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 cryptic teaser
- Philemon (Phi – lemon)
- Nod (Genesis 4:16)
- Sapphira (Sapphir – a)
- Gamaliel (anagram of legal aim)
- Buzi (Ezekiel 1:3)
- Benjamin (Genesis 44:1-18)
- Lazarus (John 11:28-37)
- Elijah (anagram of he and jail)
- Barnabas (anagram of Arab bans)
- Amos (Soma – Greek for body – spelt backwards)
- Phoebe (anagram of be hope)
- Naboth (again a bothersome)
- Gilgal (Vigil galvanises)
- Emmaus (Emma – us)
- Agrippa (a grip part)
Kings and queens
- Who was king at the time of Elijah?
- Who was the first king of Israel?
- Which king did Nehemiah ask for permission to help rebuild Jerusalem?
- Which son of Solomon presided over the split between Israel and Judah?
- Who became king of Judah when he was just eight years old and ordered repairs to the temple when he was 18, these leading to widespread reforms?
- Which queen is for ever associated with Solomon?
- Which king had Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego thrown into the fiery furnace?
- Who was the first king of Israel after the split with Judah?
- Which Persian king did Isaiah see as used by God to end the Judeans’ exile in Babylon?
- Whose place as queen was effectively usurped by Esther?
- Which king had Daniel thrown into the lion’s den?
- Who was king of Judah when it fell to the Babylonians?
- Which queen did the Ethiopian eunuch serve?
- Which king of Moab hired Balaam to pronounce a curse on Israel?
- Who cleansed Judah after the corruption of his father Ahaz but was later warned by Isaiah against alliances with other countries?