101 Bible Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids
January 27, 2025
These 101 Bible Trivia questions and answers for kids are broken up into Easy, Medium, and Challenging. Start younger kids at the top of the list, and let your older kids breeze through them to see how many they can get right before being stumped! It’s a great way to practice and learn new facts about the Bible.
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Easy Bible Trivia for Kids
1) What’s the name of the first book in the Bible?
Genesis
2) What major religion uses the Bible as its holy book?
Christianity
3) The Bible is broken up into two parts. What are they?
The Old Testament and the New Testament
4) The book of Genesis tells the story of what?
The creation of the world
5) According to the Book of Genesis, how many days did God take to create the world?
Six days
Children’s Bible Trivia Questions (Continued)
6) And what did God do on the seventh day?
He rested.
7) Fill in the blank: “And God said, ‘___ _____ __ _____,’ and there was light.”
‘Let there be light.’
8) What are the names of the first two people that God creates?
Adam and Eve
9) Where does God place Adam and Eve to live?
The Garden of Eden
10) What causes God to banish Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden?
They eat fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
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11) When God sends Adam and Eve out of the garden, what important item does he give them to put on?
Clothing
12) What animal tempts Eve to eat fruit from the tree?
The snake or the serpent
13) The Old Testament tells the story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery. The story of Moses says that the prophet heard the voice of the Angel of the Lord where?
In a burning bush
14) What miracle did Moses complete in order to lead the Israelites out of slavery?
He parted the Red Sea
15) What essential information is Moses credited with receiving from God?
The Ten Commandments
List (Continued)
16) True or False: Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai.
True
17) In a different Bible story, God tells Noah to build a large boat. What is that boat called?
The Ark/Noah’s Ark
18) Noah builds the ark to safely avoid what natural disaster?
The flood
19) God tells Noah to put how many versions of each type of animal on the ark?
Two versions
20) Why does God decide to create the flood?
Because of humanity’s wickedness
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21) How long does God make it rain in order to create the flood?
40 days and 40 nights
22) What type of bird returns to the ark to tell Noah that the flood had ended?
A dove
23) What did the dove bring in its beak that helped Noah understand that the bird had found dry land?
An olive branch
24) The New Testament begins with the introduction of the birth of whom?
Jesus
25) Who is Jesus’ mother?
Mary/The Virgin Mary
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26) Who is Mary’s husband?
Joseph
27) Jesus is the son of whom?
God
28) What is the name of the angel that tells Mary she will give birth to the son of God?
The angel Gabriel
29) Where does Mary place Jesus after giving birth to him?
In a manger
30) How many wise men visit Jesus after his birth?
Three
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31) What do the three wise men bring to Jesus as gifts?
Gold, frankincense, and myrrh
32) In what little town does Mary give birth to Jesus?
Bethlehem
33) Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah. He gets sent by God to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it, but is thrown overboard of his boat on the way. What creature swallows Jonah in the sea?
A whale (or a large fish)
34) True or False: The whale eats Jonah whole.
False.
35) How many days and nights does Jonah live in the belly of the whale?
Three days and three nights
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36) How does Jonah escape from the belly of the whale?
Jonah prays to God, and God commands the whale to spit Jonah out.
37) Joseph is the eleventh son of Jacob and the first son of Rachel. He is famous for a very special piece of clothing. What is the piece of clothing that Joseph is famous for? Hint: There is a musical about Joseph and his famous piece of clothing!
In the Bible, Joseph has a coat of many colors. Fun fact: the musical is called Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Medium Bible Trivia for Kids
38) How many apostles did Jesus have?
Twelve
39) Jesus had 12 apostles, but only four of them had books attributed to them in the Bible. Who are those four disciples?
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
40) True or False: Apostles and disciples are the same thing.
False: disciples were simply students of Jesus. Apostles were chosen by Jesus to spread the gospel.
Bible Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids (Continued)
41) The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are also called what?
The Gospels
42) Which apostle’s book documents the birth of Jesus?
The Gospel of Matthew
43) How does the Gospel of Matthew end?
With the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
44) What is the final meal that Jesus shared with his followers called?
The Last Supper
45) During the Last Supper, Jesus takes a piece of bread, breaks it, gives it to his disciples, and says that the bread is what?
His body
Children’s Bible Trivia Questions (Continued)
46) Also during the Last Supper, Jesus offers a cup of wine to his disciples and tells them to drink it. He says that the cup of wine is literally what?
His blood
47) Jesus lived during the time of what famous ancient empire?
The Roman Empire
48) Who betrays Jesus to the Roman soldiers?
Judas (Judas Iscariot)
49) Who is the Roman official who ultimately ordered Jesus’ crucifixion?
Pontius Pilate
50) Jesus once told his disciples to love whom as you love yourself?
Your neighbor
Bible Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids (Continued)
51) In a famous parable that Jesus tells in the Gospel according to Luke, a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho is attacked and beaten by robbers. Others pass by and do not help the beaten man. One man does stop to help the man. What is this man called?
The Good Samaritan
52) Who are the other passersby who do not stop to help the beaten man in the parable of the Good Samaritan?
A priest and a Levite
53) Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan in order to teach his disciples how to love whom?
Their neighbor
54) Jesus once healed a man with a very bad skin disease. What disease does that man have?
Leprosy
55) Jesus once healed a man by spitting in the dirt, making mud with his saliva, and rubbing it on a man’s eyes before sending him to go wash the mud off in a pool. What did Jesus cure the man of?
Blindness
Children’s Bible Trivia Questions (Continued)
56) In another parable, Jesus needed to feed a lot of people with a little bit of food. How many fishes and loaves did Jesus use to feed the large crowd?
Two small fish and five loaves of bread
57) How many people does Jesus feed in the story about the fishes and loaves?
Five thousand people
58) What does Jesus say to the five thousand people in order to make the small amount of food last?
He tells them to simply eat as much as they want, and there is miraculously enough food to go around.
59) Fill in the blank: Jesus said, “Let the little ________ come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Children
60) What are the blessings taught by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew?
The Beatitudes
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61) Fill in the blank: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the _______ __ ______.
Kingdom of Heaven
62) Fill in the blank: Blessed are the ____, for they will inherit the Earth.
Meek
63) Jesus famously turns water into what beverage at a wedding in Cana?
He turns water into wine
64) Who is the Jewish preacher who baptized Jesus?
John the Baptist
65) True or false: John the Baptist is mentioned in all four of the Gospels (the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).
True
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66) In which river does John baptize Jesus?
The River Jordan
67) After Jesus is baptized and emerges from the River Jordan, what descends upon his “like a dove”?
The Holy Spirit
68) Jesus is often described as a specific kind of baby animal, the “what” of God?
Jesus is described as the “lamb” of God.
69) Moses leads the Israelites to freedom in which book of the Bible?
The Book of Exodus
70) True or false: The Book of Exodus is the second book in the Old Testament.
True.
Bible Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids (Continued)
71) In the Book of Exodus, the Jewish people call God by what name?
Yahweh
Challenging Bible Trivia for Kids
72) How old are the oldest texts in the Bible?
About 2,700 years old
73) What’s the most widely used Bible translation?
The King James Bible
74) When was the first version of the King James Bible authorized? Hint: It’s called the King James Bible because it was overseen by King James I of England.
1611
75) Multiple choice: How many scholars prepared the first version of the King James Bible?
a) 270
b) 6
c) 54
d) Just one: King James did it himself
Answer: C. It took 54 scholars appointed by King James I to create this translation of the Bible.
List (Continued)
76) How many different English translations of the Bible are there?
Approximately 900!
77) Multiple choice: As of November 2024, how many different languages has the Bible been translated into?
a) One million
b) 756
c) 7
d) 4,000
Answer: B. The complete Bible has been translated into 756 different languages.
78) True or False: The New Testament alone has also been translated into 756 different languages.
False! The New Testament has been translated into 1,726 languages on its own.
79) True or False: portions of the Bible have been translated not only into Modern English (which we speak today), but also into Middle English and Old English?
True. Fun fact: Old English was spoken from about 450 to 1066 AD, and Middle English was spoken from 1066 AD to 1453. Modern English (also the language in which William Shakespeare wrote) has been spoken from 1453 to, obviously, today.
80) When was the first complete English translation of the Bible completed?
1382
Bible Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids (Continued)
81) Who is credited with the first complete English translation of the Bible?
John Wycliffe
82) Where does Jesus teach the Beatitudes to his disciples?
At the Sermon on the Mount
83) During the Last Supper, Jesus takes a piece of what kind of bread, breaks it, and gives it to his disciples?
Unleavened bread
84) What king famously beheads John the Baptist?
King Herod
85) In the Gospel of John, John the Baptist is described not “as the light” himself, but as a “what” to the light?
John the Baptist is described as a “witness” to the light
List (Continued)
86) Which direction does God send Adam and Eve when he sends them out of the Garden of Eden: east or west?
East
87) Jesus uses the parable of the Good Samaritan to teach which virtue?
Mercy
88) The apostle Paul was a part of this specific Jewish sect that is depicted in the Bible as both opposing Christ and early Christians and also warning Christ about Herod and protecting early Christians. What is the group called?
The Pharisees
89) The blind man who Jesus heals defends Jesus to the Pharisees when they come to investigate the miracle. What does the blind man say? Hint: The sentence later becomes a line in the song “Amazing Grace.”
“I was blind but now I see!” (May change slightly depending on the translation.)
90) Which disciple denied Jesus three times?
Peter
Bible Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids (Continued)
91) Jesus did a slightly paradoxical thing to his disciples at the Last Supper. What did he do?
He washed their feet.
92) What language was the Bible originally written in?
Scholars tend to agree that the original Bible was composed in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
93) When speaking of the blind man he healed, Jesus said to his followers: “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will,” become what?
“And those who see will become blind.”
94) Jesus and his followers are on what sea when Jesus calls the storm and saves their boat from capsizing?
The Sea of Galilee
95) Jesus committed one of his most famous miracles when he raised a man from the dead. What was that man’s name?
Lazarus
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96) The raising of Lazarus from the dead also foreshadows another very important event that happens just days later. What event does raising Lazarus from the dead foreshadow?
The resurrection of Jesus
97) Jesus heals a paralyzed man in which city?
Capernaum
98) When Jesus heals the paralyzed man, what does the paralyzed man succeed in doing?
Getting himself up from bed and walking out of the house
99) Tongues of what are often depicted as resting on the heads of the apostles? Hint: if this actually happened to someone, it would be very dangerous!
Tongues of flame
100) During a Pentecostal miracle, seven weeks after Jesus’ resurrection God visits the Holy Spirit upon people from many different places, but suddenly they can all hear the apostles speaking in what language?
In each person’s own language
Bible Trivia Questions and Answers for Kids (Continued)
101) A man gets converted to following Christ after persecuting Jesus and then being turned blind. What is this Biblical character’s name?
Saul
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