I Noah Guy Who's Got an Ark Trivia Quiz

Answer: 3

The Ark was three stories tall and at the top it had a roof with a small opening below it. Interestingly, there was no steering wheel on the Ark, God simply needed it to float and he was made to float, and he steered the Ark at will. Noah was a farmer, but among the reasons God chose him was that he could build ships, and it took Noah about 100 years to build the Ark.

Answer: 600

Genesis 7:6 said that when Noah was 600 years old, he and his family went into the ark and it was sealed by "God Almighty." Once, Noah and his wife, sons, and daughters-in-law were aboard, God flooded the world. Yes, in the Bible stories, people lived for centuries. Noah's grandfather Methuselah, is the oldest man mentioned in the Bible at 969 years old. He died in the same year as the flood.
Noah died at the ripe old age of 950.

Answer: A third the size of the Titanic

Built from cypress wood, those Biblically mentioned dimensions of Noah's Ark put it at about 1 and half million cubic feet; that's about a third of the volume of the Titanic. Cubits by the way were a bit inexact as a measurement gauge--they were defined as the distance from a man's elbow to the tip of his middle finger, which of course can vary. Generally though, the length of one cubit would be between 18 and 21 inches.

Answer: 7 pairs

According to Genesis 7:2-3, "You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; also seven each of birds of the air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth."
"Clean" animals were those that were used for eating and for sacrifice. Noah took seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of other animals.
Often people laugh about how there's no way Noah's Ark could have had two of every kind of animal aboard, but the ark's measurements suggest otherwise. Based on the aforementioned cubits, the ark had about as much space as 250 railroad stock cars. That would hold roughly between 20,000 and 40,000 animals roughly the size of sheep. So... who knows.

Answer: 8

Genesis 7:13 says that "On the very same day Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark."
Noah's wife was named Naamah. Well, the Bible doesn't mention her name actually. Nor does it tell us the names of Noah's daughters-in-law. In the 5th century AD however a Jewish article called "Genesis Rabba" states, "Naamah, daughter of Lemech and sister to Tubalcain, was Noah's wife." Another Jewish work however, the "Book of Jubilees" from the 2nd century BC writes, "Noah took to himself a wife, and her name was Emzara, the daughter of Rake'el, the daughter of his father's brother." But most sources do cite Naamah as the most common name given to Noah's wife.
That same "Book of Jubilees" assigns the following wives' names to each of Noah's sons: The wife of Shem was Sedeqetelebab (other sources list her as Ar'yel), Ham's was Na'eltama'uk (other sources list her as Kezia), and Japheth's was 'Adataneses (other sources list her as Rayneh).
According to Genesis 11:10, the first baby born after the Great Flood was Arphaxad, the son of Noah's son Shem. He was born two years after the flood.

Answer: 1 year and 10 days

Yes, although the rains famously lasted for 40 days and 40 nights as we're all familiar with hearing, the flood waters didn't start receding until the 150th days (Genesis 8:3: "The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down..."), and the mountaintops were still submerged until about the 250th day (Genesis 8:5 "The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.") But Genesis 8:14 goes on to say that "By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry." So the land wasn't dry until the 27th day of the second month, or one year and ten days after the flood began.

Answer: Turkey

According the Genesis 8:4, "and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat." While Mount Ararat is indeed in Turkey, many expeditions that have searched for the ark investigated Mount Ararat itself, as well as many other regions including mountains in Iran. Marco Polo also wrote in his book "The Travels of Marco Polo": "In the heart of the Armenian mountain range, the mountain's peak is shaped like a cube (or cup), on which Noah's Ark is said to have rested, whence it is called the Mountain of Noah's Ark. It [the mountain] is so broad and long that it takes more than two days to go around it. On the summit the snow lies so deep all the year round that no one can ever climb it; this snow never entirely melts, but new snow is forever falling on the old, so that the level rises."
There are also those who support the notion that the Ark settled in the Elborz Mountains, which range from the borders of Armenia to Afghanistan, not far from Ararat.
An expedition in 2007 led by Bob Cornuke of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration (BASE) Institute, discovered a strange rock formation in the side of a hill in the Elborz Mountains 14,000 feet above sea level; the formation appeared to be fossilized wooden beams about 400 feet long, which coincides with the size of the Ark. They also discovered sea life around the object. including thousands of clams, indicating that the object was once in the ocean.
Perhaps the most unexpected explorer to search for the Ark was space explorer James Irwin, the eighth man to walk on the moon. He led two expeditions in the 1980s, but unfortunately during the 1982 search, Irwin was badly injured by falling rocks. He had to be carried to safety on a donkey.

Answer: a dove

Noah did first send out a raven ("Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth"). But then as Genesis 8:8-11 reports: "Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.

He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him." Where once the Earth was flooded in water 15 cubits deep, it then became safe to come out again after God let loose a wind.

Answer: a rainbow

So God allows all the animals to go about the Earth, all the fish and birds and land animals, but God issues this prohibition: "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it." He also demands that humans not shed each other's blood. So after Noah and his family and all the animals have been given this blessing to roam about again, God does also offer his promise to Noah, his "covenant" that he will never again pull this stunt with the rain and floodwaters. "Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." God tells Noah there will be a sign of the covenant that he is making with Noah and all the animals for all future generations.

In Genesis 9:13 God said " I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth." God explains that the rainbow will always be a reminder to himself not to destroy all life.

Answer: Mankind had become wicked with evil in its heart.

In Genesis 6, "The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created..." and so God decided to create the Flood, regretting all that he had created.

But he thought well of Noah, "a righteous man in this generation", and his family. And that's when God laid out his plan to Noah and exactly how Noah should build his ark. And God According to biochemist/Creationist Dr. Duane Gish, there are more than 270 stories from cultures all around the world that mention a tale about a catastrophic flood, bearing similarities to the biblical story of Noah's ark.