Nimrod 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 Nimrod's grandfather?
- A. Ham ✓
- B. Shem
- C. Japheth
- D. Noah
Answer: Ham
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. (Genesis 10:8)
Q2.How is Nimrod described in Genesis 10:8?
- A. He began to be a mighty one in the earth ✓
- B. He was meek and humble
- C. He was a priest of God
- D. He was a shepherd
Answer: He began to be a mighty one in the earth
He began to be a mighty one in the earth. (Genesis 10:8)
Q3.What was Nimrod before the LORD?
- A. A mighty hunter ✓
- B. A mighty priest
- C. A mighty prophet
- D. A mighty shepherd
Answer: A mighty hunter
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. (Genesis 10:9)
Q4.Where did the kingdom of Nimrod begin?
- A. Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ✓
- B. Canaan
- C. Egypt
- D. The wilderness of Sinai
Answer: Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. (Genesis 10:10)
Q5.What other land did Nimrod go into?
- A. Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth, and Calah ✓
- B. Egypt
- C. Canaan
- D. The land of Nod
Answer: Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth, and Calah
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah. (Genesis 10:11)
Q6.What city did Nimrod build between Nineveh and Calah?
- A. Resen ✓
- B. Babel
- C. Erech
- D. Accad
Answer: Resen
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. (Genesis 10:12)
Q7.What does Micah 5:6 say about the land of Nimrod?
- A. They shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof ✓
- B. They shall honour the land of Nimrod
- C. They shall build it up
- D. They shall make it their capital
Answer: They shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof
And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof. (Micah 5:6)
Q8.What does 'before the LORD' likely mean in Nimrod's description?
- A. In opposition to the LORD, or in defiance of Him ✓
- B. In worship of the LORD
- C. In submission to the LORD
- D. In prayer to the LORD
Answer: In opposition to the LORD, or in defiance of Him
The phrase 'a mighty hunter before the LORD' likely carries the sense of defiance or opposition to the LORD, as Nimrod's later building of Babel demonstrates rebellion against God. (Genesis 10:9; 11:4)
Q9.What does Genesis 11:4 say the people of Babel wanted to build?
- A. A city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ✓
- B. A temple
- C. A palace
- D. A garden
Answer: A city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Genesis 11:4)
Q10.What was God's response to the tower of Babel?
- A. He confounded their language and scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth ✓
- B. He blessed their work
- C. He joined with them
- D. He made them a great nation
Answer: He confounded their language and scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth. (Genesis 11:8-9)