Q 01/05

Which word completes Proverbs 1:7, 'The fear of the LORD is the beginning of ___', where 9:10 says 'wisdom'?

A) Knowledge

B) Wisdom

C) Holiness

D) Instruction

Answer · why

A) Knowledge

Knowledge is the word in the book's motto verse, which goes straight on to say that fools despise wisdom and instruction. The better-known 'beginning ...

Q 02/05

Proverbs 11:29 says he that troubleth his own house shall inherit what, the title of a play about the Scopes trial?

A) Nothing

B) The dust

C) The wind

D) The whirlwind

Answer · why

C) The wind

The wind is the troubler's inheritance, and in Inherit the Wind the prosecutor Brady hurls the verse at a preacher who is condemning the accused teach...

Q 03/05

How many pillars has Wisdom 'hewn out' in Proverbs 9, a number T. E. Lawrence borrowed for his book title?

A) Twelve

B) Nine

C) Ten

D) Seven

Answer · why

D) Seven

Seven pillars hold up the house Wisdom builds at the start of Proverbs 9, before she sends her maidens out to invite the simple to her feast. T. E. La...

Q 04/05

Which creature does Proverbs 6 tell the sluggard to 'go to' and consider, since she works with no overseer or ruler?

A) The bee

B) The ant

C) The locust

D) The coney

Answer · why

B) The ant

The ant 'provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest' with nobody in charge, which is why the sluggard is sent to study he...

Q 05/05

A fair woman without discretion is likened in Proverbs 11 to a jewel of gold in which animal's snout?

A) A camel

B) A dog

C) A pig

D) An ass

Answer · why

C) A pig

A pig is the 'swine' of the King James wording, and its gold nose-ring stands for good looks wasted on a woman with no judgement. The same chapter pro...