Bible Characters A - L Trivia Quiz

Amnon was the firstborn son of King David.
King David had many children. Amnon was the son of Ahinoam. Absalom and Tamar were the son and daughter of Maachah. It came to pass that Amnon fell in love with Tamar. He pretended to be sick, and asked Tamar to nurse him - but then he forced her. As the KJV says: "Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her." (2 Samuel 13:14). Amnon was killed by Absalom a few years later.

Bartimaeus is the name of this man.
When Jesus and his apostles were traveling to Jerusalem, they came to Jericho. Amongst the beggars along the road was a blind man named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus (as his name literally says). When Bartimaeus heard that Jesus was passing by, he asked Him to have mercy upon him. According to the KJV (Mark 10:51-52) "Jesus answered and said unto him: 'What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?' The blind man said unto him: 'Lord, that I might receive my sight.'
52 And Jesus said unto him: 'Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way." (punctuation adapted to modern customs).
It is interesting to see here that Jesus claims Bartimaeus is cured solely by his faith, as He declared when doing many of His miracles. As stated elsewhere: "With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible." (Mark 10:27, KJV).

Cornelius is the centurion we were looking for. Acts 10 relates several events involving him and Simon Peter.
Cornelius was already a "devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway." (Acts 10:2, KJV). So probably Cornelius was already converted, when he received the order to travel to Joppa and talk to Peter.
Meanwhile Peter had thrice a vision of a banquet of treif foods (unclean according to the rules described in the Torah), and heard the voice of the Lord that he should partake this banquet. He realized then that not only the Jews but also the gentiles were the group that may be converted to Christianity.
When Peter and Cornelius met, Peter started preaching that Chrsitianity was not only for Jews, but for gentiles as well.
Acts 10:44-47 (KJV) continues:
"While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?"
And so Cornelius was baptized by Peter. Many scholars use these verses to indicate Cornelius was the first gentile Christian.

Deborah is the name we were looking for.
Before Israel became a kingdom under Saul, it was ruled by people who had the title "shophet", translated in most Bible translations as "judge". However, these were people who stood up in times of war and took command over the army, while also having a religious vocation: they reminded the people to live by the Ten Commandments Moses had received from the Lord and divulged among them.
The fourth "judge" mentioned in the Bible was the only woman to take this position: Deborah.
At one time, the Canaanite king Jabin and his military commander Sisera oppressed the Jews harshly. The jews then asked Deborah's advice. Deborah then commanded Barak to meet Sisera's cavalry with a large infantry, and Barak won the battle. Sisera fled, and as Deborah predicted, was killed by a woman.

Eunice was Timothy's mother, and Lois was Timothy's grandmother.
The Bible does not mention much more details about them: "When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also." (2 Timothy 1:5, KJV).
Apparently Lois and Eunice were pious Jewish people, but meanwhile had chosen the Christian belief. Christianity was indeed seen at that time as a newer subsection of Judaism.
One might suppose all righteous characters from the New Testament would be canonized at one time or another, but Eunice has never been declared a saint.

Felix (first names Marcus Antonius) was procurator of Judaea between 52 AD and 60 AD. When Paul the apostle was accused by high priest Ananias of inciting to a revolt, forty Jews conspired to kill Paul. But the plans to ambush Paul were discovered, and the Roman centurion transported Paul to Felix, who then mediated in the conflict between Paul and Ananias - largely in favour of Paul.

Gabriel is one of the class of the highest angels, the archangels. He was sent by the Lord on various occasions to communicate the Lord's will to humans.
One of the best-known interventions of Gabriel is the message he delivered to Mary:
"Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women." (Luke 1:28, KJV).
"Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end." (Luke 1:30-33, KJV).

Habakkuk was quite a mysterious prophet. Contrarily to all other prophets, there is no mention of his ancestry, his family, his tribe affiliation or his previous occupation. The Book of Habakkuk just starts with "The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see." (Habakkuk 1:1, KJV).
Habakkuk called out to the Lord that everywhere he turned his eye, he spotted injustice and wickedness.
The Lord then promised that the tribe of the Chaldeans (in history better known as the Babylonians) would come and destroy the wicked Jews, abduct many of the others and destroy Jerusalem. After a while only the righteous people would survive, be released and rebuild the Temple of Solomon.

Ishmael is the correct answer.
Abram (as he was called then) was 86 and his wife Sarai 76 when they travelled. One day Sarai incited Abram to make love to her handmaiden Hagar, so that Abram would have a son to continue the family line. As described in the KJV: "I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her." (Gen. 16:2)
Abram did as his wife requested, and a few months later Hagar gave birth to a son whom they called Ishmael.
Almost fourteen years later, an angel of the Lord promised Abram that Sarai also would conceive his son, and that Abram would be the father of many nations. Thus he received the new name Abraham (which translates to "Father of Many"). His wife got the new name Sarah (which translates to "laughter"), because she found the idea of giving birth at age 90 preposterous. But as repeated in many verses in the Bible "with God nothing is impossible".
Ishmael and his half-brother Isaac grew up hating each other, because Abraham's inheritance would go to Isaac and not to his firstborn son. At the bequest of Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael were sent away and hardly survived a trip through the wilderness.

Jairus was the leader of a synagogue near the Sea of Galilee. When he heard of the visit of Jesus to the region he sought his help, because "My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live." (Mark 5:23, KJV). So Jesus followed him, and as they came by Jairus' house, bystanders spread the news that the girl had just died. Jesus then sent away all but his three most faithful apostles (Peter, James and John) and Jairus and his wife.

The small delegation entered the house, and Jesus spoke to the dead girl: "Damsel, I say unto thee, arise." (Mark 5:41, KJV). The girl stood up and walked: " And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat." (Luke 8:55). Matthew also tells the same story, but in the book of Matthew Jairus admitted from the start on that his daughter had died.

Korah was the one who suffered this fate.
When Moses had finally lead the Hebrews from Egypt across the Red Sea, and the Egyptians could not pursue them anymore, several people of renown revolted against Moses. Korah was one of their leaders, and he demanded to share the burden of leading the people through the Sinai. As told in Numbers 16:3, Korah asked "Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?".
But it was not up to Moses to pick the leaders of the people: the Lord Himself would pick those worthy, and would destroy those aspiring too much.
In the following verses, the Lord commanded Moses and his loyal followers to depart from amid the tents of Korah and his conspirators, and then an earthquake broke up the ground. Korah and all of his followers fell in the hole, and the earth closed over their heads.

Lydia lived in Thyatira, a city in Macedonia near Philippi. She was known as a gentile woman active in the trade of purple dye (a very expensive material: a purple gown would have probably cost as much as a large mansion).
When Paul and his disciples visited Macedonia, Lydia invited them into her house, and she and all of the household were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Lydia is only mentioned twice in the Book of Acts. Acts 16:14-15 (KJV) mentions (punctuation modernized): "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: 'If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.' And she constrained us."