Join me on a weekly trivia search. I will ask a question for which you will have to open that dusty Bible and search for the answer. No need to respond with the answer. Your reward is the answer. E-mail me with ideas for future trivia questions at: terryd@cros.net. Enjoy!WEEK OF 7/20/08 QUESTION IS: What/who did God give us in John 3:16?
ANSWER FOR 7/20/08: GOD gave us his only begotton Son
WEEK OF 7/27/08 QUESTION IS: Who's well was it that Jesus asked the Samaritan woman to get him a drink from? Look to John 4:12 for the answer.
WEEK OF 7/27/08 ANSWER IS: our father JACOB
WEEK OF 8/3/08 QUESTION: Complete this sentence: "And you shall know the truth....
Look to John 8:32
WEEK OF 8/3/08 ANSWER IS "and the truth will make you free."
WEEK OF 8/10/08 QUESTION IS: Beside Jesus, who is the only other person known to have walked on water?
See Matthew 14:29
WEEK OF 8/10/08 ANSWER IS: PETER
WEEK OF 8/17/08 QUESTION: Martha and Mary had a brother who was 4 days dead when Jesus raised him. Who was he?
John 11:43
WEEK OF 8/17/08 ANSWER IS: LAZARUS
WEEK OF 8/31/08: COMPLETE Verse Matthew 16:24 ,Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and ....."
ANSWER WEEK 8/31/08: "pick up his cross and follow me."
QUESTION FOR WEEK 9/7/08: Considered to be the shortest verse in the Bible. See John 11:35 if you don't know.
ANSWER WEEK 9/7/08: When Jesus heard those mourning the death of Lazarus it is recounted: "Jesus wept."
QUESTION FOR WEEK OF 9/14/08: Peter asked Jesus if he should forgive those who sinned against him 7 times. Jesus replied a greater or lesser number of times? See Matthew 18:21,22
ANSWER WEEK 9/14/08: Jesus replied "77 times"
QUESTION FOR WEEK 9/21/08: In Matthew 20 Jesus gives us a parable wherein the owner of a vineyard pays his workers the same regardless of how long they worked. The moral of the story is "So the last will be ________ and the _________ last." What is the missing word?
ANSWER WEEK 9/21/08: The missing word is "first".
QUESTION FOR WEEK 9/28/08: According to Matthew 21, Jesus quotes the scripture where "the very stone which the builders rejected has become the ________ stone.
ANSWER WEEK 9/28/08: "corner"
QUESTION WEEK 10/5/08: Jesus tells a parable in Matthew 21 where a landowner plants a garden then goes to another country leaving tenants in charge. Who do the tenants represent?
ANSWER WEEK 10/5/08: "CORNER"
QUESTION WEEK 10/12/08: Jesus gives us a parable in Matthew 22 wherein the king thew a wedding banquet and nobody showed up. The parable ends with this famous quote: "For many are called, but _________________."
ANSWER WEEK 10/12/08: "few are chosen."
QUESTION WEEK 10/19/08:Can you name the person referred to in this quote by Jesus, also found in Matthew 22? "Render therefore to ________ the things that are ________'s, and to God the things that are God's."
ANSWER WEEK 10/19/08: Caesar
QUESTION WEEK 11/2/08: Matthew 23 tells this teaching "...and whoever humbles himself will be ________."
ANSWER WEEK 11/2/08: "exalted."
QUESTION WEEK 11/9/08: Can you fill in the blanks from this passage in John 12:47? : "; for I did not come to _____ the world, but to _____ the world."
ANSWER WEEK 11/9/08: "; For I did not come to JUDGE the world, but to SAVE the world."
QUESTION WEEK 11/16/08: In Mark 12:42 Jesus observes a poor widow put two coins into the treasury. How much was each coin worth?
ANSWER WEEK 11/16/2008: 1/2 penny (2 coins made a penny)
QUESTION WEEK 11/30/2008: Mark 13:2 Jesus replys to his disciples in regards to their observations of the great and wonderful buildings. How many stones will be left standing when all is said and done?
ANSWER WEEK 11/30/08: .." There will not be here left one stone upon another..."
QUESTION 12/14/08: According to John, when he answered the question "Who are you?", he replied, "I am the voice of one crying in the ________." Where was he crying from?
ANSWER 12/14/08: the wilderness
QUESTION WEEK 1/4/2009: When Mary was known to be pregnant with Jesus, was she yet married to Joseph? See Matthew 1:18
ANSWER WEEK 1/4/2009: Depends. The verse says they were "betrothed" when Joseph finds out she is pregnant before they "knew each other", but it does not let us know if Mary was pregnant before or after they were married.
QUESTION WEEK 1/18/2009: Jesus confronts the Pharisees in Matthew 12:7 saying "And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not _________'......" What word fills in the blank?
ANSWER WEEK 1/18/2009: The word is "sacrifice". (Think about that one!)
QUESTION WEEK 2/1/2009: True or false? There is a short version and a long version to the Book of Mark.
ANSWER WEEK 2/1/09: True! Check it out.
QUESTION WEEK 2/8/09: In John 8:12 Jesus tells us "I am the ________ of the world....". Can you fill in the blank?
ANSWER: LIGHT
QUESTION WEEK 3/8/09: Jesus said "Eli, Eli la'ma sabach-tha' ni?" What is the translation and when did he say it? See Mathew 27:46
ANSWER WEEK 3/15/09: Jesus said "My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?" when he was on the cross.
QUESTION WEEK 3/15/09: How many days did Jesus say it would take him to rebuild the temple if the Jews destroyed it? See John 2nd chapter.
ANSWER WEEK 3/15/09: 3 DAYS
QUESTION WEEK 3/22/09: What did Moses lift up in the wilderness to save his people? See John 3.
ANSWER WEEK 3/22/09: A serpent.
QUESTION WEEK 3/29/09: According to John 12:25, what happens to those who love their life and what does this mean to you?
ANSWER WEEK 3/29/09: "He who loves his life loses it...."
QUESTION WEEK 4/5/09: According to Mark 14:47, who cut off the ear of the slave of the high priest when they came to seize Jesus?
ANSWER WEEK 4/5/09: Luke, as well as Matthew and Mark do not say who it was, however John says it was Simon Peter. (Trick question.)
QUESTION FOR EASTER WEEK: Who died on the cross for our salvation?
QUESTION WEEK 4/20/09: In John 29:24, who of the 12 disciples was not present when Jesus revealed himself after resurrection?
ANSWER WEEK 4/20/09: Thomas. Also Judas as he had hanged himself.
QUESTION WEEK 4/26/09: In Luke 24 when the women entered the tomb, how many men "stood by them in dazzling apparel" ?
ANSWER 4/26/09: TWO
QUESTION WEEK 5/3/09:Can you fill in the blank? John 10:14 says "I am the good _________. I know my own and my own know me, ....."
ANSWER WEEK 5/3/09: "shepherd"
QUESTION WEEK 5/10/09: In Mark 16 when the women entered the tomb, how many men sat "on the right side, dressed in a white robe...."
ANSWER WEEK 5/10/09: ",,,they saw a young man..." There is only mention of one man.
QUESTION WEEK 5/17/09: Can you complete the phrase John 15:12? "This is my commandment that you love one another as __________________ ."
ANSWER WEEK 5/17/09: "....I have loved you."
QUESTION WEEK 5/24/09: According to John 20:11-20:14 when Mary Mag'dalene looked into the tomb on the first day of the week, who did she see?
ANSWER WEEK 5/24/09: "...she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain,...
QUESTION WEEK 5/31/09: Who is in the tomb in Matthew's (Matthew 28) account of the sabbath after the resurrection?
ANSWER WEEK 5/31/09: Actually Matthew 28 says there is nobody in the tomb. An angel came and rolled back the stone and sat upon it.
QUESTION WEEK 6/7/09: John 3:16 may be the most known verse in the Bible. However, can you fill in the blank of the verse that follows? "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be ______ through him."
ANSWER WEEK 6/7/09: The word is "SAVED". Amen.
QUESTION WEEK 6/14/09: In the parable of Mark 4:13, what is the plant that grows from the smallest seed yet becomes the greatest shrub?
ANSWER WEEK 6/14/09: The mustard plant.
QUESTION WEEK 6/28/09: Mark 5:25-34 tells a story of a woman who came to Jesus because she had been bleeding for years. How many years had she been bleeding?