54 Religion Trivia Questions and Answers
Traditions, texts and figures across the world's faiths.
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1.Which book of The Bible records the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt?
Answer: EXODUS
Read the full explanation2.Can you name three religions beginning with "B"?
Answer: BAPTIST, BUDDHIST, BAHA'I (Baháʼí Faith spelling corrected)
Read the full explanation3.The Coptic religion is a Christian minority found mostly in which non-Christian country?
Answer: EGYPT
Read the full explanation4.In 1533 this French-born Swiss theologian broke with the Roman Catholic Church and estabished a Protestant-based government in Geneva, Switzerland. Who was he?
Answer: JOHN CALVIN Presbyterian
Read the full explanation5.What religion originated in Japan and involves the worship of kami, or nature spirits?
Answer: Shinto
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Answer: Sikhism
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Answer: Samsara
Read the full explanation8.Who founded Buddhism?
Answer: Siddhartha Gautama
Read the full explanation9.What is the Jewish day of rest called?
Answer: Sabbath
Read the full explanation10.What is the Taoist concept of the balance between opposing forces called?
Answer: Yin and Yang
Read the full explanation11.What is the name of the Jewish New Year?
Answer: Rosh Hashanah
Read the full explanation12.What is the holiest city in Islam?
Answer: Mecca
Read the full explanation13.What is the 10th commandment?
Answer: THOU SHALT NOT COVET THY NEIGHBOR'S … anything
Read the full explanation14.What is the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that every Muslim is expected to make at least once?
Answer: Hajj
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Hajj15.When George Fox founded this religious organization in England in 1652, he warned his followers to “tremble at the word of the Lord.” Which group was it?
Answer: QUAKERS
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Quakers16.What scripture do Muslims consider the words of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad?
Answer: KORAN
Read the full explanation17.What are the two major divisions of the Islamic religion?
Answer: SUNNI AND SHIA (or SHIITE is acceptable but 'SHIITE' is a misspelling; correct answer: SHIA)
Read the full explanation18.The story of the birth of Jesus Christ is recorded in which book of the bible?
Answer: MATTHEW
Read the full explanation19.What is the name of the highest ranking group of the Indian caste system?
Answer: BRAHMAN whose function was to be priests and religious leaders
Read the full explanation20.What Hindu festival is known as the Festival of Lights?
Answer: Diwali
Read the full explanation21.The mental and physical exercise known as yoga evolves from what religion?
Answer: HINDUISM
Read the full explanation22.Of the three branches of Judaism: Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform, how many accept female rabbis? 0, 1, 2, or 3
Answer: 2 only orthodox does not.
Read the full explanation23.What Jewish holiday commemorates the exodus from Egypt?
Answer: Passover
Read the full explanation24.What Hindu deity is known as the Destroyer?
Answer: Shiva
Read the full explanation25.What is the sacred river in Hinduism?
Answer: Ganges
Read the full explanation26.What is the first book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis
Read the full explanation27.What is the holy book of Islam?
Answer: Quran
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Quran28.What branch of Christianity is headed by the Pope?
Answer: Roman Catholicism
Read the full explanation29.Coptic is the Christian minority religion of what Islamic country?
Answer: EGYPT
Read the full explanation30.How many noble truths are there is Buddhism?
Answer: Four
Read the full explanation31.What is the most sacred text in Judaism?
Answer: Torah
Read the full explanation32.What Christian denomination was founded by Martin Luther's protest against the Catholic Church?
Answer: Lutheranism
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Christian denomination33.In Buddhism, what is the Eightfold Path a guide to?
Answer: Ending suffering
Read the full explanation34.What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
Answer: Shahada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Five Pillars of Islam35.What is the name of the Islamic holy month of fasting?
Answer: Ramadan
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Ramadan36.How many books are in the New Testament of the Bible?
Answer: 27
Read the full explanation37.What part of the Bible is known as the 'Decalogue'?
Answer: 10 COMMANDMENTS
Read the full explanation38.Islam allows a man to have more than one wife, but restricts the number of wives to at most how many wives?
Answer: FOUR
Read the full explanation39.In Christianity, what event celebrates the resurrection of Jesus?
Answer: Easter
Read the full explanation40.What is the Buddhist concept of reaching a state of perfect peace and freedom from suffering?
Answer: Nirvana
Read the full explanation41.In Christianity, what is the period of 40 days before Easter called?
Answer: Lent
Read the full explanation42.According to the bible, the final and conclusive battle between good and evil will take place in what place, whose name today symbolizes any great and decisive battle?
Answer: ARMAGEDDON
Read the full explanation43.The last book of the New Testament of the Bible, written about 100 years after the birth of Christ, is sometimes called The Apocalypse. What's the name of this book?
Answer: THE BOOK OF REVELATION Its title comes from the first verse of the text, "the revelation of Jesus Christ...to his servant John."
Read the full explanation44.In what year did American religious leader Amy Carlson die: 1969, 2007, 2021 or 2023?
Answer: 2021
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Amy Carlson Religious Leader45.In what year did American leader Clarence 13X die: 1969, 2007, 2021 or 2023?
Answer: 1969
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Answer: 2023
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Answer: Polish
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Faustina Kowalska48.What was the nationality of Thomas More: Polish, Italian, English or Belgian?
Answer: English
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Answer: 1591
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Aloysius Gonzaga50.What was the nationality of Muhammad Abduh: Indian, Egyptian, Iranian or Syrian?
Answer: Egyptian
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Answer: Andalusi
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Answer: 1869
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Answer: Italian
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Answer: Spanish
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