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50 free Deuteronomy trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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 50 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 rises about 700 metres in present-day Jordan, and from its top the LORD showed Moses the whole land from Gilead to the Negev before he died there. Pope John Paul II climbed it in 2000.
Q 02How old was Moses when he died in Moab, 'yet his eyes were not weak', according to Deuteronomy 34?
120
120 is also the age Moses states in Deuteronomy 31 when he tells Israel 'I am no longer able to lead you', even though the book insists his sight and vigour had not failed.
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 keeping the Sabbath, where Exodus 20 points to the six days of 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 06Who buried Moses in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in a grave whose site 'no one knows' to this day?
The LORD himself
The LORD himself is the subject of 'He buried him' in Deuteronomy 34, which is why the Epistle of Jude can picture the archangel Michael disputing with the devil over the body of Moses.
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 08How many of Jesus' replies to the devil in the wilderness of Matthew 4 are quotations from Deuteronomy?
All three
All three come from Deuteronomy 6 and 8: 'bread alone', 'do not put the Lord your God to the test' and 'worship the Lord your God', each introduced with the words 'It is written'.
Q 09Which ritual object grew from Deuteronomy 6's command to tie God's words 'as symbols on your hands' and foreheads?
Tefillin
Tefillin are the small leather boxes bound to the arm and head at weekday morning prayer, with the Shema passage written on the parchment inside them.
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 northern of the two peaks flanking Shechem, also got an altar of uncut stones and the law written on plastered stones, and a structure found there in 1980 has been argued to be that altar.
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 measured over thirteen feet by six, fitting for 'the last of the Rephaites', the giants of the region, and Rabbah is today's Amman in Jordan.
Q 13Which animals must Israel's king not 'acquire great numbers of', under the law of kings in Deuteronomy 17?
Horses
Q 21What does a widow remove from a brother-in-law who refuses to marry her in Deuteronomy 25, before spitting in his face?
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 may not 'enter the assembly of the LORD', even in the tenth generation, in Deuteronomy 23?
Horses were Egypt's export, and 1 Kings 10 records Solomon importing them from there by the thousand, breaking this rule along with the one against piling up silver and gold.
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', in a verse Paul applied to the crucifixion in Galatians?
He is under God's curse
He is under God's curse, so the body must be buried the same day rather than left overnight, which is why the Gospels have the bodies taken down before the Sabbath.
Q 16Which two fibres does Deuteronomy 22 forbid wearing 'woven together', right after banning mixed seed in a vineyard?
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 19What is the most lashes a judge may order in Deuteronomy 25, lest a fellow Israelite 'be degraded in your eyes'?
Forty
Forty was the ceiling, and to be sure of never exceeding it later courts stopped at thirty-nine, the 'forty lashes minus one' Paul says he received five times.
Q 20Which animal must not be muzzled 'while it is treading out the grain', a Deuteronomy 25 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 26At the end of every how many years must creditors cancel the loans of fellow Israelites, in Deuteronomy 15?
Seven
Seven years matches the sabbatical rest for the land in Leviticus, and the chapter warns lenders not to turn stingy with the poor as the year of cancellation draws near.
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 have a husband write before sending from his house a woman he finds 'indecent'?
A certificate of divorce
A certificate of divorce is what the Pharisees cite to Jesus in Mark 10, and he answers that 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 is promised in Exodus 23 as well, and the farewell speech that closes the next book credits it with driving out the two Amorite kings, 'not with your own sword and bow'.
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'.