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    Methuselah 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.

    1. Q1.Who was Methuselah's father?

      • A. Enoch ✓
      • B. Jared
      • C. Lamech
      • D. Seth

      Answer: Enoch

      Genesis 5:21 (KJV) — 'Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah.'

      Read Genesis 5:21 (KJV)

    2. Q2.How many years did Methuselah live in all?

      • A. 930
      • B. 912
      • C. 969 ✓
      • D. 777

      Answer: 969

      Genesis 5:27 (KJV) — 'All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.'

      Read Genesis 5:27 (KJV)

    3. Q3.Who was Methuselah's son?

      • A. Noah
      • B. Lamech ✓
      • C. Shem
      • D. Cainan

      Answer: Lamech

      Genesis 5:25 (KJV) — 'Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.'

      Read Genesis 5:25 (KJV)

    4. Q4.Who was Methuselah's grandson?

      • A. Noah ✓
      • B. Abraham
      • C. Shem
      • D. Enoch

      Answer: Noah

      Genesis 5:28-29 (KJV) — Lamech 'begat a son: And he called his name Noah.'

      Read Genesis 5:28 (KJV)

    5. Q5.At what age did Methuselah beget Lamech?

      • A. 162
      • B. 187 ✓
      • C. 205
      • D. 500

      Answer: 187

      Genesis 5:25 (KJV) — 'Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.'

      Read Genesis 5:25 (KJV)

    6. Q6.Methuselah is listed in whose genealogy in the New Testament?

      • A. Matthew's
      • B. Luke's ✓
      • C. Mark's
      • D. John's

      Answer: Luke's

      Luke 3:37 (KJV) — 'Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch.'

      Read Luke 3:37 (KJV)

    7. Q7.Methuselah was the great-grandfather of which patriarch?

      • A. Abraham
      • B. Noah ✓
      • C. Shem
      • D. Isaac

      Answer: Noah

      Genesis 5:25-29 (KJV) — Lamech, son of Methuselah, was the father of Noah.

      Read Genesis 5:29 (KJV)

    8. Q8.Was Methuselah's father Enoch translated, that he should not see death?

      • A. Yes ✓
      • B. No
      • C. Only in a vision
      • D. Not stated

      Answer: Yes

      Hebrews 11:5 (KJV) — 'By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death.'

      Read Hebrews 11:5 (KJV)

    9. Q9.Which generation from Adam was Methuselah?

      • A. Sixth
      • B. Seventh
      • C. Eighth ✓
      • D. Tenth

      Answer: Eighth

      Genesis 5 (KJV) lists Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah — the eighth.

      Read Genesis 5:21 (KJV)

    10. Q10.How many years after Methuselah's begetting Lamech did he live?

      • A. 500
      • B. 782 ✓
      • C. 800
      • D. 900

      Answer: 782

      Genesis 5:26 (KJV) — 'Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years.'

      Read Genesis 5:26 (KJV)