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Easy
These turn on something stated outright in the text. If you have read the book, you have met the answer.
Who was swallowed by a great fish?
- Noah
- Jonah — correct
- Moses
- Peter
Answer: Jonah
Jonah 1:17. He is inside the great fish for three days and three nights, and the prayer in chapter 2 is said from there. Noah has the ark and the flood, Moses the basket in the reeds — three water stories that children often blend together, but only one of them has the fish.
What did David use to defeat Goliath?
- A sword
- A bow
- A spear
- A sling and a stone — correct
Answer: A sling and a stone
1 Samuel 17:40. He refuses Saul's armour, picks five smooth stones from the brook, and brings Goliath down with one of them from the sling. The sword only appears afterwards, and it is Goliath's own — David has none of his own at that point in the story.
Who was thrown into the den of lions?
- Daniel — correct
- Joseph
- Elijah
- Samson
Answer: Daniel
Daniel 6. Darius signs an edict he cannot revoke, Daniel keeps praying at his window anyway, and the lions leave him alone through the night. Joseph is thrown into a pit by his brothers in Genesis 37 — a different book, a different hole in the ground, no lions.
How many days and nights did it rain in the flood story?
- Seven
- Twelve
- Forty — correct
- One hundred
Answer: Forty
Genesis 7:12 — forty days and forty nights of rain. Forty is a number the Bible reaches for again and again: forty years in the wilderness, forty days for Moses on the mountain, forty days of fasting in the Gospels. It usually marks a long stretch of testing rather than a counted total.
Medium
These need a detail held in place — a name, a sequence, a number that only means something next to another number.
Which sea did the people cross when they left Egypt?
- The Dead Sea
- The Sea of Galilee
- The Mediterranean
- The Red Sea — correct
Answer: The Red Sea
Exodus 14. The people cross at the sea the Hebrew calls yam suph, usually rendered Red Sea, with Egypt's chariots behind them. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee are both inland lakes far to the north-east, nowhere near any route out of Egypt.
How many plagues struck Egypt?
- Seven
- Ten — correct
- Twelve
- Three
Answer: Ten
Exodus 7–12 gives ten: the Nile turned to blood, frogs, gnats, flies, livestock, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn. It is the tenth that finally moves Pharaoh, and the night it happens is the night Passover is instituted in Exodus 12.
Who was the strong man whose hair was cut?
- Saul
- Goliath
- Samson — correct
- Elijah
Answer: Samson
Judges 16. Samson's strength belongs to a Nazirite vow made before his birth, and the uncut hair is the visible sign of that vow rather than the source of the strength itself. When Delilah has it cut, what he loses is the vow — the text says the Lord had left him.
What food did God provide in the wilderness?
- Manna — correct
- Barley
- Figs
- Fish
Answer: Manna
Exodus 16. Each morning a fine flaky substance covers the ground, and the people ask one another 'man hu' — 'what is it?' The name sticks. They gather it daily, twice as much before the sabbath, and it will not keep overnight on any other day.
Hard
These turn on what the evidence actually supports, which is not always what the story is remembered as saying.
How many stones did David take from the brook?
- Three
- One
- Five — correct
- Seven
Answer: Five
1 Samuel 17:40 — he takes five and uses one. It is the detail most people misremember, and the extra four are worth noticing: 2 Samuel 21 mentions four more Philistine giants, which some readers connect to the count, though the text never makes that link itself.
Which queen travelled to visit Solomon?
- The Queen of Sheba — correct
- Queen Esther
- Queen Jezebel
- Queen Athaliah
Answer: The Queen of Sheba
1 Kings 10. The queen of Sheba arrives with a very great caravan of spices, gold and precious stones, to test Solomon with hard questions. Esther is a Persian queen centuries later; Jezebel and Athaliah are queens in Israel and Judah, and neither travels to Solomon.
On which mountain did Moses receive the commandments?
- Carmel
- Nebo
- Zion
- Sinai — correct
Answer: Sinai
Exodus 19–20. The law is given at Sinai, called Horeb in Deuteronomy. Nebo is the mountain Moses climbs at the very end of Deuteronomy to see the land he will not enter; Carmel belongs to Elijah's contest with the prophets of Baal, centuries later.
Who was the first king of Israel?
- David
- Saul — correct
- Solomon
- Samuel
Answer: Saul
1 Samuel 10. Saul is anointed by Samuel and then chosen publicly by lot, hiding among the baggage when his name comes up. Samuel himself is a judge and a prophet, never a king; David is Israel's second king, and Solomon its third.
What this quiz draws on
Books in play: 1 Samuel, Daniel, Exodus, Jonah. Each of those leads to what the book contains, who has been proposed as its author, and how it is dated.
Themes: People and places.
Answers here are drawn from the biblical text and, where an external record bears on the question, from the artefact or publication that carries it. How this site reads a text and how this site is written set out the rules, so you can check the reasoning rather than take the answer on trust.