# Daniel Bible quiz

Ten questions on the book of Daniel, each answered with the verse that settles it, quoted from the Lumin Translation. Play it at https://www.lumin.faith/bible-quiz/daniel.

## 1. What did Daniel ask to eat instead of the king’s food?

- Nothing at all
- Only bread
- **Vegetables and water** (answer)

> “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. ([Daniel 1:12](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/1#12))

## 2. In Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, what was the statue’s head made of?

- **Gold** (answer)
- Silver
- Iron

> The head of that statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze… ([Daniel 2:32](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/2#32))

## 3. Who was thrown into the blazing furnace?

- Ezra and Nehemiah
- Daniel and his servant
- **Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego** (answer)

> He told certain powerful warriors in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and hurl them into the furnace of blazing fire. ([Daniel 3:20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/3#20))

## 4. How many men did the king see walking in the fire?

- Three
- **Four** (answer)
- Seven

> He said, “Look, I see four men loose and walking about inside the fire, with no harm on them, and the fourth has the appearance of a son of the gods.” ([Daniel 3:25](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/3#25))

## 5. When Nebuchadnezzar was driven out, what did he eat?

- Bread from ravens
- **Grass, like cattle** (answer)
- Locusts and honey

> At that very moment the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird. ([Daniel 4:33](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/4#33))

## 6. At whose feast did a hand write on the wall?

- **Belshazzar’s** (answer)
- Nebuchadnezzar’s
- Darius’s

> King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine in front of the thousand. … At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. The king watched the hand as it wrote. ([Daniel 5:1, 5](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/5#1))

## 7. What words did the hand write?

- Babylon has fallen
- Holy, Holy, Holy
- **Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin** (answer)

> This is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. ([Daniel 5:25](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/5#25))

## 8. What did Daniel keep doing after the law against prayer was signed?

- **Kneeling to pray three times a day, as before** (answer)
- Hiding in his house
- Fasting in secret

> Once Daniel knew the document had been signed, he went into his house. Its upper room had windows opening toward Jerusalem, and three times each day he would kneel down, pray, and give thanks before his God, exactly as he used to do before this. ([Daniel 6:10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/6#10))

## 9. What did Daniel say shut the lions’ mouths?

- The king’s order
- **God sent his angel** (answer)
- The lions were full

> My God sent his angel, who closed the mouths of the lions, and they did me no harm, since I was found innocent in his presence; and before you as well, O king, I have committed no crime.” ([Daniel 6:22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/6#22))

## 10. In Daniel’s vision, who came with the clouds of heaven?

- A ram with two horns
- A great eagle
- **One like a son of man** (answer)

> I went on watching in the visions of the night, and there, coming with the clouds of heaven, was one like a son of man. He reached the Ancient of Days and was brought before him. ([Daniel 7:13](https://www.lumin.faith/read/daniel/7#13))