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50 free Adam and Eve trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few stories are as widely known as the one at the start of Genesis: a garden, two people, one rule and a talking tempter. Yet the details surprise almost everyone. What the text actually says about the forbidden tree, what the first couple wore, and what became of their children is often quite different from what people remember. This quiz starts with the Bible account in Genesis 1 to 5: how the first man and woman were made, their days in Eden, the temptation, the punishments, the exile and the family that followed. It then traces the story outward, into the New Testament, Jewish and Islamic tradition, and the painters, poets, novelists and composers who have retold it, with a little science and folklore along the way. The easier questions suit children, Sunday school classes and family quiz nights, while the harder ones will stretch Bible study groups and anyone who knows their art history. Every answer comes with a short explanation that points back to the text or the tradition behind it.
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Q 01Which fruit, never actually named in Genesis, do Western European artists most often show Adam and Eve eating?
Apple
An apple became the usual choice in medieval art, a habit often put down to Latin, in which the words for the fruit and for wrongdoing look almost identical.
Q 02From which part of Adam's body did God make Eve while Adam lay in a deep sleep?
A rib
A rib was taken while Adam slept, and when he woke he greeted Eve as bone of his bones and gave her the name Woman.
Q 03Which artist painted The Creation of Adam, with two almost-touching fingers, on the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Michelangelo
Michelangelo left a gap of less than an inch between the two index fingers, which some scholars read as a sign that people can never quite reach the divine.
Q 04Which talking creature tempts Eve in Genesis 3, where it is called craftier than any other wild animal?
The serpent
The serpent is never called Satan in Genesis, an identification later readers added, and its punishment is to crawl on its belly.
Q 05Which tree's leaves did Adam and Eve sew together to cover themselves after eating the forbidden fruit?
Fig
Fig leaves went on to become art's standard cover-up: painters, sculptors and later censors used them to hide nudity.
Q 06Which author's Narnia books call human children Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve?
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis built the phrase into a prophecy: the White Witch's rule ends when two boys and two girls of that descent fill four thrones.
Q 07Which son of Adam and Eve, a farmer and their firstborn, became the first murderer in the Bible?
Cain
Cain was sent off to wander for the killing, yet God put a protective sign on him so that nobody who found him would strike him.
Q 08Which festive decoration is linked to a prop in medieval plays about Adam and Eve performed each 24 December?
The Christmas tree
The Christmas tree may descend from the paradise tree, a fir hung with fruit that stood for Eden on the name day of Adam and Eve.
Q 09What job did God give Adam in Genesis 2 when every animal and bird was brought before him?
Naming them
Naming them showed that no animal was a fitting partner for Adam, and it is at that point that God puts him into a deep sleep.
Q 10Which English poet, blind by the time he wrote it, retold Adam and Eve's story in Paradise Lost?
John Milton
John Milton composed the whole epic aloud, dictating its lines to friends and assistants who wrote them down for him.
Q 11According to Genesis 2:7, what did God shape into the first man, Adam, before breathing into him?
Dust
Dust from the ground is also where Adam's story ends: God later tells him he was taken from it and will return to it.
Q 12In Genesis 2:18, God decides to make a helper for Adam because it is not good for him to be what?
Alone
Alone is the first thing in the Bible that God calls not good, and the animals are paraded past Adam before a true partner is made.
Q 13The tree Adam and Eve were told never to eat from gave the knowledge of what, according to Genesis 2?
Good and evil
Good and evil is what the tempter promised Eve she would know, just as God does; a second special tree in Eden offered endless life.
Q 21Which son of Adam and Eve kept sheep and brought God an offering from the firstborn of his flock?
Abel
Abel had his offering accepted while his older brother's was passed over, and the jealousy that followed ended in the Bible's first killing.
Q 22Adam lived 930 years in Genesis 5, but which of his descendants lived 39 years longer?
Methuselah
Methuselah is credited with 969 years, the longest lifespan in the Bible, and some suspect an ancient mix-up of months and years behind such figures.
Q 23Genesis 2 ends by saying Adam and Eve were both naked in the garden and did not feel what?
Shame
Shame arrives only after the forbidden fruit: their eyes are opened, they realise they are unclothed, and they hurry to cover up.
Q 14On which day of creation does Genesis 1 say God made humans, male and female, in his own image?
The sixth day
The sixth day also brought the land animals, and it is the only day on which God looks at his work and calls it very good.
Q 15What question did God call out to Adam as he hid in the garden after eating the forbidden fruit?
"Where are you?"
"Where are you?" is the first question God asks in the Bible, and Adam replies that he hid because he was naked and afraid.
Q 16What did God make to clothe Adam and Eve just before sending them out of the Garden of Eden?
Coats of skin
Coats of skin replaced the leaf coverings the couple had stitched for themselves, a last act of care before they were sent away.
Q 17Which experience did God tell Eve would become far more painful because she ate the forbidden fruit?
Childbirth
Childbirth is only half of Eve's sentence in Genesis 3:16, which goes on to say that her husband will rule over her.
Q 18Which two prickly plants did God say the cursed ground would grow for Adam after the forbidden fruit?
Thorns and thistles
Thorns and thistles turned farming into a struggle: God told Adam he would eat from the ground only through hard labour, every day until he died.
Q 19After Eve is made, Genesis 2:24 says a man will leave his parents, join his wife, and the two will be what?
One flesh
One flesh became the Bible's standard picture of marriage: in the Gospels, Jesus quotes this very verse when he is asked about divorce.
Q 20Into which part of Adam, newly formed from the ground, did God breathe the breath of life in Genesis 2:7?
His nostrils
His nostrils took in the breath of life, and only at that moment, Genesis says, did the figure God had formed become a soul.
Q 24In Genesis 1, God blesses the first man and woman and tells them to be fruitful and do what?
Multiply
Multiply and fill the earth is the first instruction God gives to people, and it comes with charge of the fish, the birds and every animal.
Q 25Which son was born to Adam and Eve after one of their first two sons had killed the other?
Seth
Seth was welcomed by Eve as a replacement appointed by God, and Genesis runs the family line that leads to the Flood through him.
Q 26Which heavenly beings did God station east of Eden, with a flaming sword, after driving out Adam and Eve?
Cherubim
Cherubim and the turning sword blocked the way to the tree of life, so that the exiled couple could never eat from it and live forever.
Q 27According to Genesis 3:20, Adam named his wife Eve because she would be the mother of whom?
All the living
All the living fits her name, which echoes the Hebrew word for life, and Adam gives it just after God tells him that he will die.
Q 28Which river, still on maps today, does Genesis 2 list with the Pishon and Gihon as flowing out of Eden?
The Euphrates
The Euphrates and the Tigris, another of Eden's four rivers, are why some scholars place the garden in southern Mesopotamia, near the Persian Gulf.
Q 29God tells the tempter in Eden that Eve's offspring will bruise its head while it bruises his what?
Heel
Heel against head made this verse famous: Christians call it the protevangelium, or first gospel, reading it as a promise that the devil would be defeated.
Q 30To which land, east of Eden, did Adam and Eve's eldest son go to live after killing his brother?
Nod
Nod comes from the Hebrew root for wandering, which fits a man condemned to roam, and English later turned it into a joke name for sleep.