Just for Fun

Answer the Following as far as you know today.

You can download this quiz to print it out in the downloads cache at the bottom of  the homepage; you'll have to return here to access the answer key button (below on right). 

1) What is the Hebrew [original Biblical language] word for Genesis? 

2) What three groups of "kinds" did God create on day three? 

3) Pt. A) What day did God create land animals?   Pt. B) What else was created that day? 

4) What are the three statements Genesis chapter one tells us God repeated at each stage of creation?

5) What do many scholars suggest the images on the wall panels in God's tabernacle and temple represented? A) the Garden (of/in) Eden B) the wilderness journey of Israel C) King David's battles 

6) a) Does scripture actually say God used Adam's rib to form Eve?  b) If your answer is no, can you explain? 

7) What does the name "Adam" actually mean? 

8) What is the meaning of the name Havah [Eve]? 

9) What was the actual crime both Adam and Eve committed? 

10) What was the actual punishment both Adam and Eve received? 

11) Was Adam and Eve's banishment from the garden a punishment? 

12) What does it mean to be sent out of Israel to the East? A) to be cut off from covenant B) to move forward C) go and preach the gospel 

13) Why did Adam and Eve's son Cain murder his brother Abel?  A) Abel stole Cain's girlfriend  B) Abel was so perfect it made Cain look bad C) Cain wanted to be priest.  

14) Who did Cain name his city after? A) his father  B) his mother  C) God  D) his son 

15) What was the name Cain gave to his city? A) Bethlehem [Bet'lechem] B) Cainan [Canaan] C) Enock [Hannokh]

16) What does the name of Cain's city mean? A) holy fortress B) descendants [city] of Cain C) dedication

17) Pt. A) What did Adam and Eve name their third son? Pt. B) What does it mean? 

18) In the last generation before Noah both the descendants of Cain and the descendants of Seth are led by men with the same name.  What is the name? 

19) How many unclean pairs of animals did God tell Noah to take on the ark? 

20) How many clean animals (possibly pairs of animals) did God tell Noah to take? 

21) What was the first thing Noah did when he left the ark after the flood? A) knelt to kiss the ground  B) released a dove  C) built an altar 

22) One of Noah's grandsons was cursed. What was his name? A) Ahab B) Canaan C) Magog

23) Abraham is called the father of our faith; which of Noah's sons did he descend from?  A) Shem  B) Ham  C) Japheth 

24) Abraham asked his wife to tell people in foreign lands that she was his … 

25) Which two foreign kings stole Sarah from Abraham?  A) Hiram  B) Pharoah  C) Abimaleck  D) Ramses  E) David  F) Nebuchadnezzar   

26) What was the name of Abraham and Sarah's son? A) Ishmael  B) Isaac  C)Terah

27) Hagar the Egyptian was Sarah's A) daughter  B) cook C) friend D) handmaid 

28) What did Rebekah offer to do when Abraham's servant asked for a drink? 

29) Rebekah traveled a great distance on a  1) donkey  2) camel  3) cart --- to marry Isaac 

30) What were the names of Isaac and Rebekah's twin sons?   

31) Which of Isaac and Rebekah's sons was firstborn? 

32) In the Bible, what did the title "firstborn" signify? 

33) Laban was Rebekah's 1) father  2) uncle  3) brother  4) neighbor 

34) After he ran away from home, Jacob had a dream. What was the object angels were ascending and descending on in Jacob's dream? 

35) Jacob married two sisters; what were their names? 

36) How were Jacob's two wives related to him? 

37) Rachel and Leah both gave their _________________ to Jacob as concubines. 

38) Which of Jacob's wives was originally barren? 

39) How many sons did Jacob have all together? 

40) Which of Jacob's sons was sold by his brothers? 

41) Which of Jacob's wives died in childbirth? 

42) Which of Jacob's wives is buried with him in his family tomb along with his ancestors? 

43) Joseph became second in command to   

       1) King Hezekiah  2) King Nebuchadnezzar  3) Pharaoh 

44) True or false: Joseph hid his cup in the grain bag of one of his brothers. 

45) Which brother was it that Joseph accused of stealing his cup? 

46) True or false: Joseph was the son of Rachel, Jacob's second wife. 

47) Which of Joseph's twelve brothers had the same mother as Joseph? 

48) God changed Jacob's name to  1) Israel  2) Padanaram  3) Memucan 

49) Before he died Jacob blessed Joseph's two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Which of the two boys did Jacob say would be the greater? 

50) True or false: When Jacob [the Hebrew] died in Egypt, he was so beloved and respected that even Pharaoh joined the funeral procession to what is now known as "Israel" to bury Jacob in the tomb of his ancestors; and there were so many Egyptians in attendance, and they mourned so fiercely that the locals believed a very great Egyptian had died.