Here are the answers to today’s odd-one-out quiz from my book Ask Me Another:
1. b. James isn’t a Gospel.
2. c. Joshua isn’t part of the Pentateuch.
3. a. Samson and Delilah never married.
4. b. Timothy was not one of the twelve apostles.
5. a. James and John were brothers; Andrew was from a different family.
6. a. Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are usually attributed to Solomon, the bulk of the Psalms to his father David.
7. c. Unlike the other two books, Isaiah does not open with the words ‘In the beginning’.
8. c. James has two chapters, the other two books only have one.
9. c. Damascus was not part of Palestine.
10. c. Hebrews is not attributed to Paul.
11. b. Revelation was written by John, the other two books by Luke.
12. c. Joseph and Benjamin were sons of Rachel, Reuben of Leah (Genesis 35:23, 24).
13. c. Characters called Joseph and Zechariah appear in both the Old and the New Testaments, Silas only in the New.
14. b. Tobit comes from the Apocrypha, Zephaniah and Nahum from the universally recognised canon of Scripture.
15. c. The book of Revelation is not an epistle/letter.