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"H" Marks the Spot Trivia Quiz


Can you find these geographical places connected with the Bible? "H" marks the spot!

A multiple-choice quiz by nannywoo. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
nannywoo
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
357,689
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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991
Last 3 plays: Guest 66 (8/10), Guest 107 (7/10), Guest 63 (4/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. "H" marks a spot that you won't find on modern maps. After flowing out of the Garden of Eden, through what land - known for its gold and other treasures - did the river branch called the Pishon wind? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "H" marks Hattusa, a spot occupied by a people whose name was long known only from references to them in the Bible. Abraham buys a burial place from a person of this ethnicity, and King David falls in love with the wife of another such person. The archaeological site of Hattusa in Turkey is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List. What empire had its capital there? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "H" marks a spot where Abraham and his extended family settled after leaving Ur, in modern day Iraq, and before God gave him instructions to travel southwest along the fertile crescent to what is now Israel. What is the name of this location, where later in the story wives were sought for Abraham's son Isaac and grandson Jacob? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "H" marks the spot where Abraham purchased a family burial site called the Cave of Machpelah, near the Oaks of Mamre. At what city in Israel would we find this ancient Tomb of the Patriarchs? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. "H" marks several Biblical spots. What do the locations Horeb, Hor, Hazor, and Hermon have in common? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "H" marks the spot in Egypt called "On" in some Bible passages. What is another name for this ancient "sun city"? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "H" marks a spot (or spots) connected with an ethnic group especially important in the Christian New Testament. What "H" names the scattered lands and islands collectively synonymous with Greece or territories where Greek culture predominates? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "H" marks the spot in northern Israel of the modern city of Haifa, built surrounding a mountain crest on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is around 17 miles (28 km) from Nazareth, the village where Jesus grew up, and is located where many events in the life of the prophet Elijah took place, including a famous contest with the priests of Baal in which Elijah called fire down from heaven (1 Kings 18). On what mountain is Haifa, where visitors can see a place called Elijah's Cave? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What "H" word marks the spot of a cone-shaped, fortified hill where the infamous King Herod the Great, the slaughterer of innocents in the New Testament Gospel of Matthew, is thought to have been buried? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "H" marks a spot in Revelation 16:16 with a name that comes from two Hebrew words: the generic word for a mountain or hill and the specific name of an ancient city near Mount Carmel and the Jezreel Valley. What are these two words that make up the name of a great battle between the forces of the "Lamb" and the forces of evil? Hint



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1. "H" marks a spot that you won't find on modern maps. After flowing out of the Garden of Eden, through what land - known for its gold and other treasures - did the river branch called the Pishon wind?

Answer: Havilah

The passage in Genesis 2:10-12 reads this way in the New International Version of the Bible: "A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)"
2. "H" marks Hattusa, a spot occupied by a people whose name was long known only from references to them in the Bible. Abraham buys a burial place from a person of this ethnicity, and King David falls in love with the wife of another such person. The archaeological site of Hattusa in Turkey is now on the UNESCO World Heritage List. What empire had its capital there?

Answer: Hittite

Hattusa (also spelled "Hattusha" or "Hattusas") is near the Kizil River, called Halys by the Greeks, in central Anatolia (known in the New Testament as Cappadocia). Archaeologists began to explore the site, near current Bogazkale, Turkey, in 1834, but its significance was not fully understood until 1906, when archaeologists found an inscription recording a treaty between the Hittite king and the historical Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II. The Battle of Kadesh was fought between these super powers, one south (Egypt) and the other north (Hittite) of Israel.

In Genesis 23, Abraham buys the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron from "Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hittite" to bury his wife Sarah, and his sons Ishmael and Isaac bury Abraham there when he dies (Genesis 25). In 2 Samuel 11, David falls in love with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. Scholars disagree about what connection, if any, exists between the Hittites of the Bible and those further north in Turkey, but they no longer doubt the historicity of the Hittites.
3. "H" marks a spot where Abraham and his extended family settled after leaving Ur, in modern day Iraq, and before God gave him instructions to travel southwest along the fertile crescent to what is now Israel. What is the name of this location, where later in the story wives were sought for Abraham's son Isaac and grandson Jacob?

Answer: Haran

Also called Paddan Aram, Haran (or Harran) is believed by many to be a site in what is now southern Turkey, just east of the Euphrates River and northwest of Iraq, where their original home Ur would have been located, farther southeast down the Eurphrates River Valley. For Abraham, Haran became a temporary resting place, but his father Terah and brother Nahor remained.

The patriarchs obtained wives from these relatives in Haran, as told in the latter half of the Book of Genesis. A servant found Rebecca for Isaac, while Jacob wound up with sisters Leah and Rachel, along with their maidservants Bilhah and Zilpah, after 14 years of service under his relative Laban.
4. "H" marks the spot where Abraham purchased a family burial site called the Cave of Machpelah, near the Oaks of Mamre. At what city in Israel would we find this ancient Tomb of the Patriarchs?

Answer: Hebron

Hebron, on the West Bank of the Jordan River in the hills of Judea, is considered one of the world's most ancient cities and is mentioned numerous times in the Bible. Modern Hebron is a predominately Arab city of over 300,000, but a Jewish community of around 6,000 people was established in the late 1960s; therefore, the area is the scene of much contention. We see Abraham pitching his tents near Hebron as early as Genesis 13. Abraham insists on buying the small plot of land near Hebron containing a cave rather than accepting it as a gift (Genesis 23), making the Tomb of the Patriarchs site the first land acquired by the family of Abraham in what would later be called Israel.
5. "H" marks several Biblical spots. What do the locations Horeb, Hor, Hazor, and Hermon have in common?

Answer: They are mountains.

The book of Deuteronomy says that the books of the law were given to Moses on Mount Horeb rather than Mount Sinai, as the mountain is called in Exodus; and opinions differ as to whether a different mountain is meant or they are two names for the same mountain.

In Exodus, Mount Horeb is the place where Moses encounters the burning bush. Mount Hor refers to two different mountains - not surprisingly, since "har" means mountain and early Hebrew was not written with vowels - one in the south near the Dead Sea, another on the northern border of Israel. Mount Hazor forms the boundary between Samaria and Judea, and the "Samaritan Woman at the Well" in John 4:19-20 uses it to throw out a theological challenge: "'Sir,' the woman said, 'I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.'" Beautiful Mount Hermon is the highest and most northern point of Israel, on the border with Syria, and is snow-covered during winter. Mount Hermon is mentioned many times in the Bible, and some believe that some part of it was the Mount of Transfiguration spoken of in Matthew 17:1-13, although the traditional spot is Mount Tabor.
6. "H" marks the spot in Egypt called "On" in some Bible passages. What is another name for this ancient "sun city"?

Answer: Heliopolis

The ruins of ancient Heliopolis, which literally does means Sun City, lie within the city of Cairo, Egypt. In Genesis, Heliopolis is called "On" and was the capital of Goshen, the land allotted to the family of Jacob (Israel) after they relocated to Egypt from Canaan (Genesis 45:10).

Heliopolis is mentioned also by the prophets. Jeremiah 43:13, as translated in the New International Reader's Version and some others, reads: "At Heliopolis in Egypt he will smash the sacred pillars to pieces. And he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt." Others keep the Hebrew "Beth Shemesh" instead of Greek "Heliopolis"; and yet others translate it as "the temple of the sun" - the literal English meaning.
7. "H" marks a spot (or spots) connected with an ethnic group especially important in the Christian New Testament. What "H" names the scattered lands and islands collectively synonymous with Greece or territories where Greek culture predominates?

Answer: Hellas

Greece is "Hellas"; Greeks are "Hellenes"; and the word "Hellenistic" applies to the culture of Greece taken to the ends of the known world in the time of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) and after. The story of the early church includes concerns about "Hellenizers" - those who would turn new converts away from the Biblical roots of the faith in favor of Greek ideas.

The Romans called the Hellenes "Graeci" - another ancient name for at least part of the ethnic group, and the name "Greece" grew from that as Latin speakers passed it on.

Much of the New Testament book of Acts and the Epistles of Paul and others focus on new churches in Greek communities in Hellas itself and in other areas where Greek and Jewish cultures existed side by side within the Empire of Rome.
8. "H" marks the spot in northern Israel of the modern city of Haifa, built surrounding a mountain crest on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is around 17 miles (28 km) from Nazareth, the village where Jesus grew up, and is located where many events in the life of the prophet Elijah took place, including a famous contest with the priests of Baal in which Elijah called fire down from heaven (1 Kings 18). On what mountain is Haifa, where visitors can see a place called Elijah's Cave?

Answer: Mount Carmel

From Haifa and Mount Carmel one may view the Mediterranean Sea, the Jezreel Valley, and much of Upper Galilee, so while the city of Haifa was not built until the 3rd century after Jesus, the geographical location is filled with history connected to both the Hebrew chronicles and prophets and the Christian gospels. Haifa is just north of Caesarea Maritima, where the Roman centurion Cornelius, the first Gentile convert to Christianity, was stationed (Acts 10:10-16).

A street in Haifa may stand above the very spot where stories of Elijah in 1 Kings took place.
9. What "H" word marks the spot of a cone-shaped, fortified hill where the infamous King Herod the Great, the slaughterer of innocents in the New Testament Gospel of Matthew, is thought to have been buried?

Answer: Herodium

The Herodium contains a palace, a bath house, a synogogue, and what is believed to be the tomb of Herod the Great himself, identified by archaeologists in 2007 and gradually uncovered in the face of much controversy over the next several years.

In the Bible, Herod is a main character in the narrative of the wise men who came looking for the King of the Jews (Matthew 2:1-23). The prophecy is uncovered that the messiah is to be born in Bethlehem, so Herod, according to Matthew's gospel, has all the baby boys in Bethlehem under two years old murdered. Meanwhile, Joseph, who was warned in a dream, has taken Jesus to Egypt and will later go home to Nazareth. Historically, Herod ordered many deaths, including those of his own wife and sons; so while the Biblical account is unconfirmed by historical sources, it is not out of character.
10. "H" marks a spot in Revelation 16:16 with a name that comes from two Hebrew words: the generic word for a mountain or hill and the specific name of an ancient city near Mount Carmel and the Jezreel Valley. What are these two words that make up the name of a great battle between the forces of the "Lamb" and the forces of evil?

Answer: Har Megiddo

"Har Megiddo" means the "Hill of Megiddo" - called "Armageddon" in the New Testament. The ancient city of Megiddo is actually a "tell" that owes its height as much to human habitation as to geography: archaeologists have found 25 layers of settlement at the site, dating from around 3500 B.C. Because it is strategically located, Megiddo has been a battleground many times and played an important defensive role as recently as World War I.
Source: Author nannywoo

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