Messianic prophecies in Genesis

1) One of the first Messianic prophecies in the bible states that God would put enmity between the serpent and the descendants of Eve. Where was this prophecy uttered?

a) Nod

b) Outside the Garden of Eden

c) Inside the Garden of Eden

d) The bible does not say where it is uttered

2) Fill in the blank: The Messiah will bruise the serpent’s ____ and the serpent will bruise the Messiah’s ____.

a) Heel, head

b) Head, heel

c) Head, hand

d) Body, hand

3) In Genesis 12, God says in you will all the nations be blessed. Who is God referring to when He said “you”?

a) Isaac

b) Jacob

c) Israel

d) Abraham

4) Jesus is a high priest after the order of which Old Testament priest?

a) Abraham

b) Aaron

c) Melchizedek

d) Levi

5) The king of Salem brought out what food that Jesus used to illustrate Himself in the Gospel of Matthew?

a) Bread and wine

b) Fish and bread

c) Bread and fish

d) Wine and water

6) What animal did Abraham say God would provide for a burnt offering when he was about to sacrifice Isaac?

a) Goat

b) Lamb

c) Ram

d) Abraham did not say anything

7) In Genesis 22, God said all nations would be blessed by the descendants of Abraham because he did what?

a) He worshiped the one true God

b) He obeyed the voice of God

c) He wrestled with God

d) He did nothing

8) In Genesis 26, there was a famine in the land so a descendent of Abraham attempted to travel elsewhere. The Lord stopped him and reiterated the promise given to Abraham, that all nations would be blessed through his descendants. Who was this man?

a) Isaac

b) Jacob

c) Ishmael

d) Israel

9) Fill in the blank: Before Jacob died, he prophesied about his sons. He said the _____ would not depart from Judah until someone came.

a) Crown

b) Throne

c) Staff

d) Scepter

10) It would only depart from Judah when who came?

a) Ariel

b) Shiloh

c) Immanuel

d) The Prince of Peace

Biblical Cities – New Testament 3

1) Where was Jesus from?

a) Nazareth

b) Bethlehem

c) Capernaum

d) Jerusalem

2) Where was Paul imprisoned and his cell door opened by an earthquake?

a) Antioch

b) Berea

c) Philippi

d) Thessalonica

3) Paul had a confrontation with Peter over refusing to eat with gentiles in what city?

a) Jerusalem

b) Ephesus

c) Damascus

d) Antioch of Syria

4) Mary anointed the feet of Jesus with expensive spikenard (ointment) in what city?

a) Capernaum

b) Bethsaida

c) Bethany

d) Jericho

5) Where was Stephen stoned?

a) Cana

b) Jerusalem

c) Capernaum

d) Bethany

6) The Lord told Paul that he would bear witness of Him in what city?

a) Rome

b) Athens

c) Damascus

d) Jerusalem

7) In what city did Jesus cure a blind man by spitting in his eyes and laying hands on him?

a) Jericho

b) Bethsaida

c) Capernaum

d) Nain

8) A voice asked “Saul Saul why do you persecute Me?” Where was Saul traveling to when this happened?

a) Jerusalem

b) Gaza

c) Damascus

d) Caesarea

9) In what city did the Holy Spirit come at Pentecost?

a) Bethany

b) Cana

c) Shiloh

d) Jerusalem

10) Herod ordered the children of what city killed in an effort to kill Jesus?

a) Bethlehem

b) Nazareth

c) Cana

d) Jerusalem

Biblical Cities – New Testament 2

1) According to the Gospel of John, what city were the disciples headed towards when Jesus walked on water towards their boat?

a) Capernaum

b) Bethsaida

c) Tiberias

d) Magdala

2) Peter (through Christ) healed Aeneas a man who had been paralyzed for 8 yrs in what city?

a) Ephesus

b) Lydda

c) Emmaus

d) Joppa

3) What city are the apostles Philip, Andrew, and Peter from?

a) Bethsaida

b) Jerusalem

c) Capernaum

d) Magdala

4) In what city in the Book of Acts, does James state that gentile Christians only need to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood?

a) Damascus

b) Antioch of Pisidia

c) Tarsus

d) Jerusalem

5) Where were early believers first called Christians?

a) Cana

b) Jerusalem

c) Antioch of Syria

d) Antioch of Pisidia

6) The people of which city were praised for searching the scriptures to see if the words Paul spoke to them were true?

a) Bethlehem

b) Bethany

c) Berea

d) Bethsaida

7) Claudius commanded all Jews to leave what city?

a) Athens

b) Rome

c) Tyre

d) Damascus

8) What city did Jesus go to when He raised Lazarus from the dead?

a) Emmaus

b) Caperaum

c) Nain

d) Bethany

9) In what city did the Holy Spirit, using Paul, blind a conjurer who was seeking to sway a proconsul away from the gospel?

a) Paphos

b) Syracuse

c) Corinth

d) Salamis

10) Where did Peter have the vision of clean and unclean foods?

a) Caesarea

b) Gaza

c) Joppa

d) Azotus

         

Biblical Cities – New Testament 1

1) A Jew named Apollos eloquently preached the gospel. What city did he come from?

a) Athens

b) Bethany

c) Alexandria

d) Emmaus

2) What city was Jesus born in?

a) Capernaum

b) Bethlehem

c) Jerusalem

d) Nazareth

3) In what city is the gospel first preached?

a) Bethlehem

b) Shiloh

c) Nazareth

d) Jerusalem

4) Those who practiced the “curious arts” burned their books in which city?

a) Caesarea

b) Thessalonica

c) Ephesus

d) Athens

5) The first epistle in the new testament is written to the citizens of what city?

a) Rome

b) Ephesus

c) Philippi

d) Colosse

6) Jesus healed Blind Bartimeus,  the son of Timeus, outside of what city?

a) Capernaum

b) Jericho

c) Bethsaida

d) Capernaum

7) Jews from what city stoned Paul and threw him out of the city, supposing he was dead?

a) Antioch of Pisidia

b) Ephesus

c) Damascus

d) Jerusalem

8) In what city was Jesus asked if He paid the temple tax, and then directed Peter to get a coin from the mouth of a fish?

a) Capernaum

b) Chorazin

c) Nazareth

d) Jerusalem

9) The First Epistle of Peter (1 Peter) was written in which city?

a) Ephesus

b) Athens

c) Damascus

d) Babylon

10) Where was the apostle Paul from?

a) Damascus

b) Tarsus

c) Ephesus

d) Bethany

Seconds Count

1) Who is the second woman mentioned in the bible?

a) Adah

b) Cain’s wife

c) Zillah

d) The daughters of men

2) What is the second talking animal mentioned in the bible?

a) The serpent

b) A raven

c) Balaam’s donkey

d) Saul’s donkey

3) Who is the second oldest man in the bible?

a) Jared

b) Mahalaleel

c) Enos

d) Cainan

4) What was the second plague in Egypt?

a) Locusts

b) Lice

c) Hail

d) Frogs

5) Who was the second killer mentioned in the bible?

a) Moses

b) Levi

c) Zimri

d) Lamech

6) Who was the second judge in the Israelites?

a) Gideon

b) Shamgar

c) Ehud

d) Deborah

7) Who was the second king of Israel?

a) David

b) Solomon

c) Rehoboam

d) Ishbosheth

8) What was the second miracle of Jesus? 

a) Healing the son of a nobleman

b) Healing Peter’s mother in law

c) Cleanses the leper

d) Healing the paralytic man

9) Who was the second Christian martyr mentioned in the Book of Acts?

a) Stephen

b) Bartholomew

c) James

d) Matthias

10) What is the second church mentioned in 7 churches listed in Revelation?

a) Pergamos

b) Thyatira

c) Smyrna

d) Laodicea

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Firsts – Old Testament

1) Who was the first son born to Israel?

a) Judah

b) Reuben

c) Simeon

d) Zebulun

2) What was the first plague in Egypt?

a) Changing the river into blood

b) Invasion of frogs

c) Infestation of flies

d) Invasion of locusts

3) What stone was among the three stones in the first row of the ephod Aaron wore?

a) Agate

b) Topaz

c) Sapphire

d) Emerald

4) Who was the first judge of Israel?

a) Ehud

b) Shamgar

c) Gideon

d) Othniel

5) What was the first city the Israelites defeated in Canaan?

a) Ai

b) Hebron

c) Jericho

d) Gilgal

6) Who was the first king of Judah after Israel was divided into 2 kingdoms?

a) Jeroboam

b) Solomon

c) Rehoboam

d) Abijah

7) Who built the first temple in Jerusalem?

a) Solomon

b) David

c) Ezra

d) Rehoboam

8) Who was the first King of Israel?

a) Gideon

b) Saul

c) Ishbosheth

d) David

9) Who was the first wife of David?

a) Abigail

b) Maacah

c) Ahinoam

d) Michal

10) Who speaks first in the Song of Solomon after the title and attribution to Solomon?

a) Solomon

b) The Shulamite

c) The Daughters of Jerusalem

d) There is only one speaker

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Genealogies

1) Lamech, who is the first man mentioned in the bible with multiple wives, is listed in which genealogy?

a) Adam

b) Cain

c) 1 Chronicles

d) He is not listed in any genealogy

2) In the genealogy of Noah, Canaan is listed as the son of which of Noah’s sons?

a) Japheth

b) Shem

c) Cush

d) Ham

3) In the genealogy of Adam, the grandfather of Noah is known for what?

a) Walked with God then was not

b) Being very righteous

c) Being the longest lived man

d) He had no special significance

4) Ruth and Boaz had a son. He is the grandfather of which prominent bible figure?

a) Eli

b) Samuel

c) Saul

d) David

5) David’s son Absalom was the born of which woman?

a) Maachah

b) Michal

c) Bathsheba

d) Abigail

6) In the genealogies in 1 Chronicles, Samuel is listed in the descendents of Kohath, who is the son of which of the sons of Israel?

a) Reuben

b) Levi

c) Asher

d) Issachar

7) In the genealogies in 1 Chronicles, Saul is listed as a descendent of which of the sons of Israel?

a) Benjamin

b) Judah

c) Levi

d) Dan

8) According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus is descended from which son of Israel?

a) Benjamin

b) Simeon

c) Naphtali

d) Judah

9) True or False: Solomon is listed in one of the genealogies of Jesus

a) False

b) True

10) How many women are mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus as written in the Gospel of Matthew?

a) 0

b) 2

c) 4

d) 5

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The Apostles

1) Who was the publican (tax collector)?

a) Matthew

b) Simon

c) Philip

d) James

2) Who were the sons of thunder?

a) Simon and Andrew

b) Philip and Thomas

c) Bartholomew and Peter

d) James and John

3) Which of the original 12 apostles had a wife who was mentioned in the bible?

a) John

b) James

c) Peter

d) Andrew

4) Which of these apostles was a fisherman by occupation in the bible?

a) Andrew

b) Philip

c) Thomas

d) Simon the Zealot (Zelotes)

5) Which 3 apostles were present at the transfiguration?

a) Andrew, Philip, John

b) Peter, James, and John

c) Peter, Andrew, John

d) James, Thomas, Philip

6) Who denied Jesus 3 times?

a) Andrew

b) John

c) James

d) Peter

7) Who replaced Judas after being chosen by casting lots?

a) Matthias

b) Barsabas

c) Stephen

d) Thomas

8) Who attempted to walk on water to reach Jesus?

a) Bartholomew

b) Andew

c) Peter

d) John

9) Who had a vision about unclean foods?

a) John

b) Philip

c) Matthew

d) Peter

10) According to the Gospel of Luke which apostle ran to the tomb of Jesus to see for themselves that the tomb was empty?

a) John

b) Peter

c) James

d) Thomas

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Names for Jerusalem

1) The prophet Isaiah writes about the multitude of nations that go against Jerusalem. He calls the city by which name?

a) Azal

b) Zion

c) Shalom

d) Ariel

2) In 2 Samuel, Jerusalem is called the city of which bible figure?

a) Solomon

b) David

c) Jesus

d) Abraham

3) Fill in the blank: In Lamentations, Jerusalem is called the ____ of the whole earth.

a) Hope

b) Joy

c) Despair

d) Center

4) Which prophet calls Jerusalem, The city of righteousness, the faithful city?

a) Isaiah

b) Jeremiah

c) Amos

d) Nahum

5) Which prophet calls Jerusalem The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel?

a) Habakkuk

b) Micah

c) Isaiah

d) Ezekiel

6) Fill in the blank: In Lamentations, Jerusalem, is referred to as the perfection of _____.

a) Beauty

b) The Lord

c) His salvation

d) Peace

7) Which prophet says Jerusalem will be called 'The LORD is our righteousness'?

a) Malachi

b) Hosea

c) Jeremiah

d) Isaiah

8) When the Lord returns, Jerusalem will be called a city of truth, according to which prophet?

a) Haggai

b) Habakkuk

c) Zechariah

d) Zephaniah

9) In the description of a future temple, the prophet Ezekiel states that Jerusalem will be known by a new name. What is that name?

a) City of peace

b) Hope of the world

c) The throne of the King

d) The Lord is there

10) Fill in the blank: In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells people not to swear by earth or His footstool, nor by Jerusalem for it is the city of ______.

a) David

b) Of the great King

c) Redemption

d) The throne of God

Fathers and Sons

1) Who is the father of Methusaleh

a) Lamech

b) Jared

c) Enoch

d) Enos

2) Who is the father of King Saul

a) Kish

b) Nadab

c) Gedor

d) Zacher

3) Who is the father of Joshua

a) Achan

b) Nun

c) Othniel

d) Caleb

4) Name the 3 sons of Noah

a) Shem, Cush, and Ham

b) Ham, Cush, and Japheth

c) Japheth, Shem, and Cush

d) Shem, Ham, and Japheth

5) Phinehas is the son of which well known priest?

a) Eli

b) Aaron

c) Samuel

d) Ichabod

6) Who is the father of Jesse, the father of David

a) Boaz

b) Kish

c) Obed

d) Salmon

7) Who is the father of John the Baptist

a) Zechariah

b) Zephaniah

c) Zebulun

d) Zacharias

8) Who is the father of Jonathan?

a) Samuel

b) Saul

c) Abimelech

d) David

9) Who was the father of Absalom?

a) David

b) Saul

c) Jonathan

d) Abimelech

10) Who is one of the sons of Joseph in the book of Genesis?

a) Naphali

b) Gad

c) Ephraim

d) Zebulun

Firsts – Genesis Hard

1) Who was the first shepherdess?

a) Cain’s wife

b) Rachel

c) Leah

d) Rebekkah

2) Who was the first shepherd?

a) Adam

b) Noah

c) Abel

d) Cain

3) Who is the first hunter mentioned in the bible?

a) Cain

b) Nimrod

c) Lamech

d) Jubal

4) Whose sacrifice to the Lord is first mentioned in the bible?

a) Cain

b) Abel

c) Adam

d) Eve

5) Who is the first metal craftsman?

a) Jubal

b) Jabal

c) Lamech

d) Tubal Cain

6) Abimelach has the first dream in the bible. What was it about?

a) That he would bow to Joseph

b) Seven years of famine

c) That he would die for taking another man’s wife

d) That Pharaoh would kill him in 3 days

7) Who was the first prisoner of war?

a) Terah

b) Lot

c) Chedorlaomer

d) Nahor

8) The first time land is bought in the bible, what is the land to be used for?

a) For a burial

b) As a pasture for sheep

c) To farm

d) As a vineyard

9) What is the first metal mentioned in the bible?

a) Iron

b) Bronze

c) Silver

d) Gold

10) What is the first city mentioned in the bible?

a) Enoch

b) Babel

c) Sodom

d) Gomorrah

Firsts – Genesis

1) Who was (were) the first exile(s) in the bible?

a) Cain

b) Adam and Eve

c) Noah

d) The people at Babel

2) Who was the first murderer?

a) Moses

b) Lamech

c) Cain

d) Esau

3) Who planted the first vineyard mentioned in the bible?

a) Abel

b) Noah

c) Adam

d) Seth

4) What was the first commandment in the bible?

a) Be fruitful and multiply

b) Do not eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

c) Do not eat from the Tree of Life

d) Subdue the earth

5) Who told the first lie? the serpent

a) Adam

b) Eve

c) Cain

d) The serpent

6) What was the first clothing made of?  

a) Animal skins

b) Woven grass

c) Linen

d) Fig leaves

7) Who is the first child mentioned in the bible?

a) Abel

b) Seth

c) Cain

d) Unnamed daughter

8) Who is the first priest mentioned in the bible?

a) Melchezidek

b) Enoch

c) Abraham

d) Abel

9) What is the first animal that left the ark?

a) Raven

b) Dove

c) Eagle

d) Vulture

10) Who was the first drunk in the bible?

a) Lamech

b) Abimelech

c) Noah

d) Cain

Firsts – New Testament

1) Who was the first Christian martyr?

a) Stephen

b) James

c) Matthias

d) Timon

2) Who was the first person to fall asleep during a sermon? 

a) Nicholas

b) Eutychus

c) Prochorus

d) Onesimus

3) What is the first miracle of Jesus?

a) Healing Simon Peter’s mother in law

b) Healing the son of a royal official

c) Freeing a man in Capernaum from demon possession

d) Changing water into wine in Cana

4) Who were the first foreign missionaries in the New Testament?

a) Barnabas and Saul

b) Paul and Luke

c) Saul and Timothy

d) Paul, Priscilla, and Aquila

5) Who was the first disciple called by Jesus?

a) John

b) James

c) Simon Peter

d) Matthew

6) Where were the disciples first called Christians?

a) Jerusalem

b) Damascus

c) Thessalonica

d) Antioch

7) What  is the first temptation of Christ?

a) Make bread out of stones

b) Tempting the Lord by leaping off the temple

c) Worship someone other than God

d) Breaking His fast

8) According to the Gospel of Matthew, who are the first group in the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus says are blessed?

a) They that mourn

b) The meek

c) The pure in heart

d) The poor in spirit

9) According to the Gospel of Matthew, who were the first people at the tomb after He rose?

a) Mary Magalene and Martha

b) Mary Magdalene and Mary

c) Joanna and Mary

d) Mary Magdalene and Joanna

10) According to the Gospel of Mark, who was the first to see the risen Jesus?

a) Peter

b) Mary Magdalene

c) Joanna and Mary

d) Peter and James

Last Lines Challenge Accepted!

1) What book in the bible ends with: 

And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

a) Isaiah

b) Nahum

c) Malachi

d) Revelation

2) What book in the bible ends with: 

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

a) Joel

b) Hosea

c) Haggai

d) Zechariah

3) What book in the bible ends with: 

And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

a) Joshua

b) 1 Chronicles

c) 1 Samuel

d) 2 Kings

4) What book in the bible ends with: 

And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

a) Ezra

b) Jeremiah

c) Daniel

d) Nehemiah

5) What book in the bible ends with: 

And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

a) Amos

b) Malachi

c) Nehemiah

d) Obadiah

6) What book in the bible ends with: 

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

a) Ephesians

b) James

c) 1 John

d) 2 Thessalonians

7) What book in the bible ends with: 

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

a) Psalms

b) Lamentations

c) Nahum

d) Habakkuk

8) What book in the bible ends with: 

Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

a) Hebrews

b) Ezra

c) 2 Kings

d) Micah

9) What book in the bible ends with: 

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

a) Mark

b) John

c) Acts

d) Romans

10) What book in the bible ends with: 

At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.

a) Nahum

b) Malachi

c) Zephaniah

d) Isaiah

First Lines Challenge Accepted!

1) What book in the bible begins with:

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

a) 1 Samuel

b) Nehemiah

c) 2 Kings

d) Obadiah

2) What book in the bible begins with:

These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

a) Joshua

b) Numbers

c) Leviticus

d) Deuteronomy

3) What book in the bible begins with:

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

a) Colossians

b) 1 Corinthians

c) 1 Thessalonians

d) Titus

4) What book in the bible begins with:

Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

a) Numbers

b) 1 Chronicles

c) 2 Chronicles

d) 1 Samuel

5) What book in the bible begins with:

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

a) 2 Kings

b) 2 Chronicles

c) Ezra

d) Jeremiah

6) What book in the bible begins with:

The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

a) 2 Peter

b) Philemon

c) 2 John

d) Colossians

7) What book in the bible has as its second verse:

I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

a) Amos

b) Hosea

c) Malachi

d) Zephaniah

8) What book in the bible begins with:

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

a) Numbers

b) Joshua

c) Deuteronomy

d) Judges

9) What book in the bible has as its second verse:

And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

a) Nahum

b) Amos

c) Jeremiah

d) Haggai

10) What book in the bible has as its second verse:

And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:

a) Philemon

b) Titus

c) 1 Peter

d) Philippians