Bible Trivia: Women of the Bible
Judges, queens, spies, midwives, merchants, and a handful of names most quizzes skip entirely. Forty questions sit in the bank and you get twelve at random — so it is a different round every time you play.
That round covered the women of the Bible — from the tents of Genesis to the house churches of the early letters, judges and queens and widows and merchants alike.
The thread running through all of them
Most of the women in that round show up for a chapter or two and change everything that follows. This free 3-day sample is the same idea in small doses — short daily readings that follow what Jesus said and did, one day at a time.
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Common Questions About Women of the Bible
Who are the most well-known women in the Bible?
Ask ten people and you will get ten lists, but a handful of names show up on nearly all of them. Eve, the first woman. Sarah, who laughed at the idea of a baby at ninety and then had one. Rahab, an innkeeper in Jericho who hid two spies under flax on her roof. Ruth, a Moabite widow who refused to leave her mother-in-law and ended up with a book of the Bible named after her. Deborah, the only woman scripture calls a judge of Israel. Esther, a queen who walked into a throne room uninvited knowing it could cost her life. Mary, the mother of Jesus. Mary Magdalene, the first person to see Him alive again. Beyond those, the roster gets deep fast: Hannah, Abigail, Huldah, Priscilla, Lydia, Phebe, Dorcas. The trivia round above pulls from all of them, plus a few most quizzes never touch.
Was there ever a female leader in the Bible?
Yes, and more than one, in more than one kind of role. Deborah is the clearest case. Judges 4:4 calls her both a prophetess and a judge of Israel, and the general Barak flatly refuses to go into battle unless she comes with him. Miriam is named a prophetess and leads Israel in its first recorded worship song after the sea crossing. Huldah is the prophet the high priest and the king’s own officials go to when the lost book of the law is found in the temple, walking past every other advisor in Jerusalem to do it. Athaliah is a darker example, seizing the throne and reigning over Judah outright for six years. In the New Testament, Priscilla teaches the gifted preacher Apollos, Lydia hosts the first church in Philippi in her own house, and Paul introduces Phebe to the Romans as a servant of the church at Cenchrea. Leadership in scripture is not as one-shaped as people expect.
Which women are named in the genealogy of Jesus?
Matthew opens his Gospel with a long list of fathers, and then breaks his own pattern five times to name a mother. Tamar appears in Matthew 1:3. Rachab, better known as Rahab of Jericho, and Ruth the Moabite both appear in verse 5. Verse 6 refuses to name Bathsheba directly and instead calls her the one who had been the wife of Urias, keeping David’s worst chapter in the record rather than tidying it away. And Mary closes the list in verse 16. What stands out is who they are: two of them are foreigners, and several of them come with complicated histories that a family trying to look respectable would have edited out. Matthew leaves them in. That is a deliberate choice about what kind of family line this is, made in the very first paragraph of the New Testament.
What does the Bible actually say about the Proverbs 31 woman?
The chapter is usually quoted as a checklist, which is not quite how it reads. It opens with a question rather than a command: who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies. What follows is a portrait of someone remarkably active in the world. She evaluates a field and buys it. She plants a vineyard from her own earnings. She trades, makes and sells linen, extends her hand to the poor, and speaks with wisdom and kindness. She is not described sitting still. Then the chapter lands somewhere unexpected. Verse 25 says strength and honour are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come, which has nothing to do with productivity at all. It is about facing the future without dread. Read that way, Proverbs 31 is less a performance standard and more a picture of a settled, unhurried life.
How well do I actually know the women of the Bible?
There is a quick way to find out. The trivia round at the top of this page pulls twelve questions at random from a bank of forty, every one of them tied to a specific chapter and verse you can go look up afterward. Some are the names you would expect. Others are the ones that tend to slip past: the two midwives who quietly ignored a Pharaoh’s execution order, the five sisters who asked Moses to change an inheritance law and won, the prophetess the king of Judah sent his officials to consult. There is no sign-up, no score kept against you, and a wrong answer just shows you the verse it came from. Because the round is drawn at random each time, it is a genuinely different set of twelve on a second or third play. Give it a go and see where you land.