Quiz Your Knowledge From the Book of Acts

Check your answers only after you attempt each question.

1.  Name the magician from Paphos who opposed Barnabas and Paul.

2.  Where did Barnabas and Paul discuss the practice of circumcision?

3.  What was Lydia's occupation in Philippi?

4.  Name the girl who answered Peter's call when he knocked at the door.

5.  Name the leader of a synagogue in Corinth who with his family believed and was baptized.

6.  Who forced Aquila and Priscilla to leave Rome?

7.  Where did John Mark leave Barnabas and Paul for Jerusalem?

8.  In whose house did Paul stay in Caesarea on his way to Jerusalem for the last time?

9.  Which city claimed to have an image of their god which had fallen from heaven?

10.  From where did Paul make his last speech to people in Jerusalem?

11.  Name the Greek whom the Jews thought they saw in the temple in Jerusalem with Paul.

12.  Of which city was Apollos a native?

13.  Whom did Paul address from Ephesus at Miletus?

14.  Which apostles went to Samaria to assist the work of Philip?

15.  Who from Caesarea sent messengers to Joppa to get Peter?

16.  Which Pharisee consented to the stoning of Stephen?

17.  Whose whole household became Christians after the earthquake in Philippi?

18.  Under whom was Paul educated?

19.  Who fell from a window sill while listening to Paul preach?

20.  Where did Paul see the inscription, "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD?"

21.  Name the silversmith in Ephesus who brought on a revolt against Paul.

22.  In whose house in Thessalonica did the opponents of Paul seek him?

23.  Who in the church at Antioch personally knew Herod the Tetrarch?

24.  Name the magician in Samaria who wanted to buy miraculous power?

25.  How many squads of soldiers did Herod put in charge of Peter in prison?

26.  What activity did Paul and Silas exercise themselves with in prison?

Answers to the Quiz

1. Elymas (Acts 13:8)  2. Jerusalem (Acts 15:2)  3. A seller of purple (Acts 16:14)  4. Rhoda (Acts 12:13)  5. Crispus (Acts 18:8)  6. Claudius (Acts 18:2)  7. Perga (Acts 13:13)  8. Philip's (Acts 21:8)  9. Ephesus (Acts 19:35)  10. Stairs to the soldier barracks (Acts 21:34-40)  11. Trophimus (Acts 21:27-29)  12. Alexandria (Acts 18:24)  13. Elders (Acts 20:7)  14. Peter and John (Acts 8:14)  15. Cornelius (Acts 10:1)  16. Saul (Acts 8:1)  17. The Jailer's (Acts 16:31)  18. Gamaliel (Acts 22:3)  19. Eutychus (Acts 20:9)  20. Athens (Acts 17:22-23)  21. Demetrius (Acts 19:24)  22. Jason (Acts 17:5)  23. Manaen (Acts 13:1)  24. Simon (Acts 8:18)  25. Four (Acts 12:4)  26. Prayer and singing (Acts 16:25)

Last modified: 05/02/08