Esther
$100: Who was Esther’s cousin who raised her?
Who is Mordecai (Esther 2:7)?
What was the first miracle Jesus performed in John’s Gospel?
Answer: What is turning water into wine at Cana (John 2:1–11)?
Question: Who was Paul’s amanuensis (scribe) who physically wrote the Book of Romans?
Answer: Tertius (Romans 16:22)
Who prepared the way for Jesus according to Mark 1?
Answer: Who is John the Baptist?
Who was the only female judge of Israel?
Deborah (Judges 4:4)
What was Queen Vashti’s offense that caused her removal?
Answer: What is refusing to appear before King Xerxes (Esther 1:12)?
Who came to Jesus by night in John 3?
Answer: Who is Nicodemus?
How many baths of water could the bronze Sea in Solomon’s Temple hold?
Answer: 2,000 baths (1 Kings 7:26)
What did Jesus say was made for man, not man for it?
Answer: What is the Sabbath (Mark 2:27)?
Question: In what city were Jesus’ followers first called “Christians”?
Answer: Antioch (Acts 11:26)
On what day of the month of Adar were the Jews permitted to defend themselves?
Answer: What is the 13th day of Adar (Esther 9:1)?
What is Jesus’ shortest verse in John? and what did it say?
Answer: What is “Jesus wept” (John 11:35)?
Question: In the Book of Esther, what were the names of Haman’s ten sons who were hanged?
Answer: Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, Vajezatha (Esther 9:7–10)
Who carried Jesus’ cross according to Mark?
Answer: Who is Simon of Cyrene (Mark 15:21)?
Question: Who was thrown into a den of lions but survived without harm?
Answer: Daniel (Daniel 6:16–23)
$800: What was the name of the eunuch who had charge of Esther in the palace?
Answer: Who is Hegai (Esther 2:8)?
n John 21, how many fish did the disciples catch after following Jesus’ instructions?
Answer: What is 153 fish?
Question: Who was the king of Salem that blessed Abraham with bread and wine?
Answer: Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18)
In the feeding of the 4,000 (Mark 8), how many loaves did the disciples have?
Answer: What is seven loaves?
Question: Which prophet confronted King David about his sin with Bathsheba?
Answer: Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1–7)
According to Esther 9:16, exactly how many people did the Jews kill in the provinces (excluding Shushan)?
Answer: What is 75,000?
In John 8, what did Jesus write on the ground when confronted with the woman caught in adultery?
What is unknown — the text never specifies (John 8:6)?
What was the name of the city Cain built, and after whom was it named?
Answer: Enoch, named after his son (Genesis 4:17)
In Mark 15:25, what specific hour of the day did they crucify Jesus?
Answer: What is the third hour (9 a.m.)?
Question: Who denied Jesus three times before the rooster crowed?
Answer: Peter (Matthew 26:69–75)