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70 free Bible Heroes trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Every Sunday school kid knows David and his sling. Fewer remember Shamgar and his ox goad, Benaiah's lion in a snowy pit, or Jael and her tent peg. This heroes Bible trivia quiz covers the whole cast: the patriarchs (Noah, Abraham, Joseph), the deliverers of Exodus and Judges (Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Deborah, Gideon, Ehud, Jephthah, Samson), the kings and prophets (David, Jonathan, Josiah, Hezekiah, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel), the women of courage (Ruth, Esther, Hannah, Abigail, Rahab, Miriam), the exiles who went home (Ezra, Nehemiah, Mordecai) and the New Testament heroes (Peter, Paul, Stephen, Barnabas, Timothy, Priscilla and Aquila). Most questions ask you to name the hero from what he or she did; the rest test the details, like how many men Gideon kept, how tall Goliath was and how many days the wall took. Difficulty runs from easy for children's church to hard for lifelong Bible readers, so it works for youth groups, family game night and church quiz competitions. Every answer is quoted directly from the Bible text (World English Bible), with the verse cited, so nothing depends on tradition or half-remembered stories.
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Q 01Which judge killed a thousand Philistines with the fresh jawbone of a donkey?
Samson
He later named the spot Ramath Lehi, 'the hill of the jawbone', and God opened a spring there when he cried out for water.
Q 02God told which judge to keep only the men who lapped water like dogs, and send the rest of his army home?
Gideon
His tiny force attacked the Midianite camp at night with trumpets, empty jars and torches, and the enemy fled in panic.
Q 03Which Philistine champion did the shepherd boy strike in the forehead with a stone from his sling?
Goliath
He had refused Saul's armour because he had not tested it, and picked five smooth stones from the brook.
Q 04Who told King Darius that God had sent an angel to shut the lions' mouths?
Daniel
The men who plotted against him were then thrown to the same lions, along with their families.
Q 05Which prophet's Mount Carmel sacrifice was consumed by fire from heaven that even licked up the trench water?
Elijah
He had the altar drenched with twelve jars of water first, so nobody could accuse him of trickery.
Q 06Which queen was asked whether she had come to the kingdom 'for such a time as this'?
Esther
Approaching the king uninvited was punishable by death, so she asked the Jews of Susa to fast for three days first.
Q 07Who was told to build a ship 300 cubits long, 50 wide and 30 high?
Noah
That works out to roughly 137 metres long, or about one and a half football pitches.
Q 08Which patriarch, about to sacrifice his son, saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket?
Abraham
He named the place 'Yahweh Will Provide'; the mountain, Moriah, is traditionally linked to the site of the later Temple.
Q 09Which former prisoner did Pharaoh set 'over all the land of Egypt'?
Joseph
He was 30 years old and had just interpreted Pharaoh's dreams of fat and thin cows.
Q 10Who said to her mother-in-law, 'Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay'?
Ruth
She was a Moabite widow, and her loyalty led her to Bethlehem, a new husband and a place in the family line of David.
Q 11Which prophet spent three days and three nights inside a great fish?
Jonah
He was fleeing a mission to preach in Nineveh; when he finally went, the whole city repented and he sulked about it.
Q 12Which royal cupbearer asked the Persian king to send him to rebuild the city of his fathers' tombs?
Nehemiah
He served King Artaxerxes and finished Jerusalem's walls despite ridicule and threats from local governors.
Q 13Who drove a tent peg through the temple of the sleeping general Sisera?
Jael
Barak arrived in pursuit only to find the enemy commander already dead, exactly as the prophetess had said a woman would get the credit.
Q 21Which sister of Aaron led the women in dancing with tambourines after the crossing of the Red Sea?
Miriam
As a girl she had watched over her baby brother's basket in the reeds of the Nile.
Q 22Which farmer, called while plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, became a prophet's successor?
Elisha
He cooked the oxen over the plowing gear and threw a farewell feast for the people before following his new master.
Q 23What creatures brought the prophet bread and meat morning and evening beside the brook Cherith?
Ravens
The brook eventually dried up in the drought he had prophesied, and he moved on to a widow in Zarephath.
Q 14Which woman of Jericho hid the two spies that Joshua sent to view the land?
Rahab
She lowered them from a window in the city wall and marked her house with a scarlet cord so it would be spared.
Q 15Which prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel under a palm tree?
Deborah
She summoned Barak to fight Sisera and went into battle with him when he refused to go alone.
Q 16Which left-handed judge hid a sword on his right thigh and killed King Eglon of Moab?
Ehud
The overweight king's servants assumed he was relieving himself and waited so long that the killer escaped.
Q 17Which judge struck down 600 Philistines with an ox goad?
Shamgar
He gets a single verse in the book of Judges, making him one of the least-known deliverers of Israel.
Q 18Which judge made a rash vow to sacrifice whatever came out of his door first if he beat the Ammonites?
Jephthah
It was his only child, a daughter, who came out dancing to meet him.
Q 19Which of the twelve spies said 'Let us go up at once, and possess it'?
Caleb
He and Joshua were the only two adults of that generation allowed to enter Canaan; at 85 he asked for the hill country of Hebron.
Q 20Which boy answered God's call in the night with 'Speak; for your servant hears'?
Samuel
He was serving under the old priest Eli at Shiloh and became the prophet who anointed Israel's first two kings.
Q 24What separated the prophet from his companion just before he was taken up to heaven by a whirlwind?
A chariot and horses of fire
His companion picked up the fallen mantle and received a double portion of his spirit.
Q 25How many times did Naaman dip in the Jordan, on the prophet's orders, to cure his leprosy?
Seven
Naaman was furious that his rivers back home in Damascus weren't good enough, until his servants talked him round.
Q 26Who was the first Christian martyr, stoned while praying 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit'?
Stephen
A young man who would become the church's greatest missionary guarded the coats of the men who stoned him.
Q 27Who fell to the ground on the road to Damascus and heard 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'
Paul
Blinded for three days, he was healed when Ananias laid hands on him, and became the church's greatest missionary.
Q 28Which disciple stepped out of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus?
Peter
He began to sink when he noticed the wind, and Jesus caught him with the words 'You of little faith'.
Q 29Which Levite from Cyprus did the apostles nickname 'Son of Encouragement'?
Barnabas
He vouched for the newly converted persecutor when the Jerusalem church was afraid of him and later travelled with him.
Q 30Which tentmaking couple, expelled from Rome by Claudius, hosted the apostle to the Gentiles in Corinth?
Priscilla and Aquila
They later corrected the eloquent preacher Apollos, and the apostle said all the Gentile churches owed them thanks.