Grandparents 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 hoary head called in Proverbs?
- A. A crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness ✓
- B. A burden
- C. A sign of weakness
- D. A reproach
Answer: A crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. (Proverbs 16:31)
Q2.What is the glory of young men, and of old men?
- A. The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head ✓
- B. Riches and honour
- C. Knowledge and power
- D. Skill and craft
Answer: The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. (Proverbs 20:29)
Q3.Whom did Paul commend for unfeigned faith first dwelling in his grandmother?
- A. Timothy ✓
- B. Titus
- C. Mark
- D. Luke
Answer: Timothy
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice. (2 Timothy 1:5)
Q4.What was Timothy's grandmother's name?
- A. Lois ✓
- B. Eunice
- C. Anna
- D. Dorcas
Answer: Lois
...which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois. (2 Timothy 1:5)
Q5.What are children's children called in Proverbs?
- A. The crown of old men ✓
- B. A burden
- C. Strangers
- D. Heirs
Answer: The crown of old men
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. (Proverbs 17:6)
Q6.What did Moses command about teaching the next generation?
- A. Teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons ✓
- B. Speak them once
- C. Hide them in books
- D. Give them to scribes
Answer: Teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons
But teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons. (Deuteronomy 4:9)
Q7.What did the psalmist ask God not to forsake him in?
- A. Old age... when my strength faileth ✓
- B. Battle
- C. Wealth
- D. Honour
Answer: Old age... when my strength faileth
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. (Psalm 71:9)
Q8.What did the psalmist promise to declare to the next generation?
- A. Thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come ✓
- B. His wisdom
- C. His exploits
- D. His wealth
Answer: Thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. (Psalm 71:18)
Q9.How old was Sarah when Isaac was born?
- A. Ninety years old ✓
- B. Eighty years old
- C. One hundred years old
- D. Seventy years old
Answer: Ninety years old
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me... For I have born him a son in his old age. (Genesis 21:6-7) — Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90.
Q10.What does the law require concerning the old man?
- A. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man ✓
- B. Pass him by
- C. Sit before him
- D. Send him away
Answer: Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. (Leviticus 19:32)