Father's Day 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.What is the fifth commandment?
- A. Thou shalt not steal
- B. Honour thy father and thy mother ✓
- C. Thou shalt not bear false witness
- D. Remember the sabbath day
Answer: Honour thy father and thy mother
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. (Exodus 20:12)
Q2.Who is called 'the father of all them that believe'?
- A. Moses
- B. David
- C. Abraham ✓
- D. Isaac
Answer: Abraham
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham. (Romans 4:12)
Q3.What did the prodigal son say to his father when he returned?
- A. I am worthy to be called thy son
- B. Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee ✓
- C. Why did you let me leave?
- D. Give me my inheritance again
Answer: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. (Luke 15:21)
Q4.What did the father of the prodigal do when he saw him returning?
- A. Waited inside
- B. Sent a servant
- C. Had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him ✓
- D. Was angry
Answer: Had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him
But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. (Luke 15:20)
Q5.How should fathers treat their children according to Ephesians?
- A. With harshness
- B. With cruelty
- C. Provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord ✓
- D. Ignore them
Answer: Provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4)
Q6.Whom did God call 'My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased'?
- A. Moses
- B. Abraham
- C. Jesus Christ ✓
- D. David
Answer: Jesus Christ
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Matthew 3:17)
Q7.What did Joshua declare: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD'?
- A. Yes ✓
- B. No, that was not Joshua
- C. That was Moses
- D. That was Samuel
Answer: Yes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:15)
Q8.Who trained up his child 'in the way he should go'?
- A. Moses trained Joshua
- B. Solomon wrote it as wisdom for parents ✓
- C. Eli trained Samuel
- D. David trained Solomon
Answer: Solomon wrote it as wisdom for parents
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)
Q9.What kind of inheritance do good fathers leave?
- A. Gold and silver
- B. A good name ✓
- C. Land
- D. Cattle
Answer: A good name
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (Proverbs 22:1)
Q10.How does Paul describe God as our Father in Romans?
- A. A distant judge
- B. A cruel master
- C. The Father of mercies ✓
- D. A strict disciplinarian
Answer: The Father of mercies
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. (2 Corinthians 1:3)