Book of Daniel
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50 free Book of Daniel trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Book of Daniel packs some of the Bible's best-known stories into its first six chapters: young exiles at a foreign court, a king's forgotten dream, a blazing furnace, a feast interrupted by a mysterious message and a night among lions. Its second half turns to visions of beasts, horns and kingdoms that readers have puzzled over for more than two thousand years. This quiz works through the whole book. Early questions cover the court stories of chapters 1 to 6 that children learn first, then come the visions of Daniel 7 and Daniel 8, the prayer of Daniel 9, the long prophecy of Daniel 11 and the closing promises of chapter 12. A few questions look at the book's languages, its extra chapters in some Bibles and its echoes in the New Testament. Every answer comes with an explanation that points back to the text. It suits Sunday school and children's Bible quizzes, youth groups, Bible study leaders working chapter by chapter and anyone reading through the prophets who wants to test what has stuck.
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Q 01Which phrase for a hidden flaw in an admired person comes from the statue in King Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2?
Feet of clay
Feet of clay comes from the statue's weakest part: a dazzling figure of gold, silver, bronze and iron standing on a base that shatters at one blow.
Q 02According to Daniel's own account to King Darius, what kept the lions from harming him overnight in the den?
An angel shut their mouths
An angel shut their mouths, Daniel told the king, because he had been found innocent before God and had done Darius no wrong.
Q 03Looking into the furnace, what did Nebuchadnezzar say the fourth figure beside Daniel's friends resembled?
A son of the gods
A son of the gods was the king's phrase for the stranger, and he noticed that all four were walking about unbound and unhurt.
Q 04Driven from his palace to live among wild animals, what did a humbled King Nebuchadnezzar eat in Daniel 4?
Grass
Grass was his food, eaten like an ox, while his body was drenched with dew until he admitted that heaven rules.
Q 05What did King Belshazzar and his guests drink from at the feast where a hand wrote on the wall in Daniel 5?
Looted temple cups
Looted temple cups of gold and silver, carried off from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, were filled while the guests praised their idols.
Q 06What simple diet did Daniel ask to be given for a ten-day test instead of the Babylonian king's rich food?
Vegetables and water
Vegetables and water left Daniel and his friends looking healthier than the youths on royal rations, so the steward kept all four on the diet.
Q 07How much hotter than usual did a furious Nebuchadnezzar order the furnace heated for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego?
Seven times
Seven times hotter was the order, and the men were cast in fully clothed and tightly bound.
Q 08During his madness in the wild in Daniel 4, King Nebuchadnezzar's hair grew until it looked like what?
Eagles' feathers
Eagles' feathers is the comparison, and his nails grew like birds' claws before his reason returned and he praised the Most High.
Q 09Once Daniel was lifted alive from the den, what did King Darius order done to the officials who had accused him?
Thrown to the lions
Thrown to the lions with their families, the accusers were overpowered before they even reached the floor of the pit.
Q 10What happened to the soldiers who threw Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into Nebuchadnezzar's overheated furnace?
The flames killed them
The flames killed them beside the furnace because the king's command was so urgent and the fire so fierce.
Q 11What Babylonian name did the chief official at Nebuchadnezzar's court give to the young exile Daniel?
Belteshazzar
Belteshazzar was the new name, which Nebuchadnezzar later said honoured his own deity, and Daniel's friends were renamed at the same moment.
Q 12What impossible demand did Nebuchadnezzar make of Babylon's wise men before they could interpret his troubling dream?
Describe it to him first
Describe it to him first, the king insisted, reasoning that anyone able to recount the dream unaided could be trusted to explain it.
Q 13In the dream Daniel interpreted for Nebuchadnezzar, what struck the great statue and smashed it to pieces?
A stone
Q 21In the night vision of Daniel 7, where did four great beasts, each different from the others, come up from?
The sea
The sea was whipped up by the four winds of heaven before the beasts emerged, and an interpreter later explained that they stood for four kings.
Q 22Which animal did the second beast of Daniel 7 resemble, raised up on one side with ribs between its teeth?
A bear
A bear is the image, and a voice commands it to arise and devour much flesh.
Q 23Which animal did the four-winged third beast of Daniel 7 resemble, the one to which dominion was given?
A leopard
A leopard is the likeness, with a bird's wings on its back, and it is followed by a fourth beast too dreadful to compare with any animal.
A stone cut out without human hands did it, then grew into a mountain that filled the whole world, a picture of a kingdom that never ends.
Q 14Which part of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream did Daniel say stood for the Babylonian king himself?
The head
The head, made of fine gold, was Nebuchadnezzar, while the metals lower down the statue stood for the kingdoms that would follow his.
Q 15What was the signal for the crowd to bow down to the golden image Nebuchadnezzar set up in Daniel 3?
The sound of music
The sound of music from horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and pipe was the cue, and a herald warned that anyone left standing would burn.
Q 16In Daniel 4, what did Nebuchadnezzar dream reached the sky and fed every creature before a watcher ordered it destroyed?
A tree
A tree was the image, and Daniel had to tell the king that it stood for Nebuchadnezzar himself, about to be cut down to a stump.
Q 17How many times a day did Daniel kneel and pray at his open window, even after King Darius's decree forbade it?
Three
Three times a day he prayed facing Jerusalem, exactly as before, and that unchanged habit is what his rivals reported to the king.
Q 18After Daniel was left in the lions' den, how did a distressed King Darius spend the night in his palace?
Fasting without sleep
Fasting without sleep, Darius refused all entertainment, then hurried to the den at first light and called out to Daniel.
Q 19What happened to King Belshazzar on the very night Daniel read the writing on the palace wall?
He was slain
He was slain that same night, and his kingdom passed to Darius, who was already about sixty-two years old.
Q 20Who told a terrified King Belshazzar that Daniel could read the mysterious writing on the palace wall?
The queen
The queen came into the banquet hall and reminded him that Daniel had solved riddles and dreams for Nebuchadnezzar.
Q 24By what title does Daniel 7 call the figure who takes his seat on a throne of fire as judgment begins?
Ancient of Days
Ancient of Days is the title, given to a figure robed in snow-white clothing who presides as the court sits and the books are opened.
Q 25In Daniel 7, how does the 'one like a son of man' arrive before being given a kingdom that never ends?
With the clouds
With the clouds of the sky he comes, and every people, nation and language is to serve him.
Q 26In Daniel 8, which pair of kingdoms does the ram with two unequal horns represent?
Media and Persia
Media and Persia are named outright, and in the vision the horn that came up last grew the taller of the two.
Q 27Which kingdom does the swift male goat of Daniel 8 stand for, according to the vision's own interpreter?
Greece
Greece is named outright, and the large horn between the goat's eyes is called its first king, whose realm later splits into four.
Q 28Who is told by a voice from the river Ulai to make Daniel understand the vision of the ram and goat?
Gabriel
Gabriel comes so close that a terrified Daniel falls on his face, and he says the vision concerns the time of the end.
Q 29What did the little horn of Daniel 8 take away from the sanctuary as it grew great and cast down truth?
The daily sacrifice
The daily sacrifice, the continual burnt offering, was removed and the sanctuary overthrown, prompting a holy one to ask how long the outrage would last.
Q 30According to Daniel 8, how many 'evenings and mornings' would pass before the sanctuary was cleansed?
2,300
2,300 is the figure given after one holy one asks another how long the desolation will last, and Daniel is told the vision is true but belongs to many days to come.