Procedures

1. Divide classroom into two teams: Israel & Judah.
2. One question to a side.
3. One point if correct.
4. About 30 seconds to answer question.
5. Incorrect answer counts as answer.
6. If first side fails to answer question, second side gets a chance to answer question without losing their turn.
7. Smile.

The Quiz

1. What book of the Bible mentions a baseball player who hit ten home runs?
• Numbers: "he that gathered least gathered ten homers" (11:32).
2. What prophetess led the women of Israel in a victory dance?
• Miriam: "And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances" (Exodus 15:20).
3. What king had the first birthday party mentioned in the Bible?
• Pharaoh: "And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants" (Genesis 40:20).
4. Saul was the first king of Israel. Who was the second? (Hint: It wasn't David)
• Ishbosheth: "But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David" (2 Samuel 2:8-10).
5. What harlot assisted two spies by keeping them safe in the town of Jericho before the attack by the Israelites?
• Rahab: "And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there" (Joshua 2:1).
6. What Egyptian woman was the wife of Joseph?
• Asenath: "Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On" (Genesis 41:45).
7. What did Isaiah prophesy that Christ would eat?
• Butter & honey: "Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good" (Isaiah 7:15).
8. What kind of lights did Noah use on the ark?
• Flood lights.
9. What king of Persia issued the decree that the people of Judah could rebuild their temple?
• Cyrus: "Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah" (Ezra 1:2; see Ezra 1:1-4).
10. How long after his marriage to Leah did Jacob wait to marry Rachel?
• Seven days: "Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also" (Genesis 29:27-28).
11. This prophet of Moab had a confrontation with his talking donkey.
• Balaam: "And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" (Numbers 22:28; see Numbers 22-24).
12. Who was David's first wife?
• Michal: "And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife" (1 Samuel 18:27).
13. What happened to the 250 Israelites led by Korah who revolted against Moses?
• The earth split open and swallowed them up: "And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation." (Numbers 16:32-33).
14. What barren woman moved her lips in prayer but made no sound?
• Hannah: "Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken" (1 Samuel 1:13).
15. Who was the most ambitious man in the Old Testament?
• Jonah: Even a whale couldn't keep him down.
16. What miracle did the Lord perform through Moses at Horeb? a
• He brought forth water out of a rock: "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel" (Exodus 17:6).
17. What Jewish girl became queen of Persia?
• Esther: "And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti" (Esther 2:17).
18. What treacherous son led a revolt against his father, the king of Israel?
• Absalom: (see 2 Samuel 15).
19. Who burned the Philistines' grain by tying torches to the tails of foxes?
• Samson: "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives." (Judges 15:4-5)
20. How do we know Moses understood mathematics?
• Because he wrote Numbers.
21. What is the name of the Jewish Old Testament?
• Torah.
22. What future king of Israel fled from Solomon and hid in Egypt?
• Jeroboam: "Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon" (1 Kings 11:40).
23. What king of Judah was blinded and imprisoned because he defied Babylonian authority?
• Zedekiah: "So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon" (2 Kings 25:6-7).
24. Who suggested to Moses that he appoint judges so the he would not have to judge all cases himself?
• Jethro, his father-in-law: (see Exodus 18).
25. How many Philistines were at the celebration when Samson brought the ceiling down upon them?
• 3000: "Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport" (Judges 16:27).
26. Who made the longest walk on record?
• Enoch. He walked with God 300 years: "And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters" (Genesis 5:22).
27. What former member of the Egyptian court killed an Egyptian official?
• Moses: "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand" (Exodus 2:11-12).
28. What nation was Israel fighting when Moses' arms, held aloft, caused Israel to win?
• Amalek: "And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed" (Exodus 17:11).
29. What did the people of Nineveh have difficulty in discerning according to the Lord?
• Their right hands from their left: "And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand" (Jonah 4:11).
30. Is it a man's or a woman's responsibility to do the dishes?
• A man's: "I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down" (2 Kings 21:13).
31. What sneaky Israelite confessed that he had stolen goods from fallen Jericho?
• Achan: "And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done" (Joshua 7:20).
32. Elijah was nurtured by an angel after his flight from Israel's evil queen. Who was the queen?
• Jezebel: (see 1 Kings 19:1-8).
33. Who had a vision of the Ancient of Days seated upon a throne?
• Daniel: "I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire" (Daniel 7:9).
34. What everyday substance was changed into a plague of lice?
• Dust: "And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt" (Exodus 8:16-17).
35. Who are the first two females mentioned in the Bible after Eve?
• Adah and Zillah, wives of Lamech: "And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah" (Genesis 4:19).
36. If Moses had dropped his rod in the Nile, what would it have become?
• Wet.
37. Since Methuselah was the oldest man in the Bible, why did he die before his father?
• Enoch, his father, never died--he was taken into heaven.
38. What did Moses cast into the bitter water at Marah to make it sweet?
• A tree: "And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them" (Exodus 15:23-25).
39. What birds fed Elijah in the wilderness?
• Ravens: "And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook" (1 Kings 17:6).
40. Who said, "The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer?
• David: (2 Samuel 22:2).
41. What Old Testament prophet mentions the Lord's "book of remembrance"?
• Malachi: "Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name" (Malachi 3:16).
42. How did Adam and Eve feel when they left the garden?
• A little put out.
43. Who said, "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams"?
• Samuel: (1 Samuel 15:22).
44. Who said, "God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence"?
• Joseph: (Genesis 50:25).
45. What did God send to destroy the vine that shaded the sulking prophet Jonah?
• A worm: "But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered" (Jonah 4:7).
46. What bird does Jeremiah compare to a man who gains riches by unjust means?
• A partridge that hatches eggs it does not lay: "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool" (Jeremiah 17:11).
47. Who did God address from a whirlwind?
• Job: "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind" (Job 38:1).
48. On what mountain did Elijah challenge the priests of Baal?
• Carmel: "Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table." (1 Kings 18:19).
49. Why couldn't Cain please God with his offering?
• He just wasn't Abel.
50. Who is the first king mentioned in the Bible?
• King James.

Resources:
     The Complete Book of Bible Trivia, J. Stephen Lang
     Celestial Pursuit (Game), Randall Book