Old Testament Trivia Questions

Old Testament trivia from Genesis to the prophets: tap a choice to see the answer and its verse.

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What new name was Abram given?

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These Old Testament trivia questions follow the books from Genesis to the prophets and the return from exile, in six rounds. Each has four choices, and each answer gives its chapter and verse in the King James Version.

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Six rounds, from Genesis to the prophets

Genesis runs from "Let there be light" to Joseph's silver cup. Exodus to Deuteronomy follows Moses from Midian to the serpent of brass. Joshua, Judges and Ruth has Rahab's scarlet thread and Gideon's fleece. Then come the kings, the wisdom books and the prophets.

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How many books are in the Old Testament?

Thirty-nine in the King James Bible, from Genesis to Malachi. That count leaves out the books called Apocrypha.

Which Old Testament books do the questions cover?

The five books of Moses, the history books from Joshua to Chronicles, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job, and Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, with Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther in the last round.

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Yes. Names and quoted words follow the King James Version. Some reasons add the World English Bible's word, such as acacia for shittim wood.

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Genesis 25

How was Lot related to Abram? Answer: He was his brother's son. Source: King James Version: Genesis 12:5
In which cave was Abraham buried? Answer: Machpelah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:9
Into what did Joseph's brothers cast him before they sold him? Answer: A pit. Source: King James Version: Genesis 37:24
On which day did God rest from all his work? Answer: The seventh day. Source: King James Version: Genesis 2:2-3
To which officer of Pharaoh was Joseph sold in Egypt? Answer: Potiphar. Source: King James Version: Genesis 37:36
Upon which two cities did the LORD rain brimstone and fire? Answer: Sodom and Gomorrah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 19:16; Genesis 19:24
What are the first words that God speaks in Genesis? Answer: Let there be light. Source: King James Version: Genesis 1:3
What came up out of the river in Pharaoh's first dream? Answer: Seven fat kine and seven lean kine. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:2-3
What did Joseph have put in the mouth of Benjamin's sack? Answer: His silver cup. Source: King James Version: Genesis 44:2
What did Joseph name his two sons? Answer: Manasseh and Ephraim. Source: King James Version: Genesis 41:51-52
What did Rebekah put on Jacob's hands and neck so that he would feel like Esau? Answer: The skins of the kids of the goats. Source: King James Version: Genesis 27:11; Genesis 27:16
What did the LORD God take from the sleeping man to make a woman? Answer: One of his ribs. Source: King James Version: Genesis 2:21-22
What new name was Abram given? Answer: Abraham. Source: King James Version: Genesis 17:5
What new name was Jacob given after he wrestled until daybreak? Answer: Israel. Source: King James Version: Genesis 32:28-30
What was placed at the east of the garden to keep the way of the tree of life? Answer: Cherubims and a flaming sword. Source: King James Version: Genesis 3:24
Which bird did Noah send out of the ark first? Answer: A raven. Source: King James Version: Genesis 8:7-8
Which brother said "let us sell him to the Ishmeelites"? Answer: Judah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 37:26-27
Which daughter of Jacob and Leah is named in Genesis 30? Answer: Dinah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 30:20-21
Which twin was born with his hand holding his brother's heel? Answer: Jacob. Source: King James Version: Genesis 25:26
Who came to the well with her pitcher upon her shoulder while Abraham's servant was still speaking? Answer: Rebekah. Source: King James Version: Genesis 24:15
Who was Jacob's firstborn? Answer: Reuben. Source: King James Version: Genesis 35:23
Who was the father of Rachel and Leah? Answer: Laban. Source: King James Version: Genesis 29:10; Genesis 29:16
Who was the mother of Ishmael? Answer: Hagar. Source: King James Version: Genesis 16:15-16
Who were the three sons of Noah? Answer: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Source: King James Version: Genesis 6:10
Whom does Genesis 10 call "a mighty hunter before the LORD"? Answer: Nimrod. Source: King James Version: Genesis 10:9

Exodus to Deuteronomy 25

Finish the commandment: "Honour thy father and" whom? Answer: Thy mother. Source: King James Version: Exodus 20:12
For how long was there a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt? Answer: Three days. Source: King James Version: Exodus 10:22-23
In Leviticus 16, what was let go into the wilderness? Answer: A goat, the scapegoat. Source: King James Version: Leviticus 16:8-10
Of what wood was the ark of the covenant to be made? Answer: Shittim wood. Source: King James Version: Exodus 25:10
To which land did Moses flee from the face of Pharaoh? Answer: Midian. Source: King James Version: Exodus 2:15
What did God answer when Moses asked his name at the bush? Answer: I AM THAT I AM. Source: King James Version: Exodus 3:14
What did Moses do with the two tables when he saw the calf and the dancing? Answer: He brake them beneath the mount. Source: King James Version: Exodus 32:19
What did Moses make of brass and put upon a pole? Answer: A serpent. Source: King James Version: Numbers 21:4; Numbers 21:9
What did the men who searched the land carry between two upon a staff? Answer: One cluster of grapes. Source: King James Version: Numbers 13:23
What did the rod of Moses become when he cast it on the ground? Answer: A serpent. Source: King James Version: Exodus 4:3
What kind of bread was to be eaten with the passover lamb? Answer: Unleavened bread. Source: King James Version: Exodus 12:8
What kind of wind made the Red sea go back all night before Israel crossed? Answer: A strong east wind. Source: King James Version: Exodus 14:21
What shone when Moses came down from the mount with the second tables? Answer: The skin of his face. Source: King James Version: Exodus 34:4; Exodus 34:29
What was Moses told to smite in Horeb so that water would come out? Answer: The rock. Source: King James Version: Exodus 17:6
Which birds came up at even and covered the camp? Answer: Quails. Source: King James Version: Exodus 16:13
Which book has the words "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD"? Answer: Deuteronomy. Source: King James Version: Deuteronomy 6:4
Which book has the words "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"? Answer: Leviticus. Source: King James Version: Leviticus 19:18
Which prophetess took a timbrel in her hand after the sea was crossed? Answer: Miriam. Source: King James Version: Exodus 15:20
Which two of the men who searched the land called it "an exceeding good land"? Answer: Joshua and Caleb. Source: King James Version: Numbers 14:6-7
Which year was to be hallowed as a jubile? Answer: The fiftieth year. Source: King James Version: Leviticus 25:10-11
Who stayed up the hands of Moses until the going down of the sun? Answer: Aaron and Hur. Source: King James Version: Exodus 17:12
Who was the wife of Moses? Answer: Zipporah. Source: King James Version: Exodus 2:21
Whose ass spoke to him on the way? Answer: Balaam's. Source: King James Version: Numbers 22:28; Numbers 22:33
Whose bones did Moses take with him out of Egypt? Answer: Joseph's. Source: King James Version: Exodus 13:19
Whose rod budded and yielded almonds? Answer: Aaron's. Source: King James Version: Numbers 17:8

Joshua, Judges and Ruth 25

At the beginning of which harvest did Naomi and Ruth come to Bethlehem? Answer: Barley harvest. Source: King James Version: Ruth 1:22; Ruth 2:2
How many chariots of iron had Jabin king of Canaan? Answer: Nine hundred. Source: King James Version: Judges 4:2-3
How many times did Israel compass Jericho on the seventh day? Answer: Seven times. Source: King James Version: Joshua 6:14-15
In whose part of the field did Ruth happen to glean? Answer: Boaz. Source: King James Version: Ruth 2:3
Of which country were Ruth and Orpah? Answer: Moab. Source: King James Version: Ruth 1:4
The people of which city came to Joshua with old sacks and dry, moldy bread? Answer: Gibeon. Source: King James Version: Joshua 9:3-6
What ceased the day after Israel ate the old corn of the land? Answer: The manna. Source: King James Version: Joshua 5:12
What did Gideon put in the hand of each of his men, with a trumpet? Answer: An empty pitcher with a lamp inside. Source: King James Version: Judges 7:16
What did Gideon put on the floor to ask for a sign? Answer: A fleece of wool. Source: King James Version: Judges 6:37
What did Samson carry away from Gaza at midnight? Answer: The doors of the gate of the city. Source: King James Version: Judges 16:3
What did Samson later find in the carcase of the lion? Answer: A swarm of bees and honey. Source: King James Version: Judges 14:8-9
What did the priests bear who stood on dry ground in the midst of Jordan? Answer: The ark of the covenant. Source: King James Version: Joshua 3:17
What other name was Gideon called? Answer: Jerubbaal. Source: King James Version: Judges 6:32
What roared against Samson in the vineyards of Timnath? Answer: A young lion. Source: King James Version: Judges 14:5-6
What was never to come on the head of the child Samson? Answer: A razor. Source: King James Version: Judges 13:5
What was the name of Naomi's husband? Answer: Elimelech. Source: King James Version: Ruth 1:1-2
What was to be bound in the window of the house on the wall of Jericho? Answer: A line of scarlet thread. Source: King James Version: Joshua 2:15; Joshua 2:18
Which daughter in law kissed Naomi and went back? Answer: Orpah. Source: King James Version: Ruth 1:14
Which woman of Jericho hid the two men sent by Joshua? Answer: Rahab. Source: King James Version: Joshua 2:3-4
Which word were men told to say at the passages of Jordan? Answer: Shibboleth. Source: King James Version: Judges 12:5-6
Who is the first deliverer raised up in the book of Judges? Answer: Othniel. Source: King James Version: Judges 3:9
Who said "give me this mountain" when he was eighty-five years old? Answer: Caleb. Source: King James Version: Joshua 14:6-12
Who told of the trees that went forth to anoint a king over them? Answer: Jotham. Source: King James Version: Judges 9:7-8
Who was the father of Samson? Answer: Manoah. Source: King James Version: Judges 13:2; Judges 13:24
Whom did Deborah call out of Kedeshnaphtali to lead ten thousand men? Answer: Barak. Source: King James Version: Judges 4:6

Samuel, Kings and Chronicles 25

At what age did Josiah become king in Jerusalem? Answer: Eight. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 22:1
How many stones from the brook did David carry to meet the Philistine? Answer: Five. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 17:40
In the women's song, Saul has slain his thousands. What has David slain? Answer: His ten thousands. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 18:7-8
To whom did the prophet Ahijah give ten pieces of a new garment? Answer: Jeroboam. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 11:29-31
What came after the wind, the earthquake and the fire at Horeb? Answer: A still small voice. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 19:11-12
What did David do before the LORD with all his might when the ark came up? Answer: He danced. Source: King James Version: 2 Samuel 6:14
What did Elisha make swim by casting a stick into the Jordan? Answer: An iron axe head. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 6:5-6
What did Samuel name the stone he set between Mizpeh and Shen? Answer: Ebenezer. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 7:12
What did Samuel's mother make and bring him from year to year? Answer: A little coat. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 2:19
What fell and consumed Elijah's sacrifice, the wood and the stones? Answer: The fire of the LORD. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 18:38
What two things did not fail in the widow's house while Elijah stayed there? Answer: The barrel of meal and the cruse of oil. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 17:16
What was Saul sent to seek when he first met Samuel? Answer: His father's lost asses. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 9:3
Which child was named with the words "The glory is departed from Israel"? Answer: Ichabod. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 4:21
Which daughter of the king of the Zidonians did Ahab take to wife? Answer: Jezebel. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 16:31
Which god of the Philistines was found fallen on his face before the ark? Answer: Dagon. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 5:2-3
Which instrument did David play before Saul? Answer: A harp. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 16:23
Which king of Persia made the proclamation that ends 2 Chronicles? Answer: Cyrus. Source: King James Version: 2 Chronicles 36:22-23
Which king of Tyre was "ever a lover of David"? Answer: Hiram. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 5:1
Which king's son was hid six years in the house of the LORD? Answer: Joash. Source: King James Version: 2 Kings 11:2-3; 2 Kings 11:21
Which son of David was praised above all in Israel for his beauty? Answer: Absalom. Source: King James Version: 2 Samuel 14:25
Which strong hold did David take that is called the city of David? Answer: Zion. Source: King James Version: 2 Samuel 5:6-7
Which wife of Nabal made haste to bring David two hundred loaves? Answer: Abigail. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 25:3; 1 Samuel 25:18
Who prayed "Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast"? Answer: Jabez. Source: King James Version: 1 Chronicles 4:10
Who was the mother of Samuel? Answer: Hannah. Source: King James Version: 1 Samuel 1:20
Who was the mother of Solomon? Answer: Bathsheba. Source: King James Version: 1 Kings 1:11

Psalms, Proverbs and the wisdom books 25

According to Ecclesiastes 4, what "is not quickly broken"? Answer: A threefold cord. Source: King James Version: Ecclesiastes 4:12
According to Proverbs 17:17, who "loveth at all times"? Answer: A friend. Source: King James Version: Proverbs 17:17
According to Psalm 133, what is "good" and "pleasant"? Answer: For brethren to dwell together in unity. Source: King James Version: Psalm 133:1; Psalm 133:3
According to the Proverbs, which metal sharpens its own kind? Answer: Iron. Source: King James Version: Proverbs 27:17
Ecclesiastes 12 says "Remember now thy Creator in the days of" what? Answer: Thy youth. Source: King James Version: Ecclesiastes 12:1
Finish Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old," what? Answer: He will not depart from it. Source: King James Version: Proverbs 22:6
Finish Psalm 118:24: "This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will" what? Answer: Rejoice and be glad in it. Source: King James Version: Psalm 118:24
Finish Psalm 139:14: "I am fearfully and" what? Answer: Wonderfully made. Source: King James Version: Psalm 139:14
Finish Psalm 24:1: "The earth is the LORD's, and" what? Answer: The fulness thereof. Source: King James Version: Psalm 24:1
Finish Psalm 8:4: "What is man, that thou art" what "of him"? Answer: Mindful. Source: King James Version: Psalm 8:3-4
In Proverbs 25:11, what is "like apples of gold in pictures of silver"? Answer: A word fitly spoken. Source: King James Version: Proverbs 25:11
In Psalm 121, to what does the singer lift up his eyes? Answer: The hills. Source: King James Version: Psalm 121:1-2
In Psalm 137, what did the captives hang upon the willows by the rivers of Babylon? Answer: Their harps. Source: King James Version: Psalm 137:1-2
In Psalm 19, what do the heavens declare? Answer: The glory of God. Source: King James Version: Psalm 19:1
In Psalm 23, which two things "comfort me"? Answer: Thy rod and thy staff. Source: King James Version: Psalm 23:4
In Psalm 42, which animal "panteth after the water brooks"? Answer: The hart. Source: King James Version: Psalm 42:1
Proverbs 31:10 says the price of a virtuous woman is far above what? Answer: Rubies. Source: King James Version: Proverbs 31:10
Proverbs 3:5 says to trust in the LORD with all thine heart and to "lean not unto" what? Answer: Thine own understanding. Source: King James Version: Proverbs 3:5-6
Psalm 150:3 names the trumpet, the psaltery and which other instrument? Answer: The harp. Source: King James Version: Psalm 150:3-5
Psalm 27 begins "The LORD is my light and my" what? Answer: Salvation. Source: King James Version: Psalm 27:1
To what does Psalm 1 liken the man whose delight is in the law of the LORD? Answer: A tree planted by the rivers of water. Source: King James Version: Psalm 1:3-4
Which book has the words "I know that my redeemer liveth"? Answer: Job. Source: King James Version: Job 19:1; Job 19:25; Job 18:1
Which king's words, "the prophecy that his mother taught him", open Proverbs 31? Answer: Lemuel. Source: King James Version: Proverbs 31:1; Proverbs 30:1
Which three friends came to mourn with Job? Answer: Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar. Source: King James Version: Job 2:11
Which younger man, the son of Barachel the Buzite, speaks after Job's three friends fall silent? Answer: Elihu. Source: King James Version: Job 32:2-4

The prophets, the exile and the return 25

Ezra is called "a ready scribe" in what? Answer: The law of Moses. Source: King James Version: Ezra 7:6
The first verse of the book of Isaiah calls him the son of whom? Answer: Amoz. Source: King James Version: Isaiah 1:1; Jeremiah 1:1; Ezekiel 1:3
How high was the image of gold set up in the plain of Dura? Answer: Threescore cubits. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:1
How many times a day did Daniel kneel and pray with his windows open? Answer: Three. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:10
How many wings had each of the seraphims in Isaiah's vision? Answer: Six. Source: King James Version: Isaiah 6:2
How much hotter than usual was the furnace ordered to be heated? Answer: Seven times. Source: King James Version: Daniel 3:19
In Isaiah 1:18, sins "as scarlet" shall be as white as what? Answer: Snow. Source: King James Version: Isaiah 1:18
Isaiah 53:6 says "All we like" which animals "have gone astray"? Answer: Sheep. Source: King James Version: Isaiah 53:6
Isaiah 55:8 says "my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways" what? Answer: My ways. Source: King James Version: Isaiah 55:8-9
Jeremiah 29:11 speaks of thoughts "of peace, and not of evil, to give you" what? Answer: An expected end. Source: King James Version: Jeremiah 29:11
Upon what did Ezra the scribe stand to read the law to the people? Answer: A pulpit of wood. Source: King James Version: Nehemiah 8:4
What are the days kept in the book of Esther called? Answer: Purim. Source: King James Version: Esther 9:24; Esther 9:26
What did Daniel ask to be given to eat and drink for ten days? Answer: Pulse and water. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:12
What did the roll that Ezekiel ate taste like? Answer: Honey for sweetness. Source: King James Version: Ezekiel 3:1-3
What name was Daniel given by the prince of the eunuchs? Answer: Belteshazzar. Source: King James Version: Daniel 1:7
What office did Nehemiah hold at the court of the king? Answer: The king's cupbearer. Source: King James Version: Nehemiah 1:11
What was the first thing Jeremiah saw when he was asked "what seest thou?" Answer: A rod of an almond tree. Source: King James Version: Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 1:13
Which four faces had the living creatures in Ezekiel 1? Answer: A man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. Source: King James Version: Ezekiel 1:10
Which four words did Daniel read out from the writing at the king's feast? Answer: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. Source: King James Version: Daniel 5:25
Which prophet wrote "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given"? Answer: Isaiah. Source: King James Version: Isaiah 9:6
Which queen refused to come at the commandment of king Ahasuerus? Answer: Vashti. Source: King James Version: Esther 1:12
Who had Jeremiah drawn up with cords out of the dungeon? Answer: Ebedmelech the Ethiopian. Source: King James Version: Jeremiah 38:7-13
Who said that a fox going up would break down the stone wall? Answer: Tobiah the Ammonite. Source: King James Version: Nehemiah 4:1-3
Who was the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, promoted by king Ahasuerus? Answer: Haman. Source: King James Version: Esther 3:1
Whom did Daniel say his God had sent into the den? Answer: An angel. Source: King James Version: Daniel 6:19-22

How this list was compiled

Written for this site by the editors; nothing was copied from another quiz or list. Each answer was read on 2026-10-02 at the verse named beside it in the King James Version (the standard text of 1769, public domain) as published at ebible.org (https://ebible.org/eng-kjv/), and the same verse was read in the World English Bible (public domain, https://ebible.org/eng-web/). Names and quoted words follow the King James text, and other translations word many of these verses differently; some reasons add the World English Bible's word for a name or an old word. Only what the text says is asked: no question turns on doctrine, on one church's teaching or on the date of an event. The rounds follow the order of the books in the King James Bible, with Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther in the last round. Levels are an editor's judgment. A second reader compared every answer with the same verses in both texts on 2026-10-03. Licence: own work