For how long were the young men brought to Babylon to be nourished before they stood before the king?Answer: Three years. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:5
How did Daniel and his companions look after ten days of pulse and water?Answer: Fairer and fatter in flesh. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:15
How much better than all the magicians and astrologers did the king find Daniel and his companions?Answer: Ten times. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:20
How was the secret of the king's dream revealed unto Daniel?Answer: In a night vision. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:19
In the king's dream, what did the stone that smote the image become?Answer: A great mountain. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:35
In which tongue did the Chaldeans speak to the king in Daniel 2:4?Answer: Syriack. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:4
Into which land did Nebuchadnezzar carry the vessels of the house of God?Answer: Shinar. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:2
Of what were the belly and the thighs of the image in the king's dream?Answer: Brass. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:32
Of which tribe were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah?Answer: Judah. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:6
Over what did the king make Daniel ruler after the dream was told?Answer: The whole province of Babylon. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:48
Until the first year of which king does Daniel 1 say Daniel continued?Answer: Cyrus. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:21
What did Daniel ask of the king when the decree went out against the wise men?Answer: That he would give him time. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:16
What did Daniel purpose in his heart not to do?Answer: Defile himself with the king's meat. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:8
What did Nebuchadnezzar demand of the wise men besides the meaning of his dream?Answer: The dream itself. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:5
Which new name was given to Azariah?Answer: Abednego. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:7
Who was the captain of the king's guard, sent out against the wise men of Babylon?Answer: Arioch. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:14
Who was the master of the king's eunuchs, told to bring in certain of the children of Israel?Answer: Ashpenaz. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:3
Whom did Daniel tell the king the head of gold was?Answer: The king himself. Source: King James Version: Daniel 2:38
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By the dream of the tree, how many times were to pass over the king?Answer: Seven. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:16
How long after the dream of the tree did the voice fall from heaven upon the king?Answer: Twelve months. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:29-31
In the king's dream of the great tree, what dwelt in its boughs?Answer: The fowls of the heaven. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:12
In the last words of Daniel 4, whom is the King of heaven able to abase?Answer: Those that walk in pride. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:37
Like what did the king's hairs grow while his dwelling was with the beasts?Answer: Eagles' feathers. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:33
What counsel did Daniel give the king after the dream of the tree?Answer: Break off thy sins by righteousness. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:27
What did the king call the three when he told them to come forth from the furnace?Answer: Servants of the most high God. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:26
What did the king do for the three men after they came out of the furnace?Answer: He promoted them. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:30
What did the three say they would do if their God did not deliver them?Answer: Still not serve the king's gods. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:18
What returned to Nebuchadnezzar when he lifted up his eyes unto heaven?Answer: His understanding. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:34
What was the king made to eat when he was driven from men?Answer: Grass, as oxen. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:33
What was to be left in the earth when the tree was hewn down?Answer: The stump of his roots. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:15
What were the three men wearing when they were bound and cast into the furnace?Answer: Coats, hosen and hats. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:21
When the three came out of the fire, what had not passed on them?Answer: The smell of fire. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:27
Which of these instruments is named in the King James text of the king's command in Daniel 3?Answer: The sackbut. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:5
Who came down from heaven and cried "Hew down the tree"?Answer: A watcher and an holy one. Source: King James Version: Daniel 4:13-14
Who came near and accused the Jews for not worshipping the image?Answer: Certain Chaldeans. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:8
Who cried aloud the king's command to the people, nations and languages?Answer: An herald. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:4
The writing on the wall and the lions' den 18
About how old was Darius when he took the kingdom, in Daniel 5:31?Answer: 62. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:31
By the writing on the wall, to whom was Belshazzar's kingdom given?Answer: The Medes and Persians. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:28
For how many days was no one to ask a petition of any God or man, save of the king?Answer: Thirty. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:7
From where had the golden and silver vessels at Belshazzar's feast been taken?Answer: The temple in Jerusalem. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:2
How many princes did Darius set over the whole kingdom?Answer: 120. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:1
The presidents and princes said they would find no occasion against Daniel except concerning what?Answer: The law of his God. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:5
To how many of his lords did Belshazzar the king make a great feast?Answer: A thousand. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:1
Until when did the king labour to deliver Daniel?Answer: The going down of the sun. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:14
What did Daniel tell Belshazzar to do with his gifts?Answer: Keep them himself. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:17
What smote one against another when Belshazzar saw the hand that wrote?Answer: His knees. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:6
What was found upon Daniel when he was taken up out of the den?Answer: No manner of hurt. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:23
What was not brought before the king on the night Daniel was in the den?Answer: Instruments of music. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:18
What was promised about the neck of the man who could read the writing?Answer: A chain of gold. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:7
Which word did Daniel interpret as "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it"?Answer: MENE. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:26
Who came into the banquet house and told Belshazzar of Daniel?Answer: The queen. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:10
Why was Daniel preferred above the presidents and princes?Answer: An excellent spirit was in him. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:3
With what did the king seal the stone on the mouth of the den?Answer: His own signet. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:17
With what kind of voice did the king cry unto Daniel at the den?Answer: A lamentable voice. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:20
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About what time of day was Daniel touched while he was speaking in prayer, in Daniel 9:21?Answer: The evening oblation. Source: King James Version: Daniel 9:21
According to Daniel 8:21, the rough goat is the king of which land?Answer: Grecia. Source: King James Version: Daniel 8:21
According to Daniel 12:3, they that be wise shall shine as what?Answer: The brightness of the firmament. Source: King James Version: Daniel 12:3
By which river was Daniel in the vision of the ram and the he goat?Answer: Ulai. Source: King James Version: Daniel 8:2
Finish the last verse of the book of Daniel: "thou shalt rest, and stand in thy" what "at the end of the days"?Answer: Lot. Source: King James Version: Daniel 12:13
For how long was Daniel mourning before the vision by the great river?Answer: Three full weeks. Source: King James Version: Daniel 10:2
From which direction did the he goat come, without touching the ground?Answer: From the west. Source: King James Version: Daniel 8:5
How many great beasts came up from the sea in the vision of Daniel 7?Answer: Four. Source: King James Version: Daniel 7:3
How many horns had the beast with great iron teeth, in Daniel 7?Answer: Ten. Source: King James Version: Daniel 7:7
How many horns had the ram that Daniel saw standing before the river?Answer: Two. Source: King James Version: Daniel 8:3
How many weeks "are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city", in Daniel 9:24?Answer: Seventy. Source: King James Version: Daniel 9:24
In what was the man of Daniel 10:5 clothed?Answer: Linen. Source: King James Version: Daniel 10:5
What did Daniel do with the dream of Daniel 7 after he had it?Answer: He wrote it. Source: King James Version: Daniel 7:1
What did the beast like to a bear have in its mouth, in Daniel 7?Answer: Three ribs. Source: King James Version: Daniel 7:5
What did the men who were with Daniel do when he alone saw the vision by the river?Answer: They fled to hide themselves. Source: King James Version: Daniel 10:7
What was Daniel told to do with the book, in Daniel 12:4?Answer: Seal it. Source: King James Version: Daniel 12:4
Who is named "one of the chief princes" that came to help, in Daniel 10:13?Answer: Michael. Source: King James Version: Daniel 10:13
Whom did the voice between the banks of the river tell to make Daniel understand the vision?Answer: Gabriel. Source: King James Version: Daniel 8:16
Whose word about the desolations of Jerusalem did Daniel understand by books, in Daniel 9:2?Answer: Jeremiah the prophet. Source: King James Version: Daniel 9:2
How it works
These Daniel trivia questions take in the whole book, the visions as well as the stories. Each has four choices and the King James verse behind the answer. None says what a vision means beyond the book's own words.
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Four rounds, in the book's order
Babylon and the king's dream covers chapters 1 and 2, The fiery furnace and the great tree 3 and 4, The writing on the wall and the lions' den 5 and 6, and The visions 7 to 12. Start from, under the question, opens the round your group is reading.
Old words in the King James text
Syriack is the Syrian language in the World English Bible, Grecia is Greece and an oblation is an offering. Numbers are written out: a score is twenty, so threescore and two is sixty-two.
Daniel is not named in chapter 3: the furnace is the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
Questions and answers
How many chapters are in the book of Daniel?
Twelve in the King James Bible. The first six tell of Daniel and his companions at Babylon, and the last six tell his own dreams and visions.
Who were Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego?
Three young men of Judah brought to Babylon with Daniel. Daniel 1:7 gives their first names as Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, in that order.
Which kings did Daniel serve?
The book names four: Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar of Babylon, then Darius the Median and Cyrus the Persian. Daniel 6:28 says he prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus.
Are these book of Daniel trivia questions from the King James Version?
Yes. Names and quoted words follow the King James Version, which is in the public domain. Some reasons add the World English Bible's word, such as a troubled voice for a lamentable voice and inheritance for lot.