Book of Revelation Trivia
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100 free Book of Revelation trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 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 100 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
Last in the New Testament, Revelation ends the Bible where it began: Genesis opens with God creating heaven and earth, and this book closes on a new heaven and a new earth.
Q 02Revelation's first word in Greek is apokalypsis, which literally means what?
Unveiling
Unveiling is the literal sense of apokalypsis, a taking off of the cover; only in modern use did 'apocalypse' come to mean a world-ending catastrophe, after what this book describes.
Q 03On which island does the author of Revelation say he received his visions?
Patmos
Patmos was a place of exile under the Romans, and John says he was there 'for the word of God'; its Cave of the Apocalypse is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Q 04Revelation is commonly dated to about AD 95, near the end of which Roman emperor's reign?
Domitian
Domitian ruled from 81 to 96, and the date rests on Irenaeus, who wrote in the second century that the vision was seen 'almost in our own generation', at the end of that reign.
Q 05The seven churches that receive letters in Revelation all stood in which modern country?
Turkey
Turkey holds all seven sites, in the region the text simply calls Asia; John is told to write what he sees in a book and send it to them, so the whole of Revelation is a letter.
Q 06What does Christ say he will do to the lukewarm church in Revelation 3?
Spit it out of his mouth
Spit it out of his mouth: the church boasts that it is rich and needs nothing, and is told that it is in fact wretched, poor, blind and naked.
Q 07In Revelation, which of the seven churches is told it has left its first love?
Ephesus
Ephesus is praised for its hard work and for unmasking false apostles, yet warned that unless it repents its lampstand will be removed from its place.
Q 08Which of the seven churches is told to be faithful unto death through ten days of tribulation?
Smyrna
Smyrna is one of only two churches that receive no rebuke at all: it is told that it is poor yet really rich, and that the devil will throw some of its members into prison.
Q 09To the overcomer at Pergamum, Christ promises hidden manna and what object bearing a secret new name?
A white stone
A white stone bears a new name known only to its receiver, a reward for holding fast in a city the letter calls the place 'where Satan's seat is', where Antipas was martyred.
Q 10The famous verse 'Behold, I stand at the door, and knock' is addressed to which church?
Laodicea
Laodicea, the last of the seven, hears it straight after being called lukewarm: the knock is an offer to come in and eat with anyone who opens the door.
Q 11How many elders sit on thrones around the throne of God in Revelation 4?
24
24 elders in white robes fall down before the throne whenever the four living creatures give glory, singing that God is worthy because he created all things.
Q 12In art, Revelation 4's lion, ox, man and eagle stand for whom?
The Gospel writers
The Gospel writers took one creature each in the scheme that prevailed in the West: Matthew the man, Mark the lion, Luke the ox and John the eagle, which is why Venice, Mark's city, has a winged lion as its emblem.
Q 13In Revelation 5, John weeps because no one is found worthy to do what?
Open the sealed scroll
Q 21In Revelation, what is the name of the great star that falls and makes a third of the waters bitter?
Wormwood
Wormwood is a bitter herb, the one that flavours absinthe, and the vision turns a third of the rivers into it, so that many people die from drinking the water.
Q 22In Revelation 9, what comes out of the smoke of the bottomless pit?
Locusts with the power of scorpions
Locusts with the power of scorpions are told to leave every green plant alone, the opposite of real locusts, and to torment for five months those who lack God's seal.
Q 23How large is the army of horsemen released at the sixth trumpet in Revelation 9?
Two hundred million
Open the sealed scroll: an elder tells him the Lion of Judah has won the right, yet when John looks he sees a Lamb standing as though it had been slain.
Q 14At the sixth seal in Revelation 6, the kings of the earth beg what to fall on them?
The mountains and rocks
The mountains and rocks: king and slave alike hide in caves and beg to be hidden from 'the wrath of the Lamb' as the stars fall and the sky is rolled away.
Q 15In Revelation 6, what colour is the horse ridden by Death?
Pale
Pale renders a word, chloros, that also means a greenish yellow and gives us 'chlorophyll'; Death is the only rider the text names, and Hades follows close behind him.
Q 16In Revelation 6, what does the rider of the black horse carry?
A pair of scales
A pair of scales signals famine: a voice sets a day's wage as the price of a single measure of wheat, while oil and wine are to be left unharmed.
Q 17In Revelation 6, the rider of the white horse carries a bow, goes out conquering and is given what?
A crown
A crown goes to a rider nobody can agree on: some interpreters see Christ, who later returns on a white horse, while others see the Antichrist or plain conquest.
Q 18Which German artist's 1498 woodcut series on Revelation includes a famous image of the four horsemen?
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer issued his Apocalypse, fifteen woodcuts on Revelation, in 1498, acting as his own publisher; The Four Horsemen is the best known of the set.
Q 19How many are sealed from the tribes of Israel in Revelation 7?
144,000
144,000 is the number John hears, 12,000 from each of twelve tribes; when he turns to look, he sees a crowd from every nation that no one could count.
Q 20When the seventh seal is opened in Revelation 8, what happens in heaven?
Silence for about half an hour
Silence for about half an hour falls before seven angels are handed trumpets; Ingmar Bergman took the title of his film The Seventh Seal from this verse.
Two hundred million is the figure John says he heard; their horses have lions' heads and breathe fire, smoke and brimstone, which kill a third of mankind.
Q 24In Revelation 10, John is told to eat a little book that tastes like what in his mouth?
Honey
Honey in his mouth, the little book turns bitter in his belly, as the angel warned; he is then told he must prophesy again before many peoples and kings.
Q 25In Revelation 11, the two witnesses prophesy for 1,260 days wearing what?
Sackcloth
Sackcloth is the coarse cloth of mourning; anyone who tries to harm the pair is consumed by fire from their mouths, and they can shut the sky so that no rain falls.
Q 26While the two witnesses lie dead in Revelation 11, what do the people of the earth do?
Celebrate and exchange gifts
Celebrate and exchange gifts: the world makes merry because the two prophets had tormented it, but after three and a half days they stand up alive and rise to heaven in a cloud.
Q 27In Revelation 12, the woman who flees from the dragon is clothed with what?
The sun
The sun clothes a woman whose newborn son the dragon waits to devour; the child is caught up to God's throne, and the earth swallows the flood the dragon spews after her.
Q 28Which archangel leads the war in heaven against the dragon in Revelation 12?
Michael
Michael and his angels throw the dragon, 'that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan', down to earth, where he turns his fury on the woman and her children.
Q 29How is the great red dragon of Revelation 12 described?
Seven heads and ten horns
Seven heads and ten horns mark the dragon, whose tail sweeps a third of the stars out of the sky; he then waits to devour a woman's child the moment it is born.
Q 30In Revelation 13, what can nobody do without the mark of the beast?
Buy or sell
Buy or sell: a second beast forces the mark onto the right hand or forehead of rich and poor alike, and has those who refuse to worship the first beast's image killed.