Q 01/05

Who built a large boat to save his family and two of every animal from a great flood?

A) Moses

B) Noah

C) David

D) Abraham

Answer · why

B) Noah

Noah: Genesis 6 has him take two of every animal, but the next chapter raises that to seven pairs of each animal counted as 'clean'.

Q 02/05

What did Daniel keep doing three times a day that got him thrown to the lions?

A) Praying to God

B) Reading the scriptures

C) Singing psalms

D) Feeding the poor

Answer · why

A) Praying to God

Praying to God: rivals tricked King Darius into banning prayer to anyone but himself, and the king spent a sleepless night before rushing to the den a...

Q 03/05

Who was swallowed by a great fish and spent three days inside it?

A) Job

B) Joshua

C) Jacob

D) Jonah

Answer · why

D) Jonah

Jonah is saved by being swallowed by a great fish, in whose belly he spends three days and three nights. The Hebrew words mean "great fish", though la...

Q 04/05

What did the young shepherd David use to defeat the giant Goliath?

A) A wooden spear

B) A bow and arrows

C) A sling and a stone

D) A sword and shield

Answer · why

C) A sling and a stone

A sling and a stone were enough: the stone struck Goliath's forehead and he fell face down, and David then cut off his head with the giant's own sword...

Q 05/05

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, opens with which famous words?

A) In the beginning

B) Let there be light

C) Blessed are the poor

D) Love your neighbour

Answer · why

A) In the beginning

In the beginning: in Hebrew that phrase is one word, Bereshit, which is also the book's Jewish name, since each book of the Torah is named from its fi...