Women in the Bible Trivia
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100 free Women in the Bible trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 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
A rib: Genesis says Adam was put into a deep sleep while one was taken from his side, and on seeing the woman he called her 'bone of my bones'.
Q 02Eve's third son, from whom Noah and all humanity are descended, was named what?
Seth
Seth: Eve gave him the name saying she had been granted another child in place of Abel, whom Cain had killed.
Q 03What was Abraham's wife called before her name was changed along with his?
Sarai
Sarai became Sarah when God promised Abraham a son by her at ninety, with nations and kings to descend from her; Abram was renamed Abraham in the same encounter.
Q 04What does the name of Isaac, the son Sarah bore in old age, mean in Hebrew?
Laughter
Laughter: the Hebrew name is read as 'he laughs', recalling how Sarah laughed to herself when she overheard that she would bear a son in old age.
Q 05In which city did Abraham buy a burial cave for Sarah?
Hebron
Hebron: Abraham refused the cave as a gift and insisted on paying its owner Ephron 400 shekels of silver, so the family tomb was his by purchase.
Q 06Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, was a handmaid from which country?
Egypt
Egypt: Genesis calls Hagar the Egyptian servant of Abraham's childless wife, who gave her to him so that she could bear a child in her place.
Q 07Rebecca was chosen as Isaac's wife after doing what for Abraham's servant at a well?
Watering all his camels
Watering all his camels was the sign the servant had prayed for: the woman who offered a drink to him and to his animals would be the wife chosen for Isaac.
Q 08Rebecca covered Jacob's hands and neck with what so that blind Isaac would take him for hairy Esau?
Goatskins
Goatskins: Rebecca had overheard Isaac promise his blessing to Esau, so she cooked the meal herself and disguised her younger twin, and the old man blessed the wrong son.
Q 09After Laban tricked Jacob with the wrong bride, what did Jacob give to marry Rachel as well?
Seven more years of work
Seven more years of work: Laban swapped in his elder daughter on the wedding night, saying the firstborn must marry first, and Jacob served a second term for Rachel.
Q 10Which of Leah's sons gave his name to Israel's priestly tribe?
Levi
Levi: his descendants, the Levites, were given no tribal territory of their own; the tithes they received for serving the sanctuary were their inheritance instead.
Q 11Rachel died giving birth to which son?
Benjamin
Benjamin: with her last breath Rachel called him Ben-Oni, usually read as 'son of my sorrow', but Jacob renamed him, and she was buried on the road to Bethlehem.
Q 12What did Rachel steal from her father Laban when Jacob's family fled?
His household idols
His household idols: Rachel hid them in her camel's saddle and sat on it, telling her father she could not stand up because she was having her period.
Q 13What name do later Jewish and Islamic traditions give Potiphar's wife?
Zuleikha
Zuleikha: Genesis leaves her nameless, saying only that she accused Joseph of assault after he fled her advances and left his cloak in her hand.
Q 21Delilah betrayed Samson by having what cut off as he slept?
His hair
His hair: Samson's strength hung on a Nazirite vow never to cut it, and each Philistine lord had promised Delilah 1,100 pieces of silver for the secret.
Q 22Ruth, the great-grandmother of David, came from which people?
The Moabites
The Moabites: when her Israelite husband died, Ruth refused to go back to her own people and followed her mother-in-law to Bethlehem, vowing 'your people will be my people'.
Q 23In whose fields did Ruth glean grain after returning to Bethlehem with Naomi?
Boaz's
Boaz's fields: he was a wealthy relative of Naomi's late husband, and he told his reapers to pull out extra stalks for Ruth to find; he later married her.
Q 14Lot's wife looked back at burning Sodom and became a pillar of what?
Salt
Salt: the angels had warned Lot's family to flee without looking behind them, and Jesus later told his followers to 'remember Lot's wife'.
Q 15Zipporah, wife of Moses, was the daughter of which Midianite priest?
Jethro
Jethro: Moses met Zipporah after driving off shepherds who were harassing the priest's seven daughters at a well, and was given her in marriage.
Q 16Moses's sister Miriam led Israel's women in song and dance after which event?
The crossing of the Red Sea
The crossing of the Red Sea: Miriam took up a tambourine and the women followed her dancing, singing that horse and rider had been hurled into the sea.
Q 17Rahab of Jericho hid Joshua's two spies under what on her roof?
Bundles of flax
Bundles of flax: Rahab had laid the stalks out on her roof, and while the spies lay under them she sent the king's men off on a false trail toward the Jordan.
Q 18Rahab marked her house for Joshua's army by hanging what from her window?
A scarlet cord
A scarlet cord: the spies she had sheltered told Rahab to tie it in the window they had escaped through, and everyone inside her house was spared when Jericho fell.
Q 19Deborah, the only female judge of Israel, gave her judgments sitting under what?
A palm tree
A palm tree: the Palm of Deborah stood in the hill country of Ephraim, and from it she summoned the general Barak and sent him against Sisera's chariots.
Q 20Jael killed the Canaanite commander Sisera with what?
A tent peg
A tent peg: Jael welcomed the fleeing Sisera, gave him milk and covered him with a rug, then hammered the peg through his temple as he slept.
Q 24After losing her husband and both sons, Naomi asked to be called what name, meaning 'bitter'?
Mara
Mara: Naomi told the women of Bethlehem that she had gone away full and come home empty, so her old name, which means 'pleasant', no longer fit.
Q 25The priest Eli mistook Hannah's silent prayer at Shiloh for what?
Drunkenness
Drunkenness: Eli saw Hannah's lips moving without a sound and told her to put away her wine, then blessed her when she said she was pouring out her grief.
Q 26Hannah's rival, the other wife of Elkanah who had borne him children, was named what?
Peninnah
Peninnah: she taunted the childless Hannah year after year on the family's pilgrimage to Shiloh, until Hannah wept and would not eat.
Q 27Abigail averted David's revenge on her husband Nabal by doing what?
Bringing him food and pleading
Bringing him food and pleading: Abigail loaded donkeys with bread, wine and meat and met David on the road; Nabal died days after hearing of it, and she became David's wife.
Q 28Bathsheba was the wife of which soldier before David took her?
Uriah the Hittite
Uriah the Hittite: David ordered him into the fiercest fighting so that he would fall, and the prophet Nathan then exposed the king with a parable about a stolen lamb.
Q 29Bathsheba's son who succeeded David as king was famous above all for what quality?
Wisdom
Wisdom: offered anything he wished in a dream, Solomon asked for an understanding mind rather than riches or long life; Bathsheba had won him the throne by holding David to his oath.
Q 30The ancient kingdom of Saba, often identified with the Queen of Sheba's realm, lay in which modern country?
Yemen
Yemen: Saba, with its capital at Marib, grew rich on the incense and spice caravans, which fits the camel train of spices and gold the queen brought to Solomon.