Christmas Bible Trivia Questions

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Religious Christmas trivia questions on the birth in Matthew and Luke: tap a choice to see the verse.

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According to Matthew, what does the name Emmanuel mean?

God with usGift of GodThe Lord savesPrince of Peace

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These Christmas Bible trivia questions keep to the two accounts of the birth, Matthew 1 and 2 and Luke 1 and 2. Each has four choices, and each answer names its Gospel, chapter and verse.

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Nativity trivia questions and answers, in story order

The rounds go from the angel's words to Zacharias and Mary, through the journey to Bethlehem and the shepherds, to the wise men and the flight into Egypt. Names follow the King James text: Elisabeth, Cyrenius, Aser.

What the text does and does not say

The last round sorts carol and card from Gospel. It asks how many wise men Matthew counts, which animals Luke puts by the manger, and how often the word stable is used.

Questions and answers

How many wise men were there?

Matthew does not say. He writes that wise men came from the east and names three gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh. He does not count the men or call them kings.

Which books of the Bible tell the Christmas story?

Matthew and Luke. Matthew 1 and 2 tell of Joseph's dream, the wise men and the flight into Egypt. Luke 1 and 2 tell of Gabriel, the manger and the shepherds.

Are these religious Christmas trivia questions and answers for one church?

No. Every question is answered from the text of Matthew or Luke in the King James Version, and none asks about a church's calendar, customs or teaching.

Are the Christmas Bible trivia questions and answers printable?

Yes. After a set of ten, Print question sheet prints 20 questions with lettered choices and no answers marked. Print answer key, under More options, prints the right letters with each reason and verse.

Does the Bible say Jesus was born in a stable?

The word is not in either account. Luke says Mary laid the child in a manger because there was no room in the inn, and Matthew says the wise men came into the house.

All 80 questions with answers

The announcements to Zacharias, Mary and Joseph 16

About how long did Mary stay with Elisabeth? Answer: About three months. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:56
According to Matthew, what does the name Emmanuel mean? Answer: God with us. Source: King James Version: Matthew 1:23
How did Mary answer the angel at the end? Answer: Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:38
How did Zacharias tell the neighbors the child's name? Answer: He wrote it on a writing table. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:63-64
How does Mary's song in Luke 1 begin? Answer: My soul doth magnify the Lord. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:46; Luke 1:68
How many generations does Matthew count from Abraham to David? Answer: Fourteen. Source: King James Version: Matthew 1:17
In Matthew, how did the angel of the Lord appear to Joseph? Answer: In a dream. Source: King James Version: Matthew 1:20
To which city of Galilee was the angel sent to Mary? Answer: Nazareth. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:26
To whom was Mary espoused? Answer: Joseph, of the house of David. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:27
What does the angel call Elisabeth when he speaks of her to Mary? Answer: Thy cousin. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:36
What happened to Zacharias because he did not believe the angel's words? Answer: He was dumb, and not able to speak. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:20; Luke 1:63-64
What was Zacharias's lot to do when he went into the temple of the Lord? Answer: To burn incense. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:9-10
Which angel was sent to Zacharias and to Mary? Answer: Gabriel. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:19; Luke 1:26
Which name did the angel give for the son of Zacharias? Answer: John. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:13; Luke 1:58-59
Who was the wife of the priest Zacharias? Answer: Elisabeth. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:5
With which words did the angel greet Mary? Answer: Hail, thou that art highly favoured. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:28

The journey, the birth and the temple, in Luke 16

After how many days was the child named JESUS? Answer: Eight days. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:21
The child was laid in a manger. What is a manger? Answer: A feeding trough. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:7
From whom did the decree go out that all the world should be taxed? Answer: Caesar Augustus. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:1-3
In Luke, to which city did Joseph and Mary return when all was performed? Answer: Nazareth. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:39
In what did Mary wrap her firstborn son? Answer: Swaddling clothes. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:7
In which town was Jesus born? Answer: Bethlehem. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:1; Luke 2:4-7
Luke names the tribe of the prophetess in the temple, the daughter of Phanuel. Which tribe? Answer: Aser. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:36
To which city was the child brought to be presented to the Lord? Answer: Jerusalem. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:22
What had been revealed to Simeon? Answer: That he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:25-26
What sacrifice does Luke 2 name at the presenting of the child? Answer: A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:24
Which just and devout man took the child up in his arms in the temple? Answer: Simeon. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:25-28
Which prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, gave thanks in the temple when the child was presented? Answer: Anna. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:36-38
Who was governor of Syria when the taxing was first made? Answer: Cyrenius. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:2
Why did Joseph go up to Bethlehem to be taxed? Answer: He was of the house and lineage of David. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:4
Why was the child laid in a manger? Answer: There was no room for them in the inn. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:7
With which words does Simeon begin when he blesses God in the temple? Answer: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:28-30

The shepherds and the angels 16

Finish the angel's words: "a Saviour, which is" what? Answer: Christ the Lord. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:11
Finish the words of the heavenly host: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth" what? Answer: Peace, good will toward men. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:14
How did the shepherds come to Bethlehem? Answer: With haste. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:16
How did the shepherds return? Answer: Glorifying and praising God. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:20
How did those who heard the shepherds take it? Answer: They wondered. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:18
How does Luke describe the shepherds when the angel came? Answer: They were sore afraid. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:9-10
To whom, said the angel, should the good tidings of great joy be? Answer: To all people. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:10
What did Mary do with all the things the shepherds told? Answer: She kept them, and pondered them in her heart. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:19
What did the shepherds do when they had seen the child? Answer: They made known abroad the saying told them. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:17
What did the shepherds say to one another when the angels were gone? Answer: Let us now go even unto Bethlehem. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:15
What shone round about the shepherds? Answer: The glory of the Lord. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:9
What sign was given to the shepherds? Answer: The babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:12
What was suddenly with the angel who spoke to the shepherds? Answer: A multitude of the heavenly host. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:13
What were the angel's first two words to the shepherds? Answer: Fear not. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:10
What were the shepherds doing in the field? Answer: Keeping watch over their flock by night. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:8
Whom did the shepherds find? Answer: Mary, and Joseph, and the babe. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:16

The wise men and the flight into Egypt, in Matthew 16

At what time did Joseph take the young child and his mother and depart? Answer: By night. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:14
From which direction did Matthew's visitors come to Jerusalem? Answer: From the east. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:1
How did the king in Jerusalem take the news the wise men brought? Answer: He was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:3
How did the wise men go back to their own country? Answer: Another way. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:12
In the days of which king did wise men come to Jerusalem? Answer: Herod. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:1
Into which country was Joseph told to flee with the young child and his mother? Answer: Egypt. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:13
To which city did the wise men come first? Answer: Jerusalem. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:8
Until when did Joseph, Mary and the young child stay in Egypt? Answer: Until the death of Herod. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:15
What did the king ask the wise men privily? Answer: What time the star appeared. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:7
What did the star do as the travelers left Jerusalem? Answer: It went before them and stood over where the young child was. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:9
What reason did the king give the wise men for wanting word of the child? Answer: That I may come and worship him also. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:8
Which question did the visitors from the east put in Jerusalem? Answer: Where is he that is born King of the Jews? Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:2
Which three gifts were presented to the young child? Answer: Gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:11
Who was reigning in Judaea when Joseph came back from Egypt? Answer: Archelaus. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:22
Whom did the king gather to ask where Christ should be born? Answer: The chief priests and scribes of the people. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:4-5
With what feeling did the travelers see the star again? Answer: They rejoiced with exceeding great joy. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:10

What the text does and does not say 16

How many angels come upon the shepherds first, before the multitude? Answer: One. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:9
How many times does the word "Christmas" stand in the King James Bible? Answer: Not once. Source: King James Version: Matthew 1; Luke 2
How many times does the word "stable" stand in Luke 2? Answer: Not once. Source: King James Version: Luke 2
How many wise men does Matthew say there were? Answer: He gives no number. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:1-12
In Luke 2:13, what is the heavenly host doing? Answer: Praising God, and saying. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:8-20
On what did Mary ride to Bethlehem, according to Luke? Answer: Luke does not say. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:4-5
What does Luke 2 say about an innkeeper? Answer: Nothing: no innkeeper is mentioned. Source: King James Version: Luke 2
What does Matthew call the child when the wise men arrive? Answer: The young child. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:11; Luke 2:16
What does Matthew call the visitors from the east? Answer: Wise men. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:1-12
What names does Matthew give the wise men? Answer: None. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:1-12
Where, in Matthew, did the wise men see the young child with Mary his mother? Answer: In the house. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:11
Which animals does Luke 2 place beside the manger? Answer: None are named there. Source: King James Version: Luke 2
Which Gospel tells of the manger? Answer: Luke only. Source: King James Version: Luke 2:7; Matthew 1; Matthew 2
Which Gospel tells of the star? Answer: Matthew only. Source: King James Version: Matthew 2:2; Luke 1; Luke 2
Which month or day does either Gospel give for the birth? Answer: Neither gives one. Source: King James Version: Matthew 1; Matthew 2; Luke 2
Who was told to call the child JESUS? Answer: Mary in Luke, and Joseph in Matthew. Source: King James Version: Luke 1:30-31; Matthew 1:20-21

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. Every question is answered from Matthew 1 and 2 or Luke 1 and 2. In the last round a word said to be missing was searched for in the whole passage named, in the same King James text. No question is asked about the church calendar or about any custom. 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