Seventh-day Adventist Church
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50 free Seventh-day Adventist Church trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church began among a handful of Bible students in the north-eastern United States in the 1840s and now has members in almost every country. Its teachings are set out in 28 fundamental beliefs, a statement that runs from the nature of God to diet, rest and what happens after death. This quiz works through that statement belief by belief: the Sabbath, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the state of the dead, the millennium, the sanctuary teaching and the mission of the church. Alongside the doctrine it asks about the people and places behind it, with guess-who questions on the pioneers of the movement and on Adventists who became famous as doctors, soldiers, musicians and public servants. It suits Sabbath School classes, Bible study groups and youth clubs preparing for a quiz night, as well as anyone curious about what Adventists teach and why. Every answer comes with a short explanation that points back to the official wording or to the history.
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Q 01Which Adventist physician ran a Michigan sanitarium where he and his brother Will developed flaked breakfast cereals?
John Harvey Kellogg
John Harvey Kellogg also invented a process for making peanut butter, but his unorthodox theology led the church to disfellowship him in 1907.
Q 02Which Seventh-day Adventist army medic earned the Medal of Honor on Okinawa in 1945 without ever carrying a weapon?
Desmond Doss
Desmond Doss saved an estimated 75 to 100 wounded men atop the cliff known as Hacksaw Ridge, which gave its name to the 2016 film about him.
Q 03Which rock and roll pioneer left the stage in 1957 to study theology at Oakwood College, an Adventist school in Alabama?
Little Richard
Little Richard was ordained a minister in 1970, and he is buried at Oakwood University Memorial Gardens in Huntsville.
Q 04On which day of the week, which they count as the seventh, do Seventh-day Adventists hold their main worship service?
Saturday
Saturday worship usually opens with Sabbath School, a time of small-group Bible study built around a lesson guide issued every quarter.
Q 05The word Adventist in Seventh-day Adventist Church points to belief in the nearness of which event?
The Second Coming of Christ
The Second Coming of Christ is belief 25 on the church's list, which describes it as personal, visible and worldwide and adds that its time has not been revealed.
Q 06Which common meat do Seventh-day Adventists class as unclean and avoid, following the food laws of Leviticus 11?
Pork
Pork is ruled out along with rabbit and shellfish, and the church goes further by recommending a vegetarian diet to its members.
Q 07Which Waco, Texas, sect led by David Koresh traces back to a reformer the Seventh-day Adventist Church expelled in 1930?
Branch Davidians
Branch Davidians grew out of the Davidians of Victor Houteff, whose Shepherd's Rod tracts the church rejected before revoking his membership.
Q 08Which act of humble service do Seventh-day Adventists perform for one another before sharing the Lord's Supper?
Foot washing
Foot washing, known as the Ordinance of Humility, recalls the Gospel account in John 13, and participants usually separate by gender to carry it out.
Q 09According to Seventh-day Adventist belief 26, what is the condition of people who have died, until the resurrection?
Unconscious, as in sleep
Unconscious, as in sleep, is how the church pictures the dead, a teaching often nicknamed soul sleep that sets it apart from most other denominations.
Q 10Which mode of baptism does Adventist belief 15 require, following instruction and a personal affirmation of faith?
Immersion
Immersion in water stands for death to sin and a new life, the belief says, and it is how a person is received as a member of the church.
Q 11Following the biblical way of counting a day, Adventists begin and end their Sabbath at which point of the day?
Sunset
Sunset opens the day of rest and the following one closes it, a pattern that belief 20 sums up as from evening to evening.
Q 12Which part of the Bible do Adventists say embodies God's law and binds all people in every age?
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments embody the great principles of God's law, belief 19 says, though it adds that salvation is all of grace and not of works.
Q 13Which two substances does Adventist belief 22 name, along with narcotics, as harmful things members abstain from?
Alcohol and tobacco
Q 21Which farmer, crossing a cornfield on October 23, 1844, had the insight behind Adventist sanctuary teaching?
Hiram Edson
Hiram Edson said heaven seemed to open to his view in that field, showing him a High Priest entering a new room of the heavenly sanctuary that day.
Q 22Which former sea captain became the foremost champion of Sabbath-keeping among the early Adventists of the 1840s?
Joseph Bates
Joseph Bates had been pressed into the British navy and held prisoner in the War of 1812 before he rose to command a ship of his own.
Q 23Which Adventist co-founder, hit in the face by a stone at age nine, reported more than 2,000 visions and dreams?
Ellen G. White
Alcohol and tobacco are ruled out because the belief calls the body a temple of the Holy Spirit, to be cared for intelligently with exercise and rest.
Q 14Which spiritual gift do the Seventh-day Adventist fundamental beliefs call an identifying mark of the end-time church?
Prophecy
Prophecy, belief 18 says, was shown in the ministry of one of the church's co-founders, whose writings still carry authority for members.
Q 15Which quality does Adventist belief 26 reserve for God alone, setting the church apart from most of Christianity?
Immortality
Immortality reaches the redeemed only as a gift at the resurrection, the church teaches, so no human soul is deathless by nature.
Q 16Which doctrine, doubted by several early Adventist leaders, now stands second among the church's fundamental beliefs?
The Trinity
The Trinity won acceptance only in the early 20th century, since some of the pioneers had come from the Christian Connexion, a movement that rejected the doctrine.
Q 17Which belief did Adventists add in 2005 after members in developing nations sought a statement on spiritual warfare?
Growing in Christ
Growing in Christ became belief number 11 by a vote of delegates meeting in Saint Louis, Missouri, lifting the total from 27 to 28.
Q 18Which belief closes the Seventh-day Adventist list of fundamental beliefs, promising an eternal home for the redeemed?
The New Earth
The New Earth, belief 28, pictures a perfect environment for everlasting life, love, joy and learning, where suffering and death have passed away.
Q 19Which War of 1812 captain turned preacher led the 1840s Advent movement out of which Seventh-day Adventism grew?
William Miller
William Miller began preaching after years of studying the Bible verse by verse to answer his Deist friends, and his farm at Low Hampton, New York, is now a historic site.
Q 20What name do historians give to October 22, 1844, the date the 1840s Advent movement had fixed its hopes on?
The Great Disappointment
The Great Disappointment scattered the movement, but one group decided the date was right and the expected event wrong, and from it grew the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Ellen G. White wrote that the injury turned her toward faith, and the tally of her visions is an estimate made by her grandson and biographer.
Q 24Who was sent to Europe in 1874 as the first official Adventist missionary and gave his name to a Michigan university?
J. N. Andrews
J. N. Andrews took his two surviving children with him, helped start a publishing house in Switzerland and a French-language periodical, and is buried in Basel.
Q 25Which longtime editor of the Adventist Review and Herald also patented a car fronted by a fake horse head?
Uriah Smith
Uriah Smith named the car the Horsey Horseless and hoped the dummy head would keep it from frightening real horses, and he also patented an artificial leg.
Q 26Which Michigan city, later nicknamed Cereal City, hosted the 1863 meeting that founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
Battle Creek
Battle Creek also housed the denomination's first hospital, college and publishing office, until fires in 1902 led the church to spread its institutions elsewhere.
Q 27Which Maryland community became the Seventh-day Adventist world headquarters after a 1989 move from Takoma Park?
Silver Spring
Silver Spring took over from nearby Takoma Park, which had itself replaced the first head office in Michigan.
Q 28Which distinctive Adventist doctrine holds that Christ began a final phase of ministry in heaven's sanctuary in 1844?
The investigative judgment
The investigative judgment, belief 24 says, shows the watching universe who truly belongs to Christ and so vindicates God's justice in saving them.
Q 29Which Old Testament book contains the 2,300-day vision that Advent preachers of the 1840s used to reach the year 1844?
Daniel
Daniel 8:14 ties the 2,300 days to the cleansing of the sanctuary, and the preachers counted each day as a year to reach their date.
Q 30Adventist belief 24 likens Christ's work since 1844 to the cleansing of the sanctuary on which ancient Hebrew holy day?
Day of Atonement
The Day of Atonement fell on October 22 in 1844 by the calendar the Advent movement followed, which is how that date came to be chosen.