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60 free Women in the Bible trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
52 free Women in the Bible trivia questions with answers. The Bible's women are often reduced to a name in a genealogy, yet the stories are some of the most vivid in scripture: Jael and the tent peg, Rahab and the red cord, Abigail's convoy of food, Esther risking her life before the king, the Samaritan woman at the well. This quiz covers around forty of them across both testaments, from Eve, Sarah, Hagar and the wives of Jacob to Deborah, Ruth, Hannah, Bathsheba, the Queen of Sheba, Jezebel and Huldah, and on to Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Mary Magdalene, Salome, Dorcas, Lydia, Priscilla and Phoebe. Easy questions cover the stories everyone knows; harder ones ask how much the Philistines paid Delilah, what Naomi wanted to be called, and where Salome's name actually comes from. It works for a Bible study, a women's group, a youth night or a church quiz. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on each figure and shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01According to Genesis, from what part of Adam was Eve created?
A rib
Her name is usually read as meaning 'living one' or 'source of life'.
Q 02Eve's third son, from whom Noah and all humanity are descended, was named what?
Seth
Cain and Abel came first; Seth was born after Abel's murder.
Q 03What was Sarah called before God gave her a new name?
Sarai
Her husband was renamed from Abram to Abraham at the same time.
Q 04Sarah laughed when told she would have a son in old age; what does her son Isaac's name mean?
Laughter
Abraham was a hundred years old when he was born.
Q 05At what age did Sarah die, according to Genesis?
127
She was buried in the Cave of Machpelah at Hebron, the first plot of land Abraham owned in Canaan.
Q 06Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, was a handmaid from which country?
Egypt
Islamic tradition has her searching for water between the hills of Safa and Marwah until the Zamzam well appeared.
Q 07Rebecca was chosen as Isaac's wife after doing what for Abraham's servant at a well?
Watering all his camels
She was the daughter of Bethuel and sister of Laban, from Paddan Aram.
Q 08Which of her twin sons did Rebecca help to obtain Isaac's blessing by deception?
Jacob
She overheard Isaac's plan and dressed Jacob in goatskins to fool the blind old man.
Q 09Which sister did Laban trick Jacob into marrying instead of the one he had worked seven years for?
Leah
Jacob had worked seven years for the younger sister and got the elder under the wedding veil.
Q 10How many sons did Leah bear to Jacob?
Six
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun, plus a daughter, Dinah.
Q 11Rachel died giving birth to which son?
Benjamin
Her tomb on the road to Bethlehem is still a pilgrimage site.
Q 12What did Rachel steal from her father Laban when Jacob's family fled?
His household idols
She hid the teraphim in her camel's saddle cushion and sat on them while he searched.
Q 13What name do later Jewish and Islamic traditions give Potiphar's wife?
Zuleikha
Genesis never names her; Joseph left his garment in her hand and fled.
Q 14Lot's wife is unnamed in Genesis but is called what in some Jewish traditions?
Q 21How many pieces of silver did each Philistine lord offer Delilah for Samson's secret?
1,100
She is the only woman in Samson's whole story who is given a name.
Q 22Ruth, the great-grandmother of David, came from which people?
The Moabites
Hers is one of only two books of the Bible named after a woman; the other is Esther.
Q 23In whose fields did Ruth glean grain after returning to Bethlehem with Naomi?
Boaz's
He was a wealthy relative of her dead husband and later married her.
Q 24After losing her husband and sons in Moab, Naomi asked to be called what, meaning 'bitter'?
Edith
She looked back at Sodom and became a pillar of salt; Jesus told his followers to 'remember Lot's wife'.
Q 15Zipporah, wife of Moses, was the daughter of which Midianite priest?
Jethro
She met Moses at a well and later circumcised their son with a flint, calling him a 'husband of blood'.
Q 16Miriam, the sister of Moses, is called a prophetess when she leads the women in song after which event?
The crossing of the Red Sea
She was later struck with a skin disease for criticising Moses, and rabbinic legend gives her a travelling well.
Q 17Rahab of Jericho hid Joshua's two spies under what on her roof?
Bundles of flax
She hung a red cord from her window and her family was spared; Matthew lists her among the ancestors of Jesus.
Q 18Rahab married Salmon of Judah and became the mother of which man, who later married Ruth?
Boaz
That makes her a great-great-grandmother of King David.
Q 19Deborah, the only female judge of Israel, gave her judgments sitting under what?
A palm tree
She summoned the general Barak to fight Sisera and Jabin of Hazor.
Q 20Jael killed the Canaanite commander Sisera with what?
A tent peg
She had first given him milk to drink; the Song of Deborah calls her 'most blessed of women in the tent'.
Mara
She returned to Bethlehem with Ruth and ended up nursing Ruth's son Obed.
Q 25The priest Eli mistook Hannah's silent prayer at Shiloh for what?
Drunkenness
She was praying for a child, and later dedicated her son Samuel to God at the sanctuary.
Q 26Hannah's rival, the other wife of Elkanah who had borne him children, was named what?
Peninnah
Elkanah gave Hannah a double portion at the yearly sacrifice 'because he loved her'.
Q 27Abigail averted the future king's revenge on her husband Nabal by doing what?
Bringing him food and pleading
When Nabal heard what she had done he collapsed and died, and Abigail became David's wife.
Q 28Bathsheba was the wife of which soldier before David took her?
Uriah the Hittite
David had him placed on the front line at Rabbah, and the prophet Nathan condemned the king for it.
Q 29Bathsheba's son who succeeded David as king was famous above all for what quality?
Wisdom
Their first child died in infancy after Nathan's rebuke.
Q 30Modern historians place the Queen of Sheba's kingdom in which country?
Yemen
Ethiopian tradition nonetheless names her Makeda and makes her son by Solomon, Menelik I, the founder of its royal line.