{"id":116212,"date":"2026-09-20T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/?page_id=116212"},"modified":"2026-09-20T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:24:07","slug":"bible-quiz-mark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/bible-quiz-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Quiz: Gospel of Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BGodInspired Bible Quiz: Gospel of Mark -->\n<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,600&#038;family=Inter:wght@300;400;500;600&#038;display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n<style>\n#bgi-game-bible-quiz-mark *, #bgi-game-bible-quiz-mark *::before, #bgi-game-bible-quiz-mark *::after { box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; }\n#bgi-game-bible-quiz-mark {\n  --navy: #0D1B2A; --navy-mid: #162233; --cream: #F5F0E8;\n  --sage: #7B9E87; --sage-dim: #5E7A69; --clay: #C4847B; --gold: #C9A84C;\n  --dim: rgba(245,240,232,0.62); 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What is it?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Jesus was with the wild beasts\",\n\"Satan quoted from the Psalms\",\n\"Jesus fasted forty nights as well as forty days\",\n\"Elijah appeared to strengthen him\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 1:13\",\n\"fact\": \"Mark alone says he \\\"was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.\\\" Matthew and Luke give the three temptations; Mark gives the wilderness itself.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What were James and John doing when Jesus called them?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Mending their nets in the ship\",\n\"Casting a net into the sea\",\n\"Sitting at the receipt of custom\",\n\"Washing nets on the shore\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 1:19-20\",\n\"fact\": \"Simon and Andrew were casting a net; James and John were mending theirs. Mark alone notes they left Zebedee in the ship \\\"with the hired servants.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In whose synagogue does Jesus first cast out an unclean spirit in Mark?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Capernaum\",\n\"Nazareth\",\n\"Bethsaida\",\n\"Chorazin\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 1:21-26\",\n\"fact\": \"Jesus entered Capernaum and taught on the sabbath day, and the unclean spirit cried out, \\\"I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Whose mother-in-law does Jesus heal of a fever in Mark 1?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Simon Peter's\",\n\"Andrew's\",\n\"James'\",\n\"Levi's\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 1:30-31\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever... he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"When did Jesus rise to go pray alone in Mark 1?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A great while before day\",\n\"At the ninth hour\",\n\"At sunset\",\n\"At midnight\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 1:35\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How did the four men get the man sick of the palsy to Jesus?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"They uncovered the roof, broke it up, and let the bed down\",\n\"They carried him through the crowd at the door\",\n\"They lowered him through a window\",\n\"They waited until the house had emptied\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 2:4\",\n\"fact\": \"Mark says they \\\"uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed.\\\" Luke's version mentions tiles; Mark describes a dug-through roof.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What is the name of the tax collector Jesus calls in Mark 2?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Levi the son of Alphaeus\",\n\"Zacchaeus\",\n\"Matthew the son of Zebedee\",\n\"Simon the Canaanite\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 2:14\",\n\"fact\": \"Mark calls him \\\"Levi the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the receipt of custom.\\\" Matthew's Gospel names the same man Matthew.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Complete the saying that appears only in Mark: \\\"The sabbath was made for man, and...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"not man for the sabbath\",\n\"man was made for the law\",\n\"for the temple's sake\",\n\"for the Lord's rest\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 2:27\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.\\\" Matthew and Luke tell the grainfield story, but only Mark records this line.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What surname did Jesus give to James and John?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder\",\n\"Cephas\",\n\"The sons of consolation\",\n\"The sons of Zebedee\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 3:17\",\n\"fact\": \"Only Mark records the nickname: \\\"he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.\\\" Cephas was Peter's name; \\\"son of consolation\\\" was Barnabas.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Mark 3, what do Jesus' own friends say when they go out to lay hold on him?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"He is beside himself\",\n\"He hath a devil\",\n\"He is a prophet\",\n\"He is risen from the dead\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 3:21\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.\\\" Only Mark keeps this.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Which seed parable is found only in Mark's Gospel?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The seed that grows secretly, night and day\",\n\"The sower and the four soils\",\n\"The grain of mustard seed\",\n\"The tares among the wheat\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 4:26-29\",\n\"fact\": \"The man casts seed and sleeps, \\\"and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.\\\" Mark is the only Gospel that tells it.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Where was Jesus during the storm on the lake in Mark 4?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Asleep on a pillow in the hinder part of the ship\",\n\"Praying alone on the shore\",\n\"Standing at the prow\",\n\"Walking toward them on the water\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 4:38\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.\\\" The pillow is Mark's detail alone.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Jesus say to the wind and the sea?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Peace, be still\",\n\"Be opened\",\n\"Talitha cumi\",\n\"Go thy way\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 4:39\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did the unclean spirit answer when Jesus asked his name?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"My name is Legion: for we are many\",\n\"I am Beelzebub\",\n\"We are seven\",\n\"I am the prince of this world\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 5:9\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.\\\" A Roman legion numbered in the thousands.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How many swine ran down the steep place into the sea?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"About two thousand\",\n\"About two hundred\",\n\"About five thousand\",\n\"Mark does not give a number\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 5:13\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;)\\\" Mark is the only Gospel that counts them.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What was the name of the synagogue ruler whose daughter Jesus raised?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Jairus\",\n\"Nicodemus\",\n\"Simon the leper\",\n\"Crispus\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 5:22\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name.\\\" Matthew tells the story without naming him.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How long had the woman who touched Jesus' garment suffered an issue of blood?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Twelve years\",\n\"Eighteen years\",\n\"Thirty-eight years\",\n\"Seven years\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 5:25\",\n\"fact\": \"Twelve years, and Mark adds that she \\\"had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What Aramaic words does Jesus speak to Jairus' daughter?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Talitha cumi\",\n\"Ephphatha\",\n\"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani\",\n\"Abba, Father\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 5:41\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.\\\" Mark keeps the words in the language Jesus actually spoke.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Jesus tell the healed man from the country of the Gadarenes to do?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Go home to his friends and tell how great things the Lord had done\",\n\"Tell no man anything\",\n\"Leave his home and follow him\",\n\"Show himself to the priest\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 5:19\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.\\\" It stands out, because Jesus so often tells people in Mark to stay quiet.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What trade does Mark's Gospel give Jesus in his hometown?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The carpenter\",\n\"The carpenter's son\",\n\"A fisherman\",\n\"A tentmaker\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 6:3\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?\\\" Matthew 13:55 calls him the carpenter's son; Mark alone calls Jesus himself the carpenter.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did the twelve do for the sick when Jesus sent them out two by two?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Anointed many of them with oil\",\n\"Baptized them in the Jordan\",\n\"Washed their feet\",\n\"Gave them bread and fish\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 6:13\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.\\\" Only Mark mentions the oil.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Jesus allow the twelve to take with them on that journey?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A staff only\",\n\"Bread and a scrip\",\n\"Money in their purse\",\n\"Two coats\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 6:8-9\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse.\\\" Mark permits the staff and sandals; Matthew's version leaves even those behind.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Herod promise Herodias' daughter after she danced?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Whatsoever she asked, unto the half of his kingdom\",\n\"A seat at his right hand\",\n\"Her freedom\",\n\"A house in Tiberias\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 6:23\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.\\\" She asked her mother first, and asked for John the Baptist's head.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How much bread did the disciples say it would take to feed the five thousand?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Two hundred pennyworth\",\n\"Three hundred pence worth\",\n\"Fifty pieces of silver\",\n\"A day's wages from each of them\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 6:37\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?\\\" A penny (denarius) was about a day's wage, so they were pricing out most of a year's pay.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How does Mark describe the crowd of five thousand sitting down?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"By companies on the green grass, in ranks of hundreds and fifties\",\n\"In a great circle on the hillside\",\n\"In the boats along the shore\",\n\"At tables in the nearby village\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 6:39-40\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.\\\" The green grass dates it to spring.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"When Jesus walked on the sea in Mark 6, what does the text say he was about to do?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Pass by them\",\n\"Calm the storm from the shore\",\n\"Call Peter out onto the water\",\n\"Go on to the other side alone by land\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 6:48\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"and would have passed by them.\\\" Only Mark says it, and it echoes the Old Testament language of God passing by.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Mark 7, a man could withhold help from his parents by calling it \\\"Corban.\\\" What does Mark say the word means?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A gift, devoted to God\",\n\"A debt already paid\",\n\"A vow of silence\",\n\"A tithe of grain\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 7:11\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me.\\\" Mark explains the Hebrew word for readers who would not know it.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How does Mark identify the woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A Greek, a Syrophenician by nation\",\n\"A woman of Canaan\",\n\"A Samaritan woman\",\n\"A widow of Sarepta\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 7:26\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation.\\\" Matthew calls her a woman of Canaan; Mark describes her the way a Roman reader would recognise.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What word does Jesus speak when he heals the deaf man with the speech impediment?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Ephphatha\",\n\"Talitha cumi\",\n\"Corban\",\n\"Hosanna\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 7:34\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.\\\" This healing appears only in Mark.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did the blind man of Bethsaida see after Jesus first touched him?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Men as trees, walking\",\n\"A great light\",\n\"Nothing at all\",\n\"Only his own hands\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 8:24\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"I see men as trees, walking.\\\" Jesus put his hands on him again and he saw clearly. It is the only two-stage healing in the Gospels, and only Mark tells it.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Mark's account, what does Peter answer when Jesus asks, \\\"But whom say ye that I am?\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Thou art the Christ\",\n\"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God\",\n\"Thou art the prophet that should come\",\n\"Thou art the King of Israel\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 8:29\",\n\"fact\": \"Mark's version is the shortest of the four: \\\"Thou art the Christ.\\\" Matthew 16:16 adds \\\"the Son of the living God.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Complete: \\\"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"lose his own soul\",\n\"forget his own name\",\n\"lose his own house\",\n\"gain not the kingdom\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 8:36\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How does Mark describe Jesus' clothing at the transfiguration?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Exceeding white as snow, so as no fuller on earth could white them\",\n\"White and glistering\",\n\"Bright as the light of the sun\",\n\"A seamless robe woven from the top\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 9:3\",\n\"fact\": \"Mark reaches for a laundry image: no fuller, no cloth-bleacher on earth, could get white like that. Luke says \\\"white and glistering\\\"; Matthew, \\\"white as the light.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did the father of the boy with the dumb spirit cry out?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief\",\n\"Have mercy on me, a sinner\",\n\"Thou son of David, have mercy on me\",\n\"I am not worthy that thou shouldest come\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 9:24\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Jesus say to the twelve after they had argued about who was the greatest?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all\",\n\"Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased\",\n\"Let the greatest among you be as the youngest\",\n\"Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 9:35\",\n\"fact\": \"Then he set a child in the middle of them. The other options are real sayings of Jesus, but they come from Luke and Matthew, not from this scene in Mark.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How did the rich man come to Jesus in Mark 10?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"He came running and kneeled to him\",\n\"He sent a servant ahead of him\",\n\"He came by night\",\n\"He called down from a tree\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 10:17\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What does Mark alone record about Jesus' response to that rich man?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Jesus beholding him loved him\",\n\"Jesus wept\",\n\"Jesus sighed deeply in his spirit\",\n\"Jesus marvelled because of his unbelief\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 10:21\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Then Jesus beholding him loved him.\\\" The man still walked away grieved, and Mark records the love anyway.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Mark, who asks to sit at Jesus' right and left hand in his glory?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"James and John themselves\",\n\"Their mother, on their behalf\",\n\"Peter and Andrew\",\n\"Judas and Thomas\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 10:35-37\",\n\"fact\": \"In Mark the brothers ask directly. In Matthew 20:20 the same request comes through their mother.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What is the name of the blind beggar healed outside Jericho in Mark?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus\",\n\"Lazarus\",\n\"Malchus\",\n\"Simon of Cyrene\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 10:46\",\n\"fact\": \"Mark is the only Gospel that gives him a name: \\\"blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Bartimaeus do when Jesus called him?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"He cast away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus\",\n\"He was carried by four friends\",\n\"He washed in the pool of Siloam\",\n\"He followed at a distance\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 10:50\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.\\\" The beggar's cloak was likely everything he owned and what he collected coins on.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Why, according to Mark, did Jesus find no figs on the fig tree?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The time of figs was not yet\",\n\"The tree was dead\",\n\"Birds had already taken them\",\n\"It was the sabbath day\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 11:13\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.\\\" Mark wraps the temple cleansing inside this fig tree story, one half on either side.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What does Mark alone say Jesus would not allow in the temple?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"That any man should carry a vessel through the temple\",\n\"That the priests should offer incense\",\n\"That children should cry Hosanna\",\n\"That the doors should be shut at evening\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 11:16\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.\\\" People were using the courts as a shortcut.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Mark alone includes three extra words in \\\"My house shall be called the house of prayer.\\\" Which?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"of all nations\",\n\"unto the Lord\",\n\"in Jerusalem\",\n\"for ever and ever\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 11:17\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer.\\\" The court being used as a market was the one court where non-Jews were allowed to pray.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What was the widow's offering worth in Mark 12?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Two mites, which make a farthing\",\n\"Two pence\",\n\"A single shekel\",\n\"A handful of meal\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 12:42\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.\\\" It was the smallest coin in circulation, and she gave two of them.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How does Jesus begin his answer about the first commandment of all?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord\",\n\"Thou shalt not kill\",\n\"Honour thy father and thy mother\",\n\"Blessed are the poor in spirit\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 12:29\",\n\"fact\": \"He starts with the Shema, the line Israel said every day, before he gets to \\\"thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Who asked Jesus privately about the temple's destruction on the mount of Olives?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Peter, James, John and Andrew\",\n\"Peter, James and John\",\n\"All twelve together\",\n\"Judas alone\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 13:3\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately.\\\" Mark names four; it is the one place Andrew joins the inner three.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Mark 13:32, who does Jesus say knows the day and the hour?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The Father only\",\n\"The angels in heaven\",\n\"The Son\",\n\"Elijah, when he comes\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 13:32\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In whose house was Jesus when the woman poured ointment on his head?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Simon the leper, in Bethany\",\n\"Simon Peter, in Capernaum\",\n\"Lazarus, in Bethany\",\n\"Simon the Pharisee, in Galilee\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 14:3\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper... there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did those who murmured say the ointment was worth?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"More than three hundred pence\",\n\"Two hundred pennyworth\",\n\"Thirty pieces of silver\",\n\"Two mites\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 14:5\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor.\\\" That is close to a year's wages poured out at once.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Mark, how many times does Jesus say the cock will crow before Peter denies him three times?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Twice\",\n\"Once\",\n\"Three times\",\n\"Mark does not say\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 14:30\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.\\\" Only Mark records the cock crowing twice, and later records both crowings.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What word does Jesus use for \\\"Father\\\" in Gethsemane in Mark?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Abba\",\n\"Eloi\",\n\"Adonai\",\n\"Rabboni\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 14:36\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee.\\\" Abba is the everyday Aramaic word a child would use at home.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What happens to the young man following Jesus after the arrest, recorded only in Mark?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"He leaves the linen cloth behind and flees naked\",\n\"He draws a sword and strikes a servant\",\n\"He denies Jesus by the fire\",\n\"He runs to tell Mary\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 14:51-52\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.\\\" Many readers have wondered whether this is Mark quietly writing himself into the scene.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How does Mark identify Simon of Cyrene?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The father of Alexander and Rufus\",\n\"A centurion of the Italian band\",\n\"A ruler of the synagogue\",\n\"A disciple who had come from Galilee\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 15:21\",\n\"fact\": \"Only Mark names the sons. It reads like a note for readers who knew Alexander and Rufus personally.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What drink was offered to Jesus before the crucifixion in Mark?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Wine mingled with myrrh\",\n\"Vinegar mingled with gall\",\n\"Water from the well\",\n\"New wine\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 15:23\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.\\\" Matthew 27:34 describes it as vinegar mingled with gall.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What hour does Mark give for the crucifixion?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The third hour\",\n\"The sixth hour\",\n\"The ninth hour\",\n\"The eleventh hour\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 15:25\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"And it was the third hour, and they crucified him\\\" \u2014 about nine in the morning. Mark then marks the sixth and ninth hours as the day goes on.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What cry from the cross does Mark record?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani\",\n\"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani\",\n\"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit\",\n\"It is finished\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 15:34\",\n\"fact\": \"Mark keeps the Aramaic form, \\\"Eloi\\\"; Matthew 27:46 writes it \\\"Eli.\\\" Both translate it: \\\"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Who says \\\"Truly this man was the Son of God\\\" in Mark?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The centurion standing over against him\",\n\"Joseph of Arimathaea\",\n\"Pilate\",\n\"John, the disciple\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Mark 15:39\",\n\"fact\": \"A Roman officer says it, at the end of a Gospel that opened by calling Jesus the Son of God. 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Roughly the last third of the book slows right down and stays in the final week in Jerusalem, which tells you where Mark thought the weight of the story sat. Most scholars think it was written first, around AD 65&ndash;70, most likely in Rome for readers who were not Jewish &mdash; which is why Mark keeps stopping to explain Aramaic words and Jewish customs the other Gospels assume you already know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which details appear only in Mark and nowhere else?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>More than you would expect from the shortest Gospel. Mark alone gives James and John the nickname &ldquo;Boanerges, the sons of thunder.&rdquo; Only Mark says Jesus was asleep on a pillow in the back of the boat during the storm, that the crowd of five thousand sat on green grass in ranks of hundreds and fifties, and that there were about two thousand swine. Only Mark names blind Bartimaeus, and names Simon of Cyrene as &ldquo;the father of Alexander and Rufus&rdquo; &mdash; which reads like a note for people who knew those two men personally. Only Mark records the two-stage healing where a blind man first sees &ldquo;men as trees, walking,&rdquo; keeps the Aramaic &ldquo;Talitha cumi&rdquo; and &ldquo;Ephphatha,&rdquo; says the cock crows twice, and tells you about the young man who runs off into the night leaving his linen cloth behind. Those unique details are where a Mark-specific quiz gets genuinely hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why does Mark tell some stories differently from Matthew and Luke?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Not contradictions so much as different camera angles, and a quiz on one book is a good way to notice them. In Mark, James and John ask for the best seats themselves; in Matthew their mother asks for them. Mark calls Jesus &ldquo;the carpenter&rdquo;; Matthew calls him &ldquo;the carpenter&rsquo;s son.&rdquo; Mark records the cry from the cross as &ldquo;Eloi, Eloi&rdquo;; Matthew writes it &ldquo;Eli, Eli.&rdquo; Mark says the drink offered to Jesus was wine mingled with myrrh; Matthew says vinegar mingled with gall. Mark lets the disciples take a staff on the road; Matthew does not. If you are practising for a quiz on Mark specifically, this is the trap: half-remembering the version from another Gospel. Answering &ldquo;from Mark&rdquo; rather than &ldquo;from the Bible in general&rdquo; is most of the skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do Bible quiz teams practise a single book?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Programmes like Junior Bible Quiz and the various youth quizzing leagues assign one book or a small set of books for a season, and teams drill that text until the wording itself is familiar. The method is repetition with the reference attached: you do not just learn that a man was lowered through a roof, you learn that it is Mark 2, and that Mark says the roof was broken up rather than tiled. Short, frequent rounds beat long cramming sessions, and mixing the question order matters &mdash; it is easy to memorise a sequence of answers without knowing the material. Answering out loud, or against a timer, also helps, because recall under a little pressure is a different skill from recognition on a page. Quizzing on a specific book is also just a good way to read one straight through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How many questions are in this Gospel of Mark quiz, and can I play more than once?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are sixty-eight questions written specifically for Mark sitting in the bank, and each round draws fifteen of them at random and shuffles the answer order, so no two rounds look the same. 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