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60 free Book of Revelation trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible and the one people argue about most: a lamb with seven horns, a dragon with seven heads, four riders, a star called Wormwood, an army of two hundred million and a city of gold that comes down out of heaven. This quiz has 60 questions on all of it, from the letters to the seven churches through the seals, trumpets and bowls to the thousand years, the last judgment and the New Jerusalem. It also covers the book behind the visions: who wrote it and where, when scholars date it, why 666 might really be 616, which reformer wanted it out of the Bible, which church still does not read it aloud, and where the word Armageddon comes from. Easy openers (how many horsemen, what number belongs to the beast) sit beside genuinely hard ones about the lukewarm church, the little scroll and the measurements of the holy city. It works for a youth group, a Bible study, a Sunday school competition or a pub quiz round. Every answer has been checked against the King James text or a reference source, and each question shows its explanation and citation once you answer.
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Q 01Where in the Bible does the Book of Revelation sit?
Last in the New Testament
It is also the only apocalyptic book in the New Testament canon.
Q 02The book's title comes from its first word in Greek, apokalypsis, which means what?
Unveiling
That is why the book is also called the Apocalypse, and why the plural 'Revelations' is technically a mistake: the Greek word is singular.
Q 03On which island does the author say he received his visions?
Patmos
The Aegean island's Cave of the Apocalypse and its monastery of St John became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
Q 04Around what year do most scholars date the writing of Revelation?
AD 95
Clues in the visions point to the reign of the emperor Domitian, though the seven-headed beast seems to allude to Nero, who died in 68.
Q 05How many churches of Asia receive letters at the start of the book?
Seven
All seven cities lie in modern Turkey, close together and within reach of the island where John was writing.
Q 06Which church is rebuked for being lukewarm, neither cold nor hot?
Laodicea
It is the only one of the seven with no praise at all, and it is told to buy gold refined in fire and eye salve so that it may see.
Q 07Which church is told it has left its first love?
Ephesus
It is praised for hating the deeds of the Nicolaitans and for testing false apostles, but told to repent and do the first works.
Q 08The church at Smyrna is warned it will suffer tribulation for how many days?
Ten
Smyrna is modern İzmir, and the church is promised the crown of life if it stays faithful unto death.
Q 09To the overcomer at Pergamum, Christ promises hidden manna and what object bearing a secret new name?
A white stone
Pergamum is also the church described as living where Satan's seat is.
Q 10The famous verse 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock' is addressed to which church?
Laodicea
It follows straight after the lukewarm rebuke, in the last of the seven letters.
Q 11How many elders sit on thrones around the throne of God in chapter 4?
24
They wear white robes and golden crowns, and are usually read as the twelve tribes plus the twelve apostles.
Q 12How many wings does each of the four living creatures around the throne have?
Six
They are like a lion, a calf, a man and an eagle, and cry Holy, holy, holy without rest, echoing the seraphim of Isaiah 6.
Q 13The Lamb who is worthy to open the scroll is described as having how many horns and eyes?
Seven of each
The book uses seven for perfection or totality throughout: churches, seals, trumpets, bowls, spirits and thunders.
Q 21What is the great star that falls at the third trumpet, making a third of the waters bitter?
Wormwood
The name has stuck to bitter things ever since, from the absinthe herb to Chernobyl, whose name is often (loosely) linked to the same plant.
Q 22What creatures come out of the smoke of the bottomless pit at the fifth trumpet?
Locusts with the power of scorpions
They have human faces, lions' teeth and iron breastplates, and may torment only those without God's seal on their foreheads.
Q 23How large is the army of horsemen released at the sixth trumpet?
Two hundred million
Q 14How many seals are on the scroll that the Lamb opens?
Seven
The first four release the horsemen, the fifth reveals the martyrs under the altar, the sixth brings an earthquake and the seventh introduces the trumpets.
Q 15What colour is the horse ridden by Death?
Pale
He is the only horseman actually named in the text, and Hades follows him.
Q 16The rider of the black horse carries what?
A pair of scales
A voice quotes famine prices, a measure of wheat for a penny, while the oil and wine are spared.
Q 17The rider on the white horse in chapter 6 carries a bow and is given what?
A crown
He goes out conquering; interpreters have read him as everything from Christ to the Antichrist.
Q 18The four horsemen are given power over what fraction of the earth?
A fourth
They kill with sword, hunger, death and the beasts of the earth; later plagues in the book strike a third of things.
Q 19How many are sealed from the tribes of Israel in chapter 7?
144,000
The same number later stands with the Lamb on Mount Zion with the Father's name on their foreheads.
Q 20When the seventh seal is opened, what happens in heaven?
Silence for about half an hour
The silence is broken by seven angels being handed seven trumpets.
They are loosed when the four angels bound at the Euphrates are released, and they kill a third of mankind.
Q 24John is told to eat a little book that tastes like what in his mouth?
Honey
Sweet in the mouth but bitter in the belly, the image is borrowed from Ezekiel, who was also told to eat a scroll.
Q 25For how many days do the two witnesses prophesy in sackcloth?
1,260
That is three and a half years, the same span the woman spends in the wilderness; the earliest interpreters took the pair to be Enoch and Elijah.
Q 26After being killed by the beast, the two witnesses rise and ascend to heaven after how long?
Three and a half days
They are called the two olive trees and the two lampstands, with power to shut the sky and turn water to blood.
Q 27The woman clothed with the sun in chapter 12 has the moon under her feet and a crown of how many stars?
Twelve
Catholic tradition identifies her with the Virgin Mary; other readers see Israel or the Church.
Q 28Which archangel leads the war in heaven against the dragon?
Michael
The dragon is identified as that old serpent, the Devil and Satan, and is cast down to the earth with his angels.
Q 29How is the great red dragon of chapter 12 described?
Seven heads and ten horns
His tail drags a third of the stars from heaven, and the beast from the sea shares his seven-and-ten anatomy.
Q 30What is the number of the beast, according to Revelation 13:18?
666
The oldest surviving manuscript of the chapter, Papyrus 115, actually gives 616, and most scholars link either figure by gematria to the emperor Nero.