Deuteronomy Trivia
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100 free Deuteronomy trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Deuteronomy is Moses talking. Camped on the plains of Moab with the Jordan in view, an old man who knows he will not cross it retells the wilderness years, restates the Ten Commandments, lays down a legal code and then sings. It is the book Jesus quoted most when cornered, and the book Jewish prayer still opens with. These 100 questions walk through it in order: the speeches of the opening chapters, the giant's relic and the cities of refuge, the Shema and what grew from it, the laws of chapters 12 to 26 on food, kings, prophets, war, debt, marriage and honest weights, the blessings and curses shouted between two mountains, the Song and Blessing of Moses, and the death and burial that close the Torah. A few questions follow the book into the temple of a reforming king and the desk of a nineteenth-century scholar. It suits a church quiz night, a Bible study working through the Pentateuch, or anyone who skipped the law codes and wants to know what they actually say. Play on your phone with instant answers and explanations, or print it and read it aloud.
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Q 01Which mountain did Moses climb from the plains of Moab to see the promised land he would never enter?
Mount Nebo
Mount Nebo. God tells Moses to climb it and die there 'just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor', so a view across the Jordan is all he ever gets of the land.
Q 02Moses died at 120, says Deuteronomy 34, within sight of which 'City of Palms' across the Jordan?
Jericho
Jericho. Moses sees the city from the mountain with eyes that 'were not weak' even at 120, but he gets no closer, and its walls fall to Israel only in the next book.
Q 03What food does Deuteronomy 8 say God sent to teach Israel that 'man does not live on bread alone'?
Manna
Manna, 'which neither you nor your ancestors had known', was meant to humble Israel into dependence, and Jesus quoted the lesson back to the devil when told to turn stones into bread.
Q 04Which word completes the Shema, the prayer that opens 'Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is ___'?
One
One ends the creed that observant Jews recite every morning and evening and traditionally speak as their last words, and Jesus quoted it when a teacher of the law asked which commandment mattered most.
Q 05What reason does Deuteronomy 5 give for the Sabbath, where Exodus 20 points to creation?
Their years as slaves
Their years as slaves in Egypt are the motive: 'Remember that you were slaves in Egypt', so Deuteronomy's Sabbath is framed as rest owed to servants and animals rather than as an echo of creation.
Q 06Deuteronomy 34 says no one knows where Moses is buried; which archangel does Jude show disputing with the devil over his body?
Michael
Michael. The verse says only that 'he buried him', usually read as God himself, in a valley opposite Beth Peor, and Jude 9 is thought to draw on a later legend of a dispute over the body.
Q 07Whom did the LORD commission at the tent of meeting, in a pillar of cloud, to lead Israel after Moses?
Joshua
Joshua son of Nun was 'filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him', and the book that follows Deuteronomy in the Bible carries his name.
Q 08All three of Jesus' replies to the devil in Matthew 4 quote Deuteronomy; which words introduce each one?
It is written
It is written. He answers every temptation from Deuteronomy 6 and 8: live on more than bread alone, do not put God to the test, and worship the Lord your God only.
Q 09Which ritual object grew from Deuteronomy 6's command to tie God's words 'as symbols on your hands' and foreheads?
Tefillin
Tefillin. The small leather boxes hold the passage itself on parchment, and the very next verse, about writing the words on doorframes, gave Judaism the mezuzah.
Q 10Which animal does Deuteronomy 14 call unclean because it 'has a divided hoof' but 'does not chew the cud'?
The pig
The pig fails one of the two tests while the camel, rabbit and hyrax fail the other, and the same chapter bans touching their carcasses as well as eating the meat.
Q 11From which mountain were six tribes to pronounce the curses in Deuteronomy 27, facing the blessings on Gerizim?
Mount Ebal
Mount Ebal. The next book reports the order carried out: an altar of uncut stones goes up on the mountain and the law is read aloud with half the people standing before each peak.
Q 12What relic of Og king of Bashan, 'more than nine cubits long', does Deuteronomy 3 say still stood in Rabbah?
His iron bed
His iron bed. The verse cites its size straight after calling Og the last of the giant Rephaites, as the proof, and some translators think the word means his sarcophagus.
Q 13Which animals does Deuteronomy 17 forbid Israel's king to 'acquire great numbers of'?
Horses
Q 21In Deuteronomy 25, what does a widow remove from the brother-in-law who refuses to marry her?
His sandal
His sandal comes off in front of the elders and his line is branded 'The Family of the Unsandaled', a rite Jewish law still performs as halizah when a brother declines a levirate marriage.
Q 22Which people does Deuteronomy 25 order Israel to 'blot out' for attacking the weary stragglers on the road from Egypt?
Amalekites
Amalekites cut down the stragglers when Israel was 'weary and worn out', and 'Do not forget!' is still read in synagogues on the Sabbath before Purim, since Haman is styled a descendant of their king Agag.
Q 23Which two peoples does Deuteronomy 23 bar from 'the assembly of the LORD' even in the tenth generation?
Horses. 1 Kings 10 shows Solomon breaking the rule: he imports horses from Egypt, where the law tells kings not to send for them, and piles up the silver and gold it also forbids.
Q 14Which apostle, preaching at Solomon's Colonnade in Acts 3, applied Deuteronomy 18's promised 'prophet like me' to Jesus?
Peter
Peter had just healed a lame beggar at the temple gate, and he quotes Moses' promise of a prophet 'from among your own people' to a crowd, warning that anyone who ignores him 'will be completely cut off'.
Q 15What does Deuteronomy 21 say of anyone 'hung on a pole', a verse Paul applied to the crucifixion?
He is under God's curse
He is under God's curse, in the reading Paul follows, so the body must be buried the same day, and John's Gospel has the crucified taken down before the Sabbath began.
Q 16Which two fibres does Deuteronomy 22 forbid wearing 'woven together' in one garment?
Wool and linen
Wool and linen are still kept apart by observant Jews by the rule called shatnez, and Leviticus 19 gives the same ban alongside one on mating different kinds of animals.
Q 17What must an Israelite release when taking eggs or chicks from a nest found by the road, in Deuteronomy 22?
The mother bird
The mother bird goes free 'so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life', the same reward the Ten Commandments attach to honouring parents.
Q 18What does Deuteronomy 23 tell soldiers to carry with their equipment, for when they relieve themselves outside the camp?
Something to dig with
Something to dig with was required because 'the Lord your God moves about in your camp', so the latrine had to be outside it and every hole covered over.
Q 19Deuteronomy 25 caps a flogging at forty lashes to avoid what?
Degrading the offender
Degrading the offender. Later courts stopped at thirty-nine, reportedly so that a miscount could never pass forty, and that is the 'forty lashes minus one' Paul says he received five times.
Q 20Which animal does Deuteronomy 25 say to leave unmuzzled 'while it is treading out the grain', a line Paul quotes about pay?
An ox
An ox that treads grain must be allowed to eat as it works, and Paul turns the verse into an argument that preachers deserve a living in 1 Corinthians 9 and 1 Timothy 5.
Ammonites and Moabites
Ammonites and Moabites are barred for refusing Israel bread and water and hiring Balaam against it, yet Ruth the Moabite marries Boaz and becomes the great-grandmother of King David.
Q 24What does Deuteronomy 14 forbid boiling in milk, the verse behind the kosher separation of meat and dairy?
A young goat
A young goat boiled in milk is banned here and twice more in Exodus, and the rabbis widened that one line into separate dishes and waiting times for meat and milk.
Q 25What does Deuteronomy 14 let a far-off Israelite buy with tithe silver at the sanctuary, alongside cattle and sheep?
Wine or fermented drink
Wine or fermented drink is on the approved list, 'or anything you wish', so the tithe ends as a feast eaten 'in the presence of the Lord your God' with the whole household rejoicing.
Q 26What does Deuteronomy 15 warn lenders against as the seventh-year debt release nears?
Refusing loans
Refusing loans. The chapter calls it a wicked thought to hold back because the release is close, and warns that a neighbour turned away may cry to God against the lender, who will be guilty of sin.
Q 27Which men do Deuteronomy 20's officers send home before battle, in a rule Gideon later used to thin his army?
The afraid and fainthearted
The afraid and fainthearted join men with a new house, a new vineyard or a fiancée in being excused, and Gideon used the rule in Judges 7 to send 22,000 of his 32,000 men home.
Q 28What does Deuteronomy 24 forbid the first husband of a woman divorced by certificate, once her second marriage has ended?
Marrying her again
Marrying her again. The law calls that detestable, and the certificate is what the Pharisees cite to Jesus in Mark 10, where he says Moses allowed it only 'because your hearts were hard'.
Q 29Which creature does Deuteronomy 7 say the LORD will send among the Canaanites until even survivors in hiding perish?
The hornet
The hornet, as most versions render a Hebrew word of uncertain meaning, is promised in Exodus 23 too, and the farewell speech that ends the next book credits it with driving out two Amorite kings.
Q 30Why does Deuteronomy 7 say the LORD chose Israel, a people it calls 'the fewest of all peoples'?
Because he loved them
Because he loved them and kept his oath to their ancestors is the only reason given, and two chapters later Moses adds that it was 'not because of your righteousness'.