(In a later post I’ll
give out the correct answers, and explain what this is all about. But for now just see how many of these you
know the answer to. All quotations are
from the Today’s English Version.)
1. Besides David, who else killed Goliath?
2. In Deuteronomy 25, God commands the Israelites to “be
sure to kill all the Amalekites, so that no one will remember them
anymore. Do not forget!” Who finally fulfilled God’s command to kill all the
Amalekites? For a bonus point how are the Israelites related to the Amalekites?
3. In order to deflect attention from himself, Paul exploits
a secretarian division among his Jewish persecutors to get them fighting among
themselves instead. What two Jewish groups did Paul manage to pit against each
other, and what doctrines did they disagree on?
4. In military confrontations with the Israelites, the
Philistines enjoyed an advantage because they had a technology that the
Israelites did not. What technological advance did the Philistines have?
5. Jephthah made a deal with God to sacrifice something in
return for victory over the Ammonites. God accepts the bargain and gave him
victory. What did Jephthah have to sacrifice in return?
6. When was Jesus crucified in relation to the Passover meal?
7. In Deuteronomy 23, Moses says: “No Ammonite or Moabite—or
any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation—may be included among
the Lord’s people.” In Nehemiah 13, the same prohibition against Moabites and
Ammonites is repeated. When meeting Jewish men who had married women from Moab
or Ammon and had children with them, Nehemiah called down curses on them, beat
them, and pulled out their hair. And yet there is at least one Bible story
which contradicts this prohibition against mixing with Moabites. Which story is
it?
8. Laban agrees to give Jacob only the goats that are
speckled or spotted for Jacob’s wages. How does Jacob then manage to breed
streaked, speckled, and spotted goats? For a bonus point, how might this
contradict current scientific gene theory?
9. Before Saul, who was the first person to be declared King
of Israel?
10. God commands
Moses to go back to Egypt
from Midian and talk to Pharaoh. Moses agrees. At a camping place on the way to
Egypt Moses meets someone who tries (unsuccessfully) to kill him. Who tried to kill Moses at the camping place?
11. When Jesus was
near the city of Tyre,
a woman asked him to cure her daughter from demon possession. Jesus refused to help the woman or even talk
to her until his disciples intervened because she was making too much
noise. Why did Jesus initially refuse to
help the woman? For a bonus point, what animal did he compare her to?
12. Smiting. The Old
Testament God is famous for smiting people, while the New Testament God is
generally seen as kinder and gentler. However some people were still killed by
New Testament God. How many people did God kill in the New Testament, and who
were they?
13. The prophet Samuel tells King Saul, “Because you
rejected the Lord’s command, he has rejected you as king.” Some centuries
later, an unnamed prophet tells King Ahab, because you did this, “you will pay
for it with your life.” Both Saul and Ahab committed the same sin. What was it?
14. God ordered the Israelites to attack the Midianites. All
the Midianite men were killed, but the women and children were taken prisoners.
Moses was furious when he found out that his commanders had spared the woman
and children. What was done with the captured Midianite women and children?
15. The chief angel Michael and the Devil quarreled with
each other for possession of whose dead body? For a bonus point, where is this
in the Bible and why does it cause canonical problems Christians?
16. In the creation
story, in what order were animals, man, and woman created in relation to each
other?
17. Which book of the Bible never mentions God once, nor
makes any references to worshipping God?
18. Who were
swallowed up by the earth and went down to the land of the dead while they were
still living? For a bonus point, how might the location of the land of the dead
as described by the Bible contradict modern geology?
19. It has been Christian tradition to portray angels as
asexual, but what Bible verse indicates that the heavenly beings had a sexual
interest in human women?
20. After Jesus rose from the dead, where did he first meet
his disciples?
21. Who was the world’s first conqueror whose kingdom
included Babylon, Erech and Accad and who built
the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen?
22. According to Paul, what is a disgraceful thing for a
woman to do in a church meeting?
23. Paul writes, “when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him in public, because he
was clearly wrong.” Paul also writes, “The other Jewish brothers also started
acting like cowards along with Peter; and even Barnabas was swept along by
their cowardly action.” Why was Paul so upset with Peter? For a bonus point,
how does Paul’s account of this argument contradict the story in the book of
Acts?
(That’s all for
now. Although if you have any
interesting questions of your own, leave them in the comments section and I’ll
have a go at them.)
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3 comments:
These are tough trivia questions to pull off the top of my head. I feel like I know where to find the answers in the Bible, but I'm torn cuz this feels like cheating. Oh well, I was never good at trivia anyways.
Yes, granted some of these are pretty obscure...
I'll give out the answers in a separate post shortly
Update: Answers Here
http://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2014/03/bible-trivia-answers.html
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