World HIS Story Trivia Quiz

Answer: No

Seth was born after both Cain and Abel. In fact, he was born many years after those two were, because Seth was a replacement (in a way) for Abel.

Genesis 4:25-26 state, "She named him Seth [related to the Hebrew word for "give" or "appoint"] and said, 'God has given [appointed for] me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain.' Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to [call on the name of] the Lord" (Expanded Bible translation).

In their article "Who was Seth in the Bible?", GotQuestions.org says,

"Though the descendants of Seth are not the first in Adam's line to develop inventions or advances in civilization, they are the first to praise and worship God.

Unlike Cain's descendants, Seth's prove faithful to God. From Seth come the patriarchs, the nation of Israel, and eventually Christ."

Answer: Europeans

Based on the Bible, Ham is considered an ancestor of Africans. It seems that even the name "Ham" means warm, burnt, or black in Hebrew.

Psalm 105:23 calls Egypt the land of Ham, because it was through Ham's son, Mizraim, that Egyptians came to be.

Ham's other sons were Cush, Put, and Canaan. Cush was an ancestor of the Cushites, also known as Ethiopians.

According to Numbers 12:1, Moses married a Cushite woman.

Put is possibly a reference to Libya.

Canaan fathered the Canaanites. From Canaan came the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. God later promised the land of Canaan to the Israelites.

Cush, Put, Mizraim, and of course Canaan, all had their own children, which led to more people groups.

Answer: True

Certain people consider Jews to be a religious group only, but in the Bible, they were a nation or an ethnic group too. Of course, they had their religious converts, such as Ruth, who was a Moabite.

Shem was an ancestor of Hebrews and other Semitic groups, including Arabs. It was from "Shem" that the word Semitic was derived. From Shem's family came Ebur, the first Hebrew, and Abraham was descended from Ebur.

Abraham married Sarah and had Isaac, the son of God's promise. Isaac was the father of Jacob, who was renamed Israel by God, and became the patriarch of the tribes of Israel. The tribes were Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh.

While "Jew" technically refers to a Judah tribe member, some people use "Hebrew", "Jew", and "Israelite" interchangeably.

Answer: Isaac

Ishmael was Abraham's son through Hagar, an Egyptian maid of his wife Sarah. Isaac was Sarah's child. Ishmael was born before Isaac, because Sarah didn't believe that she could ever have children. See Genesis 16.

Ishmael had twelve sons: Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. He also had at least one daughter, because Genesis 28 states that Esau, Jacob's brother, married her.

Answer: Gomer

Japheth has traditionally been considered an ancestor of Europeans as well as a few Asian groups.

One of his sons was Gomer.

In "The Table of Nations", Bible History Online says,
"Gomer (The Cimmerians) settled north of the Black Sea, but afterwards his descendants probably occupied Germany, France, Spain and the British Isles."

In the book of Hosea, the prophet married a prostitute named Gomer.

Answer: Babel

According to Genesis 11, everybody on Earth, even if they were different races or tribes, spoke the same language. When people tried to build a tower that they wanted to reach Heaven, the Lord confused their languages. This, according to the Bible, is why there are so many languages.

"Babel" comes from the Hebrew word for confusion.

The Eiffel Tower is in France.
Modern Israel has a hotel called Jerusalem Tower (and I didn't even know that when I made it an answer choice!)
Calvary wasn't a tower, but a hill.

Answer: Japheth's

Genesis 10 states that Japheth, one of Noah's sons, had seven sons. They were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

There is some debate over them, Gomer especially, but freemaninstitute.com lists the following in their Table of Nations.

"1. Javan (Greece, Romans, Romance -- French, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese)
2. Magog (Scythians, Slavs, Russians, Bulgarians, Bohemians, Poles, Slovaks, Croatians)
3. Madai (Indians & Iranic: Medes, Persians, Afghans, Kurds)
4. Tubal (South of Black Sea)
5. Tiras (Thracians, Teutons, Germans, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, Jutes)
6. Meshech (Russia)
7. Gomer (Celtic)"

Answer: Keturah

After Sarah died, Abraham married Keturah. Genesis 25 states that Keturah bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Midian was the ancestor of the Midianites. Moses's first wife, Zipporah, was a Midianite.

According to the Wikipedia article about Keturah, some Jewish scholars believe that Keturah was the same as Hagar. Others disagree.

Answer: Noah

In this case, Noah did the cursing, not God. Noah cursed Canaan, his grandson, because of what Ham, Canaan's father, did to Noah. Ham walked in and saw Noah naked. Some readers actually suggest that he did more than just see him naked--that a homosexual rape, which also would have been incest, took place.

Genesis 9:24-25 states,

"Noah was sleeping because of the wine. When he woke up [woke up from his wine] and learned [he knew] what his youngest son, Ham, had done to him, he said,

'May there be a curse on Canaan [the ancestor and representative of the inhabitants of Palestine that Israel displaced at the time of the conquest of the Promised Land;] . . .
May he be the lowest slave [servant] to his brothers'" (Expanded Bible translation).

Why did Noah curse Canaan instead of Ham? The Bible doesn't say, but according to GotQuestions.org in the article "Why did Noah curse Ham / Canaan?", some people assume that Canaan was somehow involved with whatever happened to his grandfather.

Regardless of the reasons why, Noah's words were apparently prophetic. 1 Kings 9:20-21 talk about how King Solomon forced various descendants of Canaan to be his slaves.

Answer: Hard work

So, this has nothing to do with nationality, but I felt like this would be a good question to ask, because it does go along with what the Bible claims as history.

See Genesis 3:17-19. Because Adam sinned, he could no longer get food easily (as in eat fruit from a tree). He had to work in the cursed field, sweat, etc., and have such trouble until he died and returned to the dust. There also was no death until after he sinned.

Pain in childbirth? Impossible! That was women's curse.