1. A snake
   A rabbit
2. A sword
   A beaver

Aaron does this to prove to Pharaoh that Moses is truly speaking for God. However, Pharaoh's priests are able to do the same thing - though their serpents aren't as fearsome, since Aaron's staff eats them!

1. Ra
   Baal
2. Tammuz
   Asherah

While all the pagan gods in the Bible are considered very bad, Baal is the main one whose worship is brought into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

1. Mother
   Wife
2. Sister
   Friend

Miriam is Moses' sister. Aaron is his brother. They are raised separately as Moses is put upon the Nile in a basket in order to save him from Pharaoh's edict killing the first-born of the Hebrews, and he is found and rescued by the Egyptian queen.

1. Passover
   Channukah
2. Purim
   Sukkot

The Last Supper was the Pesach, or Passover meal, which Jesus and the apostles held to celebrate the Exodus from Egypt. Passover is one of the most important Jewish holidays and has been celebrated for 3,000 years.

1. Samuel
   Kings
2. Proverbs
   Chronicles

There are two books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles, but just one Book of Proverbs. Proverbs is usually read in conjunction with Psalms.

1. Moab
   Egypt
2. Babylon
   Judah

Ruth is a Moabite woman, but she becomes one of the people of Israeli partly by marriage but also mainly by her own volition, when she says to her mother-in-law, "Your people shall be my people, and your God my God."

1. Lot
   Shinab
2. Elam
   Chedorlaomer

Lot is a good man who is given warning of the destruction of the sinful cities. He begs God to spare them, and God agrees if Lot can find ten good men in the cities. Unfortunately, Lot comes up short and just about has time to flee with his family, on the instruction that they must not look back. Lot's wife cannot resist and is turned into a pillar of salt.

1. Joshua
   Moses
2. Caleb
   Aaron

Joshua and Caleb were lieutenants of Moses. Since the Hebrews had to wander in the desert for 40 years before entering the promised land, a new generation of leaders had to lead the way. Joshua was one of the mightiest of these.

1. Mount Sinai
   Mount Ararat
2. Mount Pisgah
   Mount Moriah

Moses spent 40 days on the mountain getting the word of God, which he inscribed onto two stone tablets. Meanwhile, the Hebrews were busy making a golden calf and generally acting in a manner that made Moses very angry.

1. Matthew
   Mark
2. Luke
   Paul

Paul is a very important figure in the New Testament but is not one of the Gospel Makers. They are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

1. He was the oldest man in the world.
   He had more sons than anyone.
2. He had more wives than anyone.
   He was the father of Abraham.

Supposedly Methuselah lived some 782 years, though obviously record-keeping wasn't perfect then. He was certainly very old at his death. He is important because he is the grandfather of Noah.

1. Ahab
   Manasseh
2. Hezekiah
   Jehoram

Jezebel is Ahab's foreign-born wife. She introduces all sorts of pagan and evil rites into the palace and they both come to a bad end.

1. Romans
   Acts
2. Revelation
   2 Corinthians

There was controversy about including the Book of Revelation in the Bible, as it is tonally so different to the others, but it made it in and became the last book.

1. Corinthians
   Thessalonians
2. Colossians
   Timothy

There are two Books of Timothy, two Thessalonians and two Corinthians, but Colossians is a single book (an epistle to the people of Colossae).

1. 39
   12
2. 42
   55

There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New, for a grand total of 66 books. Some religions also include the books of the Apocrypha, raising the total further.

1. 100
   200
2. 150
   400

There are 150 Psalms, with various authors. Solomon and David are the most prolific of these.

1. Joel
   Elisha
2. Samuel
   Amos

The prophet Elisha was Elijah's protege. When Elijah ascended to heaven on a chariot that rose on a column of fire, his cloak fell and settled around the shoulders of Elijah, proving that he was truly the heir of Elijah's mission to speak the truth.

1. Chronicles
   Epistles
2. Apostles
   Canticles

Canticles is a curious song as it is not about stories of the Bible. Instead it reads as a man and woman who are lovers, celebrating each other. It is often read as the relationship between God and Israel.

1. Job
   Obadiah
2. Esther
   Ruth

Obadiah is a prophet and his book was written during the Assyrian period. It only has 21 verses.

1. Isaiah
   Hosea
2. Joel
   Habbakuk

Isaiah is a major prophet. The others are three of the 12 minor prophets.

1. 4
   3
2. 2
   12

Noah has three sons: Ham, Shem and Japheth. They help build the Ark and collect the animals, along with their wives, and all go on the Ark to safety during the Flood.

1. River turning to blood
   Snakes
2. Flies
   Cattle disease

There are frogs (hardly surprising given that the river had just turned to blood and the frogs probably didn't like it in there!) - but no snakes, at least.

1. Criminals
   Flowers
2. Sacrificed animals
   The gardens themselves hung

The Hanging Gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and depictions show that they spilled down the sides of a great ziggurat - they were literally gardens that hung!

1. The death of King David
   The division of the kingdom of Israel
2. The breaking of the tablets
   The destruction of Jerusalem

Lamentations was written during the exile in Babylon following the invasion of its ruler Nebuchadnezzar. It is a very sad book about a people longing for their home.

1. He defeated Assyria.
   He defeated Babylon.
2. He defeated the Moabites.
   He defeated the Hittites.

Persian leader Cyrus defeated the Babylonians and allowed the Israelites to go home. He was a great friend of Israel. Persia later became modern-day Iran.

1. Michael
   Barachiel
2. Ezekiel
   Uriel

Ezekiel is a prophet; the other three are angels.

1. Numbers
   Leviticus
2. Deuteronomy
   Exodus

The first five books, known as the Torah, are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

1. 10
   613
2. 1
   522

There are 613 "mitzvot" or commandments in the Torah, of which ten are the best known. 365 are "negative precepts" or laws that say "thou shalt not", meaning they are instructions to NOT do something; 248 are "positive precepts" that say "thou shalt". Thanks to the destruction of the Temple, only 77 of the first group and 194 of the second group can actually be observed.

1. Elijah
   Jeremiah
2. Ezekiel
   Daniel

Elijah is a very important prophet but does not have his own book. Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Isaiah each have their own book.

1. Shalmaneser
   Tiglath-Pileser
2. Sennacherib
   Belshazzar

Belshazzar is Babylonian - the rest are Assyrian.

1. Slingshot
   Knife
2. Hands
   Bone

Samson kills 2,000 men with the jawbone of an ass. The Philistines are determined to take him down and they use his beloved Delilah to find out his secrets so they can get revenge for his victory.

1. Nineveh
   Babylon
2. Damascus
   Megiddo

This question stumps Sir Robin in Monty Python's Holy Grail, but it would not have stumped anyone living in Biblical times as Assyria was a mighty regional power. Nineveh was its capital, though the city has since been destroyed. It was on the Tigris River in modern Iraq, and would have been a very fertile and powerful place. Rainfall in the Fertile Crescent used to be some eight times higher, so what is now desert would have been glorious farmland. The city of Mosul stands on the site of ancient Nineveh.

1. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
   Father forgive them, for they know not what they do
2. It is finished
   Father, to you I commend my spirit

This is one of the more confusing elements of the Bible for some, as it is an odd thing for Jesus to say. Others interpret it to mean that he suffered in such a way as to truly feel abandoned. Others point out that this is a quote from one of the Psalms.

1. Life
   Knowledge
2. Fig
   Caring

There are actually two forbidden trees - the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge. Genesis 3:22 tells us that Adam and Eve are from the latter, and God says they must be kicked out of Eden in order to stop them eating from the other one too.

1. Constantinople
   Damascus
2. Jerusalem
   Bethlehem

Saul is on the way to Damascus when he has a religious epiphany and becomes a Christian, renaming himself Paul.