Besides offering a sacrifice, what did the men of the ship make after the sea grew still?Answer: Vows. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:16
From what did Jonah rise up to flee, in the words of Jonah 1:3?Answer: The presence of the LORD. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:3
How did the mariners find out for whose cause the tempest had come?Answer: They cast lots. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:7
How did the mariners know what Jonah was fleeing from?Answer: He had told them. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:10
How does Jonah 1:4 describe the danger to the ship in the tempest?Answer: It was like to be broken. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:4
In Jonah 1:9, Jonah says the God of heaven made which two things?Answer: The sea and the dry land. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:9
What did Jonah tell the mariners he was?Answer: An Hebrew. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:9
What did the LORD send out into the sea when Jonah sailed away?Answer: A great wind. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:4
What did the mariners ask the LORD not to lay upon them, before they cast Jonah out?Answer: Innocent blood. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:14
What did the mariners cast into the sea to lighten the ship?Answer: The wares. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:5
What did the shipmaster tell Jonah to do?Answer: Call upon his God. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:6
What reason is given when Jonah is first told to cry against Nineveh?Answer: Its wickedness. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:2
When the tempest came, to whom did the mariners cry?Answer: Every man to his god. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:5
Which of these did the mariners ask Jonah when the lot fell upon him?Answer: What is thine occupation? Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:8
Who told the mariners to cast Jonah into the sea?Answer: Jonah himself. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:12
Who was the father of Jonah?Answer: Amittai. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:1
The prayer from the fish 12
According to Jonah 2:8, what do "they that observe lying vanities" forsake?Answer: Their own mercy. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:8
Finish Jonah 2:4: "yet I will look again toward thy holy" what?Answer: Temple. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:4
Finish Jonah's prayer: "I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of" what?Answer: Thanksgiving. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:9
How many things does the book of Jonah say the LORD or God "prepared"?Answer: Four. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:17; Jonah 4:6-8
In his prayer from the fish, what does Jonah say was wrapped about his head?Answer: Weeds. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:5
In his prayer from the fish, where does Jonah say he had been cast?Answer: Into the deep. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:3
In Jonah 2:6, from what does Jonah say his life has been brought up?Answer: Corruption. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:6
In Jonah's prayer, what passed over him?Answer: Billows and waves. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:3
To the bottoms of what does Jonah say he went down?Answer: The mountains. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:6
What did the LORD do just before the fish vomited out Jonah?Answer: He spoke to the fish. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:10
When does Jonah say he remembered the LORD?Answer: When his soul fainted within him. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:7
With which words does Jonah's prayer in the fish end?Answer: Salvation is of the LORD. Source: King James Version: Jonah 2:9
Nineveh 13
Besides his evil way, from what was every one in Nineveh told to turn?Answer: The violence in their hands. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:8
By the decree in Nineveh, which were to be covered with sackcloth?Answer: Man and beast. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:8
Finish the question in the decree of Nineveh: "Who can tell if God will turn and" what?Answer: Repent. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:9
How far into the city had Jonah begun to go when he cried out?Answer: A day's journey. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:4
How great a city does Jonah 3:3 say Nineveh was?Answer: Of three days' journey. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:3
How many times did the word of the LORD come unto Jonah, sending him to Nineveh?Answer: Twice. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:1
What did the king of Nineveh lay aside when word came unto him?Answer: His robe. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:6
What did the people of Nineveh proclaim when they believed God?Answer: A fast. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:5
What does Jonah 3:10 say God saw?Answer: Their works. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:10
What were the herds and flocks of Nineveh not to do, by the decree?Answer: Feed, or drink water. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:7
Where did the king of Nineveh sit after he covered himself with sackcloth?Answer: In ashes. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:6
Which words end both the shipmaster's speech to Jonah and the decree published through Nineveh?Answer: That we perish not. Source: King James Version: Jonah 1:6; Jonah 3:9
Whose decree was proclaimed and published through Nineveh?Answer: The king and his nobles. Source: King James Version: Jonah 3:7
The gourd, and Jonah elsewhere 16
According to 2 Kings 14:25, of which town was the prophet Jonah?Answer: Gathhepher. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 14:25
From what does Jonah 4:6 say the gourd was to deliver Jonah?Answer: His grief. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:6
How long does the LORD say the gourd took to come up?Answer: A night. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:10
How many persons in Nineveh could not discern between their right hand and their left hand?Answer: More than sixscore thousand. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:11
In Jonah 4:2, why does Jonah say he fled?Answer: He knew God was merciful. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:2
In Luke 11:30, what does Jesus say Jonas was unto the Ninevites?Answer: A sign. Source: King James Version: Luke 11:30
In the days of which king of Israel does 2 Kings 14 tell of the word spoken by Jonah?Answer: Jeroboam the son of Joash. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 14:23-25
In the King James Bible, between which two books does Jonah stand?Answer: Obadiah and Micah. Source: King James Version: Obadiah 1:1; Micah 1:1
On which side of Nineveh did Jonah sit down when he went out of the city?Answer: The east side. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:5
What are the last words of the book of Jonah?Answer: And also much cattle. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:11
What did God prepare that smote the gourd so that it withered?Answer: A worm. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:7
What did God prepare when the sun did arise over Jonah?Answer: A vehement east wind. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:8
What did Jonah answer when God asked whether he did well to be angry for the gourd?Answer: I do well to be angry. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:9
What did Jonah make for himself when he sat down outside Nineveh?Answer: A booth. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:5
What does the LORD say Jonah had not done for the gourd?Answer: Laboured for it. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:10
Why did Jonah sit in the shadow outside Nineveh?Answer: To see what would become of the city. Source: King James Version: Jonah 4:5
How it works
These book of Jonah trivia questions go through its four chapters. Each has four choices and the King James verse behind the answer.
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Four rounds, chapter by chapter
The call and the storm is chapter 1, The prayer from the fish chapter 2 and Nineveh chapter 3. The gourd, and Jonah elsewhere takes chapter 4, then 2 Kings 14 and Luke 11. Start from, under the question, opens one round.
Jonah and the whale trivia questions
The questions say fish, the book's own word, and ask what it tells beyond the fish: the lots the mariners cast, the prayer, the decree of the king of Nineveh, the gourd and the worm.
Jonas, in Matthew and Luke, is the King James spelling of Jonah.
Questions and answers
How many chapters are in the book of Jonah?
Four, with 48 verses in all: 17 in the first chapter, 10 in the second, 10 in the third and 11 in the fourth.
Was Jonah swallowed by a whale or a fish?
Jonah 1:17 says the LORD had prepared "a great fish". Whale comes from the King James text of Matthew 12:40, "in the whale's belly".
How long was Jonah in the fish?
Three days and three nights, by Jonah 1:17. His prayer from inside it fills most of chapter 2.
Are these Jonah and the whale 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 cargo for wares and vine for gourd.