Bible Trivia

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How this book was made

Bible Trivia is a desk for the Protestant canon of sixty-six books. Three hundred questions are original, thirty in each of ten presses. Each one is written so the cited King James verse carries the answer. The note under the verse is there to stop the easy confusions: the great fish is not called a whale, charity is the King James word in 1 Corinthians 13, and the son on Moriah is Isaac. A sitting opens with a short prayer. Where there is a clock, it starts when you say amen.

The King James Version is in the public domain in the United States. In the United Kingdom the Crown still claims a right in the Authorized Version. Confirm that before you sell the site there, or replace the verse texts with a worldwide public-domain translation such as the World English Bible.

What this is not

It is not a Bible reader. YouVersion already does that, for free, without a paywall. It is not a study library. Logos and Bible Gateway Plus do that. It is not an energy game. The mobile trivia apps are crowded, and several of them sell time back to you. This desk sells a quiet seat: every canon, the examination, and no advertisements.

A longer comparison, and what to build next if you want church seats or a second translation, is in docs/MARKET.md.

The plates

The pictures are public domain. Full credits are in ATTRIBUTION.md at the root of the project.

  • Book of Kells, Chi Rho and carpet page, about 800.
  • Lindisfarne Gospels, folio 27r, presumed Eadfrith of Lindisfarne, about 700.
  • Gustave Doré, The Creation of Light, 1866.
  • Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Presented to the People, 1655.
Rembrandt’s etching Christ Presented to the People, a crowd before a platform.
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Presented to the People, 1655. Public domain.