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June 29, 2011

Test your Bible knowledge

Reader Chris sent me this link to 50 questions about the Bible. He got 26 right and he thought I would do better. Alas, I got only 25 right.

Where I think I went wrong was with my method of guessing for those questions that I did not know the answers to. I followed the recommended strategy for answering any multiple-choice tests and avoided the outlier options. But it often turned out that what I thought was too crazy to be true (even for the Bible) was in fact the right answer. So I was punished for giving the Bible the benefit of the doubt

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37 out of 50...

Posted by ollie on June 29, 2011 06:11 PM

I got 39 correct. I could have gotten up to 43 if I'd stayed with my initial instinct. One fun way of getting a good overview of the Old and New Testaments is to read the Brick Testament website (URL click-able in my name). The guy who illustrated it (with Legos) did an incredible job and it's pretty amusing too.

Posted by David on June 29, 2011 06:18 PM

"Congratulations! You scored 28 correct out of 50!"

I have to admit I would have done far worse if I didn't go for the worst possible answer on those questions where I didn't know the answer.

Posted by henry on June 29, 2011 07:48 PM

42 correct answers, including some wild guesses.

Posted by Weemaryanne on June 30, 2011 03:33 AM

Alright, I got most of them correct but I must admit that I indeed had to guess at some of them.

Posted by joe on June 30, 2011 08:10 AM

Wow, amongst such high scorers, I feel like such a slacker...

Posted by Mano on June 30, 2011 08:14 AM

27 right, I'm pretty happy with that.

This does point out how ridiculous the bible really is.

Posted by Jack on June 30, 2011 09:19 AM

Only 24 for me, and I'm not the least bit ashamed! My attitude toward the Bible is "don't know; don't care." I suppose I could have a lot more fun with the Bible-bashers all around me if I did know more, but I adamantly refuse to pollute my mind with garbage.

Thanks for the link, Mano. That site has been bookmarked.

Posted by Richard Frost on June 30, 2011 01:57 PM

You're absolutely right. Choosing the most extreme and outrageous answers bumped my score up to 39 - I would have gotten more wrong if I had gone with what sounded "right."

Posted by Scott on June 30, 2011 08:03 PM

I got 33. Some of the answers are pretty extreme.

Posted by PaulCNelson on July 25, 2011 10:56 AM