Religion is broad and cuts all across the world, from Christianity, Jewish, Pagans, to Non-pagans among many others. They all have different beliefs, but the common thing with all of them is that they all work to better the world and provide meaning and a sense of belonging to the human beings in search of it.
So then, how much do you know about religion? You can take these questions on a lazy Sunday afternoon with your kids and test how much knowledge they have regarding religion.
Religion Trivia Quizzes From All Over The World
How many books are in the Christian bible? What is the name of the Islamic holy month? Test your faith with these easy religion trivia questions, you might learn new fascinating things and be reminded of that some songs that take you deeper into your faith.
Try and answer these religion trivia questions and fun facts to see how well you know the diverse religions of the world.
Think you can ace them? Let’s find out!
Religion trivia quiz questions
Pangea. The area split into two landmasses some 135 million years ago due to a phenomenon known as “continental drift.”
Empiric
Eight. These tentacles are divided up between six “arms” and two “legs.”
Wilmette, Illinois
Warring States Period
Hine
Shvetambar and Digambar
Grounation Day
Japheth and Shem
The Church or organized religion (24), Police (23), Banks (13)
The Unnameable Parent and Barbelo
in a reindeer skin
Chanhassen
the polar bear
28 March 2006
A beer volcano and a stripper factory
Lotus
Yoruba
To counterbalance consumerism
There is no official agreement.
Zoroastrianism
Taoism/Daoism
Hellenism
Gold
Ephraim and Manasseh
Less than 4000
Hannah
Islamic movement which started in 19th century India
Bread and wine
Green
Spread the news about Jesus’s birth
water
John
Through personal reflection and development
A ghost
He was very gifted and could teach multiple subjects
Timothy
Group Karma
He went mad and lived as a beast
Maleness and the forest
Annas
All people are idiots
Tychicus
Dairy products
Timothy
Psychiatry
Lot
Day of the Covenant
Hezekiah
Zion
the Levites
WWAPD
Apples aka the Forbidden Fruit
Approximately one year
David wanted Jonathan to tell him that he had gone to Bethlehem for a family gathering
More than half
The Kingdom of God
For vengeance on Jesus
Gabriel
Earth
Daniel
Adherents may continue to practice their pre-existing religion, too
Rahab
Ra
Jesus told them “You will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Judaism
Gold
Mazdaism
Joseph of Arimathea
Marcus Garvey
John the Evangelist
Captain Mosey
False. Jesus said God already knows what we need
He invented the single span bridge, the video game Halo and the gate that swings both ways
Deliver us from evil
Baha’u’llah’s announcement of prophethood
Don’t lead us into temptation.
The islands of Japan
Forgive our debts
Shi’a(Shi’ite)
Give us our daily bread
There is no specific convention
Your will be done on Earth
Japan
Your kingdom come
Ember Days
Hallowed be your name
broom
Seven
Ahura Mazda
Jesus
Mormons
Matthew 6
Purim
Judaism
True
Agricultural land use
Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self Control
Rastafari
False. Even though bananas can seem like a gift from God, they are not considered a spiritual fruit in Galatians 5
Ethiopia
Paul
The sea
Galatians 5
He would attend the Masses conducted by the pope.
I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt
Poland was one of the first countries to have a culture of religious tolerance.
Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5
Islamic New Year
To take the gospel everywhere and finally to preach in the capitol Rome
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.”
does not know, does not speak
“What must I do to be saved?”
Ayyam-i-Ha
True. They didn’t escape but stayed in jail to share the good news
Stealing fire from Mahuika
False. The man was from Macedonia
October 31
Barnabas
as little talking in the labour and delivery room as possible
True
19
Antioch
Light of the Trinity
That all people can be made clean through Jesus
RAmen
In the house of Simon the tanner
In five out of six countries, only one third is in favor
True
They believed Jesus had the spark from the pleroma
Philip
The dogs of the underworld
Philip
ladder
Seven
Childbirth
True
To take the soul by its own path back to its divine source
John
Hine-nui-te-po
Paul
Ontario
He had a changing experience with Jesus
He persecuted Christians
fire
Peter
stars
Saul of Tarsus
The Holy Piby
More than 500
Holiday
Peter
White
Washed his hands
Happy Holidays
Pilate
Nineteen
A Roman soldier
The constitutional banning of religious practices
False. They wanted him to be crucified
Judaism
Garden of Gethsemane
Buddha’s birthday
False
Spring Equinox
False. Jesus yelled at money chargers to drive them out
warriors
He was blind
Pyramid Texts
Elijah and Moses
Sikhism – Jainism
Fishing
Jerusalem
True
Christianity
Legion
To register them as voters
Several women who Jesus had healed
Druidry
Four days
Sikhism
True. The Bible describes him spitting three times.
Cowrie shells
A tax collector
Cuba had the largest proportion of practising Roman Catholics in Latin America.
Nicodemus
He further separated the Catholic Church from other Christian and Jewish denominations.
True
451 CE after the Council of Chalcedon
True
Religious branch
False. It was camel hair
Taoism
Cyrus
Violet
Went in to talk without being summoned first
Turned him into a dog
Esther
Aeons
Nehemiah
None of these
Into a fiery furnace
Dude – a dog
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Mahavira/Vardhman
Darius
July 9
King Nebuchadnezzar’s
Beer volcanoes and a stripper factory
The Babylonians
40% would like Creationism taught instead of Evolution
19
Sophia
20
look at her
Song of Solomon and Proverbs and some Psalms
skeleton
1st and 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles
All of the answers are correct
The king, Agag
Cultivated food and wild food
It split into two
Hutterite
His wives
France
No. He turned away from God
cracks in the sea ice
700
I and I
Queen of Sheba
Because of the decrease in number of pirates
A temple
Baron Samedi
Wisdom
Hare Krishnas
Philistines
L. Ron Hubbard
1st and 2nd Samuel
Harappan
He took a census of the people in his nation
Humans, animals and plants
He got demoted as captain
Rosh Hashanah
Joab
First Sunday of each month
Holy Water
It got caught in a tree
Sufi
Jerusalem
Islam
Absalom
Muslims
Solomon
Hinduism
The child died
Poisoned local salad bars
8
Nathan
Zoroastrianism
Herodias
Have him killed in battle
Anglican & Episcopal
David
Cherubims
Bathsheba
Salvador
Habakkuk
Joab
Pope John Paul II in 1998
Serpent
All of them
Black Madonna
Jerubbaal
Fell on his own sword
January 7th
Seventh
Samuel
The International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Romans
In a campsite, where Saul was sleeping
The Epistles of Wisdom
Taranga
A cave
Ishmael
It has existed forever
Twice
Jonah
Friday
No
Shem
Pirate regalia
The Land of the Philistines
Serpent
George Herbert Walker Bush
Warned him that Saul would try to kill him
Zipporah
Excluding Turkish people, Americans are the most skeptical of evolution
A spear
Jerubbaal
Demiurge
Jonathan
Seventh
Yomi
Goliath the Giant
Romans
Pele’s armpit
He was a shepherd
Golgotha
Alone and/or in groups
David
Genesis
The Seas
God took away his kingdom
Nain
Anglicanism
Made the sacrifice
Thunder
Babylon
It fell over and broke
Lapidoth
The International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Philistines
Sand
Symbol or picture
Samuel
Ruth
September 19
Pushing over the temple pillars, killing himself and many Philistines.
Dinah
Frashogard
A donkey’s jawbone
Five pointed star
Samson
Daniel
The separation between secular and sacred
Gideon
Jeremiah
Shamanism
Deborah
Nathan
When the fetus is first felt kicking in the womb
Judges
Jude
Dharma Day
Jericho
12
Full moon
Joshua and Caleb
Lilies
necklaces
Giants in the land
Matthias
I Ching
Quail and manna
Haman
believes in a cycle of reincarnation until enlightenment is reached
Put him in a basket in the river
Malta
Buddhism
A snake
Ehud
Sikhism
Fled into the desert.
Hebron
College students
Israel
Jackals
Scientology
Joseph
The Navajo Nation
Work another 7 years
Ant
Orixas
Leah
Deborah
The Tartars from Russia
Rachel
Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Threatened to kill Jacob
‘Do non-doing’
Rebekah
Jeroboam
Crown
Stew
613
Haifa
Stay at home with his mother
1 Kings 3:25
Karmic debt
Esau
Acts
His mother thought he was dead
He hunted
Cain
The kumara does not talk of its own sweetness
Esau came first, with Jacob grabbing his heel.
Eight
Origami
Jacob and Esau
Darius
All PRISM doctrine is grounded in “The Seven Statements”
His oldest servant
3rd
WoodWane
Into the desert
Michael
Someone has helped others on the path to liberation
Sarah
auditing
Issac
Paul
vegetables
Sarah
Mount Salsa
Abraham
Ehud
Mosaic Laws
Ishmael
Bread
God created humans in their present form
For Abram to have a child with Hagar.
Aram
Genesis
Huram
She is burned in giving birth to the deity of fire
That Abram would have more descendants than the number of stars.
Naomi
drug use
A son
Alexander
Soul travel
Sarai
Winds, clouds and storms
Abram
Few
United Church of Canada
Confused their languages
Joshua
He destroyed Zoroastrian temples
8
929
animism
Shem, Ham, Japheth
Theophilus
Bob Marley
Revelation
Jehoram
The same things
1 Thessalonians
Pirates
John
Esau
Guardian spirit
Mark
Uriah
State Shinto
Moses wrote 125,139 words
Zaccheus
Pachamama
Paul wrote 13 books
Hannah
A rainbow
Greek
Mephibosheth
Masquerading
Hebrew
Wednesdays and Fridays
Solomon
Mammon
Myths about the creation of the four main Japanese islands.
12
Scientology
27
Hinduism
39
Islam
66.
They wore a shade of red
3 John.
Cushi
Bahai’i Faith
False: The Psalms are a collection by many writers, but David contributed the most.
Wrath
The Jehovah’s Witnesses
Carl Gustav Jung
Jacob
Mormon
Oludumaré
Echo
Lutheran
Karma
Mark
Ayatollah
Jethro
Yang
Chuang-tzu
Korea
10
Jimmu
Jainism
5,000
Navjote
Hindu
He was tempted by Satan.
The Most Holy Book
Minaret
Saul
James, Joseph, Simon or Judas
They were too passive
Four
John the Baptist
Ra
Judas Iscariot
Saul
No
Maui fished it up
Aramaic
Alexandria
Four
Kami
Thor
Joshua
False. Jesus had brothers and a sister.
1945
Camelot
Jesus
Springville, UTAH
David
Abigail
His armour
Instant baptisms into Woodism
Archbishop of York
Memukan
One
Through benevolence towards all living beings
The recapture and rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem
Israel
A slingshot and a stone.
the reactive mind
The head of the Jesuits
John
Goliath
Declaration of the Báb
Jainism
Miriam
To bring Benjamin back with them.
He suffered a stroke, after reading a mistaken obituary of himself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Isaiah
His brothers
The Eight I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts
Jesuits
Philemon
A severe, seven-year famine.
prohibitions against stealing, blasphemy, idolatry, murder, immoral sex, eating the limb of a live animal, and the commandment to set up courts of justice.
Lourdes
Achan
Second in command of Egypt.
More Americans believe in miracles than people from any other country
Beatification
Samson
To interrupt his dream.
from the Greek for “knowledge”
Socrates
Naboth
Interrupted their dreams.
because Izanami, the female, speaks first
Osiris
Judas
The Pharaoh’s cupbearer and chief baker.
Quakers / Society of Friends
Eliphaz
Potiphar’s wife
Kamohoali’i
Charlemagne
Liar
Potiphar, captain of the Pharaoh’s guards
Way of the Eternal
The Mormon church
150
Egypt
Forests
Dali Lama
Turkey
They said Joseph was killed by a wild animal
Alberta
Jupiter
Michal
Sold him to slave traders.
a symbol of Zoroastrianism
Hinduism
Build a tower to reach Heaven.
evil
Dreamtime
False
The Nyahbinghi Order
Amritsar
Psalms
Because He did it after drinking heavily
Henry VIII
None
Loa
114 surahs
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
8
Gospel
Revelation
Benevolent spirits
Cambodia and Thailand
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Haifa, Israel
Hanukkah (Note: Not correct is Yom Kippur (also known as the Day of Atonement) which is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.)
Love God with all your heart, minds, soul, and strength.
Shinto handles life events; Buddhism handles the afterlife
Philippines
You shall not covet.
Jainism
New York City
You shall not give false testimony.
The arrival of Europeans in Australia
Rastafari, also known as Rastafarianism
You shall not steal.
Advent
Wicca
You shall not commit adultery.
Destruction of the Temple
Jehovah’s Witnesses
You shall not murder.
The Tree of Life
L. Ron Hubbard
Honor your father and mother.
Quakers
Gideons International
Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Lumbini, Nepal
India
You shall not misuse the name of the Lord.
Christianity
Catholic (he planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605 to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne)
You shall not make idols.
Became an armed camp
Schism
You shall have no other gods before me.
Animism
Rosary
Moses
A capital U or K with a circle around it
Shinto
Four
Dance In Honour Of The Gods
The Amish
He rose into the clouds.
Castro’s regime restricted religious practice.
Inuit (or eskimo)
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Sunday
Abraham and Sarah travel to Egypt to avoid the famine in Canaan.
27 books (the bible has 66 books in total in both the Old and New Testaments)
A large stone
Philosophical branch
Salt Lake City
He rose again
Takamagahara
Martin Luther
Peter
Ahura Mazda
Presbyterianism
False. He knew and told his disciples before it happened.
Baha’u’llah
Judas Iscariot.
They were too suppressive
Epiphany
Jar of expensive perfume
Blood from his nose
Albania
Washed their feet.
Hawaiki
Five
False–Jesus welcomed children.
Live for a Better Afterlife
The Vedas
False. He said dirty hands don’t make a person spiritually unclean. You can still get germs!
Evil
Sikhism
Five loaves of bread—and two fish
The National Enquirer – The New Yorker – Playboy
Diwali (also known as Divali, Deepawali or Dipavali)
Because his friend Lazarus died.
Moksha
Buddhism
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
survival
War
Healing the sick and casting out demons.
Sixth
The Pope
12
Ras Tafari
Transylvania
Michael
False. Jesus was rejected many times.
His Noodly Appendage
Saint Dorothy
Sea of Galilee
It is an everlasting covenant.
Tent Peg
False, Jesus turned water into wine.
Three quarters
Saint Ann
Nazareth
Only those with the spark from the pleroma and the knowledge of that spark
France
Carpenter
a jewelled spear
The Watchtower
That he was pleased with his son.
drum
Saint Boniface
God
Haumea and Kane Milohai
Onions
John the Baptist
Co-worker with God
Helen of Troy
False. Jesus obeyed his parents.
War
Mandala
Bethlehem
Muslim
INRI
God
Angra Mainyu
St Agnes
Joseph
brother and sister
Ash Wednesday
Mary
Africa
Green
Pirates
Buddhist
Saul
Male and female priests
Germany
A golden calf
Russell’s teapot
Saint Luke
The water crashed on them and killed them all.
It was memorized by priests
None, Moses led people out of Egypt. Noah was on the ark!
Parted the Red Sea.
Sikhism
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin
By the Red Sea
Emu
deacons
The firstborn son of all Egyptian families died.
Strong cravings
gnats and boils
10
New Moon
quiet words
Let his people go.
Harmony and righteousness
judge not
A burning bush.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
James
Put him in a basket in the river.
Greek Orthodox
the First and the Last
The dreams said he would become greater and rule over them.
Taoism/Daoism
The Pentateuch
A coat of many colors
Personal secretary
The Lord who heals
12
Buddhism
making a golden idol
A rainbow
They would call to order a kosher pizza delivery on Friday night
Proverbs
40
Catholicism
Nazareth
Noah
Medical
Mount Carmel
Cain, Abel, Seth
Flight and expulsion of Germans from Polish territory
Acts
Garden of Eden
970 CE
shield of knowledge
Eve
The Druze consider him a heretic.
Jacob and Esau
Adam
Lao-tzu
earthquake, veil in the temple torn, tombs broke open
6
Izanagi
living and active
Genesis
Good Neighbours
take off his sandals
True.
1819 – 1850
her tears and her hair
Genesis (2:1-3).
A merchant
Jacob after he struggled with God
Jesuits.
It does away with the notions of heaven and hell
sheep
In Jude, the last two verses.
Maui’s waka
Damascus
Mormon.
The Sky Father is crying to the Earth Mother
his friend
Mardi Gras.
The Japanese Emperor is a God.
you will live long in the land
Moonies.
Knowledge
half of it
Shinto.
All of these are correct
Obadiah (For bonus points, the others are Philemon, 2 & 3 John and Jude)
4,32,000 years
Ed WoodStock
Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament)
Krita Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga and Kali Yuga.
Three Jewels of Jainism
dove and a raven
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa.
all of these things
defend the commandments in response to the gods of the peoples around them
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
April 20
Ruth was Naomi’s daughter-in-law (son’s wife)
Prophets of the New India.
Ethiopia
three days and three nights
Anandpur Sahib.
Lasagne
a coat
Islam.
Right after the flood.
on a stand
Presbyterianism.
Half
wisdom
“Pentateuch” (meaning five books) is the first five Books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
pleroma
24 times
Adventists.
Seven
Matthew
Quakers (Society of Friends).
reindeer urine
Shield of Faith
Buddhism.
Kîlauea
the priest
An ornamental screen at the back of the altar or communion table.
The Mahanta
40
Egypt or Ethiopia.
Papa
rainbow
Amalekites.
Sikhism
ceasing
A widow burning herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.
Avesta
Harp/lyre
Saint Nicholas.
under the water
whom I love
The veiling of women and keeping them screened from the sight of strangers.
Haile Selassie I
four times
Kisa Gotami.
Touched By His Noodly Appendage
Malachi
Sea of Chinnereth (Num. 34:11); Lake of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1); Sea of Tiberias (John 6:1).
Bondye
the heart
Guru Nanak
Channa.
Kansas
Hinduism
Kanthaka.
Both of them
Mormonism
The founder of Arya Samaj.
Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters)
Rastafari/Rastafarianism
Fakir.
Zoroastrianism
The Bahá’í Faith
Swami Ramanand.
Totem spirits
Jainism
The fruit of the tree of knowledge
Eid Al-Fitr
Angkor Wat, in Cambodia
Saint Thomas.
Good Friday
Zoroastrianism
Nepal
Oberon
Yom Kippur
Do to others as you would be done by others.
Belief in American ideals
Ramadan
Psalms
Hinduism
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Confucius.
Richard Allen
Sikhism (translates as ‘Golden Temple’)
In Aramaic language.
There is no holy book
Japan
Hinduism claims that Buddha was the 9th incarnation of Vishnu.
West Africa
Brazil
“Humta, hukhta and hrarshta”, that is good thoughts, good words and good deeds
Poland Is the only country out of the eight with Roman Catholicism exceeding 90% of the population
Buddhist
Agmas (precepts) or Siddhantas
Disagreement as to who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad upon his death in 632 CE
Tripiṭaka (the three baskets) They are Vinaya Piṭaka, Sutta Pitaka and Abhidhamma Piṭaka
Neither exactly reproduces the sound.
Republic of Macedonia (She was born in Skopje, which at the time part of the Ottoman Empire – many sources state that she was Albanian – she was born to an Albanian mother, but Skopje is now part of Macedonia)
That the best means of liberation is devotion, and the best Yoga is Bhakti Yoga
Amaterasu
Any five of the following, in any wording:
1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (or idol).
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
5. Honour thy Father and thy Mother.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Though shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet.
Noah
Zarathustra
Hinduism
The horned God surrounded by the animals
Islam
Nirvana
The Hindu Religion – they are Goddesses
His father
Ramadan
Ecumenical movement
all of them
Sikhism
Saint Crispin
Maui’s fish
Zoroastrianism
Guru Arjun Dev in the year 1604
Japan
Taoism
Guru Gobind Singh
The “Messiah’s Handbook (Reminders for the Advanced Soul)”
Ares
Mardana, a Muslim rebec player and music composer, who helped Nanak to organize Kirtans or community singing of devotional songs.
Reverend Steve Galindo
Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement
Exodus
Racism
Princess
A disciple of the One True God
Ron Hubbard
Five
Submission or surrender to the will of the God
March 21
Japan
Pawa, near Rajgir
Jah
How Great Thou Art
At the age of 72 years
Kansas
Hinduism
Abraham
pious gentiles
Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth
Ps. 119 (176 verses)
USA
Saudi Arabia
Nirvana
Irenaeus, of Lyon
Two – Pope Alexander VI and Pope Callixtus III
Hinduism
Toyo-kumo-nu-no-kami
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
the ecstatic one
66
The religious coming-of-age of a 13-year-old boy
Volcanoes
Thirteen
Islam
Paul Twitchell
Judaism, the religion of the Jews
Rangi
Abide With Me
Romans
Roman Catholicism
Islam
The sky-clad
2001
Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
the souls of their ancestors
Hinduism
Mahapajapati, Buddha’s maternal aunt and his mother’s sister who had brought him up after his mother’s death
Pastafarians
Iran
The Swiss Guard
The time when the world was created
The Torah
Islam
Yom Kippur
Justin Welby (Correct as of 29/1/18)
Easter
Lucumi
Korea (now divided into North and South Korea)
A path between the two extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification
Indus Valley
Hajj
Isipatana, where Buddha taught his first sermon
Islam
Christianity
“Jehovah is salvation”; Matt. 1;21
Population growth
China
Gautama Buddha
Shinto
Buddha
Sikhism
Say a special prayer to become saved
Diwali (or Deepavali)
About evolution. According to this system the whole universe has evolved out of one cosmic energy
Brazi
Sankhya System
The Levant
Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon
Juche
Indonesia
Hinduism
Cairo
Tane Mahuta
Roman Catholicism
Jah
Rastafarians
Haiti
Way of the gods
Paganism
Festival of Lights
Christianity
Polytheist
Islam
Christianity – Roman Catholic
Christianity – Roman Catholicism
Islam
“Jehovah is salvation”; Matt. 1;21.
The Quran.
Orissa.
Jammu & Kashmir.
Rajasthan.
Sun.
Java.
Srinagar.
Zionism.
Euhemerism.
Ararat.
Stoicism.
The Zend Avesta.
Auguste Comte.
Mount Sinai.
The Jews.
About A.D. 50.
Saint Thomas.
Enlightened one.
Gautama Buddha.
Philippi.
China.
5th Avenue
40 days
Alberta Canada
rebirth
Hugh Jackman
True
Pretzels
Easter Wizards
Ukraine
Rutherford B. Hayes
Linen
Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb
Apostle Thomas
Lily
No fixed date, it is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox
The color was red