Quiz 019

Episode 19 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 19: The One Who Struggles with God. See how much you can remember about the enormous and complex world of the Bible’s history books by clicking START below!

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“Out of the eater came something to eat. / Out of the strong came something sweet” is a riddle Samson asks the Philistines. What is the answer to this riddle?

A predatory tree filled with sweet sap.

A hungry chicken.

A honeycomb-filled lion carcass.

A vat of wine.

Watermelons in a marsh.

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Who are the Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, Philistines, and Phoenicians?

The five Canaanite nations who join with Israel and Judah in a successful campaign against the Assyrian capital at Nineveh.

Subsects within early Judaism that followed different dietary and cleanliness rules than the authors of the Old Testament.

Sea peoples who migrated from Spain during the 700s and 600s and made war on Mesopotamia.

The Israelites' immediate geographical neighbors who variously feud with Israel and Judah during the historical books.

The five most powerful and militarily advanced of the twelve tribes of Israel.

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2 Kings records the brave King Hezekiah standing up against the Assyrian king Sennacherib, and Sennacherib and his 185,000-man army being slaughtered by an angel. What does Sennacherib’s prism (a cuneiform stone inscription) record in regards to this event?

Sennacherib records his god locking arms with the Israelite god.

Sennacherib remembers a diplomatic meeting with Hezekiah in which the two negotiated a peace agreement.

Sennacherib records beating the Judahites without much difficulty.

Sennacherib recalls losing his 185,000 man army to a freakish inland monsoon as the Jerusalemites hid safely in their stone buildings.

Sennacherib recalls seeing the zeal and resolution of the Jerusalemites and deciding to invade somewhere else.

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Moses’ successor, who leads the Israelites during their initial military incursion into the lands of Canaan.

Gideon

Joshua

Samson

Ehud

Judas Maccabeus

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How does Delilah weaken Samson?

She gets him drunk in his tent.

She tricks him into wearing a poisonous shirt.

She compels him to walk up a long flight of stairs to her private chambers.

She cuts his hair.

Her handmaidens seduce his men.

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King David rapes this woman and murders her husband. The rape results in the birth of King Solomon.

Bathsheba

Salome

Jael

Judith

Jezebel

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The Lachish letters were written during the same decade that the Babylonian Captivity started. In which decade were these letters written?

The 780s BCE.

The 580s BCE.

The 980s BCE.

The 180s BCE.

The 380s BCE.

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The final judge of Israel, whose reign ends with the coronation of Saul, Israel’s first king.

Joshua

Gideon

Samuel

Jephthah

Samson

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This lavishly wealthy Old Testament monarch undertook vast building projects and owned hundreds of sex slaves.

Saul

Hezekiah

Solomon

Josiah

Jehoiachin

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Which response below shows the invasions of Canaan in the order that they occur in the Old Testament’s historical books?

Babylon, Elam, Bactria, Dilmun

Elam, Hattusa, Sumer, Cimmeria

Syria, Assyria, Egypt, Babylon

Sumer, Nicomedia, Bactria, Hattusa

Abyssinia, Magadha, Nicomedia, Babylon

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When the Israelites first returned to Jerusalem, ________ served as Jerusalem’s religious figurehead. His contemporary ________ superintended the reconstruction of the Jerusalem Temple. Each gets a book of the Old Testament named after him.

Joel, Haggai.

Malachi, Daniel.

Hosea, Amos.

Ezra, Nehemiah.

Joshua, Samuel.

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The Old Testament has extremely high praises for the later Judahite king _________, and his great grandson ________. The latter tragically died at the hands of Egyptians in 609 BCE.

Hezekiah, Josiah.

Rehoboam, Jehosaphat

Ahaziah, Amaziah.

Jehu, Jeroboam II.

Omri, Ahab.

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On the part of Saul, the relationship between Saul and David is characterized by:

General indifference

Paternal love and responsibility

Jealousy, insecurity and betrayal

Unwavering support

Aristocratic contempt

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This early heroine in the Old Testament is a powerful military leader against King Jabin and his general Sisera. The song recounting her victory is often thought to be the oldest part of the Bible.

Sheba

Deborah

Rebecca

Delilah

Hagar

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The Obelisk of Shalmaneser and the Tel Dan Stele both mention this powerful Old Testament king, who ruled in the north of Canaan in the mid 800s BCE.

Nehemiah

Josiah

Moses

Manasseh

Ahab

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