Medium Bible Facts Quiz with Answers.
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Is swearing on the Bible in a court of law against the Bible?
a. NO.
b. Yes.
c. Only for those of the Jewish faith.
b. Yes.
Swearing on the Bible or swearing any oath is against the Bible.
Swearing is not cursing.
Swearing is making a statement of truth or a solemn declaration invoking the deity (involving God).
Cursing is the use of foul language, which also goes against the Bible.
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Who had three sons when he was over 500 years old?
a. Noah.
b. Adam.
c. Moses.
a. Noah.
Noah had three sons when he was over 500 years old.
Genesis 5:32
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Why was William Tyndale burned at the stake?
a. He assassinated the head priest of the Church of England in London.
b. William Tyndale committed the crime of translating the Bible into English.
c. He refused to say the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of his classes at Oxford.
b. Translating the Bible into English.
The church executed William Tyndale at the stake in 1536 AD.
He translated the Bible into English.
The church felt it would lose control of the parishioners if they could read the Bible themselves.
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The Catholic Church excavated this man 43 years after his death.
The Catholic Church burned his body and, to compound the harm, threw his ashes into the river.
All that took place was his belated punishment for printing the Bible in English.
a. Dante.
b. Socrates.
c. King James.
d. John Wycliffe.
e. Shakespeare.
d. John Wycliffe.
John Wycliffe was dug up by the church 43 years after he died.
His body was burned at the stake by the church.
for his effort in translating the Bible into English
This shows how the Catholic Church was so full of itself and wanted absolute control of the parishioners.
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This prophet went around "preaching unclothed" for 3 years.
a. Isaiah.
b. Nathan.
c. Jeremiah.
a. Isaiah.
God instructed Isaiah to preach in his undergarments.
Isaiah did this for three years.
It was God's way of proving a point about how wicked the believers were.
Isaiah 20:1–4
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Who received credit for penning the first comprehensive English translation of the Bible?
a. John Wycliffe.
b. King James.
c. Socrates.
a. John Wycliffe.
John Wycliffe wrote the first complete English translation.
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What famous book did Sotheby's Auction sell for $14 million in 2013?
a. The Book of Psalms, written by the Puritan ministers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
b. The first printed King James Bible.
c. A scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
a. The Book of Psalms.
The Book of Psalms, written by Puritan ministers, sold at auction for $14 million.
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If an Israelite did this deed by accident, he could take refuge for protection in another city.
a. Forget to pay for something while shopping at the market.
b. Accidentally kill someone. (Involuntary manslaughter, not murder.)
c. He was found lying in bed with a family member, not his spouse.
(It was customary to make love in total darkness so as not to see the partner's privates.)
b. Accidentally kill someone.
Joshua 20:3
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Believe it or not, many people who did wicked things in the Bible had this certain hair color.
a. Black.
b. Brown.
c. Blond.
d. Bald.
e. Red.
e. Red.
Less than 2% of the world's population has red hair.
Mary Magdalen and Caleb the spy are believed to have had red hair.
It's intriguing that the word Adam means red.
Many of the villains in the Bible had red hair, including Esau, David, and Judas Iscariot.
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What was the first complete Bible to be printed on a printing press?
a. Geneva.
b. Gutenberg.
c. King James.
b. Gutenberg.
The Gutenberg Bible was the first one printed on a printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg printed it in Germany in 1454.
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Who was drunk and seduced by his daughters?
a. Phillip by his virgin daughters when he was on a mission with Paul in Caesarea.
b. Lot by his two daughters while exiled in a cave after his wife died at Sodom.
c. Zelophehad because he had no male heirs to inherit his property.
b. Lot.
His two daughters seduced Lot after they had intoxicated him.
Their mother died as they left Gomorrah, and they wanted the family line to continue by getting themselves pregnant.
Genesis 19:35
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Which of these sets of religions believes in the Old Testament?
a. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
b. Christianity, Mormonism, and the Kama Sutra.
c. Christianity, Shinto, and Mahāyāna.
a. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
All three of these religions believe in the Old Testament.
These three religions have their roots in Judaism, which was started by Abraham.
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What was the first recognized "official authorized Bible" of the Church printed in English?
a. Gutenberg of 1455.
b. The Great Bible of 1539.
c. King James of 1611.
b. The Great Bible.
The first "authorized" Bible printed in English was The Great Bible.
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Which situation in the Old Testament prevents a man from going to church?
a. A man who has had sex with a prostitute.
b. Gentiles who have not yet been circumcised.
c. Someone with damaged privates (testicles) or privates that are cut off (eunuchs).
c. Someone with damaged privates.
Someone with damaged testicles cannot attend church.
Deuteronomy 23:1
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What did God "smite" the people of Ashdod with in their "private body parts"?
a. Boils.
b. Leprosy.
c. Hemorrhoids.
c. Hemorrhoids.
God afflicted the people of Ashdod with hemorrhoids in their private body parts.
The Philistines had captured the Ark, and terrible things started to happen to them.
Their idol Dagan, their god, fell to the ground on its face, bowing to the Ark.
They kept moving the Ark to different cities, and havoc always broke out.
1 Samuel 5:5-12.
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What did the Philistines do with the Ark of the Covenant after it destroyed every city it was placed in?
a. They put the Ark in a cart, yoked young calves to it, and sent it towards the Israelites without a driver.
b. They didn't have to. God sent four angels, and they carried it away to Jerusalem.
c. They took it to the desert far from any city and abandoned it.
The Ark was placed in a cart.
The cart came to the field of Joshua in Beth Shemesh, where it stopped beside a large rock.
1 Samuel 6:
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This man called fire from heaven that consumed 50 soldiers three different times.
a. Moses.
b. Peter.
c. Elijah.
d. Jesus.
c. Elijah.
Elijah called fire from heaven, which consumed 50 soldiers.
2 Kings 1:10
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God gives specific instructions to perform this while in camp.
a. Poop outside the camp and cover it up.
b. Wash yourself before retiring for the night.
c. Set out watches at all four corners to watch for the enemy.
a. Poop outside the camp.
God gives specific instructions to poop outside the camp.
Deuteronomy 23:12-14
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This man prayed for the sun to stand still and for the moon to stop.
He needed more time to conquer his enemies, the Amorites.
And God did it !
a. Abraham
b. Joshua
c. Moses
b. Joshua.
Joshua prayed for the sun to stand still and the moon to stop so that he would have enough daylight to finish the battle.
Joshua 10:12-14
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God instructed this man to take refuge in the Kerith Ravine near the Jordan River.
Ravens fed him. They brought bread and meat, and he drank from the brook.
a. John the Baptist when King Herod was hunting him down.
b. Moses when he went on the lam from Egypt.
c. Elijah to escape Ahab's wrath.
c. Elijah.
God told Elijah to seek refuge in Kerith Ravine.
Ravens brought him food.
1 Kings 17:2-6
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In the Old Testament, if a wife comes to her husband's defense
and grabs the opponent's genitals, what must be done to her?
a. Cut off her hand immediately.
b. She must immediately go and wash her hands.
c. She must go into isolation away from her husband for 72 hours.
a. We must cut off her hand.
During a fight between a husband and an assailant, a woman must not touch the assailant's genitals.
A woman who touches a man's genitals in an attempt to help her husband must have her hand cut off.
Deuteronomy 25:11
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In the Old Testament, what happens to a woman who marries and is not a virgin?
a. All the village men stoned her.
b. She must divorce her husband.
c. She is returned to her father, and the marriage is annulled.
All the men in the village are required to stone her.
Every man in the village must stone a non-virgin who marries at the entrance of her father's house.
Deuteronomy 22:13-21.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
Luke 19:10