Check Your BIBLE IQ!
Here’s an exciting collection of fifteen hundred questions designed to gauge your Bible IQ! Drawn from breadth of scripture—from Genesis to Revelation—and covering the fascinating and important details of God’s Word, Check Your Bible IQ promises hours of education and entertainment.
Questions range in difficulty from very easy to very hard—but because they’re presented in multiple-choice format, everybody has a chance of guessing even the toughest ones correctly.
Wording is based on the beloved and familiar King James Version of scripture, but fans of any Bible translation will enjoy the challenge of this book.
Answers begin on page 215.
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1. What’s the second thing God said in the Bible?
a) “Let there be light.”
b) “In the beginning. . .”
c) “Let us make man in our own image.”
d) “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.”
2. What did God make on the third day of creation?
a) people
b) plant life
c) light
d) fish
3. Which of these did God create on the fifth day?
a) plants
b) whales
c) land
d) all of the above
4. What does Genesis say God breathed into man’s nostrils?
a) “the wind”
b) “the breath of life”
5. What part of Adam did God use to create Eve?
a) a rib
b) a finger
c) “the Spirit of God”
d) “a new heart”
c) a kidney
d) some hair
6. What were Adam and Eve unashamed of in Eden?
a) eating the fruit
b) talking to a serpent
c) being naked
d) arguing with God
7. What did Eve add to God’s words regarding the forbidden fruit?
a) “lest ye die”
b) “neither shall ye touch it”
c) “then your eyes shall be opened”
d) “and ye shall be as gods”
8. Who was the first to eat the forbidden fruit?
a) Adam
b) the serpent
c) Eve
d) an angel with a flaming sword
9. Why was the fruit so tempting to Eve?
a) It looked good to eat.
b) She thought it would make her wise.
c) It was beautiful. d) all of the above
10. In Genesis 3, after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, what did God ask them first?
a) “What is this that thou hast done?”
b) “Where art thou?”
c) “Who told thee that thou wast naked?
d) “Hast thou eaten of the tree?”
11. What did God tell the serpent in Genesis 3:15?
a) “Cursed is the ground for thy sake.”
b) “It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
c) “For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
d) “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow.”
12. What did God say Eve’s punishment would be?
a) “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.”
b) “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.”
c) “Thy desire shall be to thy husband.”
d) all of the above
13. In Genesis 3, what did God say Adam’s punishment would be?
a) “I will appoint over thee terror, consumption, and a burning fever.”
b) “A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.”
c) “Cursed is the ground for thy sake.”
d) all of the above
14. What sprang up from the ground as a result of Adam’s sin?
a) thorns and thistles
b) the tree of knowledge of good and evil
c) a mist
d) the river Pison
15. What prevented Adam and Eve from reentering Eden?
a) a snake
b) a large tree
16. Who was Adam and Eve’s first son?
a) Cain
b) Abel
17. What was Cain’s sacrifice to God?
a) the fruit of the ground
b) baskets of grain
18. What was Abel’s sacrifice to God?
a) a bull
b) two doves
c) cherubim and a flaming sword
d) thorns and thistles
c) Seth
d) Enoch
c) a sweet-smelling savor
d) all of the above
c) fat from the firstborn of his flock
d) all of the above
19. What was Cain’s reaction when God rejected his sacrifice?
a) He was confused.
b) He was angry.
20. What warning did God offer Cain?
c) He ignored God.
d) He was sad.
a) “Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, lest thou be consumed.”
b) “If thou doest not save thou life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain.”
c) “Do not go up or fight, lest thou be struck before thou enemies.”
d) “If thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.”
21. How did Cain respond to his disappointment and anger?
a) He prostrated himself in prayer.
b) He purchased lambs from Abel.
c) He slew Abel.
d) He moved to Canaan.
22. What did God do to ensure Cain wouldn’t be killed?
a) set a mark on him
b) broke his hip
c) broke his legs
d) put out one of his eyes
23. Where did Cain go after committing his grave sin?
a) Nod
b) Eden
24. Who married two women, Adah and Zillah?
a) Noah
b) Lamech
25. Who lived 365 years and then. . .vanished?
a) Moses
b) Job
26. What does Genesis say happened to Enoch?
c) Shinar
d) Babylon
c) Jubal
d) Methuselah
c) Elijah
d) Enoch
a) He “lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. . .and he died.”
b) He “died in a good old age, an old man and full of years.”
c) God “buried him in a valley in the land of Moab.”
d) He “was not; for God took him.”
27. Who lived 969 years, the oldest recorded age in the Bible?
a) Abraham
b) Lamech
28. Which of these was Noah’s son?
a) Shem
b) Seth
c) Seth
d) Methuselah
c) Jephthah
d) all of the above
29. What mysterious group fell in love with the daughters of men, creating mighty men?
a) sons of Belial
b) sons of God
c) children of Baal
d) citizens of Nod
30. Why does Genesis say God decided to send a flood on the whole earth?
a) “Every man did what was right in his own eyes.”
b) “Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
c) “The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.”
d) “The earth was divided.”
31. How does Genesis 6 describe Noah?
a) “a mighty man of valor”
b) “the priest of the Most High God”
c) “a just man and perfect in his generations”
d) “a mighty hunter before the Lord”
32. What sin was especially rampant before the Flood?
a) violence
b) adultery
33. What type of wood was Noah’s ark made of?
a) fir
b) shittim
c) greed
d) lying
c) gopher
d) cedar
34. How long before the Flood did Noah start rounding up the animals?
a) 120 years
b) 6 years
c) 40 days
d) 7 days
35. What does Genesis 7 say caused the Flood?
a) The fountains of the deep were broken up.
b) The windows of heaven were opened.
c) The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
d) all of the above
36. How far above the highest hills did the floodwaters rise?
a) fifteen cubits
b) one mile
c) one cubit
d) the height of a man
37. According to Genesis 7:22, who died in the flood?
a) “all who understood law and judgment”
b) “all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land”
c) “all who were able to go forth to war”
d) “all who were able to put on armor”
38. How long were the floodwaters on the earth?
a) 1 year
b) 40 years
c) 150 days
d) 3 years
39. What method did God use to dry up the floodwaters?
a) fire from heaven
b) a wind
c) the earth opening up
d) all of the above
40. Which bird did Noah first send out of the ark to test the floodwaters’ height?
a) a dove
b) a raven
41. What did Noah do as soon as he left the ark?
a) He built a house.
b) He built a temple.
c) a sparrow
d) a pigeon
c) He built an altar.
d) He built a barn.
42. What was God’s first command to Noah after he left the ark?
a) “You shall keep my covenant, therefore, you and your descendants after you.”
b) “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”
c) “Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward.”
d) “Get out of your country. . .to a land that I will show you.”
43. What did God give as a symbol of His covenant not to flood the world again?
a) a snake on a pole
b) a dry fig tree
44. What was Noah’s vocation after the Flood?
a) carpenter
b) hunter
c) the rainbow
d) the cycles of the moon
c) tentmaker
d) farmer
45. Where was Noah lying drunk and naked when his sons found him?
a) a house
b) a field
46. Who saw Noah’s nakedness?
a) Cain
b) Ham
c) a cave
d) a tent
c) Jonathan
d) Noah
47. What did Noah say upon learning that one of his sons had seen him naked?
a) “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb.”
b) “What have you done?”
c) “What shall I do now to you, my son?”
d) “Cursed be Canaan.”
48. What man became a mighty hunter in the early years after the Flood?
a) Ichabod
b) Nimrod
c) Eglon
d) Mahershalalhashbaz
49. Who got his name because the earth was divided?
a) Japheth
b) Joktan
c) Peleg
d) Lud
50. Where did the post-Flood people assemble to build a tower?
a) “the face of the whole earth”
b) “the plain of Moreh”
c) “the Valley of Megiddo”
d) “a plain in the land of Shinar”
51. While building their tower, what did the people use for mortar?
a) sand
b) blood mingled with soil
c) mud
d) slime
52. What does Genesis 11 say the people’s motives were for building a tower?
a) “that we may live and not die”
b) “lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth”
c) “so we will no longer be a reproach”
d) “that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God”
53. What reason did God give for stopping the people from building the Tower of Babel?
a) “I. . .have heard their cry because of their taskmasters.”
b) “It grieves me that I have made them.”
c) “[Their] cry. . .is great, and because their sin is very grievous.”
d) “Nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
54. Who was Abram’s father?
a) Shem
b) Haran
55. What did God promise Abram in Genesis 12?
a) “I will make of thee a great nation.”
c) Nahor
d) Terah
b) “I will bless thee, and make thy name great.”
c) “I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee.”
d) all of the above
56. How old was Abram when he left his home country?
a) 600
b) 75
c) 120
d) 99
57. From where did Abram leave when God called him out?
a) Babylon
b) Haran
c) Canaan
d) Egypt
58. When he was in Egypt, what did Abram say Sarai was?
a) his slave
b) his niece
c) his sister
d) his mother
59. What famous parting words did Abram have for Lot in Genesis 13?
a) “Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone.”
b) “If thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
c) “Behold your wife, take her, and go your way.”
d) “Get up! You get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city.”
60. Toward what infamous city did Lot pitch his tent?
a) Ai
b) Sodom
c) Babylon
d) Gomorrah
61. After saying farewell to Lot, in what plain did Abram pitch his tent?
a) Moab
b) Mamre
c) Machpelah
d) Midian
62. Which mysterious king met Abram after a battle?
a) Ramses
b) Melchizedek
c) Og
d) Chedorlaomer
63. What did God say to Abram in a vision in Genesis 15?
a) “There shall come a Star out of Jacob.”
b) “Take your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground.”
c) “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you shall be slain.”
d) “I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.”
64. Who was Abram’s servant, who Abram feared would become his heir?
a) Hagar
b) Sarai
65. Who was Sarai’s handmaiden?
a) Dinah
b) Hagar
66. By what name was Hagar’s son called?
a) Isaac
b) Jacob
c) Ishmael
d) Eliezer
c) Tamar
d) Rahab
c) Ishmael
d) Laban
67. Which of these commands did God give Abram in Genesis 17?
a) “Be strong and of good courage.”
b) “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart.”
c) “I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.”
d) “Return into Egypt, for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
68. What does Genesis say would be the sign of God’s covenant with the renamed Abraham?
a) “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest.”
b) “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.”
c) “All that open the womb are mine, and every firstborn that is male among your cattle.”
d) “Every man child among you shall be circumcised.”
69. What was the renamed Sarah’s response to God’s promise of a son?
a) She sang a song.
b) She ran.
c) She told Abraham.
d) She laughed.
70. What did Abraham ask God upon learning of Sodom and Gomorrah’s doom?
a) “Why will you swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?”
b) “Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?”
c) “What will you do to your great name?”
d) “Will you slay also a righteous nation?”
71. In Genesis 19, what did a group of evil men tell Lot to do with his guests?
a) “You shall strike them and utterly destroy them.”
b) “Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.”
c) “Keep them alive with you.”
d) “Drive them out before you.”
72. Whom did Lot offer to turn over to the violent men of Sodom?
a) himself
b) his wife
73. What did Lot learn about Sodom’s fate?
a) The Lord would destroy it.
b) The Lord would not overthrow it.
c) his daughters
d) his guests
c) The Lord would not overthrow it for ten’s sake.
d) A famine would consume the land.
74. In what small city did Lot find refuge?
a) Zoar
b) Bethlehem
75. What rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah?
a) hailstones
b) brimstone
c) acid rain
d) all of the above
c) Ai
d) Shechem
76. What happened when Lot’s wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?
a) She was burned up.
b) She turned into a pillar of salt.
c) She was stoned to death.
d) She was cut into many pieces.
77. Where did a terrible incident involving Lot and his daughters take place?
a) atop a mountain
b) in a valley
c) in a cave
d) in a field
78. How did Abimelech, king of Gerar, discover that Sarah was Abraham’s wife?
a) in a dream
b) by casting lots
c) through an angel
d) through a prophet
79. How old was Abraham and Sarah’s son, Isaac, when he was circumcised?
a) forty days
b) thirteen years
80. How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?
a) ninety-nine
b) one hundred
c) seven years
d) eight days
c) seventy-six
d) fifty-seven
81. Whose son did Sarah see “mocking” Isaac, causing her to become enraged?
a) Ishmael’s
b) Hagar’s
82. What skill did Ishmael develop in adulthood?
a) public speaking
b) swordsmanship
c) Eliezer’s
d) Abimelech’s
c) archery
d) farming
83. What did Abraham and Abimelech argue over, before settling a matter in Beer-sheba?
a) Abraham’s wife
b) a well
c) a herd of cattle
d) land
84. How many lambs did Abraham set aside when he made a covenant with Abimelech?
a) twenty
b) many
c) seven
d) none
85. What did God tell Abraham to do to Isaac in Genesis 22?
a) carry him out and stone him
b) offer him as a burnt offering
c) bring him out so God could look at him
d) all of the above
86. In Genesis 22, what did Isaac ask of Abraham?
a) “Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
b) “How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
c) “Why have I not found favor in your sight?”
d) “Do I now have any power at all to say anything?”
87. What did Abraham tell Isaac about the planned sacrifice?
a) “My son, God will provide himself a lamb.”
b) “She that bare you shall be ashamed.”
c) “You have brought me very low.”
d) “I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I cannot go back.”
88. What animal did God ultimately provide for Abraham’s sacrifice?
a) a ram
b) an ox
c) a dove
d) a sheep
89. What did God say He found out about Abraham?
a) “I know that thou are a man of God.”
b) “I know that thou are good in my sight.”
c) “I know that thou fearest God.”
d) “I know that thou will not yet fear the Lord God.”
90. From whom did Abraham purchase a place for Sarah’s burial?
a) the sons of Heth
b) the sons of Korah
c) the sons of Cain
d) the sons of Jacob
91. As part of a covenant ceremony, where did Abraham ask his servant to place his hand?
a) on his shoe
b) on his head
c) under his thigh
d) beneath his arm
92. In Genesis 24, what words let Abraham’s servant know which woman would marry Isaac?
a) “I will draw water for thy camels also.”
b) “What man is this who walks in the field to meet us?”
c) “Come in, you blessed by the Lord.”
d) “We have both straw and feed enough and room to lodge in.”
93. What was Isaac doing when he saw Rebekah for the first time?
a) meditating in his field
b) tilling his field
94. Who was Rebekah’s brother?
a) Napthali
b) Esau
95. Who was Abraham’s wife after Sarah’s death?
a) Milcah
b) Keturah
96. How old was Abraham when he died?
a) 75
b) 120
97. Where were Abraham and Sarah buried?
a) by the Jordan River
b) in a cave at Machpelah
c) harvesting grain in his field
d) praying loudly in his field
c) Laban
d) Haran
c) Rahab
d) Judith
c) 175
d) 930
c) under a tree in Ramah
d) by a well in the city of Nahor
98. How old was Isaac when he married Rebekah?
a) thirteen
b) twenty-nine
c) forty
d) sixty-seven
99. What did Isaac and Rebekah’s son Esau give to his twin, Jacob, in exchange for some stew?
a) two wives
b) twenty rams
100. What was Esau’s alternative name?
a) Israel
b) Jerubbaal
c) his firstborn
d) his birthright
c) Edom
d) Perez
101. What color was Jacob’s stew that Esau craved?
a) red
b) yellow
c) brown
d) white
102. Where was Isaac when, like his father before him, he lied about his wife being his sister?
a) Gerar
b) Egypt
c) Haran
d) Gath
103. To whom did Isaac unknowingly give his blessing?
a) Abraham
b) Rebekah
c) Jacob
d) Esau
104. What did Rebekah say about the consequences of Jacob’s trickery toward Esau?
a) “Now you are cursed from the earth.”
b) “By your sword you shall live and shall serve your brother.”
c) “Upon me be thy curse.”
d) “You are cursed with a curse.”
105. What convinced Isaac that his son Jacob was actually Esau?
a) his voice
b) the taste of his stew
c) the goat hair on his hands
d) his words
106. What did Esau say when he learned of Jacob’s trickery?
a) “I have made him your lord.”
b) “On me be your curse.”
c) “Bless me, even me also.”
d) “Did you not hate me and expel me out of my father’s house?”
107. What did Esau do immediately after Jacob’s deception?
a) tried to kill him
b) waited for his father’s death in order to kill him
c) forgave him
d) ran away
108. Where did Jacob go to take a wife?
a) the land of Midian
b) Padan-aram
c) Egypt
d) Assyria
109. From which forbidden people group had Esau taken two wives?
a) the daughters of Jacob
b) the daughters of Canaan
c) the daughters of Abimelech
d) the daughters of Jericho
110. In a dream, what did Jacob see stretching to heaven?
a) a pillar of fire
b) a single angel
c) a tower
d) a ladder
111. What did Jacob say after a “hard” night’s sleep in Bethel?
a) “I am going the way of all the earth.”
b) “I am weary of my life.”
c) “What has God done!”
d) “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.”
112. What bargain did Jacob make with God right after sleeping on a stone?
a) “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”
b) “Of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.”
c) “Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you. . .not spare the place?”
d) “Give to me a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life.”
113. Who was Rachel’s sibling, who became an unwilling participant in their father’s devious scheme?
a) Laban
b) Leah c) Lot d) Lemuel
114. What agreement did Jacob make with his uncle Laban?
a) “I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.”
b) “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
c) “Let me find grace in your eyes, and what you shall say to me I will give.”
d) “I will deliver to you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.”
115. How long did Jacob end up working for Rachel?
a) one week
b) fourteen years
c) ten years
d) forty years
116. What did Jacob say to Laban after he was hoodwinked into marrying Leah?
a) “What is this thou hast done unto me?”
b) “Let me go, for you know my service that I have done for you.”
c) “What shall I give you?”
d) “I will lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt.”
117. What urgent demand did Rachel make of Jacob in Genesis 30?
a) “Give me a blessing.”
b) “Give me, I ask you, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.”
c) “Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever you have.”
d) “Give me children, or else I die.”
118. In Genesis 30, what did Rachel say after she finally had a son?
a) “God hath taken away my reproach.”
b) “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed.”
c) “With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed.”
d) “God has given me my wages.”
119. During his strange goat-breeding experiment, what did Jacob do with various tree branches?
a) hurled them into the water
b) broke them in two
c) peeled them
d) sharpened their edges
120. What type of goat was born after Jacob’s unusual program?
a) striped
b) spotted
c) speckled
d) all of the above
121. On what animals did Jacob and his family ride while leaving Laban?
a) cows
b) camels
122. What did Rachel steal from her father, Laban?
a) his son
b) his farming tools
c) donkeys
d) goats
c) his gold
d) his household gods
123. What did Rachel say to stop Laban from discovering her theft?
a) “I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me.”
b) “What is my trespass? What is my sin that you have so hotly pursued after me?”
c) “Why should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you?”
d) “Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
124. What did Jacob and Laban make as a sign of the covenant they made together?
a) a trench
b) an altar to God
c) a heap of stones
d) a wooden pole
125. With how many men did Esau come out to meet Jacob?
a) seven thousand
b) four hundred
c) six hundred thousand
d) thirty
126. What was Jacob’s response when he heard about Esau’s “army”?
a) relief
b) distress
c) sadness
d) anger
127. What did Jacob do with a mysterious stranger the night before he met Esau?
a) drank wine
b) wrestled
c) prayed
d) built an altar
128. What did Jacob’s wrestling partner say when asked for his name?
a) “The Lord God of your fathers. . . . This is my name forever.”
b) “I Am ThAT I Am.”
c) “Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?”
d) all of the above
129. What did Jacob call the place where he wrestled with the stranger?
a) Massah
b) Taberah
c) Peniel
d) Kibroth-hattaavah
130. What was Jacob’s alternate name?
a) Israel
b) Jerubbaal
c) Joshua
d) Ishmael
131. What did Esau do when he saw his brother Jacob coming to him?
a) He embraced him, fell on his neck, and kissed him.
b) He covered his face and cried with a loud voice.
c) He sought to kill him.
d) He fled with all that he had.
132. Who was the unfortunate object of Shechem the Hivite’s lust?
a) Dinah
b) Tamar
c) Rahab
d) Rebekah
133. What command did Jacob give his household in Genesis 35?
a) “You must eat unleavened bread seven days.”
b) “Put away the strange gods that are among you.”
c) “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. And make an altar there to God.”
d) “Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.”
134. Who gave Benjamin the name Ben-oni?
a) Issachar
b) Reuben
c) Jacob
d) Rachel
135. How old was Joseph when his story began in Genesis 37?
a) seventeen
b) seventy-five
c) eight
d) twenty-nine
136. What celestial dream did Joseph have?
a) The sun and the moon stood still.
b) God made two great lights and the stars.
c) The sun and moon and eleven stars bowed down.
d) The earth trembled and the heavens dropped.
137. What was the response of young Joseph’s brothers when he told them about his dream?
a) “I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream.”
b) “Shalt thou indeed reign over us?”
c) “I will go down into the grave mourning.”
d) “Do not shed blood.”
138. What did Joseph’s jealous brothers initially plan to do with him?
a) slay him and cast him into a pit
b) cast him into a pit but not harm him
c) sell him to the Ishmaelites
d) bow down to him
139. What lie did Joseph’s brothers tell about his fate?
a) “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
b) “An evil beast hath devoured him.”
c) “A lion met him on the road and slew him.”
d) “He fell on his sword.”
