Women of the Bible Quiz

Question 1

Who was the first woman in the Bible?

Accepted Answer

Eve

Answer

Sarah

Answer

Miriam

Answer

Deborah

Question 2

Which woman hid two Israelite spies in Jericho?

Accepted Answer

Rahab

Answer

Ruth

Answer

Deborah

Answer

Jael

Question 3

Who was the mother of Jesus?

Accepted Answer

Mary of Nazareth

Answer

Martha

Answer

Mary Magdalene

Answer

Elizabeth

Question 4

Which woman was a prophetess and judge who led Israel?

Accepted Answer

Deborah

Answer

Miriam

Answer

Hannah

Answer

Esther

Question 5

Who said to her mother-in-law: 'Where you go I will go; where you stay I will stay'?

Accepted Answer

Ruth

Answer

Orpah

Answer

Rachel

Answer

Esther

Question 6

Which queen risked her life to save her people from genocide?

Accepted Answer

Esther

Answer

Jezebel

Answer

Athaliah

Answer

The Queen of Sheba

Question 7

Who was the wife of Abraham?

Accepted Answer

Sarah

Answer

Rebekah

Answer

Leah

Answer

Rachel

Question 8

Who was the sister of Moses?

Accepted Answer

Miriam

Answer

Leah

Answer

Rachel

Answer

Abigail

Question 9

Which woman in the New Testament sold purple cloth and hosted a church in her home?

Accepted Answer

Lydia

Answer

Priscilla

Answer

Dorcas

Answer

Phoebe

Question 10

Whose prayer in 1 Samuel 2 is seen as a model that Mary echoed in the Magnificat?

Accepted Answer

Hannah's

Answer

Deborah's

Answer

Miriam's

Answer

Ruth's

Question 11

Who was Samson's treacherous lover who discovered the secret of his strength?

Accepted Answer

Delilah

Answer

Bathsheba

Answer

Jezebel

Answer

Herodias

Question 12

Which woman in the New Testament was raised from the dead by Peter?

Accepted Answer

Tabitha (Dorcas)

Answer

Mary Magdalene

Answer

Joanna

Answer

Lydia

Question 13

Who was the mother of John the Baptist?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth

Answer

Mary

Answer

Anna

Answer

Joanna

Question 14

Which Old Testament woman drove a tent peg through an enemy commander's head?

Accepted Answer

Jael

Answer

Deborah

Answer

Miriam

Answer

Jezebel

Question 15

Who was the wife of King Ahab, known as one of the wickedest women in the Bible?

Accepted Answer

Jezebel

Answer

Athaliah

Answer

Herodias

Answer

Delilah

Question 16

Mary and Martha were sisters. In which town did they live?

Accepted Answer

Bethany

Answer

Jerusalem

Answer

Nazareth

Answer

Capernaum

Question 17

Which woman is considered the first female Christian convert in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Lydia

Answer

Dorcas

Answer

Priscilla

Answer

Phoebe

Question 18

Who was the mother of Solomon?

Accepted Answer

Bathsheba

Answer

Michal

Answer

Abigail

Answer

Ahinoam

Question 19

Which woman found the ark of Noah floating in the Bible? (trick question)

Accepted Answer

No woman did — Noah and his sons built and entered it

Answer

His wife

Answer

Miriam

Answer

A Canaanite woman

Question 20

Who recognised Jesus as the Messiah when He was presented at the temple as a baby?

Accepted Answer

Both Simeon and Anna

Answer

Simeon only

Answer

Anna the prophetess only

Answer

The high priest