Bible Trivia Quiz: More Difficult

Answers to March 1996 Quiz

1. How many years did it take to build the temple that was in existence in Jesus' time?
Answer: 46 years
"The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?' " (John 2:20 NIV)

2. When Joseph's brothers came to Egypt for grain, he put them into jail for how long?
Answer: 3 days

"Now Joseph was governor over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth." (Genesis 42:6 NKJV)

"So he put them all together in prison three days." (Genesis 42:17 NKJV)

3. Who only cut his hair once a year?
Answer: Absalom
"Now in all Israel there was no one who was praised as much as Absalom for his good looks. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. And when he cut the hair of his head; at the end of every year he cut it because it was heavy on him; when he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels according to the king's standard." (2 Samuel 14:25-26 NKJV)

4. What was the name of the man who was seduced by his daughter-in-law? What was her name?
Answer: Judah and Tamar
"When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,' she took off her widow's clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife. When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, 'Come now, let me sleep with you.' 'And what will you give me to sleep with you?' she asked. 'I'll send you a young goat from my flock,' he said. 'Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?' she asked. He said, 'What pledge should I give you?' 'Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,' she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him." (Genesis 38:13-18 NIV)

5. Another name was given to King Solomon. It was _________"
Answer: Jedidiah
"Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The LORD loved him; and because the LORD loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah." (2 Samuel 12:24-25 NIV)

6. When David took a census, he disobeyed the command of the Lord. For his disobedience, David got to choose a punishment. How many different punishments were offered by God.
Answer: 3
"Go and tell David, saying, 'Thus says the LORD: "I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you."' " (1 Chronicles 21:10 NKJV)

7. Whom was beheaded, then cremated, and then buried?
Answer: Saul
"And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people. And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan. And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days." (1 Samuel 31:8-13 KJV)

8. How long did it take to build the walls around the city that would become Christ's "city of betrayal."
Answer: 52 days (the city being Jerusalem)

"So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days." (Nehemiah 6:15)

"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death," (Matthew 20:18 KJV)

9. What biblical character was probably stopped quite a bit by the "chariot patrol."
Answer: Jehu
"The lookout reported, "He has reached them, but he isn't coming back either. The driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi--he drives like a madman." "Hitch up my chariot," Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite." (2 Kings 9:20-21 NIV)

10. What father and son were both circumcised on the same day
Answer: Abraham and Ishmael
"In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son." (Genesis 17:26 KJV)

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Updated March 31, 1996