Priscilla 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 Priscilla's husband?
- A. Paul
- B. Aquila ✓
- C. Apollos
- D. Silas
Answer: Aquila
Acts 18:2 (KJV) — Paul 'found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla.'
Q2.What was their occupation?
- A. Fishermen
- B. Tentmakers ✓
- C. Scribes
- D. Merchants of purple
Answer: Tentmakers
Acts 18:3 (KJV) — 'And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.'
Q3.Where did Priscilla and Aquila meet Paul?
- A. Rome
- B. Corinth ✓
- C. Ephesus
- D. Athens
Answer: Corinth
Acts 18:1-2 (KJV) — After Paul departed from Athens, he came to Corinth and found Aquila and Priscilla there.
Q4.Where did Priscilla and Aquila go with Paul?
- A. Rome
- B. Ephesus ✓
- C. Jerusalem
- D. Thessalonica
Answer: Ephesus
Acts 18:18-19 (KJV) — Paul sailed from Corinth with Priscilla and Aquila, and they came to Ephesus.
Q5.Who did Priscilla and Aquila instruct more perfectly in the way of God?
- A. Timothy
- B. Apollos ✓
- C. Silas
- D. Onesimus
Answer: Apollos
Acts 18:26 (KJV) — 'And he [Apollos] began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.'
Q6.What had Apollos known before meeting Priscilla and Aquila?
- A. Only the baptism of John ✓
- B. The full gospel
- C. The Law of Moses only
- D. The prophecies of Daniel
Answer: Only the baptism of John
Acts 18:25 (KJV) — Apollos 'was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.'
Q7.In Romans 16:3, what does Paul call Priscilla and Aquila?
- A. My fellowworkers in Christ Jesus ✓
- B. His parents in the faith
- C. The pillars of the church
- D. Prophets and teachers
Answer: My fellowworkers in Christ Jesus
Romans 16:3 (KJV) — 'Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: ...for my life laid down their own necks.'
Q8.Which church met in Priscilla and Aquila's house?
- A. The church at Rome
- B. The church at Ephesus or Corinth ✓
- C. The church at Jerusalem
- D. The church at Philippi
Answer: The church at Ephesus or Corinth
1 Corinthians 16:19 (KJV) — 'Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.' Romans 16:5 also mentions 'the church that is in their house.'
Q9.In how many of Paul's epistles are Priscilla and Aquila mentioned?
- A. One
- B. Two
- C. Three ✓
- D. Four
Answer: Three
They are mentioned in Acts 18, Romans 16:3, 1 Corinthians 16:19, and 2 Timothy 4:19 — four times, though Acts is not an epistle. Among epistles: Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 2 Timothy (three epistles).
Q10.What risk did Priscilla and Aquila take for Paul?
- A. They laid down their own necks for his life ✓
- B. They sold all their goods
- C. They travelled to Rome alone
- D. They faced the Sanhedrin
Answer: They laid down their own necks for his life
Romans 16:4 (KJV) — 'Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.'