
Isaiah's 'led like a sheep to the slaughter' was the passage, and after Philip explained it the official was baptized in roadside water and 'went on his way rejoicing'.
Q 17On which Damascus street, at the house of Judas, was Ananias sent to find Saul, blind and at prayer?
Straight
Straight is a plain description: the street was the main Roman road, running east to west right across Damascus, and it survives in the old city. Saul had by then gone three days without eating.
Q 18Which disciple in Joppa, 'always doing good', did Peter raise from the dead as widows showed the robes she had made?
Tabitha
Tabitha, whose Greek name Dorcas likewise means 'gazelle', was raised after Peter sent everyone out of the upstairs room, knelt, and said 'Tabitha, get up'.
Q 19Which centurion of the Italian Regiment at Caesarea was told by an angel to send to Joppa for Peter?
Cornelius
Cornelius is counted by some as the first Gentile convert, and the Spirit fell on his whole household while Peter was still speaking, before anyone had been baptized.
Q 20What did Peter see let down from heaven by its four corners while hungry on a rooftop in Joppa?
A large sheet
A large sheet full of 'four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds' came with the command to kill and eat, and the voice answered Peter's refusal: 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'
Rhoda was not believed: when she kept insisting, the people praying inside decided 'It must be his angel', and Peter was left knocking at the door until they finally opened it.
Q 24To which island, the home of Barnabas, did Paul and Barnabas sail from Seleucia to open the first missionary journey?
Cyprus
Cyprus was crossed from Salamis to Paphos, where the proconsul Sergius Paulus believed, and it is the island Barnabas sailed back to after his later split with Paul.
Q 25Which sorcerer did Paul strike blind 'for a time' for trying to turn the proconsul Sergius Paulus from the faith?
Elymas
Elymas, also called Bar-Jesus, was told 'you are a child of the devil', and the mist that fell on him so impressed the proconsul that he believed; in that scene Saul is first called Paul.
Q 26Which god did a Lycaonian crowd take Paul for, 'because he was the chief speaker', while hailing Barnabas as Zeus?
Hermes
Hermes got the title because the crowd had just watched Paul heal a man lame from birth, and the priest of Zeus arrived with bulls and wreaths before the two apostles tore their clothes in protest.
Q 27In which Lycaonian city was Paul stoned, dragged out and left for dead, only to get up and walk back in?
Lystra
Lystra was where a crowd that had wanted to sacrifice to him was won over by Jews from Iconium; the next day Paul left for Derbe, and on a later visit he recruited a young disciple there.
Q 28Which helper, who had deserted them in Pamphylia, caused Paul and Barnabas to disagree so sharply that they parted?
Mark
Mark was the son of Mary, in whose Jerusalem house the church had prayed for Peter, and Barnabas took him to sea while Paul chose a new partner and went overland.
Q 29Which prophet, carrier of the Jerusalem council's letter, did Paul choose as his partner for the second journey?
Silas
Silas soon shared Paul's punishments: at Philippi the two were stripped, beaten with rods and jailed together. He is traditionally identified with the Silvanus of Paul's letters.
Q 30Which disciple, son of a Jewish mother and a Greek father, did Paul circumcise before taking him along on the road?
Timothy
Timothy was circumcised 'because of the Jews who lived in that area', who all knew his father was Greek, and the believers of two towns had spoken well of him before Paul took him.