Misc
Genesis
I Samuel 17
Ruth
Background
100
This book was written by John on the island of Patmos and shows a terrifying vision of the Apocalypse.
What is Revelation?
100
This is the number of days (including the day of rest) that the Bible says it took God to create the world.
What is 7?
100
This is David's weapon of choice.
What is the hand sling?
100
Name the three women who lose their husbands in the first few verses of the book.
Who are Ruth, Naomi, and Orpah?
100
Name 2 major religions that use the Bible (or portions of it) as their holy book.
What are Judaism and Christianity?
200
This is Gospel talks about the miracles of Jesus, as well as establishing the tradition of communion.
What is Exodus?
200
According to Genesis 2, man is made from this material.
What is dust?
200
This is the style of fighting that David and Goliath used.
What is single combat?
200
This is the name of the country in which Naomi and her family take refuge from the famine.
What is Moab?
200
Name the two major divisions of the Bible.
What are the Old Testament and New Testament?
300
This book's protagonist was meant to deliver a message to the people of Ninevah, but got a bit sidetracked by the local seafood.
What is Jonah?
300
This is the old, universal symbol of evil that we see tempting Eve in chapter 3.
What is the serpent, snake?
300
This is the army against which the Israelites are fighting.
What are the Philistines?
300
How did Ruth (and other widows and orphans) gather food in a society without welfare?
What is gleaning?
300
This is a reference to the Bible in another work of art.
What is allusion?
400
This book contains stories and prophecies, such as rams and goats, the Fiery Furnace, and the Lion's Den.
What is Daniel?
400
This is the reason God chose to destroy all life on the planet in Genesis 6.
What is people were evil all the time?
400
This is the real reason David came to the battlefield.
What is to deliver a message/cheese?
400
The name of Ruth's deceased father-in-law.
What is a Elimelech?
400
Name two of the three languages that the Bible was originally written in.
What are Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek?
500
The theme of this Bible book is "God gives, and God takes away", as evidenced by the story of a righteous man who loses everything in a bet between God and Satan.
What is Job?
500
This is how old Noah was when he died.
What is 950?
500
This is the kind of literary device Goliath uses when he says, "Am I a dog, that you come after me with sticks".
What is simile?
500
This is the unusual custom that Boaz displayed to signify the end of a piece of business.
What is exchanging shoes?
500
The Greek word for Bible, "biblos", literally means this.
What is "book"?
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