Into whose house in the hill did the men of Kirjathjearim bring the ark of the LORD?Answer: Abinadab. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 7:1
Of whom did the people ask whether he also was among the prophets, when he prophesied with a company of them?Answer: Saul. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 10:11-12
Which child ministered before the LORD, girded with a linen ephod?Answer: Samuel. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 2:18
Which daughter of Caleb asked her father for springs of water?Answer: Achsah. Source: King James Version: Joshua 15:17-19
Which judge of Bethlehem had thirty sons and thirty daughters?Answer: Ibzan. Source: King James Version: Judges 12:8-9
Which priest marked a woman's mouth as she prayed, when only her lips moved?Answer: Eli. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 1:12-13
Which two brothers were priests of the LORD in Shiloh when Elkanah went up yearly to worship?Answer: Hophni and Phinehas. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 1:3
Which two sons of Samuel were judges in Beersheba?Answer: Joel and Abiah. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 8:1-2
Who caught three hundred foxes?Answer: Samson. Source: King James Version: Judges 15:4
Who dipped the end of his rod in an honeycomb, not having heard his father charge the people with an oath?Answer: Jonathan. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 14:27
Who prayed, "My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD"?Answer: Hannah. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 2:1
Who threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites?Answer: Gideon. Source: King James Version: Judges 6:11
Who told Deborah, "If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go"?Answer: Barak. Source: King James Version: Judges 4:8
Who told his young men to let fall handfuls of purpose for Ruth?Answer: Boaz. Source: King James Version: Ruth 2:15-16
Who took a great stone and set it up under an oak by the sanctuary of the LORD?Answer: Joshua. Source: King James Version: Joshua 24:26
Who took Ruth's child, laid it in her bosom and became nurse to it?Answer: Naomi. Source: King James Version: Ruth 4:16
Kings, queens and their courts 16
Which governor of a king's house hid an hundred prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?Answer: Obadiah. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 18:3-4
Which high priest said "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD"?Answer: Hilkiah. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 22:8
Which king asked his cupbearer, "Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?"Answer: Artaxerxes. Source: King James Version: Nehemiah 2:1-2
Which king brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made?Answer: Hezekiah. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 18:4
Which king could not sleep, and had the book of records of the chronicles read before him?Answer: Ahasuerus. Source: King James Version: Esther 6:1-2
Which king forsook the counsel of the old men and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him?Answer: Rehoboam. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 12:6-8
Which king lay down on his bed, turned away his face and would eat no bread, because Naboth would not give him a vineyard?Answer: Ahab. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 21:4
Which king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with the best gold?Answer: Solomon. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 10:16; 1 Kings 10:18
Which king made engines in Jerusalem to shoot arrows and great stones from the towers?Answer: Uzziah. Source: King James Version: 2 Chronicles 26:14-15
Which king made two calves of gold and set one in Bethel and the other in Dan?Answer: Jeroboam. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 12:26-29
Which king of Assyria came up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them?Answer: Sennacherib. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 18:13
Which king of Bashan had a bedstead of iron, nine cubits long?Answer: Og. Source: King James Version: Deuteronomy 3:11
Which priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it, for the money brought into the house of the LORD?Answer: Jehoiada. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 12:9
Which queen rent her clothes and cried "Treason, Treason"?Answer: Athaliah. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 11:13-14
Whose driving did the watchman know, "for he driveth furiously"?Answer: Jehu. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 9:20
Whose name did the king of Babylon change from Mattaniah when he made him king?Answer: Zedekiah. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 24:17
Prophets and people of the return 16
By which prophet came the question "Will a man rob God?"Answer: Malachi. Source: King James Version: Malachi 1:1; Malachi 3:8
By which prophet came the word "Consider your ways", said twice in one chapter?Answer: Haggai. Source: King James Version: Haggai 1:3-7
Of which prophet did the king of Israel say, "I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil"?Answer: Micaiah. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 22:8
On whose mouth did one of the seraphims lay a live coal from off the altar?Answer: Isaiah. Source: King James Version: Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 6:6-7
Round about which prophet did a young man see the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire?Answer: Elisha. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 6:17
Which high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and builded the sheep gate?Answer: Eliashib. Source: King James Version: Nehemiah 3:1
Which prophet bought a field in Anathoth from Hanameel, his uncle's son, for seventeen shekels of silver?Answer: Jeremiah. Source: King James Version: Jeremiah 32:6; Jeremiah 32:9
Which prophet lifted up his eyes and saw a flying roll?Answer: Zechariah. Source: King James Version: Zechariah 1:1; Zechariah 5:1
Which prophet sat down under a juniper tree in the wilderness?Answer: Elijah. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 19:2; 1 Kings 19:4
Which prophet took the yoke from off another prophet's neck, and brake it?Answer: Hananiah. Source: King James Version: Jeremiah 28:10
Which prophet was told to take a tile and pourtray upon it the city of Jerusalem?Answer: Ezekiel. Source: King James Version: Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 4:1
Which prophet was told, "Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables"?Answer: Habakkuk. Source: King James Version: Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 2:2
Which prophetess dwelt in Jerusalem in the college?Answer: Huldah. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 22:14
Which scribe proclaimed a fast at the river of Ahava?Answer: Ezra. Source: King James Version: Ezra 7:6; Ezra 8:21
Who went out by night and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down?Answer: Nehemiah. Source: King James Version: Nehemiah 1:1; Nehemiah 2:13
Whom did Haman array and bring on horseback through the street of the city?Answer: Mordecai. Source: King James Version: Esther 6:11
People of the New Testament 20
To which Pharisee, who had bidden him to eat, did Jesus say "I have somewhat to say unto thee"?Answer: Simon. Source: King James Version: Luke 7:39-40
Which chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth believed on the Lord with all his house?Answer: Crispus. Source: King James Version: Acts 18:8
Which coppersmith did Paul say did him much evil?Answer: Alexander. Source: King James Version: 2 Timothy 4:14
Which deputy of Achaia "cared for none of those things"?Answer: Gallio. Source: King James Version: Acts 18:12; Acts 18:17
Which evangelist, one of the seven, had four daughters which did prophesy?Answer: Philip. Source: King James Version: Acts 21:8-9
Which husband and wife expounded the way of God more perfectly to Apollos?Answer: Aquila and Priscilla. Source: King James Version: Acts 18:24-26
Which lawyer was Titus to bring on his journey with Apollos?Answer: Zenas. Source: King James Version: Titus 3:13
Which prophet signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world?Answer: Agabus. Source: King James Version: Acts 11:27-28
Which ruler heard of the fame of Jesus and told his servants that a man was risen from the dead?Answer: Herod the tetrarch. Source: King James Version: Matthew 14:1-2
Who alone was with Paul when he wrote "Take Mark, and bring him with thee"?Answer: Luke. Source: King James Version: 2 Timothy 4:11
Who asked the Pharisees, "Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?"Answer: Nicodemus. Source: King James Version: John 7:50-51
Who had known the holy scriptures from a child, as Paul wrote to him?Answer: Timothy. Source: King James Version: 2 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 3:15
Who looked up stedfastly into heaven and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened"?Answer: Stephen. Source: King James Version: Acts 7:55-56; Acts 7:59
Who oft refreshed Paul, was not ashamed of his chain, and sought him out in Rome?Answer: Onesiphorus. Source: King James Version: 2 Timothy 1:16-17
Who said "He must increase, but I must decrease"?Answer: John the Baptist. Source: King James Version: John 3:23; John 3:27; John 3:30
Who was "always labouring fervently" for the Colossians in prayers?Answer: Epaphras. Source: King James Version: Colossians 4:12
Who was "the chamberlain of the city", who salutes the Romans at the end of the letter?Answer: Erastus. Source: King James Version: Romans 16:23
Who was sent from Jerusalem as far as Antioch, "a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith"?Answer: Barnabas. Source: King James Version: Acts 11:22-24
Who went and met Jesus as soon as she heard that he was coming, while her sister sat still in the house?Answer: Martha. Source: King James Version: John 11:20
Whom does Paul call "the Lord's brother" in Galatians 1?Answer: James. Source: King James Version: Galatians 1:19
How it works
Each of these Bible characters trivia questions tells what someone did or said and asks who it was. There are four names to choose from, and the King James verse stands behind the right one.
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New Testament people trivia questions and answers
Set Start from, under the question, to People of the New Testament for John the Baptist, Martha, Stephen, Barnabas, Timothy and others from the Gospels, Acts and the letters.
Bible character trivia questions for adults
The three Old Testament rounds run from the judges to the prophets. For a table of adults, try the people a children's lesson skips: Ibzan and his thirty sons, Huldah in the college, Zenas the lawyer, Erastus the chamberlain.
Questions and answers
Who are the Bible characters in this quiz?
People of the Old Testament in three rounds and of the New Testament in a fourth: Samson, Hannah, Solomon, Elijah, Nehemiah, Martha, Stephen, Timothy and many lesser-known names. No person is the answer twice.
Are these Bible characters trivia questions and answers from the KJV?
Yes. Names and quoted words follow the King James Version, which is in the public domain, and each answer links to its chapter. Some reasons add the World English Bible's word, such as famine for dearth and treasurer for chamberlain.
Is this Bible character trivia for kids too?
Every question can be read aloud to a child, but many answers are lesser-known names. For younger children, Bible trivia for kids asks the simplest fact of each story, with three choices.