This Quiz: Fifty

1.) The breadth of Noah's ark was fifty cubits. What was the length of it?
       One hundred cubits.
       Two hundred cubits.
       Three hundred cubits.
       Four hundred cubits.

2.) Abraham bargained with God, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? What was God's response?
       If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the entire place for their sakes.
       For nothing less than one hundred righteous will I spare Sodom.
       God asked for time to think it over.
       God threw down fire and brimstone so that Abraham's wife and family perished.

3.) King David bought a threshingfloor for fifty pieces of silver from a man called Araunah. What did he use it for?
       He hid his men there from king Saul.
       He threshed his wheat there and used the place to store his grain.
       He used it to throw a massive party for Solomon after he had crowned him king.
       He built an altar there to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

4.) Which one of David's sons expected to be king, and prepared himself chariots, horsemen, and fifty men to run before him?
       Chileab
       Absalom
       Amnon
       Adonijah

5.) While Jezebel was killing off the Lord's prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had done something else as well. What was that?
       He supplied them with food and water.
       He supplied them with basins so that they could wash.
       He went to look for Elijah to tell him what he had done.
       He went to the palace and prophesied against King Ahab.

6.) In the book of Esther, Haman made a gallows fifty cubits high. Who did he plan to hang on it?
       The king's chamberlains who were plotting to assassinate the king.
       His wife and friends who had humiliated him.
       Mordecai the Jew.
       Queen Esther.

7.) Jesus told a parable about... 'a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?' Who answered his question?
       The chief priest.
       One of the Sadducees.
       A Pharisee called Simon.
       We are not told.

8.) The Jews asked Jesus how could he claim to have seen Abraham, seeing he wasn't yet fifty years old. When Jesus replied to their question, what was their response?
       They put him in stocks and had him whipped.
       They picked up stones to throw at him.
       They hurried to their homes, with their heads covered.
       They thanked him for explaining it to them.