Genesis Bible Trivia

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1) What did God create on the first day?

a) land

b) light

c) water

d) air

1) What did God create on the first day?

b. light

Genesis 1:3 (NRSV)

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

2) Who committed the first murder in the Bible?

a) Cain

b) Abel

c) Seth

d) Lamech

2) Who committed the first murder in the Bible?

a. Cain

Genesis 4:8 (NRSV)

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.

3) Who built the ark?

a) Adam

b) Abraham

c) Noah

d) Moses

3) Who built the ark?

c. Noah

Genesis 6:13-14 (NRSV)

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

4) What was the name of the tower the people built after the flood?

a) Nineveh

b) Jericho

c) Egdal

d) Babel

4) What was the name of the tower the people built after the flood?

d) Babel

Genesis 11:9 (NRSV)

Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

5) How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?

a) 90

b) 100

c) 110

d) 120

5) How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?

b) 100

Genesis 21:5 (NRSV)

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6) Who was the father of Jacob?

a) Jacob

b) Esau

c) Ishmael

d) Abraham

6) Who was the father of Isaac?

d) Abraham

Genesis 21:1-3 (NRSV)

The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. ²Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him. ³Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.

7) Which of the following was NOT one of Jacob's sons?

a) Joseph

b) Reuben

c) Benjamin

d) Isaac

7) Which of the following was NOT one of Jacob's sons?

d) Isaac

Genesis 25:26 (NRSV)

Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

8) Who was Joseph's father?

a) Abraham

b) Esau

c) Jacob

d) Isaac

8) Who was Joseph's father?

c) Jacob

Genesis 30:22-24 (NRSV)

Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb. ²³She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”; ²⁴and she named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”

9) Who was the father of Esau and Jacob?

a) Abraham

b) Ishmael

c) Isaac

d) Terah

9) Who was the father of Esau and Jacob?

c) Isaac

Genesis 25:21, 25-26 (NRSV)

Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. ²⁵The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau. ²⁶Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

10) Where did Jacob and his family settle in Egypt?

a) Gershom

b) Goshen

c) Gilgal

d) Gilead

10) Where did Jacob and his family settle in Egypt?

b) Goshen

Genesis 46:34 (NRSV)

You shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors’—in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”

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Genesis Bible Quiz Trivia

1) What did God create on the first day?

1) What did God create on the first day?

b. light

Genesis 1:3 (NRSV)

Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

2) Who committed the first murder in the Bible?

2) Who committed the first murder in the Bible?

a. Cain

Genesis 4:8 (NRSV)

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.

3) Who built the ark?

3) Who built the ark?

c. Noah

Genesis 6:13-14 (NRSV)

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

4) What was the name of the tower the people built after the flood?

4) What was the name of the tower the people built after the flood?

d) Babel

Genesis 11:9 (NRSV)

Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

5) How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?

5) How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?

b) 100

Genesis 21:5 (NRSV)

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6) Who was the father of Jacob?

6) Who was the father of Isaac?

d) Abraham

Genesis 21:1-3 (NRSV)

The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. 2 Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.

7) Which of the following was NOT one of Jacob's sons?

7) Which of the following was NOT one of Jacob's sons?

d) Isaac

Genesis 25:26 (NRSV)

Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

8) Who was Joseph's father?

8) Who was Joseph's father?

c) Jacob

Genesis 30:22-24 (NRSV)

Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb. 23 She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”; 24 and she named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”

9) Who was the father of Esau and Jacob?

9) Who was the father of Esau and Jacob?

c) Isaac

Genesis 25:21, 25-26 (NRSV)

10) Where did Jacob and his family settle in Egypt?

10) Where did Jacob and his family settle in Egypt?

b) Goshen

Genesis 46:34 (NRSV)

You shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors’—in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”

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The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. ²Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which God had spoken to him. ³Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.

Then God remembered Rachel, and God heeded her and opened her womb. ²³She conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach”; ²⁴and she named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”