The Extreme New Testament Bible Trivia Challenge E-Book

Troy Schmidt

• Herausgeber: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Seitenzahl: 233

Beschreibung

How well do you know the New Testament of the Bible? Can you answer these questions? How many total dreams did Joseph have in the book of Matthew? What two weapons were the disciples carrying at the Last Supper? In Acts, what was the first name given to Christianity? What is the last word of the last book of the Bible?   The Extreme New Testament Bible Trivia Challenge contains over 2,300 questions, arranged in the order they appear, with at least one question from every chapter in the New Testament of the Bible (that's 260 chapters). If you love the Bible, this book is for you. Read through the questions on your own or have fun challenging your family, friends, church, or study group. The more you get to know the Bible, the more comfortable you become with it. The more comfortable you are with it, the closer it grows to your heart. 

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The Extreme New Testament Bible Trivia Challenge

Copyright © 2016 by Troy Schmidt

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Contents

PART 1: THE QUESTIONS

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation

PART 2: THE ANSWERS

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation

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Group Quiz Score Card

About the Author

Matthew

1. Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus begins with what person?

2. Which of the twelve tribes did Jesus descend from?

3. Name the five women mentioned in Jesus’ genealogy from the Gospel of Matthew.

4. Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus included what woman who tricked her father-in-law into sleeping with her?

5. Who was the son of Boaz and Ruth in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus?

6. Only one unnamed woman is mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy as the “wife” of someone else. Who was it?

7. Who was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary in Matthew’s genealogy?

8. Three sets of how many generations are mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy?

9. According to Matthew 1, how did Mary become pregnant?

10. What did Joseph quietly want to do to Mary?

11. Who told Joseph to name the boy Jesus?

12. Joseph was told to name the boy Jesus because he would save his people from what?

13. What prophet did Matthew quote that said the virgin would give birth to a child?

14. What name will people call Jesus because it means “God with us”?

15. In what town was Jesus born?

16. In what region was Bethlehem located at the time of Jesus?

17. Who was king in Israel when Jesus was born?

18. From what direction in relation to Jerusalem did the magi come?

19. What sign did the magi see in the sky?

20. Besides King Herod, who else was disturbed by the news of a new king?

21. What two groups of scholars did Herod question about the Christ?

22. What prophet did the scholars quote to indicate the coming king’s birthplace?

23. In what kind of structure did the magi find Mary and Jesus?

24. What three gifts did the wise men give Jesus?

25. How were the wise men warned not to go back to Herod?

26. How was Joseph told to go to Egypt?

27. What prophet’s book did Matthew quote to confirm the prophecy of Jesus going to Egypt?

28. Mary, Joseph and Jesus stayed in Egypt until what happened?

29. Herod killed the boys up to what age in Bethlehem?

30. What Old Testament prophet did Matthew say predicted Herod’s killing of Bethlehem’s boys?

31. How many total dreams did Joseph have in the book of Matthew?

32. What king caused Joseph to fear returning to Bethlehem and thus forced them to move to Galilee?

33. Who was Archelaus’ father?

34. After Egypt, where did Joseph move his family when they returned to Israel?

35. In what district was Nazareth found?

36. By living in Nazareth, Jesus could now be called a what?

37. What Old Testament prophet did Matthew say predicted John the Baptist’s desert calling?

38. What were John the Baptist’s clothes made of?

39. What was John the Baptist’s belt made of?

40. What two food items did John the Baptist eat?

41. In what river did John the Baptist baptize?

42. What two groups of religious leaders did John the Baptist verbally attack?

43. John the Baptist said any tree that doesn’t produce what must be cut down?

44. What two things did John the Baptist say the coming one would baptize with?

45. Two times God spoke to people about Jesus and said, “This is my son.” When were they?

46. What descended on Jesus like a dove at his baptism?

47. How many days and nights did Jesus fast in the wilderness?

48. What did satan want Jesus to turn the stones into during the temptation?

49. Jesus responded to satan and said that man does not only live on bread but on what?

50. During the temptations, satan took Jesus to the highest point of what structure?

51. What did satan tell Jesus to do from that building’s highest point?

52. Who did satan say would catch Jesus if he fell?

53. What book of the Bible did satan quote to Jesus during the temptation?

54. What book of the Bible did Jesus quote back to satan three times during the temptation?

55. After the temptation, who came and attended to Jesus?

56. In Matthew 4, Jesus left Nazareth and went to live in what city?

57. When Jesus moved to this region, it fulfilled a prophecy by what Old Testament prophet?

58. On what sea’s coastline did Jesus meet Simon Peter?

59. Who was Peter’s brother?

60. What was Peter’s occupation?

61. What were the names of the two sons of Zebedee?

62. What was the occupation of those sons of Zebedee?

63. What were they fixing when they saw Jesus?

64. What two things did Matthew 4 say the sons of Zebedee left to follow Jesus?

65. According to Matthew 4, news about Jesus spread as far as what other country?

66. According to the Beatitudes, which kingdom do the poor in spirit inherit?

67. According to the Beatitudes, who did Jesus promise will be comforted?

68. According to the Beatitudes, what will the meek inherit?

69. According to the Beatitudes, God bless those who hunger and thirst after what?

70. According to the Beatitudes, which group will see God?

71. According to the Beatitudes, which group was called sons/children of God?

72. What earthly seasoning did Jesus warn people not to lose or they would be good for nothing?

73. What did Jesus say people should never put under a bowl?

74. As people let their light shine before others, what did Jesus want them to see?

75. What two things did Jesus say he did not come to abolish?

76. Jesus told his followers that to enter the kingdom of heaven their righteousness must surpass whose?

77. What Aramaic curse word did Jesus tell his followers not to call their brothers?

78. What two body parts did Jesus say it was better to cut off than for the whole body to go to hell?

79. Which hand—right or left—did Jesus say it was better to do without?

80. What was the one reason for divorce cited by Jesus?

81. What four things should a person not swear by?

82. Which cheek—right or left—did Jesus mention being slapped before a person offers the other?

83. What article of clothing did Jesus say to give to someone if they sue you for your shirt/tunic?

84. What occupation did Jesus mention that loves those that love them?

85. What did Jesus warn us not to practice before men?

86. When we give to the needy, we should not announce it with what musical instrument?

87. According to Jesus, in what two public places do hypocrites like to pray?

88. When teaching about prayer, Jesus told his followers not to babble like whom?

89. When we pray, what food should we ask God to give us daily?

90. What two makeup tips did Jesus give for fasting?

91. What insect did Jesus say destroys our treasures?

92. What part of the body did Jesus say was the lamp of the body?

93. Who are the two masters Jesus said we can’t serve at the same time?

94. What three things in nature did Jesus use as examples for not worrying?

95. What two things did Jesus say we must seek first before anything else?

96. What did Jesus tell us we should remove from our own eye before pointing out the speck of sawdust in someone else’s eye?

97. What piece of jewelry did Jesus tell us not to toss to pigs, as a figure of speech?

98. What did Jesus say a father will not give his son if the son asked for bread?

99. What did Jesus say a father would not give his son if the son asked for fish?

100. Jesus said a wide gate and broad road lead to what?

101. Jesus said a small gate and a narrow road lead to what?

102. What did Jesus say the false prophets appeared dressed in to fool people?

103. What ferocious animal did Jesus compare false prophets to?

104. How did Jesus say you can recognize a false prophet?

105. What three things do the religious do, but, on judgment day, Jesus said that he wouldn’t know them?

106. On what material did Jesus say wise men build their house?

107. What three weather occurrences try to bring down the house built on rock?

108. The people said Jesus taught as one having what quality?

109. What was Jesus “willing” to cleanse a man of in Matthew 8?

110. Who did the Roman centurion want Jesus to heal?

111. In Matthew 8, to whom did Jesus say, “I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith”?

112. Which apostle’s mother-in-law did Jesus heal?

113. What kind of a sickness did she have?

114. What did Jesus touch that made her sickness go away?

115. What did she do after she was healed?

116. According to Jesus, what two animals have homes, but he, the Son of Man, had no place to lay his head?

117. What was Jesus doing in the boat when the storm struck?

118. In Matthew 8, how many demon-possessed men met Jesus in the region of Gadarenes?

119. Where did those demon-possessed men live?

120. Into what herd of animals did Jesus cast the demons?

121. After Jesus healed the demon-possessed men, what did the town want Jesus to do?

122. What did Jesus do first to the paralyzed man that caused the teachers to call Jesus a blasphemer?

123. What did Jesus tell the healed man to pick up and go home?

124. What was Matthew sitting in when Jesus called?

125. What two groups of people did Matthew 9:10 say were eating with Jesus and the disciples?

126. At whose house were they dining?

127. What did Jesus tell the Pharisees the sick need but not the healthy?

128. Jesus told the Pharisees he desired mercy but not what?

129. Jesus told the Pharisees he did not come to call the righteous but the what?

130. Jesus said people do not sew what kind of cloth on a garment?

131. According to Jesus, what shouldn’t people pour new wine into?

132. What religious title did the father of the dead girl hold?

133. How many years had the woman been bleeding until Jesus healed her?

134. What did the bleeding woman want to touch and knew she would be healed when she did?

135. What instrument were the mourners playing when Jesus entered the dead girl’s house?

136. Jesus told the mourners that the girl was not dead but what?

137. What was the crowd’s response when Jesus said the girl was not dead?

138. What prophetic title did the two blind men call Jesus?

139. What supernatural explanation caused the man to be mute?

140. According to Jesus, the harvest was plentiful but what were there few of?

141. When the apostles are listed, who is always put first?

142. Which apostle was known as the Zealot?

143. When the apostles are listed, who is always put last?

144. When Jesus sent out the twelve disciples, what towns did he say to avoid?

145. Who did Jesus tell them to go to instead?

146. What items did Jesus tell the twelve not to take with them?

147. What did Jesus say to do to unfriendly towns as they left?

148. Jesus said if a town rejected them, it would be more bearable for what twin city than for that town?

149. What reptile did Jesus tell his followers to be as shrewd as?

150. What bird did Jesus tell his followers to be as innocent as?

151. Where did Jesus warn them that they would be flogged?

152. Jesus said not to worry about what to say because who would be speaking through them?

153. Jesus said not to worry about the one who could kill the body, but to fear the one who could kill what?

154. According to Jesus, how many sparrows are sold for a penny?

155. What part of our body did Jesus say God has numbered?

156. Jesus said he did not come to bring peace, but what?

157. What four family members did Jesus say we could not love more than him?

158. What did Jesus tell followers to take up and follow him?

159. Jesus said someone will not lose their reward if they give what to one of those little ones?

160. Jesus asked the people if they went out into the desert to see what being swayed by the wind?

161. In Matthew 11, what did Jesus say that they saw in the wilderness?

162. What Old Testament book did Jesus quote as prophetic proof about John the Baptist?

163. Who did Jesus say was the Elijah to come?

164. Because Jesus feasted and drank, what did he say people called him?

165. What two cities did Jesus say were worse than Tyre and Sidon?

166. What city did Jesus say was worse off than Sodom because it rejected Jesus’ miracles?

167. In Matthew 11, Jesus praised his Father for hiding things from the wise and revealing them to who?

168. What farming tool did Jesus ask us to take of his and learn from?

169. What part of us did Jesus promise to find rest for?

170. What did Jesus’ disciples pick and eat on the Sabbath?

171. Jesus compared his disciples’ actions on the Sabbath to the men of what king who ate the consecrated bread of the temple?

172. What animals did Jesus ask the priests if they would pull out of a pit on the Sabbath?

173. What withered part of the man did Jesus heal on the Sabbath and anger the Pharisees?

174. According to Isaiah and quoted in Matthew, what bruised object will the chosen one not break?

175. And what smoldering object will he not snuff out?

176. From where did the Pharisees think Jesus got his power?

177. Jesus said blasphemy against who would not be forgiven?

178. In Matthew 12, what did Jesus say every man will have to give an account for on the day of judgment?

179. In Matthew 12, what kind of a generation would seek after a sign, according to Jesus?

180. Jesus compared his (upcoming) three days in the heart of the earth to what Old Testament prophet’s three-day adventure?

181. When a spirit leaves a person then returns and finds it empty and swept clean, how many more spirits will it invite to move in?

182. In Jesus’ parable of the soils, what creature ate up the seed scattered on the path?

183. What does the seed represent in the parable of the soils?

184. What do the thorns represent in the parable of the soils?

185. How many more times blessed are those who accept God’s message in the parable of the soils?

186. In a parable, what did Jesus say the enemy planted in a field of wheat?

187. What seed did Jesus call the smallest of all the seeds?

188. In a parable using bread, what did the woman use that permeated the dough?

189. In the parable of the weeds, what did the field represent?

190. In the parable of the weeds, what did the good seed represent?

191. In the parable of the weeds, who did the enemy represent?

192. Who were the harvesters in Jesus’ parable of the weeds?

193. In a parable Jesus spoke, what did the man find in a field that caused him to sell everything and buy it?

194. Name four of Jesus’ siblings mentioned in Matthew 13.

195. Who did Jesus say has no honor in his hometown?

196. Because of his hometown’s lack of faith, what did he do few of while there?

197. What was the full title of the Herod who had John the Baptist killed?

198. Who was Herod’s wife?

199. When Herod took Philip’s wife, what was Philip’s relationship to Herod?

200. Whose daughter danced for Herod?

201. What was the occasion that she danced at?

202. Who did Herod have beheaded?

203. Where was John already when they came to behead him?

204. What was his head displayed on?

205. Who buried John the Baptist’s body?

206. At the feeding of the 5,000, how much fish and bread did the disciples find?

207. How many baskets of broken pieces were left over?

208. Around what time of the day did Jesus walk out on water and meet his disciples?

209. When they saw Jesus on the water, what did the disciples think he was?

210. Who asked to join Jesus on the water?

211. What did Peter see that frightened him and caused him to sink?

212. In Matthew 14, what was the only thing of Jesus’ the people wanted to touch, believing it would heal them (and it did)?

213. Who did the disciples believe that Jesus had offended when talking about hand washing?

214. Where do blind guides lead the blind, according to Jesus?

215. What was the Canaanite woman’s daughter suffering from?

216. Jesus told the Canaanite woman that it was not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to what?

217. What did the Canaanite woman say the dogs would eat when it fell off the table?

218. How many days were the people with Jesus without food before he decided to feed the 4,000?

219. How many loaves of bread did Jesus start with to feed the 4,000?

220. How many basketfuls of bread were left over at the feeding of the 4,000?

221. Jesus told the Pharisees that they understood how to interpret the sky when was what color?

222. When talking about yeast and bread, Jesus was guarding the people against the teachings of what two groups?

223. When Jesus said, “Who do people say that I am,” which three prophets did the apostles name?

224. What substance did Jesus tell Peter he would build his church on?

225. Jesus said the gates of what would not overcome his church?

226. Who did Jesus tell to get behind him when talking to Peter?

227. Which three apostles were invited up to the mountain where the transfiguration occurred?

228. When Jesus transfigured, what did his face shine like?

229. What two Old Testament people appeared on the mountain with Jesus?

230. What did Peter offer to build for the occasion?

231. In reference to Elijah coming some day soon, who did the disciples understand Elijah was?

232. What two things did the boy suffering from seizures throw himself into?

233. According to Jesus, why couldn’t the disciples cast out demons?

234. What tax did the collectors question if Jesus was going to pay?

235. How much was that tax?

236. What was the value of the coin, in drachmas, that Jesus said they would find in the mouth of the fish?

237. According to Jesus in Matthew 18, what should people humble themselves like to enter the kingdom of God?

238. If someone caused a little one to stumble in his faith, what should a millstone be tied around before they were thrown into the sea?

239. What three body parts did Jesus say it was better to live without than to live with and sin?

240. How many total sheep did the man in the parable have before one wandered away?

241. If something is bound or loosed on earth, where else will it be bound and loosed?

242. God will agree in heaven if a minimum of how many people ask and agree on earth?

243. How many times did Peter ask if people should be forgiven?

244. According to Matthew 18, how many times did Jesus say a person should be forgiven?

245. In the parable of the unmerciful servant, how much did the servant owe his master?

246. Over how much money did the servant choke another servant?

247. According to Jesus, why did Moses permit divorce?

248. According to Jesus, what was the only reason for divorce?

249. Who did Jesus tell the rich young man to give his money to?

250. According to Jesus in Matthew 19, it’s hard for whom to enter the kingdom of God?

251. Jesus said it’s easier for a camel to go through what than for the rich to get into heaven?

252. Who did Jesus say his followers would sit on thrones and judge?

253. Jesus said those who had left behind family and homes would receive a blessing of how many times more?

254. In the parable of the vineyard workers, how much was each worker paid no matter when they started to work?

255. The mother of whose sons asked Jesus if her boys could sit at his right and left in the kingdom?

256. In Matthew 20, for someone to be first, they must become what?

257. What did Jesus say the Son of Man gave as a ransom for many?

258. Before the triumphal entry, what two animals did Jesus ask his disciples to find?

259. What Old Testament prophet said Jesus would ride those two animals?

260. When Jesus entered Jerusalem for the triumphal entry, what two things did the people lay in the streets?

261. What does the word Hosanna mean?

262. In Matthew 21, Jesus tipped over the table of people selling what animal?

263. Jesus told the money changers that they were making his “house” a den of what?

264. What kind of tree did Jesus wither?

265. Jesus rebuked the Pharisees by asking if baptism was from heaven or from man?

266. What two groups of people did Jesus tell the Pharisees were getting into heaven before them?

267. In the parable of the tenants, who did the landowner send to collect the fruit after three sets of servants were killed?

268. In the parable of the tenants, what did the tenants do to the son?

269. According to Jesus, what did the stone become that the builders rejected?

270. In the parable of the wedding banquet, who was throwing a banquet?

271. In the parable of the wedding banquet, what was the occasion that inspired the banquet?

272. In the parable of the wedding banquet, what did the invited people do to the servants who were inviting them to the banquet?

273. Where did the servants eventually go to invite people to the banquet?

274. In the parable of the wedding banquet, what was the guest not wearing that caused him to get thrown out?

275. Where did they throw the man not wearing the wedding clothes?

276. What was the value of the coin used for the tax that Jesus asked to see?

277. Whose portrait was on the coin that Jesus asked to see?

278. What opposition group quizzed Jesus on marriage at the resurrection?

279. How many brothers were in the marriage/resurrection question Jesus was asked?

280. Jesus said that at the resurrection people do not marry similar to what unmarried group?

281. Who asked Jesus which was the greatest commandment in the law?

282. Whose son did the Pharisees agree the Messiah would be?

283. Jesus said the Pharisees wouldn’t lift one thing to help people. What was it?

284. What did the Pharisees wear wide on their clothing?

285. What did the Pharisees like to be called in the marketplace?

286. In Matthew 23, how many “woes” did Jesus pronounce on the Pharisees?

287. When the Pharisees made a convert, according to Jesus, he became twice the son of what place?

288. Which three spices did Jesus say Pharisees gave a tenth of?

289. Jesus said the Pharisees strained out a gnat but swallowed a what?

290. Jesus said the Pharisees kept what two pieces of kitchenware clean but not themselves?

291. Jesus said Pharisees were like whitewashed what?

292. What reptiles did Jesus compare Pharisees to?

293. The blood of what two martyrs did Jesus reference in Matthew 23?

294. Jesus said he longed to gather the children of Jerusalem together like what farm animals?

295. What building did Jesus predict would be destroyed?

296. On what mountain did Jesus proclaim his Olivet Discourse?

297. What did Jesus warn his followers that they would hear rumors of?

298. Because of wickedness, what did Jesus say would grow cold?

299. In Matthew 24, Jesus predicted those abominable days would be dreadful for what two groups of women?

300. What two groups of people will speak during those dark days and declare false things?

301. According to Matthew 24, in those last days, what two celestial bodies will go dark?

302. Jesus said heaven and earth will pass away, but what will never pass away?

303. Jesus said no one would know when that day will arrive except whom?

304. Jesus said that day of judgment could be compared to the days of whom?

305. Where were the two men standing when one was taken and the other was left?

306. What were the two women grinding with when one was taken and the other was left?

307. In the parable, how many virgins took their lamps to go out and meet the bridegroom?

308. How many virgins were foolish and how many wise?

309. What did the foolish virgins forget to take with them?

310. At what time did the bridegroom show up?

311. In the parable of the talents, the man gave each servant talents based on what?

312. What did the person with one talent do with his money?

313. The master complimented the servants by saying, “Well done, _____ and _____ servant.”

314. What kind of a man did the servant with one talent think his master was?

315. Where was this worthless servant thrown?

316. In Matthew 25, Jesus described a separation of believers and non-believers as the separation of what two flocks of animals?

317. What five conditions did Jesus reference by saying if you helped someone like this you helped him?

318. Jesus was crucified during what Jewish holiday?

319. In whose palace did the chief priests and elders meet to plot to kill Jesus?

320. In Matthew 26, Jesus was anointed with the alabaster jar of perfume while in whose home?

321. Instead of anointing Jesus with the perfume, where did the disciples think this money could have been better spent?

322. How many pieces of silver did Judas accept to betray Jesus?

323. Jesus predicted that one who had dipped his hand into what would betray him?

324. Which two apostles did Jesus predict would betray and deny him?

325. After they ate the Last Supper, Jesus and the apostles sang a hymn and then went to what mount?

326. What was the name of the garden where Jesus was arrested?

327. Before his arrest, what did Jesus pray for his father to take away from him?

328.