Genesis Chapters 1–50 Quiz by Chapter

Prepared for: Segun Ezekiel Jacob

This quiz is arranged according to the chapters from Genesis 1 to 50.

Genesis Chapter 1
• What did God create on the first day?

Answer: Light

• What did God call the light and the darkness?

Answer: Day and Night

Genesis Chapter 2
• What was created on the sixth day?

Answer: Land animals and mankind

• From what did God form man?

Answer: Dust of the ground

Genesis Chapter 3
• Who was the first woman?

Answer: Eve

• What was the first sin in the Bible?

Answer: Eating the forbidden fruit

Genesis Chapter 4
• Who was the mother of Abel?

Answer: Eve

• Who killed Abel?

Answer: Cain
Genesis Chapter 5
• Who was the oldest man recorded in the Bible?

Answer: Methuselah

Genesis Chapter 6
• Why did God decide to destroy mankind?

Answer: The earth was filled with violence and wickedness

• Who found grace in the eyes of the Lord?

Answer: Noah

Genesis Chapter 7
• How long did it rain during the flood?

Answer: 40 days and 40 nights

Genesis Chapter 8
• What did Noah do after the flood ended?

Answer: He built an altar and offered sacrifices

Genesis Chapter 9
• What was the sign of God's covenant with Noah?

Answer: A rainbow

• What was the sin of Ham?

Answer: He saw his father's nakedness and told his brothers

Genesis Chapter 10
• Who were the descendants of Noah?

Answer: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

Genesis Chapter 11
• What was the name of the tower people tried to build to reach heaven?
 Answer: Tower of Babel

• What did God do to stop the Tower of Babel construction?

Answer: Confused their language

Genesis Chapter 12
• Who was Abram's father?

Answer: Terah

• Where was Abram originally from?

Answer: Ur of the Chaldeans

Genesis Chapter 13
• Why did Abram and Lot separate?

Answer: Their herdsmen quarreled

Genesis Chapter 14
• Who was Melchizedek?

Answer: King of Salem and priest of God Most High

Genesis Chapter 15
• What did God promise Abram?

Answer: Land, descendants, and blessings

Genesis Chapter 16
• Who was Ishmael's mother?

Answer: Hagar

Genesis Chapter 17
• What was the covenant of circumcision?

Answer: A sign between God and Abraham’s descendants

• What were the new names God gave Abram and Sarai?
 Answer: Abraham and Sarah

Genesis Chapter 18
• What did Sarah do when she heard she would have a child?

Answer: She laughed

Genesis Chapter 19
• What happened to Lot’s wife?

Answer: She looked back and became a pillar of salt

Genesis Chapter 20
• Why did Abraham lie to Abimelech?

Answer: He feared he would be killed for Sarah

Genesis Chapter 21
• What was the name of the son born to Abraham and Sarah?

Answer: Isaac

Genesis Chapter 22
• What test did God give Abraham?

Answer: To sacrifice Isaac

Genesis Chapter 23
• Where did Abraham bury Sarah?

Answer: Cave of Machpelah

Genesis Chapter 24
• Who was the wife of Isaac?

Answer: Rebekah
Genesis Chapter 25
• What did Rebekah do when she saw Isaac?

Answer: She covered herself with a veil

Genesis Chapter 26
• What did Isaac do during the famine?

Answer: He stayed in Gerar

Genesis Chapter 27
• How did Jacob get Isaac’s blessing?

Answer: He deceived his father by pretending to be Esau

Genesis Chapter 28
• What did Jacob see in his dream at Bethel?

Answer: A ladder reaching to heaven with angels

Genesis Chapter 29
• Who were Jacob’s two wives?

Answer: Leah and Rachel

Genesis Chapter 30
• How many sons did Jacob have?

Answer: Twelve

Genesis Chapter 31
• Why did Jacob leave Laban?

Answer: God told him to return to his homeland

Genesis Chapter 32
• What happened when Jacob wrestled with a man?

Answer: His hip was touched and he was renamed Israel

Answer: With love and forgiveness

Genesis Chapter 34
• Who was Dinah?

Answer: Jacob’s daughter by Leah

Genesis Chapter 35
• Where did God tell Jacob to go?

Answer: Bethel

Genesis Chapter 36
• Who were the descendants of Esau?

Answer: The Edomites

Genesis Chapter 37
• Which of Jacob’s sons received the coat of many colors?

Answer: Joseph

• Why did Joseph’s brothers hate him?

Answer: Because their father loved him most and he dreamed of ruling over them

Genesis Chapter 38
• Which of Joseph’s brothers suggested selling him?

Answer: Judah

Genesis Chapter 39
• Why was Joseph imprisoned?

Answer: He was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife

Answer: A vine with three branches

• What dream did the baker have?

Answer: Three baskets of bread

Genesis Chapter 41
• What dream did Pharaoh have?

Answer: Seven fat cows and seven lean cows

• What was the interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream?

Answer: Seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine

Genesis Chapter 42
• Who did Joseph imprison on the brothers’ first visit?

Answer: Simeon

Genesis Chapter 43
• Which brother was most precious to Jacob after Joseph?

Answer: Benjamin

Genesis Chapter 44
• Who offered to take Benjamin’s place as a slave?

Answer: Judah

Genesis Chapter 45
• What did Joseph do when he revealed himself to his brothers?

Answer: He wept and embraced them

Genesis Chapter 46
• Who received a vision from God in Beersheba?
 Answer: Jacob

• How many people of Jacob’s family went to Egypt?

Answer: 70

Genesis Chapter 47
• What land did Pharaoh give Jacob’s family?

Answer: Goshen

• How old was Jacob when he met Pharaoh?

Answer: 130 years old

Genesis Chapter 48
• Who did Jacob bless with the right hand?

Answer: Ephraim

Genesis Chapter 49
• Which tribe was prophesied to produce kings?

Answer: Judah

Genesis Chapter 50
• What did Joseph ask regarding his bones before his death?

Answer: That they be carried to Canaan