Q 01/05

How many books are in the Old Testament of a typical Protestant Bible?

A) 39

B) 27

C) 46

D) 66

Answer · why

A) 39

Catholic Bibles count 46 Old Testament books because they include deuterocanonical works such as Wisdom and Maccabees.

Q 02/05

How many books does the New Testament contain in almost every Christian tradition?

A) 29

B) 27

C) 31

D) 33

Answer · why

B) 27

The 27 break down as four Gospels, Acts, 21 letters and one apocalypse.

Q 03/05

Which ecumenical council explicitly laid out the 73-book canon used by the Catholic Church?

A) Nicaea

B) Chalcedon

C) Trent

D) Florence

Answer · why

C) Trent

Trent met from 1545 to 1563 as the Church's answer to the Reformation, and its canon list still governs Catholic Bibles.

Q 04/05

The first five books of the Bible are known collectively by which Greek-derived name?

A) The Septuagint

B) The Apocrypha

C) The Ketuvim

D) The Pentateuch

Answer · why

D) The Pentateuch

In Judaism the same five books are the Torah, or the Five Books of Moses.

Q 05/05

Which single-chapter book of 21 verses is the shortest in the Hebrew Bible?

A) Obadiah

B) Nahum

C) Haggai

D) Joel

Answer · why

A) Obadiah

Its 440 Hebrew words are still more than three New Testament letters manage in Greek.