Bible Trivia
Bible Trivia
1. Where did the Pharisees claim Jesus got his power from?
Answer: Beelzebub
See: Matthew 12:24
2. Concerning which disciple did the rumor spread that he would not die?
Answer: John
See: John 21:23
7. In the parable, what did the servant whose debt had been forgiven do?
Answer: Choked someone who owed him
See: Matthew 18:28
9. Who thought Jesus was a gardener when she saw Him after He had
risen?
Answer: Mary Magdelane
See: John 20:11
10. Which disciple held a feast for Jesus and invited tax collectors and
'sinners`?
Answer: Matthew
See: Matthew 9:10
2. Who heard Peter's voice at the door but failed to let him in?
Answer: Rhoda
See: Acts 12:13-14
3. After Peter escapes from prison, Herod orders the jailkeepers to:
Answer: Be put to death
See: Acts 12:18-19
4. When Paul was arrested in Jerusalem, the people that stirred up the
crowd against him were Jews from what geographical area?
Answer: Asia
See: Acts 21:27
5. Who was the only woman mentioned by name with the apostles in the
upper room waiting for the promise of the Holy Spirit?
Answer: Mary, the mother of Jesus
See: Acts 1:14
7. What woman was raised from the dead by Peter through the spirit of
God?
Answer: Tabitha
See: Acts 9:40
9. What Roman ruler expelled all the Jews out of Rome in the days of the
early church?
Answer: Claudius
See: Acts 18:2
Answer: Mary
Answer: Joseph
Answer: God
29. Question: Name the city where Jesus was born.
Answer: Bethlehem
30. Question: True or False: Because Jesus was God, he didn’t obey his
parents’ rules.
32. Question: Who spoke from the sky when Jesus was baptized?
Answer: God
34. Question: Before Jesus started preaching, what was his job?
Answer: Carpenter
Answer: Nazareth
38. Question: True or False: Jesus stayed away from people with bad
reputations?
39. Question: True or False: Everywhere he went, people loved Jesus and
believed his message?
Answer: 12
41. Question: Besides preaching, name an activity Jesus did while traveling in
Galilee
44. Question: How much bread and fish did Jesus use to feed more than
5,000 people?
Answer: False. He said dirty hands don’t make a person spiritually unclean.
You can still get germs!
46. Question: True or False: Jesus asked the children to stay back while he
was teaching important things to grown-ups.
47. Question: What did Jesus do at the Last Supper to his disciples?
48. Question: What did the woman pour on Jesus’ feet at the home of Simon
the Leper?
50. Question: True or False: Jesus didn’t know that he was going to be
arrested and killed in Jerusalem
Answer: Peter
52. Question: What happened after Jesus was buried in the tomb?
Answer: He rose again
53. Question: What was rolled away from the entrance of the tomb?
54. Question: What day of the week did Jesus rise back to life?
Answer: Sunday
56. Question: How many books have the name John in them?
Answer: Four.
68. Question: What does Jesus say is the first and greatest commandment?
Answer: Love God with all your heart, minds, soul, and strength.
69. Question: What does Jesus say is the second greatest commandment?
Answer: None
Answer: Jesus
96. Question: Who was Jesus' most famous cousin?
98. Question: What happened when Jesus went into the wilderness?
Answer: 10
Answer: Matthew
11. Question: Which human author wrote the most words in the Bible?
12. Question: What was most likely the first Gospel written?
Answer: Mark.
13. Question: What was most likely the last Gospel written?
Answer: John.
14. Question: What was most likely the first of Paul's letters written?
Answer: 1 Thessalonians.
1. Question: When Saul conquered the Amalekites, what person did he keep
as a prisoner instead of killing like God said to?
Answer: 20
Answer: 19.
7. Question: Who was the last king Daniel served under in the Bible?
Answer: Darius
10. Question: When they refused to bow to an idol, where were they thrown?
Answer: Nehemiah
12. Question: What Israelite saved her people from being murdered and was
a wife of the king?
Answer: Esther
Answer: Cyrus.
15. Question: True or False: John the Baptist wore clothes made of goat hair.
Answer: True.
17. Question: True or False: Jesus said his true family was anyone who obeys
God.
Answer: True.
18. Question: Which member of the Jewish ruling council came to ask Jesus
questions at night?
Answer: Nicodemus
21.Question: How many days was Lazarus dead before Jesus came to visit?
22. Question: Who helped pay the bills for Jesus and the disciples ministry?
23. Question: Name the demon Jesus cast out in the region of the
Gerasenes?
Answer: Legion.
24. Question: True or False: While on Earth, Jesus had the power to raise
dead people back to life?
Answer: True.
25. Question: What was Peter and Andrew doing when Jesus called them to
follow him?
Answer: Fishing.
26. Question: Name the two Old Testament people who appeared when
Jesus was transfigured?
27. Question: What problem did Bartimaeus have that Jesus fixed?
28. Question: True or False: When Jesus went to the Temple, he always used
his inside voice.
29. Question: True or False: Jesus said only big money offerings were
important to God.
Answer: False.
30. Question: What garden did Jesus go to when he prayed after the Last
Supper?
33. Question: Name the Roman Governor who sat over Jesus trial?
Answer: Pilate.
35. Question: Who cut off a soldier’s ear when Jesus was being arrested?
Answer: Peter.
36. Question: How many people saw Jesus after he came back from the
dead?
37. Question: What was another name for the Apostle Paul?
Answer: Peter.
Answer: Paul.
Answer: John.
43. Question: True or False: Ananias and Sapphira died after lying to the
Apostles about their offering.
Answer: True
44. Question: How many deacons were chosen to help the apostles to
distribute food to widows?
Answer: Seven.
45. Question: Which Apostle took the Gospel to the city of Samaria?
Answer: Philip.
46. Question: Which Apostle shared the Gospel with an Ethiopian official on
the road to Gaza?
Answer: Philip.
47. Question: True or False: Peter raised a woman named Dorcas from the
dead.
Answer: True.
48. Question: Where did Peter stay during his ministry in the city of Joppa?
49. Question: What did Peter’s vision about the unclean animals mean?
50. Question: : In what city were Jesus’ followers first called “Christians”?
Answer: Antioch.
51. Question: True or False: Peter was rescued from prison by an angel.
Answer: True.
52. Question: Who went with Paul on his early mission trips?
Answer: Barnabas
53. Question: True or False: Paul had a vision of a man calling him to come
over to Carthage.
54. Question: True or False: God sent an earthquake to rescue Paul and Silas
from prison in Philippi.
Answer: True. They didn’t escape but stayed in jail to share the good news
55. Question: What did the Philippian jailer say to Paul after he heard the
Gospel?
Answer: To take the gospel everywhere and finally to preach in the capitol
Rome
58. Question: Where can you find the 10 commandments in the Bible?
Answer: I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt.
60. Question: Where is the Fruit of the Spirit found in the Bible?
Answer: Galatians 5
Answer: Paul.
Answer: False. Even though bananas can seem like a gift from God, they are
not considered a spiritual fruit in Galatians 5.
63. Question: Name any of the 9 Fruits of the Spirit.
64. Question: True or False: The opposite of the Fruit of the Spirit are called
“the works of the flesh.”
Answer: True.
65. Question: Where in the Bible can you find the Lord’s Prayer?
Answer: Matthew 6.
Answer: Jesus.
Answer: Seven.
75. Question: True or False: The more words we say makes our prayers
better.
76. Question: Which disciple looked after Mary after the death of Jesus?
77. Question: What was the name of the man who requested Jesus’ body for
burial?
Answer: Gold.
79. Question: What reward did Jesus say the twelve apostles would get for
forsaking everything and following him?
Answer: Jesus told them “You will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve
tribes of Israel.”
80. Question: What was the name of the woman who hid the spies at Jericho?
Answer: Rahab.
Answer: Daniel
83. Question: Which angel told Daniel the meaning of his vision of the ram
and the goat?
Answer: Gabriel.
85. Question: Fearing that Saul wanted to kill him, what lie did David ask
Jonathan to tell his father if asked why he wasn't at the king's table for the
New Moon feast?
Answer: David wanted Jonathan to tell him that he had gone to Bethlehem for
a family gathering.
86. Question: Of what, specifically, was man not allowed to eat in the Garden
of Eden?
88. Question: Who was king of the southern kingdom when the northern
kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria?
Answer: Hezekiah
Answer: Lot.
90. Question: Which missionary was described as having known the holy
scriptures from an early age?
Answer: Timothy.
91. Question: Who escorted the slave with the letter to Philemon?
Answer: Tychicus.
92. Question: Who was the father in law of Caiaphas, the high priest at the
time of Jesus death?
Answer: Annas.
94. Question: Who was Paul with when he wrote the letter to Philemon?
Answer: Timothy.
95. Question: When the disciples saw Jesus walking on water, what did they
think he was?
Answer: A ghost.
96. Question: Who was to be named Zacharias, after the name of his father,
until his mother intervened?
Answer: John.
97. Question: What did the shepherds do after they had visited Jesus?
99. Question: Who went up yearly to worship God in Shiloh, and one year
prayed to God for a baby?
Answer: Hannah.
100. Question: Which two tribes of Israel were not named after sons of
Jacob?
Correct Answer: Genesis.
2-Trivia Question: On what day did God make the plants and trees?
Correct Answer: Moses.
4-Trivia Question: In how many days did God create the world?
Correct Answer: Six.
Correct Answer: Adam
6-Trivia Question: Where did Adam and Eve live when they were created?
8-Trivia Question: Who tricked Eve into eating from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil?
Correct Answer: The serpent.
Correct Answer: Noah
Correct Answer: Sarah.
Correct Answer: Lot.
Correct Answer: Abraham.
Correct Answer: Twelve.
Correct Answer: Benjamin.
Correct Answer: Joseph.
Correct Answer: Bethlehem.
Correct Answer: Twelve.
Correct Answer: To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.
30-Trivia Question: Name the garden where Jesus prayed the night before he
was crucified.
32-Trivia Question: True or False: Jesus was both fully God and fully human.
Correct Answer: True.
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37-Trivia Question: In what book of the bible can you read the story of Noah’s
ark?
Correct Answer: Genesis.
Correct Answer: Genesis.
Correct Answer: Matthew.
Correct Answer: Deborah.
Correct Answer: Pilate.
Correct Answer: The spirit of God was upon him or his uncut hair will also be
an acceptable answer.
Correct Answer: God wrote them on stone tablets. Moses brought them down
the mountain.
Correct Answer: God the father, Jesus Christ the son, and the Holy Spirit.
Correct Answer: “You are my son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.
(Luke 3:22)
Correct Answer: Joshua.
58-Trivia Question: Who was Mary and Martha’s brother whom Jesus raised
from the dead?
Correct Answer: Lazarus.
Correct Answer: Elijah.
Correct Answer: Jesse.
61-Trivia Question: Who walked with God and then was no more because God
took him away?
Correct Answer: Enoch.
Correct Answer: Zepporah
Correct Answer: Rachel.
Correct Answer: Methuselah.
Correct Answer: Daniel.
Correct Answer: 31
71-Trivia Question: How much did the poor widow put into the offering plate?
77-Trivia Question: Finish the beatitude: “Blessed are those who hunger and
thirst for righteousness….
81-Trivia Question: Finish the beatitude: “Blessed are those who are persecuted
because of righteousness….
85-Trivia Question: Which new testament book has the Sermon on the Mount?
Correct Answer: Matthew.
Correct Answer: Abram.
Correct Answer: Abel.
91-Trivia Question: How many loaves of bread and how many fish did Jesus
have when he fed the 5,000?
Correct Answer: “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people, Amen.”
(Revelation 22:21)
95-Trivia Question: What do the four living creatures who stand before the
throne of God, never stop saying? Day and night they say this.
Correct Answer: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty, who was and is, and
is to come.” (Revelation 4:8)
Correct Answer: Seven.
97-Trivia Question: Where was the apostle John when he wrote the book of
Revelation?
Correct Answer: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, and
who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” (revelation 1:8)
Correct Answer: Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek
alphabet. (A,Ω)
102-Trivia Question: Name the angel who fights against the dragon during the
heavenly war in Revelation chapter 12.
Bethlehem
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3. What type of insect did John the Baptist eat in the desert?
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Locusts
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5. How many people did Jesus feed with five loaves of bread and two fish?
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Peter
7. Who recognized Jesus as the Messiah when he was presented at the Temple
as a baby?
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Simeon
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Joseph of Arimathea
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Malta
John
Tax collector
13. To what city was Saul traveling when he encountered a great and
blinding light?
Damascus
14. Who was the first person to come upon the injured man in the parable of
the Good Samaritan?
Priest
15. Finish this verse. “In every battle you will need faith as your ______ to
stop the fiery arrows aimed at you by Satan.”
Shield
16. Whose example does Paul say Christians should follow in Chapter 5 of
Ephesians?
Christ’s
17. After Jesus fed 5,000+ people with two fish and five loaves of bread,
how many baskets were left over?
12
18. What does Paul say may “abound more and more in knowledge and in
all judgment?”
Love
Benjamin
21. What does Simon Peter do for a living before he becomes an apostle?
He was a fisherman.
23. By what name is Paul of Tarsus known before he begins his missionary
activity?
Saul
Love
25. Who is the high priest of Jerusalem who put Jesus on trial?
Caiaphas
26. In the Gospel According to John, which of the apostles doubts Jesus’s
resurrection until he sees Jesus with his own eyes?
Thomas
27. According to the Gospel of Matthew, where does Jesus’s first public
sermon take place?
On the mount
28. How does Judas signal Jesus’s identity to the Roman officials?
He kisses him.
Herod Antipas
30. When Christians observe Palm Sunday, what biblical narrative are they
celebrating?
31. According to the Gospels, what is the unique literary genre Jesus
employs to preach his message?
The parable
32. Which Gospel is most concerned with the mystery and identity of the
person of Jesus?
John
Joseph of Arimathea
Peter
Luke
1. What is the common name given to the first four books of the New
Testament?
2. Who wrote most of the books in the New Testament?
3. Who wrote the Acts of the Apostles?
4. Which book comes last in the New Testament?
5. What does the word gospel mean?
6. Who was the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth?
7. Which gospel records the fewest of the miracles performed by Jesus?
8. In what water was Jesus baptized?
9. What miracle did Jesus perform at the marriage in Cana?
10. Who was the tax collector that climbed up a tree so he could see
Jesus?
11. Which two Old Testament characters appeared with Jesus at the
transfiguration?
12. How did Jesus reveal the one who would betray him?
13. Where was Jesus crucified?
14. For how many days did Jesus appear to his disciples after his
resurrection?
15. Who went with Paul on his first missionary journey?
16. Paul and Silas were imprisoned during the second missionary journey,
but in what city did this happen?
17. During Paul’s third missionary journey, roughly for how long did he
minister in the school of Tyrannus at Ephesus?
18. On what island was Paul shipwrecked as he made his way to Rome?
19. How many churches of Asia Minor were there?
20. On what island was John when he was given the vision of Revelation?
21. In the New Jerusalem described in Revelation, what are the twelve
gates made from?
22. Where was Jesus born?
23. Why did Joseph take Mary and Baby Jesus to Egypt?
24. Where did Jesus grow up after returning from Egypt?
25. What was Jesus’ first miracle?
26. As Jesus and His disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee in a boat, a
big storm arose. Jesus rebuked the wind and waves and the storm
disappeared. What was Jesus doing when the storm arose?
27. Jesus miraculously broke just a few loaves of bread and fishes and fed
5000 men, along with women and children. How many loaves and fishes did
he start with?
28. How did Judas identify Jesus as the one to be arrested?
29. On Good Friday, Jesus was brought before Pontius Pilate for trial. Why
did Pontius Pilate condemn Jesus to death?
30. What language was most of the New Testament originally written in?
31. What is the last book of the New Testament?
32. In which Gospel did Jesus say and quote: “Everything is possible for
one who believes.”?
33. What is John the baptizer’s father’s name?
34. Who wrote Acts of Apostles?
35. What is the first book of the New Testament?
36. What was the name of first Christian who was stoned to death?
37. For how many days and night was Jesus fasted?
38. Which wood has been used by Noah to build the ark?
Answers:
1. The Gospels
2. Paul
3. Luke
4. Revelation
5. Good news
6. Herod the Great
7. Matthew
8. River Jordan
9. Turning water into wine
10. Zacchaeus
11. Elijah and Moses
12. Dipped a piece of bread and passed it to him
13. Golgotha
14. 40
15. Barnabas
16. Philippi
17. 2 years
18. Malta
19. Seven
20. Patmos
21. Pearl
22. Bethlehem
23. To escape from King Herod, who wanted to kill Jesus
24. Nazareth
25. Turning water into wine
26. Sleeping
27. 5 loaves and 2 fishes
28. He kissed Jesus.
29. The chief priests had persuaded the crowd to demand his execution.
30. Greek
31. Revelation
32. Mark
33. Zacharias
34. Luke
35. Mathew
36. Stephen
37. 40
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Bethlehem
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12
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Judas Iscariot
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He was crucified.
42. Who gave Jesus gifts when he was born?
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44. Who are the religious leaders who continually tried to trap Jesus
with their questions?
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Pharisees
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Mary
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Carpenter
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Paul
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Parables
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Herod
51. What did Simon Peter do for a living?
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He was a fisherman.
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53. What did the Holy Spirit look like when the disciples received it?
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Tongues of fire
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Paul
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In a basket down the city wall
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Revelation
Answers:
1. Twelve
2. Matthew
3. Luke
4. Four
5. John
6. John the Baptist
7. Three
8. Paul
9. Acts
10. Nazareth
11. On the road to Damascus
12. Five of each or ten altogether
13. Paul
14. Matthew or Luke
15. Pilate
16. Five
17. Jesus
18. An angel
19. Judas
20. Matthew
21. John the Baptist
22. Bartimaeus
23. Four
24. Herod
25. Nicodemus
26. Gabriel
27. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
28. The Holy Spirit
29. His riches
30. Leprosy
31. On what day of Creation did God create man?
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Sixth Day
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Seth
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34. At the time of the census conducted by Moses in the first chapter
of Numbers, which of the twelve tribes of Israel was the smallest?
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Manasseh
Hannah
36. What kind of bird brought Elijah food while he hid in the Kerith
Ravine, east of Jordan?
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Ravens
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Enoch
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Curse
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40. In what language was the Old Testament written?
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Hebrew
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Grandson
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43. From which country did Moses help the Israelites escape from
their lives of slavery?
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Egypt
44. Which tribe of Israel looked after the religious aspects of life?
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Levi
45. On which day of the year could the High Priest enter the Holiest
Place, the inner most part of the temple where the covenant box was
kept?
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Day of Atonement
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Laban
47. Israel split into two kingdoms after the reign of King Solomon, with
Israel in the north, but what was the name of the southern kingdom?
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Judah
48. Who was king of the southern kingdom when the northern
kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria?
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Hezekiah
49. The southern kingdom eventually fell also, but to which great
power?
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Babylon
50. After the exile, the Israelites returned and started to rebuild the
temple in Jerusalem, but which other prophet along with Zechariah was
sent to encourage the completion of the partly built temple?
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Haggai
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Almighty God
52. Which king had the longest reign over the Kingdom of Israel?
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Jeroboam II
53. What does Israel mean?
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Psalms
56. Which of these Old Testament prophets lived during the reign of
King Josiah?
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Jeremiah
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Animal sacrifice
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59. What is the name commonly given to the first five books of the
Old Testament?
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Pentateuch
60. Who wrote the first five books of the Old Testament?
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Moses
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Rib
63. What was the first bird that Noah let out of the ark?
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Raven
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Lot
65. What did God ask Abraham to sacrifice to him on Mount Moriah?
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66. What did Rachel steal from her father, Laban, when she left home
with her husband Jacob?
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Benjamin
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Butler
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An ark of bulrushes
70. What was the first plague the Lord sent on Egypt?
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Mount Sinai
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To worship God in
73. How did Rahab let the invading Israelites identify her house?
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Samson
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Saul
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David had him placed in the most dangerous spot in the battle.
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He was banned from his occupation and made a restless wanderer on the
earth.
80. What was the secret of Samson’s great strength?
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Joshua
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Jesse
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Samuel
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