Test your Bible IQ!
Multiple Choice
1. We got the word Bible from:
a. A variation of Babylon, which had extensive libraries.
b. The Hebrew word biblius, meaning "scroll that has no ending"
c. The Greek word biblion, meaning "roll" or "book"
d. An acronym for Boy, It's Big, Leather, and
Expansive
2. The original language(s) of the Bible are:
a. Hebrew, Greek and Latin
b. Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic
c. Hebrew, Latin and Assyrian
d. 100 percent King James English
3. Which of the following are not books of the Bible?
a. Haggai and Philemon
b. Zephaniah and Zechariah
c. 2 Chronicles and 3 John
d. Guacamole and Minestrone
4. Canon refers to:
a. An overweight 1970s detective played by William Conrad
b. Civil War weaponry
c. A Greek word for a measuring device
d. Writings that are accepted as authentic and inspired scripture
5. The Apocrypha is:
a. A group of writings purported to be scripture but not accepted as such
in every tradition
b. A British term for a drugstore
c. A hill in Greece where the Parthenon was built
d. A reference to the "four horsemen" in Revelation
Matching
6. Total number of books in the Bible___
7. Number of Old Testament books ___
8. Number of New Testament books ___
9. Approximate number of Bible book authors ___
10. Period of years the Bible was written ___
11. Number of verses in the shortest chapter in the Bible ___
12. Number of verses in the longest chapter in the Bible ___
13. The book with the most chapter divisons has ___ of them.
14. Of all the books ever written, the Bible is ___ of a kind.
a.1 f.39
b.2 g.66
c.1500 h.40
d.27 i.150
e.176
True or False
___15. After the flood, Noah gets drunk and naked.
___16. A guy named Balaam has an unsettling conversation with his talking
donkey.
___17. A dead man touches Elishas bones and comes back to life.
___18. Elijah calls down fire from heaven and then outruns a chariot down
a mountain.
___19. Isaiah sees God on a throne surrounded by hovering six-winged angels.
___20. Queen Jezebel is eaten by dogs.
___21. After surviving his big fish, a worm gets the better of Jonah.
___22. Uzzah touches the Ark of the Covenant and a year later his wife delivers
septuplets.
___23. Wanting to prolong a victorious battle, Joshua commands the sun to
stand still and it does!
___24. God causes a shadow to move backward to prove the truth of Isaiahs
message.
___25. In the course of a single night, Aarons staff buds, blossoms, and
produces almonds.
___26. Lots daughters take turns getting him drunk and having sex with him
so they can have children.
___27. King Herod takes credit for being a god and is struck down immediately
and eaten by worms.
___28. After their sister is raped, some of Jacobs sons convince the family
of the offender to be circumcised and then kill them while they are incapacitated.
___29. Moses spends so much time with God that his head begins to glow.
___30. King Solomons famous wisdom fails him when he gets involved with
1000 women.
___31. During the decline of Israel, things get so bad that people are reduced
to eating donkey heads and each other.
___32. Paul dies when bitten by a deadly viper, but comes back to life.
___33. A women named Jael hammers the head of an enemy general to the ground
with a tent peg.
___34. Jesus brings three dead people back to life.
___35. Paul and Barnabas are mistaken for the gods Zeus and Hermes.