People with Biblical Names Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

Jesus, is known in his own tongue as "Yeshua", which is an Aramaic form of "Yehoshua" or the Latinised form as Joshua.

The first known Joshua, in written history was an early Hebrew leader who has a major role in several books of the Bible. The name was a common alternative form of the name "yēsūă". This corresponds to the Greek spelling Ἰησοῦς (Iesous), which was Latinised as Iesus, In approximately 800 AD, "J" and "V" were added to the English language, making the spelling "Jesus".

A shortened form of Joshua was Josh, which started in the US in the 1970s and has become popular throughout the English speaking world thereafter.

Answer: George Herman Ruth

The Old English name of Ruth probably came from the Germanic name Reuth, which was originally a surname. Yet the biblical Ruth was a Moab who married an Israelite.

Babe Ruth was George Herman Ruth Jr. His father was George Herman Ruth, which is the name that appeared on the 1890 census. On the 1880 census, however, he was a boy of eight called Geo Ruth. This man's father was called Herman J. Reuth on the 1870 census. This is his first appearance on the US census. It is assumed that Mr. Reuth (Babe's grandfather) came from Prussia with his wife Mary sometime between 1860-1870.

George Ruth Jr. started playing baseball in Baltimore at the age of 19. Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, signed him and legally adopted Ruth to retain him in the Orioles' organization. When the team found out, he was teased as "Dunn's baby", then to "Baby", then "Babe". At that time, Babe was a common baseball nickname due to the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher and hero of the 1909 World Series, Babe Adams.

Answer: Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), explorer

Samuel de Champlain was a French colonist, navigator, and explorer, He founded Quebec and New France, in July 1608, and in the same year established the French village that became Quebec City.

Samuel Adams was a US Founding Father from Massachusetts who became a leader of resistance movement that became the American Revolution.

Samuel Colt was a Connecticut-born industrialist who was known for the mass production of revolvers. He also pioneered advertising, celebrity endorsements, and mass marketing of his company's revolvers.

William Faulkner called Mark Twain, real name Samuel Clemens, "the father of American literature". He was a humourist and a writer. His two great novels, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), are classics, with the latter often referred to as "The Great American Novel".

Answer: Ezra Taylor - former US President

In the "Book of Ezra", this man tells the journey, led by himself, of Judean exiles living in Babylon back to their home city of Jerusalem. Once there he convinced the Israelite people not to intermarry with people of other religions, as described in the Pentateuch, also called the Five Books of Moses, in the Bible.

Ezra Booth Taylor (1823-1912) was an American lawyer. The closest he ever got to becoming a US president was winning the election to the congressional seat that had been vacated by James Garfield after he was elected US president. Mr Taylor became a politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1880 to 1893.

Answer: Mya Byrne

Jeremiah Birnbaum was a promising folk/blues singer songwriter who released his debut EP "Dawn" in 2004 to critical, but not commercial success. He toured as a support act for such as as Steve Forbett, Heartless B*stards, and Suzanne Vega. After her status change, she continues to tour with her new name Mya Byrne.

Much of her material is grounded in the LGBT framework. She also plays bass in the San Francisco band, The Homobiles. Ms Byrne also writes LGBT articles for online publications and other electronic news platforms like "Huffington Post".

Her grandfather is anaesthesiology pioneer Philip H. Sechzer, who invented patient-controlled analgesia.

Answer: Joel Coen - Los Angeles underworld figure

Joel Coen (born 1954) and Ethan Coen (born 1957)are popularly known as the The Coen Brothers are American movie polymaths. Some of their notable films are "Raising Arizona"(1987), "Miller's Crossing" (1990), and "Fargo" (1996).
(Mickey Cohen was a Los Angeles underworld figure in the 50s).

Billy Joel needs no introduction of one of the world's most prolific and enduring singer songwriters.

"Risky Business"(1983) was something of a breakout role for Tom Cruise as Joel Goodson, a late teen who got up to no good when his parents were away.

Joel Schumacher was initially a writer before he became a critically acclaimed director, including "Flatliners" (1990) and of two of the Batman franchise- "Batman Forever"(1995) and "Batman & Robin" (1997).

Answer: Moses Jacob Ezekiel

Moses Jacob Ezekiel was the only option with three biblical names.

Moses Jacob Ezekiel grew up in Virginia, but spent most of his adult life in Europe, particularly Italy. At 14 he was enrolled Virginia Military Institute and served as a Confederate in the American Civil War. Afterwards he finished his degree and moved to Berlin, where he enrolled in the Prussian Academy of Art. He then moved to Rome permanently earning commissions internationally. In 1910 he was given the job of sculpting the Confederate Memorial. He considered it his finest work as he described himself as an ex-pat Confederate.

Answer: Judith Lucy - Comedienne

Judith is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, which means it is considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East to be an integral part of the Old Testament. Protestant denominations, however, do not recognise this and reassigned this book to the apocrypha. This Judith used her beguiling ways to ruin an Assyrian general, which saved Israel from oppression.

Judy Collins (born Judith Marjorie Collins in Seattle, 1939) is perhaps most famous for her 1968 hit, "Both Sides Now", written by by Joni Mitchell. However, she earned her fist number one album on the Billboard Albums chart in 2019, aged 80, with "Winter Stories".

Judy Scheindlin (Judith Susan Blum, born 1942 in Brooklyn) was a respected Manhattan family court judge. She hosted "Judge Judy" from 1996-2021, where she settled arbitration disputes.

Judith Ellen Light was born in Trenton NJ in 1949. She is best known as an actress for her roles in the soap opera "One Life to Live" from 1977 to 1983, and as Angela Bower in the sitcom "Who's the Boss?" from 1984 to 1992.

Judith Mary Lucy, born in Perth Australia in 1968, is best known for her work as a stand-up comedian, particularly one woman shows, as well as frequent bouts on FM radio as an announcer and comedienne.

Answer: Founder of a Tennessee whiskey distillery born 1849

Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel (1849?-1911)[1] was an American distiller and best known as the owner founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery. Records vary whether the distillery was founded in 1866 (making Jack 17!) or 1875. It was very successful, but Jack became ill with gangrene in 1907. As he had not married and had no children, he gave the distillery to two nephews. Lemuel "Lem" Motlow bought out his cousin's share and maintained a successful business until his death in 1947.

Dan Aykroyd, born in Ottawa in 1952, is an SNL Alumnus along with his friend, John Belushi, and together they formed the "Blues Brothers", which was a the title of a classic 1980 movie

Dan Brown, born in New Hampshire, hit the big time with his novel "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), though he was an already successful writer with "Angels and Demons" (2000), the first of the Robert Langdon franchise.

Daniel Constantine Marino Jr. played quarterback for 17 seasons with the Miami Dolphins, and, despite holding many records and being one of NFL's most respected quarterbacks, he never won a Super Bowl.

Answer: Persian queen

Esther is known in all versions of the Book of Esther as the Jewish queen of a Persian King Ahasuerus, despite her Jewish birth. As the story tells us, King Ahasuerus decided to take another wife after his queen, Vashti, continued to disobey him. Esther was chosen because she was beautiful. Haman, the king's main adviser, was offended by Mordecai, Esther's guardian and cousin, and convinced the king that the Jews in the kingdom had to be killed. Esther not only foiled the plan, she got the king to grant permission for the Jews to kill their enemies, which was done. Esther's saga is the traditional background for the Jewish celebration of Purim.