Q 01/05

Which phrase for a hidden flaw in an admired person comes from the statue in King Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2?

A) Achilles' heel

B) Feet of clay

C) Chink in the armour

D) Fly in the ointment

Answer · why

B) 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 02/05

According to Daniel's own account to King Darius, what kept the lions from harming him overnight in the den?

A) They had already been fed

B) The king's guards chained them

C) An angel shut their mouths

D) A deep slumber fell on them

Answer · why

C) 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 03/05

Looking into the furnace, what did Nebuchadnezzar say the fourth figure beside Daniel's friends resembled?

A) A son of the gods

B) A cherub with a sword

C) A burning seraph

D) A man of bronze

Answer · why

A) 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 04/05

Driven from his palace to live among wild animals, what did a humbled King Nebuchadnezzar eat in Daniel 4?

A) Locusts

B) Wild honey

C) Roots

D) Grass

Answer · why

D) Grass

Grass was his food, eaten like an ox, while his body was drenched with dew until he admitted that heaven rules.

Q 05/05

What did King Belshazzar and his guests drink from at the feast where a hand wrote on the wall in Daniel 5?

A) Looted temple cups

B) Enemy kings' skulls

C) Hollowed ox horns

D) Their own shields

Answer · why

A) Looted temple cups

Looted temple cups of gold and silver, carried off from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, were filled while the guests praised their idols.