Caleb Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.Who was Caleb's father?
- A. Jephunneh the Kenezite ✓
- B. Nun
- C. Zurishaddai
- D. Ammishaddai
Answer: Jephunneh the Kenezite
Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Q2.What did Caleb say about taking Canaan?
- A. Let us flee
- B. Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it ✓
- C. Let us send more spies
- D. Let us wait for reinforcements
Answer: Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it
Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Q3.How many of the twelve spies brought back a good report?
- A. Two — Joshua and Caleb ✓
- B. Three
- C. Six
- D. One — Joshua alone
Answer: Two — Joshua and Caleb
Only Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun, brought back faith-filled reports.
Q4.What did Caleb say about the giants in the land?
- A. They are too strong for us
- B. They were bread for us: their defence is departed from them ✓
- C. We should negotiate peace
- D. God will fight for us alone
Answer: They were bread for us: their defence is departed from them
Caleb and Joshua said, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land… their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
Q5.How old was Caleb when Moses sent him to spy out Canaan?
- A. Thirty years old
- B. Forty years old ✓
- C. Fifty years old
- D. Sixty years old
Answer: Forty years old
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land.
Q6.How many years wandered in the wilderness because of unbelief?
- A. Twenty years
- B. Thirty years
- C. Forty years ✓
- D. Fifty years
Answer: Forty years
Your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms.
Q7.What did God say about Caleb?
- A. He wholly followed the LORD God of Israel ✓
- B. He was the youngest spy
- C. He was the strongest warrior
- D. He was Moses' favourite
Answer: He wholly followed the LORD God of Israel
My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Q8.What mountain did Caleb ask for as his inheritance?
- A. Mount Sinai
- B. Mount Zion
- C. Kirjath-arba (Hebron) ✓
- D. Mount Gerizim
Answer: Kirjath-arba (Hebron)
Give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day… Kirjath-arba, which city is Hebron.
Q9.How old was Caleb when he drove out the sons of Anak from Hebron?
- A. Sixty-five
- B. Seventy
- C. Eighty-five ✓
- D. Ninety
Answer: Eighty-five
I am this day fourscore and five years old… now therefore give me this mountain.
Q10.Who did Caleb drive out of Hebron?
- A. The Hittites
- B. The Canaanites
- C. The three sons of Anak — Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai ✓
- D. The Philistines
Answer: The three sons of Anak — Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai
And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.