100 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
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
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Shinto6.What religion follows the teachings of the Guru Granth Sahib?
Answer: Sikhism
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Sikhism7.In Hinduism, what is the concept of the cycle of death and rebirth called?
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.The story of the birth of Jesus Christ is recorded in which two books of the Bible?
Answer: MATTHEW and LUKE
Read the full explanation17.What scripture do Muslims consider the words of God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad?
Answer: KORAN
Read the full explanation18.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 explanation19.What are the two major divisions of the Islamic religion?
Answer: SUNNI / SHIA (SHIITE)
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.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 explanation38.What part of the Bible is known as the 'Decalogue'?
Answer: 10 COMMANDMENTS
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 Greek mythology, what is the name of the many-headed dog that guards the gates of the underworld?
Answer: Cerberus
45.In the Christian calendar, which feast on January 6 commemorates the visit of the Magi?
Answer: Epiphany
46.In the Western Christian calendar, what name is given to the season of preparation that begins four Sundays before Christmas?
Answer: Advent
47.Saint Nicholas, the model for Santa Claus, was a fourth-century bishop of which city in Asia Minor (modern Turkey)?
Answer: Myra
48.According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, in which town was Jesus born?
Answer: Bethlehem
49.Which is the only one of the four Gospels to describe the visit of the Magi?
Answer: Matthew
50.According to the Gospel of Matthew, which three gifts did the Magi bring to the infant Jesus?
Answer: Gold, frankincense and myrrh
51.St. Patrick was not born in Ireland. In which Roman province was he born?
Answer: Britain
52.According to legend, which animals did St. Patrick banish from Ireland?
Answer: Snakes
53.According to legend, which three-leafed plant did St. Patrick use to explain the Holy Trinity?
Answer: The shamrock
54.On which date is St. Patrick's Day celebrated?
Answer: March 17
55.In Norse mythology, what name is given to the great battle at the end of the world?
Answer: Ragnarök
56.In Greek mythology, who was condemned by the gods to push a huge boulder up a hill for eternity?
Answer: Sisyphus
57.In Greek mythology, which nymph faded away until only her voice was left, after falling in love with Narcissus?
Answer: Echo
58.Which Greek goddess of wisdom was said to have been born from the forehead of her father Zeus?
Answer: Athena
59.In Greek mythology, who was warned by his father Daedalus not to fly too close to the Sun, in case its heat melted the wax of his wings?
Answer: Icarus
60.Which king of Greek legend was granted the power to turn everything he touched into gold?
Answer: Midas
61.In Greek mythology, who was the first woman, whose jar released all the evils of the world?
Answer: Pandora
62.Which musician of Greek myth went down to the underworld to bring back his wife Eurydice?
Answer: Orpheus
63.Which ancient Egyptian god of funerary rites, the protector of graves, was portrayed with the head of a jackal?
Answer: Anubis
64.In Norse mythology, what is the name of the majestic hall in Asgard presided over by the god Odin?
Answer: Valhalla
Learn more on Codexery: Valhalla65.What is the name of the hammer of the Norse god Thor?
Answer: Mjölnir
Learn more on Codexery: Mjolnir66.In Greek mythology, which ferryman carried the souls of the dead across the rivers of the underworld?
Answer: Charon
67.Which hero of Greek mythology is famous for slaying the Minotaur?
Answer: Theseus
68.Which figure of Greek mythology defied the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity?
Answer: Prometheus
69.Who was the king of the gods in Greek mythology?
Answer: Zeus
Learn more on Codexery: Zeus70.What name is given to the last meal that Jesus shared with his apostles before his crucifixion?
Answer: The Last Supper
Learn more on Codexery: Last Supper71.Which prophet was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind, with a chariot and horses of fire?
Answer: Elijah
72.In the Book of Ruth, what is the name of Ruth's mother-in-law?
Answer: Naomi
73.Which sermon of Jesus, found in the Gospel of Matthew, contains the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer?
Answer: The Sermon on the Mount
74.In the Gospel of John, which friend of Jesus was raised from the dead four days after his burial?
Answer: Lazarus
75.In the Book of Joshua, the walls of which city fell after the Israelites marched around it blowing their trumpets?
Answer: Jericho
76.According to Genesis, who lived to the age of 969, longer than anyone else in the Bible?
Answer: Methuselah
Learn more on Codexery: Methuselah77.Which apostle, originally named Saul, was converted on the road to Damascus?
Answer: Paul
78.Who baptized Jesus?
Answer: John the Baptist
79.Which son of Jacob was given a "coat of many colors" and sold into slavery by his brothers?
Answer: Joseph
80.Which biblical figure gave up his birthright to his brother Jacob in exchange for a bowl of lentil stew?
Answer: Esau
81.Which woman goaded Samson into revealing that his strength came from his hair?
Answer: Delilah
82.Which prophet was thrown into a den of lions for praying to his God?
Answer: Daniel
Learn more on Codexery: Daniel (biblical figure)83.Which apostle denied three times that he knew Jesus?
Answer: Peter
84.Which of the twelve apostles betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver?
Answer: Judas Iscariot
85.Which prophet led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt?
Answer: Moses
86.Which prophet was swallowed by a great fish and spent three days and three nights inside it?
Answer: Jonah
87.In the Book of Genesis, what is the name of the garden where Adam and Eve first lived?
Answer: The Garden of Eden
Learn more on Codexery: Garden of Eden88.In the Book of Samuel, which Philistine warrior of giant stature is defeated by the young David?
Answer: Goliath
89.In the Book of Genesis, for how many days and nights did the rain of the great flood fall?
Answer: Forty
90.In what year did American religious leader Mary Baker Eddy die: 1881, 1886, 1910 or 1916?
Answer: 1910
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Mary Baker Eddy91.What was the nationality of Joseph Franklin Rutherford: Indian, American, Kongolese or Spanish?
Answer: American
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Joseph Franklin Rutherford92.In what year was Italian friar Padre Pio born: 1870, 1881, 1887 or 1898?
Answer: 1887
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Answer: 2021
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Amy Carlson (religious leader)94.In what year did American leader Clarence 13X die: 1969, 2007, 2021 or 2023?
Answer: 1969
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Answer: 2023
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Ryuho Okawa96.What was the nationality of Faustina Kowalska: Spanish, Greek, Burgundian or Polish?
Answer: Polish
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Faustina Kowalska97.What was the nationality of Thomas More: Polish, Italian, English or Belgian?
Answer: English
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Thomas More98.In what year did Italian aristocrat Aloysius Gonzaga die: 1535, 1552, 1581 or 1591?
Answer: 1591
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Aloysius Gonzaga99.What was the nationality of Muhammad Abduh: Indian, Egyptian, Iranian or Syrian?
Answer: Egyptian
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Answer: Andalusi
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