This week’s promotional discount is on my 2007 fun quiz book Ask Me Another. Suitable for all ages, it offers a great way not only of testing your Bible knowledge but also of learning more about the people, places, stories and events recorded in Scripture. Normally retailing at £15.99, this week, until 25 September, you can purchase it at a 10 per cent discount – a saving of £1.60 – using the code ASK10 when ordering the book from the Kevin Mayhew website. Just type the code into the relevant box at the checkout between the dates given.
Meanwhile, here, first, are the answers to yesterday’s quiz, followed by another, taken from the book, to run alongside this promotion.
Answers to yesterday’s Odd One Out quiz:
1. b. The Trilobites are the odd one out: the Ammonites and Adullamites were both tribes that Israel came up against during their conquest of the promised land.
2. c. Abraham is the odd one out: Cain (Genesis 4:8, 9) and Moses (Exodus 2:11, 12) both killed someone in a moment of anger.
3. b. Seed is the odd one out: Jesus told parables about a lost coin (Luke 15:8-10) and lost sheep (Luke 15:3-7) but not about a lost seed.
4. c. Barak is the odd one out: there is no one of the same name in the New Testament, whereas there are characters called Joseph and Zechariah in both Testaments.
5. c. Farmer is the odd one out: the twelve apostles included fishermen and a tax collector but no farmer.
6. c. Matthew 11:28 is the odd one out: the words in (a) and (b) both come from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:21 and 7:12a respectively).
7. c. Abraham is the odd one out. Eliphaz and Zophar were both friends of Job.
8. a. Boaz is the odd one out. Mordecai and Haman both feature in the book of Esther, while Boaz appears in the book of Ruth.
9. b. Sparrow is the odd one out: Noah sent a raven (Genesis 8:7) and dove (Genesis 8:8) from the ark to see if dry land had appeared, but didn’t send a sparrow.
10. b. Six thousand is the odd one out: Jesus fed the four thousand (Matthew 15:32-38) and five thousand (Matthew 14:13-21) but not six thousand.
11. a. These words come from Matthew’s Gospel (28:20b): the words in (b) and (c) both come from Luke’s Gospel (2:19 and 15:5).
12. c. Olive is the odd one out: Jesus told a parable about a fig tree (Luke 22) and about vines and vineyards, but none about olives.
13. b. Mary is the odd one out: Sarah (Genesis 18:10-12) and Elizabeth (Luke 1:7-11) were both getting on in years when they were promised a child, unlike Mary who was young.
14. a. The rich man is the odd one out: the prodigal son and good Samaritan were both fictitious characters in Jesus’ parables whereas the rich man was a real person (Luke 18:18-24).
15. c. Lunch is the odd one out: Jesus shared a last supper with his disciples (Luke 22:20) and a breakfast of bread and fish after his resurrection (John 21:12, 13), but there is no mention of him sharing lunch with them.
Quote unquote quiz
Can you complete the following celebrated verses of Scripture? (Translations vary, of course – here the New Revised Standard Version is used – so the gist of the verse will be enough.)
1. Clap your hands, all you peoples . . .
2. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light . . .
3. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared . . .
4. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life . . .
5. Blessed are those who mourn . . .
6. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child . . .
7. Ask, and it will be given to you . . .
8. Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his . . .
9. In this is love . . .
10. Search me, O God, and know my heart . . .
11. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people . . .
12. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you . . .
13. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit . . .
14. For my thoughts are not your thoughts . . .
15. Fools say in their hearts . . .