These Genesis trivia questions and answers stay inside one book, in four rounds that follow its order. Each has four choices and the King James verse behind the answer.
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Bible trivia questions from Genesis, in four rounds
Creation to Babel covers chapters 1 to 11, Abraham and Sarah 12 to 25, Isaac, Jacob and Esau 25 to 35, and Joseph and his brothers 37 to 48. Start from, under the question, opens the round your group is reading.
Genesis trivia questions for kids
The easier questions suit children who know the stories, such as what God called the darkness and which daughter Laban gave to Jacob first. For younger children, Bible trivia for kids takes the simplest fact of each story, with three choices.
Old words get today's word in the reason: corn means grain, and slime for morter is tar.
Questions and answers
How many chapters are in Genesis?
Fifty. Genesis is the first book of the Bible, and its last verse tells of the death of Joseph in Egypt.
Are there Genesis Bible trivia questions for kids here?
Yes, mixed in with harder ones. Every question can be read aloud to a child, because the stories unfit for that are left out.
Are the answers 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 teraphim for images and a pleasant aroma for a sweet savour.
Before any rain fell, what went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground?Answer: A mist. Source: King James Version: Genesis 2:5-6
The builders in the land of Shinar had brick for stone. What had they for morter?Answer: Slime. Source: King James Version: Genesis 11:2-3
How does Genesis 8 describe the smell of Noah's burnt offerings?Answer: A sweet savour. Source: King James Version: Genesis 8:20-21
How far upward did the waters of the flood prevail, so that the mountains were covered?Answer: Fifteen cubits. Source: King James Version: Genesis 7:20
How high was the ark to be?Answer: Thirty cubits. Source: King James Version: Genesis 6:15
How many years did Noah live in all?Answer: 950. Source: King James Version: Genesis 9:29
In which land did Cain dwell after he went out from the presence of the LORD?Answer: Nod. Source: King James Version: Genesis 4:16
Into how many heads was the river that went out of Eden parted?Answer: Four. Source: King James Version: Genesis 2:10-14
Of which man does Genesis 5 say he "walked with God: and he was not; for God took him"?Answer: Enoch. Source: King James Version: Genesis 5:21-24
Of which wood was Noah told to make the ark?Answer: Gopher wood. Source: King James Version: Genesis 6:14
On the day the flood began, "the fountains of the great deep" were broken up. What were opened?Answer: The windows of heaven. Source: King James Version: Genesis 7:11
On which day of creation did the earth bring forth grass, herbs and fruit trees?Answer: The third day. Source: King James Version: Genesis 1:11-13
On which day of creation were the lights set in the firmament of the heaven?Answer: The fourth day. Source: King James Version: Genesis 1:3-5; Genesis 1:14-19
What did God call the darkness?Answer: Night. Source: King James Version: Genesis 1:5
What did God call the firmament that divided the waters?Answer: Heaven. Source: King James Version: Genesis 1:8
What did God call the gathering together of the waters?Answer: Seas. Source: King James Version: Genesis 1:10
What did the LORD God make to clothe Adam and his wife?Answer: Coats of skins. Source: King James Version: Genesis 3:7; Genesis 3:21
What was the name of the city where the LORD confounded the language of all the earth?Answer: Babel. Source: King James Version: Genesis 11:9
When God saw every thing that he had made, what does Genesis 1 say of it?Answer: It was very good. Source: King James Version: Genesis 1:31
Which of these is one of the four rivers named in Genesis 2?Answer: Euphrates. Source: King James Version: Genesis 2:11-14
Which son was born to Adam and Eve after Abel?Answer: Seth. Source: King James Version: Genesis 4:25
Who was the father of Noah?Answer: Lamech. Source: King James Version: Genesis 5:28-29
Whom does Genesis 4 call "the father of all such as handle the harp and organ"?Answer: Jubal. Source: King James Version: Genesis 4:20-21
Why was the man put into the garden of Eden?Answer: To dress it and to keep it. Source: King James Version: Genesis 2:15
With what was Noah told to coat the ark within and without?Answer: Pitch. Source: King James Version: Genesis 6:14
Abraham and Sarah 25
Abraham began by asking for fifty righteous in Sodom. At what number did he stop?Answer: Ten. Source: King James Version: Genesis 18:24; Genesis 18:32
According to Genesis 15, what was counted to Abram for righteousness?Answer: That he believed in the LORD. Source: King James Version: Genesis 15:6
Between whom was there strife before Abram and Lot parted?Answer: Their herdmen. Source: King James Version: Genesis 13:6-7
From which country was Hagar, the handmaid of Sarai?Answer: Egypt. Source: King James Version: Genesis 16:1
From whom did Abraham buy the field and the cave of Machpelah?Answer: Ephron the Hittite. Source: King James Version: Genesis 23:10-17
How many camels did Abraham's servant take when he went to find a wife for Isaac?Answer: Ten. Source: King James Version: Genesis 24:10
How many ewe lambs did Abraham set by themselves as a witness that he had dug the well at Beersheba?Answer: Seven. Source: King James Version: Genesis 21:28-31
How many trained servants, born in his own house, did Abram arm to bring back Lot?Answer: 318. Source: King James Version: Genesis 14:14
How many years did Abraham live?Answer: 175. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:7-9
How old was Abram when Ishmael was born?Answer: 86. Source: King James Version: Genesis 16:16
How old was Abram when the LORD said to him "I am the Almighty God; walk before me"?Answer: 99. Source: King James Version: Genesis 17:1
Into which land did Abram come when he left Haran?Answer: Canaan. Source: King James Version: Genesis 12:5
Into which land was Abraham told to take his son Isaac?Answer: The land of Moriah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 22:2
To which little city did Lot flee from Sodom?Answer: Zoar. Source: King James Version: Genesis 19:22-23
What did Abraham ask Sarah to make quickly for the three visitors?Answer: Cakes of fine meal. Source: King James Version: Genesis 18:6
What did Abraham's servant give Rebekah after the camels had done drinking?Answer: A golden earring and two bracelets. Source: King James Version: Genesis 24:22
What did Ishmael become as he grew and dwelt in the wilderness?Answer: An archer. Source: King James Version: Genesis 21:20
What did Sarah say when Isaac was born?Answer: God hath made me to laugh. Source: King James Version: Genesis 21:6
What name did Abraham give the place where he found the ram?Answer: Jehovahjireh. Source: King James Version: Genesis 22:13-14
What was Sarah called before her name was changed?Answer: Sarai. Source: King James Version: Genesis 17:15
When Abram gave Lot the choice of the land, what did Lot choose?Answer: All the plain of Jordan. Source: King James Version: Genesis 13:10-11
Where did Abram dwell and build an altar after Lot left him?Answer: In the plain of Mamre, in Hebron. Source: King James Version: Genesis 13:18
Where was Lot sitting when the two angels came to Sodom at even?Answer: In the gate of Sodom. Source: King James Version: Genesis 19:1
Whom did Abraham take as a wife after Sarah?Answer: Keturah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:1
Why did Abram go down into Egypt in Genesis 12?Answer: There was a famine in the land. Source: King James Version: Genesis 12:10
Isaac, Jacob and Esau 25
At which place did Laban say "The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another"?Answer: Mizpah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 31:48-49
Esau was a man of the field. How does Genesis 25 describe Jacob?Answer: A plain man, dwelling in tents. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:27
How did Esau greet Jacob when they met again?Answer: He ran, embraced him and kissed him. Source: King James Version: Genesis 33:4
How many men were coming with Esau to meet Jacob?Answer: Four hundred. Source: King James Version: Genesis 32:6
How many years did Jacob first serve Laban for Rachel?Answer: Seven. Source: King James Version: Genesis 29:20
How many years did Jacob say he had been in Laban's house?Answer: Twenty. Source: King James Version: Genesis 31:41
How old was Isaac when he died?Answer: 180. Source: King James Version: Genesis 35:28-29
How old was Isaac when he took Rebekah to wife?Answer: Forty. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:20
In his vow at Bethel, what part of all that God gave him did Jacob promise to give back?Answer: The tenth. Source: King James Version: Genesis 28:20-22
Isaac loved Esau. Which twin did Rebekah love?Answer: Jacob. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:28
Isaac's herdmen strove over two wells. What did he name the third, for which they strove not?Answer: Rehoboth. Source: King James Version: Genesis 26:20-22
Rachel named her second son Benoni. What did his father call him?Answer: Benjamin. Source: King James Version: Genesis 35:18
To whom did Rebekah tell Jacob to flee from his brother?Answer: Laban her brother, in Haran. Source: King James Version: Genesis 27:43
What did Isaac send Esau out to bring before he would bless him?Answer: Venison. Source: King James Version: Genesis 27:3-4
What did Jacob name the place where he dreamed, which was called Luz at the first?Answer: Bethel. Source: King James Version: Genesis 28:19
What did Jacob pour on the top of the stone he set up for a pillar?Answer: Oil. Source: King James Version: Genesis 28:18
What did Rachel take from her father's house when Jacob's family left?Answer: The images that were her father's. Source: King James Version: Genesis 31:19
What did the LORD tell Rebekah were in her womb?Answer: Two nations. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:23
What was out of joint after Jacob wrestled until the breaking of the day?Answer: The hollow of his thigh. Source: King James Version: Genesis 32:24-25
What was Rachel doing when Jacob first met her at the well?Answer: Keeping her father's sheep. Source: King James Version: Genesis 29:9
When Isaac sowed in the land of Gerar, how much did he receive in the same year?Answer: An hundredfold. Source: King James Version: Genesis 26:6-12
Which daughter did Laban give to Jacob first?Answer: Leah, the elder. Source: King James Version: Genesis 29:23-26
Which of Laban's cattle did Jacob ask for as his hire?Answer: The speckled and spotted. Source: King James Version: Genesis 30:32
Who said "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau"?Answer: Isaac. Source: King James Version: Genesis 27:21-22
Who was the handmaid that Laban gave to his daughter Rachel?Answer: Bilhah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 29:24-29
Joseph and his brothers 25
At Joseph's table, how much larger was Benjamin's portion than any of the others?Answer: Five times. Source: King James Version: Genesis 43:34
Besides fine linen, what did Pharaoh put about Joseph's neck?Answer: A gold chain. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:42
How long after the butler was restored did Pharaoh dream?Answer: Two full years. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:1
How old did Jacob tell Pharaoh he was?Answer: 130. Source: King James Version: Genesis 47:9
How old was Joseph when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt?Answer: Thirty. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:46
In his dream, what did the chief baker have on his head?Answer: Three white baskets. Source: King James Version: Genesis 40:16-18
In Pharaoh's second dream, what came up upon one stalk?Answer: Seven ears of corn. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:5
In the prison, who committed all the prisoners to Joseph's hand?Answer: The keeper of the prison. Source: King James Version: Genesis 39:22
Jacob sent Joseph to his brothers at Shechem. Where did Joseph find them?Answer: In Dothan. Source: King James Version: Genesis 37:13-17
Once he was restored, did the chief butler remember Joseph?Answer: No, he forgot him. Source: King James Version: Genesis 40:23
What day was it when Pharaoh made a feast unto all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief butler?Answer: Pharaoh's birthday. Source: King James Version: Genesis 40:20
What did Jacob see that made his spirit revive, so that he believed Joseph was alive?Answer: The wagons Joseph had sent. Source: King James Version: Genesis 45:27
What did Joseph answer when Pharaoh said he could interpret a dream?Answer: It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:15-16
What did Joseph do before he came in unto Pharaoh from the dungeon?Answer: He shaved himself and changed his raiment. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:14
What did Joseph say his brothers were when they first came to Egypt?Answer: Spies. Source: King James Version: Genesis 42:9
What did Joseph's brothers call him when they saw him coming afar off?Answer: This dreamer. Source: King James Version: Genesis 37:18-19
What did Joseph's brothers tell Pharaoh their occupation was?Answer: Shepherds. Source: King James Version: Genesis 47:3
What did Potiphar make Joseph in his house?Answer: Overseer over his house. Source: King James Version: Genesis 39:4
What did the brothers find in their sacks when they emptied them at home?Answer: Every man's bundle of money. Source: King James Version: Genesis 42:35
What part of the land of Egypt did Joseph advise Pharaoh to take up in the seven plenteous years?Answer: The fifth part. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:34
What were the camels of the Ishmeelites carrying down to Egypt?Answer: Spicery, balm and myrrh. Source: King James Version: Genesis 37:25
When Israel blessed Joseph's sons, on whose head did he lay his right hand?Answer: Ephraim, the younger. Source: King James Version: Genesis 48:14
Which brother said "Let us not kill him" and meant to bring Joseph back to his father?Answer: Reuben. Source: King James Version: Genesis 37:21-22
Which brother told his father "I will be surety for him" so that Benjamin could go?Answer: Judah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 43:8-9
Which brother was bound and kept in Egypt while the others went home?Answer: Simeon. Source: King James Version: Genesis 42:24