The Easter Quiz — See How You Do

One of the fruitful activities our extended family did for Easter this year was this biblical quiz I concocted.  It generated some great fun, fellowship, and lots of conversation.  Right answers won tootsie pops.

See how well you do on these 10 questions.  They start easy and get harder.  Correct answers are at the bottom.

Questions:

#1 – How many Easter bunnies are there in the Trinity?

#2 – How many women went to Jesus’ tomb before dawn on Easter morning?

#3 – What did she/they go there to do?

#4 – How did she/they think she/they could roll away the huge rock/stone that covered the entrance?

#5 – Why was this the beginning of the answer to question #4?

#6 – Why did the authorities need to find someone to betray Jesus?

#7 – Why did Judas do it?

#8 – Why was the curtain in the Temple torn in two at Jesus’ crucifixion (what did that show)?

#9 – How many different ways has God demonstrated that He can make a human body?

#10 – Does God have a pencil in heaven with a giant eraser on it (how do we know)?

 

Answers:

#1 – None.  But several said “3.”

#2 – 1 or 3 – see John 20:1 and Mark 16:1, respectively.

#3 – To anoint Jesus’ body with spices so He wouldn’t begin to stink.

#4 – This was to be the beginning of “rock ‘n’ roll” (hehehe).

#5 – Because when she/they arrived the rock had already rolled (again, hehehe).

#6 – They were afraid to arrest Him publicly since large crowds gathered to hear him and this might cause a riot.  Therefore, they needed to arrest Him privately and know where to find Him.

#7 – Some say “greed or disappointment because Jesus refused to become a king and Judas wanted power for himself.”  But Billy Graham says in his syndicated newspaper column (4/17/14) . . . “the real reason was that although he was outwardly committed to Jesus, in his heart Judas remained rebellious and unbelieving.  May we all learn from his example and be firm in our own commitment to Jesus.”

#8 – Not to show that the way to heaven or to God was now open, as is traditionally posited.  After all, at that time Jesus had not even returned to heaven.  Rather, it was to show that there was nothing in the Holy of Holies.  Why so?  Because that Old Covenant Temple system had been rendered “obsolete” by Jesus’ sacrifice and “what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear” (Heb. 8:13).  Exactly, forty-some years later, it all did – in precise and timely fulfillment of Jesus’ most dramatic prophecy (Matt. 24; Mark 13; Luke 21).

#9 – Five: from dirt, from a rib, from a virgin, how you and I got here; and through temporary human manifestations of angles (Heb. 13:2) and comings of Jesus (John 14:18-19 and many more).

#10 – Yes, of course, see Revelation 3:5, NIV (again, hehehe, or maybe not?).