TRIVIA SIX
Answers due the third Wednesday in March
What Gets Quoted Most?
1. What book, one of the prophets, gets quoted in the New Testament more than any Old Testament book (419 times)?
2. What book, the longest in the Old Testament, ranks second with 414 references in the New?
3. What book, part of the Torah, ranks third with 260 references?
4. What book, part narrative and part law, ranks fourth with 250 references?
5. What book, more law than history, ranks fifth with 208 references?
6. What book, a long book of prophecy, ranks sixth with 141 references?
7. What book, with many visions in it, ranks seventh with 133 references?
8. What book, a book by one of the later prophets, ranks eighth with 125 references?
9. What book, probably one of the least read of Old Testament books, ranks ninth with 107 references?
10. What book, mostly history and part law, ranks tenth with 73 references? Figure out the answer to question one and the other nine should be easy!
Everyday Phrases from the Bible
Identify the book and, if possible, the chapter and verse where these commonly used phrases originated.
1. The skin of my teeth (Job)
2. Wolf in sheep's clothing (Matthew)
3. Salt of the earth (Matthew)
4. Holier than thou (Isaiah)
5. Woe is me! (Isaiah)
6. Can a leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah)
7. A drop in a bucket (Isaiah)
8. Eat, drink, and be merry (Ecclesiastes)
9. Pride goeth before a fall (Proverbs)
10. Give up the ghost (Job)
11. Spare the rod and spoil the child (Proverbs)
12. My brother's keeper (Genesis)
13. Fat of the land (Genesis)
14. A lamb for the slaughter (Isaiah)
15. The blind leading the blind (Matthew)
Chapter 1, Verse 1
Each of the following is the first verse of a book of the Bible. Name the book in each case.
1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.
3. There was a man in the land of Uz.
4. The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to do and teach.
5. The elder unto the well-beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
6. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem and besieged it.
7. Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came unto Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
8. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
9. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets.
10. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life.
11. And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation.
12. Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Malahaleel, Jared.
13. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
14. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope.
15. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces).
16. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow!
17. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
18. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
19. Paul, an apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the father, who raised him from the dead).
20. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,
21. And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt.
22. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
23. The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth.
24. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.
25. Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.
26. Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom.
27. Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
28. These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.
29. Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness.
30. Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Anialekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag.
31. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.
32. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother.
33. Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
34. Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the Lord.
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