Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets) 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.In which month was the Feast of Trumpets to be kept?
- A. The seventh month, in the first day of the month ✓
- B. The first month
- C. The third month
- D. The tenth month
Answer: The seventh month, in the first day of the month
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. (Leviticus 23:24)
Q2.What was the day to be?
- A. A memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation ✓
- B. A fast
- C. A war day
- D. A market day
Answer: A memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation
...shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. (Leviticus 23:24)
Q3.What were they to do no servile work on?
- A. The Feast of Trumpets ✓
- B. Their own homes
- C. The fields
- D. The harvest
Answer: The Feast of Trumpets
Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. (Leviticus 23:25)
Q4.What does Numbers 29 call the day?
- A. A day of blowing the trumpets ✓
- B. A day of harvest
- C. A day of fasting
- D. A day of war
Answer: A day of blowing the trumpets
And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation... it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. (Numbers 29:1)
Q5.What did Ezra read to the people on this day?
- A. The book of the law of Moses ✓
- B. The Psalms only
- C. A new letter
- D. His own decree
Answer: The book of the law of Moses
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation... upon the first day of the seventh month. (Nehemiah 8:2)
Q6.What did Nehemiah tell the people about this day?
- A. This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep ✓
- B. Fast and weep
- C. Build the wall
- D. Go home
Answer: This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep
This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. (Nehemiah 8:9)
Q7.What was the joy of the LORD called?
- A. Your strength ✓
- B. Your shield
- C. Your portion
- D. Your reward
Answer: Your strength
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet... for the joy of the LORD is your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10)
Q8.What did the trumpet announce in Israel?
- A. Solemn feasts, war, and the Lord's appointed seasons ✓
- B. Only war
- C. Only weddings
- D. Only burials
Answer: Solemn feasts, war, and the Lord's appointed seasons
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets. (Numbers 10:10)
Q9.What shall sound at the resurrection of the saints?
- A. The trump of God ✓
- B. A great bell
- C. A loud cry
- D. A heavenly song
Answer: The trump of God
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
Q10.At what trump shall we be changed?
- A. The last trump ✓
- B. The first trump
- C. The seventh trump
- D. The silver trump
Answer: The last trump
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:52)