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60 free Genesis trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
51 free Genesis trivia questions with answers. Genesis is the first book of the Bible and the source of stories almost everyone half-knows: the six days of creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob's ladder, Joseph and his coat. This quiz walks through all fifty chapters in order, from 'In the beginning' to Joseph's bones, with questions on the details that separate a Sunday-school memory from a close reading: which land Cain settled in, how old Noah was, who bore Dan and Naphtali, what Abraham paid for at Hebron. Because a lot of people searching for Genesis mean the band, the last section covers Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Charterhouse School and The Last Domino? tour. Good for a Bible study icebreaker, a youth group night or a pub quiz with a twist. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew Bible; what does its Hebrew name 'Bereshit' mean?
In the beginning
The name is simply the book's first word; the English title comes from the Greek for 'origin'.
Q 02Where does the primeval history of Genesis end, before the ancestral history begins?
Chapter 11
Chapters 12 to 50 then follow Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.
Q 03In how many days or stages does Genesis 1 say God created the heavens and the earth before resting?
Six
The rest on the seventh day is the basis of the Sabbath.
Q 04On which day of creation does Genesis say God made the animals of the sea and the air?
The fifth
Land animals and humans followed on the sixth day.
Q 05According to Genesis 2, God formed the first man from what?
Dust
The first woman was then 'built' from a rib taken from his side.
Q 06What guarded the way to the tree of life after Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden?
Cherubim and a flaming sword
The forbidden fruit is never identified as an apple in the text; that idea came much later.
Q 07A river flowing out of Eden divides into four; which of these is one of them?
Gihon
The others are the Pishon, the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Q 08In Genesis, Cain was a farmer; what was his brother Abel?
A shepherd
God accepted Abel's offering but not Cain's, and Cain killed his brother.
Q 09After killing Abel, Cain settled in which land 'east of Eden'?
Nod
The name means 'wandering'; he built a city there and named it after his son Enoch.
Q 10Who is the longest-lived person in the Bible, dying at 969?
Methuselah
He was the grandfather of Noah.
Q 11Who was the father of the man who lived to 969, the longest life in the Bible?
Enoch
Enoch himself 'walked with God' and was taken without dying; his grandson was Noah.
Q 12How long did the rain of Noah's flood fall, according to Genesis?
Forty days and forty nights
The waters covered the highest mountains to a depth of 15 cubits.
Q 13How old was Noah when he entered the ark?
600
He took pairs of every clean and unclean animal aboard.
Q 14Where did the ark come to rest?
Q 21What was instituted as the sign of God's covenant with Abraham?
Circumcision of all males
It was to apply to every male in his household, including servants.
Q 22Who was the mother of Abraham's son Ishmael?
Hagar
Sarah's own son Isaac was born when Abraham was a hundred years old.
Q 23How old was Abraham when Isaac was born?
100
Ishmael was fourteen at the time.
Q 24Who stopped Abraham as he was about to sacrifice Isaac?
On the mountains of Ararat
Noah then sent out a raven and a dove; on its third trip the dove did not return.
Q 15What did God set in the sky as a sign of his covenant never again to flood the earth?
A rainbow
The same covenant permitted people to eat every living thing but not its blood.
Q 16The ark was to be built of which material, named by a word that appears nowhere else in the Bible?
Gopher wood
That is roughly 134 metres long, 22 wide and 13 high.
Q 17In which land did the people build the Tower of Babel?
Shinar
God confused their one language and scattered them, and the name Babel puns on the Hebrew for 'to confuse'.
Q 18The name Babel is explained in Genesis by a Hebrew verb meaning what?
To confuse
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1563 painting is the most famous image of the tower.
Q 19God told Abram to leave his home in which city and travel to Canaan?
Ur
He was descended from Noah through Shem and took his nephew Lot with him.
Q 20God changed Abram's name to Abraham; what does the new name mean?
Father of a multitude
His wife Sarai became Sarah at the same time.
The Angel of the LORD
A ram caught in a thicket was offered in the boy's place.
Q 25Abraham bargained with God to spare Sodom if how many righteous people could be found there?
Ten
He had talked God down from fifty; the ten could not be found.
Q 26What happened to Lot's wife when she looked back at the destruction of Sodom?
She became a pillar of salt
Lot and his two daughters fled to the small town of Zoar.
Q 27With what did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
Sulfur and fire
Two angels had visited Lot the night before to warn him.
Q 28Where did Abraham buy a burial cave that became the tomb of the patriarchs?
Hebron
He paid the Hittite Ephron for the Cave of Machpelah, and Jacob was later buried there too.
Q 29At what age did Abraham die?
175
He was buried in the cave of Machpelah by his sons Isaac and Ishmael.
Q 30Esau, the twin brother of Jacob, is described in Genesis as the father of which people?
The Edomites
Their mother Rebekah favoured Jacob; their father Isaac favoured Esau.