This weekend, as the result of a fun trip, I came home with a .99 cent Bible Trivia game. Yay! So, I thought: "What is possibly more edifying than playing Bible Trivia with your friends?"
In the game, there are 7 categories: Old Testament (OT); History and Geography (HG); Prophets (P); Names (N); Letters, Numbers and Sequence (LNS); New Testament (NT), and Wisdom (W). You progress "Up the Rainbow" on the board by providing a correct response to one question from each category.
So, I'll start Round 1 by asking 15 Bible questions from the same category. We'll begin with Old School, OT. The first person to respond correctly to one question of his or her choice (first come, first served) will advance to the next round. Once a question is correctly answered, people will need to answer the remaining ones in order to advance. We'll play all this week, with a new category each day. Even if you join the game late, if there are still questions left unanswered from previous days, you can catch up!
Please let me know if there is a particular sign or symbol you would like to represent you in this friendly game! Feel free to guess as much as you like. :)
1. What two men tried to pretend to rulers that their wives were only their sisters?
2. Who cursed the day he was born?
3. What did Absalom catch in a tree? (Little bit of a trick question)
4. What possession of Joseph's inspired the jealousy of his brothers?
5. Who gave the following as a gift to make peace with a relative: 220 goats, 220 sheep, 30 camels, 50 cattle, and 30 donkeys?
6. What species of bird does Job describe as stupid?
7. God revealed "I am that I am" to whom?
Although they print the question this way: To whom did God say: "I am that I am?"
8. Who declared his devotion: "Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women"?
9. What is the significance of the words: "MENE MENE TEKEL U PHARSIN"? (Either their meaning or where/how they were written).
10. Who ate honey from a lion's carcass?
11. What was the relationship between Leah and Zilpah?
12. Which king ordered that when his subjects heard music they must fall down and worship him?
13. What reason is given for Isaac's preference of Esau over Jacob?
14. Why was Joseph released from prison and given some authority in Egypt?
15. In a parable found in Judges, the trees decide to nominate a tree king. Which tree accepts the tree kingship (the fig, bramble, olive, or vine)?
P.S. Kitties also love Bible Trivia.
Notice Sophie kept everything nice and neat and only sniffed around it. She's very respectful of the tradition of her namesake. (Sophia is the female spirit of wisdom in the Bible). Athena, however, released her inner warrior princess . . . . Perhaps it's her jealous Hellenic side, or maybe she didn't like that last olive tree question.
5 comments:
Well #4 is a giveaway thanks to Andrew Lloyd Weber. I'm going with the cool coat. No, really wasn't it really that his Dad favored him over all the others?
If I'm wrong, I'm going with #9 was the words written on the wall--where I'm not sure, by whom, I'm going to go with that hand that appeared out of nowhere. I'm going to say to the Babylonians.
And if all these fail, I'm going with #8 from David to Jonathan, noting that theme that I noticed before.
Do I advance yet?
I love Bible Trivia!
I think #1 is Moses and Abraham. If I'm wrong, I think # 7 is Moses.
PS on #9---warning of DOOM.
Yay! Both baby olivia and mrs. b. roth move up the Rainbow!
4. His coat of many colours
(Gen. 37: 3-4).
Yes, that was the answer they wanted, but I think you're right about the loving him more thing really. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours" (Gen. 37:3). Also, it probably didn't help that Joseph told his brothers about his dreams, in which he ruled over all of them.
9. "The words written on the wall of the palace of Babylon by God's hand" (Dan 5:25).
In Dan the floating hand writes these words on the wall for Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar's son. They mean: "Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Peres; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians" (Dan 5:25-28). Basically, yes, a message of DOOM. It says Belshazzar died that very night.
8. Yes, David lamenting Jonathan's death (2 Sam. 1:26).
1. Abraham is correct (Gen 12). I'll leave the second guy's name off for now, in case you want to guess again, for fun. Or in case anyone wants to benefit from having half the question already answered. It was someone very close to Abraham.
7. Yes, you got it. Moses.
(Exodus 3:14). "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."
I believe Job cursed the day he was born. If I'm wrong, Joseph was released and given authority because he was able to interpret Pharaoh's dreams.
I was going to say you could make my symbol a pentagram, just for the sacrilege of it, but maybe that's a bit much. How 'bout a snake?
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