Bible Bee practice quiz
Posted on June 20, 2011
We will be holding two more Bible Bee practice quizzes here on Memverse in the near future: this Friday, June 24, and next Friday, July 1, both at 4:00 PM EDT or 8:00 PM GMT. We will use this blog post for the first one. Each quiz should last about half of an hour and there will be fifteen questions. For ten of the questions (the first five and the last five), I will post a comment with the text of a Bible Bee verse passage in all five Bible Bee approved versions (NIV, ESV, KJV, NKJV, and NASB) and you will have a minute to post the reference. For five of the questions (they will be in the middle of the quiz), I will post a reference and you will have several minutes to respond with the reference at the beginning, the verse text in the middle, and the reference again at the end. Please also include your version to make it easier for scoring. For example, if I comment with Genesis 1:1, the correct response would be something like this:
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIV
If you do not include your version in each comment, it makes it more difficult for the volunteers helping to score. Omitting a reference or your version will cost you a point for each occurrence.
You can receive a maximum of 12 points for each type of question. I hope to score very much like the Bible Bee for errors in the verse "recitations" (the middle five questions). For the questions where you post a reference for the verse text given, you will receive four points for the correct book, four points for the correct chapter, and four points for the correct verse number. For example, if you posted 2 John 1:9 instead of 1 John 1:9, you would receive 8 points.
Over half of the questions will be Primary verses and several may be drawn from the Junior verses.
If you would like to help score, please let me know after we finish the quiz by posting a comment with the text "helpscore" in it. (I plan to help orchestrate scoring for both quizzes.) Otherwise, it is difficult to keep track of who is helping. Having the "experience" of doing this once before, I think I have a better idea of how to do it. If you indicate that you would like to help score, I will have information about how to score and will assign you to a few people. You can then look for their answers on the page (CTRL + F in many browsers allows you to search and find their name and comments) and tabulate them on your computer. When you have a final score for a person, you will please post it in a comment with their name. When all scores are returned, this post will be updated with that information.
If you plan to be participating in the quiz or have any questions, please indicate that in a comment below (unless you have already done so on the other blog post). I also welcome any suggestions. We are working on a new quizzes section of the site to make this even better in the future. Hope to see you there! Thanks.
Please note: Sarah will be running the Friday, June 24th quiz. Thank you!
Comment guidelines: Please stay on topic as this helps everyone who scores your answers. Thank you for your cooperation!
Update (June 24): We had a great quiz today! Thank you to Sarah for running the quiz, scoring over half the questions, and tabulating the results. Thank you also to Bethany, Ranch4Christ, Hannah Cupcake, and Ben Watt for their help with scoring. Now for the scores:
Charity Harrell - 20 points
Stephen - 22 points
David Stelzl Jr. - 44 points
Lauren Watt - 53 points
Super401 - 63 points
Hannah Cupcake - 76 points
Joshua Harrell - 88 points
Rachel Crosswhite - 96 points
BibleBeeJunior11 - 107 points
Alex Watt - 112 points
Ranch4Christ - 124 points
Ben Watt - 143 points
SavedByGrace - 147 points
Christian Alexander - 152 points
Bethany - 167 points
Carissa - 177 points
Jamie - 180 points
Congratulations to all of you! Good job! Like we said last time, the most important thing is not your score in a quiz, but hiding God's Word in your heart. I pray all of you are doing that and hope to see many of you next week!
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598 responses to Bible Bee practice quiz
I'll be there, Alex! And did you see my question in the last post? Take a look--I'd like to know your answer.
Thank you, Alex, for your permission! So, anyone who did not see the suggestion I gave in the last post--
I asked anyone who would like to join if they would like to give out some of their more personal information than just their profile. Nothing too personal--just your name, age, grade (if you have one), and your favorite verse. Anyone who wants to can write this in the comments below. But just so you know, don't write too many comments because it slows the entire website down, according to Andy. Don't write any unnecessary comments. Thank you!
My name is not (as you probably knew) SavedByGrace, but Nicolas Alexander. I am thirteen years old and am going into ninth grade this year. My favorite verse is Romans 1:16: "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." I am NOT ashamed of the gospel! I will fight for it to the death if necessary! Also, I am a Junior in the National Bible Bee.
My name is Jamie Swartzentruber. I am 13 and will be going into 8th grade this year. I am homeschooled. I am a junior timothy track in the Bible Bee and this is my second year doing the Bible Bee. My favorite verse is 2 Timothy 2:11-13. It is in the Bible Bee but not Timothy track :(
I also have 3 other siblings participating in the Bible Bee and my parents are hosting for their first time this year.
@Andy: Oh, I'm so sorry! Please forgive me, I know that I'm one of the commenters that comment things like...well, like how many comments we have. Please forgive me. Truly, I'm very sorry.
@Alex: What, you are only 15?! Like SavedByGrace said, I thought you were a lot older than that. You do act mature. I'm 15 also, but I don't think I act as mature as you do.
@SavedByGrace: Sorry, no, I wasn't trying to get imformation out of you before you told us about yourself. I'll stop asking questions :)
As for myself, I'm 15, am in the Senior group. This is the first year that I've done the Bible Bee...and am VERY excited about it!! I'm using the ESV for our memorizing. I'm going into 10th grade. I'm homeschooled. What! I have no idea what my favorite chapter of the Bible is! I have so many. I think my favorite books are Proverbs, Ephesians, and James...does that count?
This comment was on the old post, but I transferred it to here...Can't wait till Friday!
I'll do it this time! Last time I logged in at the wrong time. :( My time zone was wrong. This time I'll be there at the right time.
I will most likely be here at 4:00 on the 24th!!! :) I am using the King James Version. I am 13 and am in the Junior Level Timothy Track.
Thanks so much!!
My name is Joshua Harrell. I am 11 years old, so I am a Junior in the Bible Bee. This is my third year in the Bible Bee. Last year I competed in the Bible Bee Nationals and I hope to go again. My favorite passages are Romans, Ephesians, 2 Timothy and Hebrews.
My name is Abigail Grace, but I'd rather not put down my last name here;-) I'm a senior in Bible Bee (16), and this is my third year competing. I'll be a junior in highschool this year. My younger sister, Emily, is a junior. I don't think I could choose just one favorite verse, but one that has impacted me a lot the past few months is Psalm 16:11--You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. There is no other place we can find life or joy! Anything that offers either in this world is an empty promise, but when we go to God, He gives us everlasting life and fullness of joy!
@ Jamie--your last name is Swartzentruber?! Did you go to the Bible Bee in Ashland, Ohio last year? I think I know your family!
@ David Stelzl Jr.--yes, EDT means eastern standard time...well, something like that. Since you live in North Carolina, the next quiz will begin at 4:00.
@ Jamie I think SBG meant the one at Valley View Church near Cleveland. You said you had three other siblings--are they Ty, Emma, and...oh, I don't remember your other sibling's name.
EDT means Eastern Daylight Time from April thru November when we are under Daylight Savings. Then from November thru April, it becomes EST--Eastern Standard Time.
@Abigail Grace: That's neat that you are a Senior also! So am I.
@SavedByGrace: So, do I have it right that you have six other siblings? It's you and four other brothers/sisters doing it and two that are to young? I have six other siblings also!
Bethany
How do I change my picture next to my comments? I tried visiting Gravatar and changing my photo, and associating it with my email adress that I use on memverse, but nothing happens. As you can see, I am stuck with this funny face!!! - don't I just look REALLY happy?
My name is John Clack. I am 13 and am entering the 8th grade. And I am a Junior in the National Bible Bee. I plan to try it out.
David Stelzl, I don't think I can be any help. As you can see in my last comment, I have a nice, pretty, black box. Sorry!
Bethany, did you upload a photo of yourself at Gravatar? (http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup/).
Andy: I thought I had, but maybe I didn't. I'll have to check into it.
Thanks for the suggestion!!
Yay! It's fixed! Thanks for your *wonderful* suggestion, Andy! I should have tried early :)
Oh, and I will stop switching between my accounts! I have two...one for my Bible Bee and one personal one. Sorry, if I'm confusing you, but the "smiling, green face" and the butterfly picture are both me
=)
Hey Alex count me in for the next quizze. I use KJV. Im from Alaska this is my third time in the biblebee its great!
Even though I'm not participating in the Bible Bee this year, I thought I'd ask you guys a question I've always wondered about: what level of accuracy do the judges consider acceptable during testing? For example, if you replaced "ye" with "you" would it still be considered correct?
Dakota - Yes, that would be considered incorrect, as would any other one-word transposition, omission, or insertion. Each such error is a one-point deduction, as is a one-word prompt. :)
Hi, Im Sarah Nogueras. I am a Senior in the Bible Bee for the first time this year. This is my 3rd year participating. I am going into 10th grade, and am almost 15. :P Oh, and I'm homeschooled. :D
@Christian and SavedByGrace - Yes - that is the Bible Bee we went to. And the other sibling is Gage. Where are you doing the Bible Bee this year?
Hi everyone! My name is Hannah Cupcake .... well, not really the Cupcake part .... that's just what my friends call me and I just put that since I prefer not to put down my last name. :) I am almost 15, homeschooled, going into 10th grade, and a Senior in the Bible Bee (This is also my third year competing in it). I have three younger siblings who are doing the Bible Bee, and two who are too young for it. My favorite verse is 1 Timothy 4:12- "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." :)
My name is Elizabeth and I think I will be able to participate in the practice quiz. Thanks!
Hi guys, as Alex wrote in the updated blog post, I will be running this Friday's Bible Bee Quiz. Thanks to all of you who are participating, and if you haven't told us your version yet, it would be great if you could, or just change your name to i.e. "Sarah KJV" like Zachary suggested. Thanks so much! :D
@Sarah
I'll be participating! I use the ESV. What group are you in? I'm a Senior...
Looking forward to the quiz!!
@Sarah
Yep, this is my first year to be a Senior too...actually, it my first year ever to do the Bible Bee! I'm so excited!
Hi guys, I am 16, and this is my first time in Bible Bee. I am really looking forward to it. One of my favorite verses is Psalm 51:10 "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me"
Yes, I have 2 Junior brothers, 2 Primary sisters, and 1 supporting sibling sister who is too young. :)
That's neat, Sarah! I have a sister who is in the Junior age group and a brother in the Primary group...and I'm in the Senior group.
Do you have any older siblings? I have an older brother and sister.
I an 12 and I will be 13 in less then a month. This is my first year to do the Bible Bee. Also I am Bethany Joy's sister. I am really excited about doing it. I am a junior. Anyone have any advice on the Bible Bee? If so I would really like to hear it. The version I am doing it in is ESV.
Hey, Carissa! So glad you decided to do the Bible Bee! The advice I would give is to buy the CD of musical scriptures from Bible Bee. I am listening to them now, and they help a ton. That gets at least all the Primary verses out of the way, and last year they came out with a Junior edition, so I'm hoping they get that out, and then maybe even a Senior. :P The CD is only $15 (marked down to $11.95!).
Everyone, not to spoil anything, but we need to remember that we should probably only write comments that are necessary or about the post. Hopefully we won't get all the way over 500 again. :)
Oops! I accidently posted my comment twice!
Can someone tell me whether the verses in the quiz will be Timothy Track or National Track?
@Sarah - Thanks for the advice Sarah. I have found it helpful to put the verses to music. It is kinda hard to find a tune that works with the verse though. Thanks again.
@Savedbygrace - Sorry but I forgot to put what my favorite verse is and what grade I am going into. I am going into 8th grade. I have many favorite Bible verses. I really like Philippian 1:6 - He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
@Jamie - I don't know if the quiz will be Timothy Track or National Track.
Whoops. After I put my comment I realized the Bethany my sister was logged in and I had commented under her. I'm really sorry 'bout that Bethany. Hope you don't mind. I'll be more careful next time. The comment above is really not from Bethany (Bible Bee) but from Carissa (Bible Bee)
Hi Sarah!
I'm using NKJV. Thanks for doing the quiz!
Carissa, they already put the verses to music, all you have to do is buy the CD.
Jamie, the quiz will be National. I will try to write whether the verses are N or T, though. ;)
Sarah - Thanks so much for running this - it looks like that will work with your schedule. I will be using NIV. :)
Ok, I will be talking to my mom to change the time of the meeting, and even if we can't, I can still run it from the meeting.
Ok, so my mom changed the time for the meeting, so I'm good to run the quiz! Yay, I'm so happy! See you guys at 4pm EDT!!!!!
I will be participating in the June 24th quiz. How long does it usually take to score?
I use KJV.
Super401 - It took between 30 and 60 minutes last time, it seems (just looking back at the old comments).
Sarah - Glad are able to do this without missing the BB meeting. So will this time be a conflict with Bible Bee meetings in the future or not?
Alex, I don't even know if we will have BB meetings in the future with what happened just now...Its only been us and another family showing up, and the kids in the other family are very sensitive. :/
Looking forward to the quiz in 5 minutes! :D
OK. I'm looking forward to it also! I don't know all the ones from Weeks 2 and 3, so I'll be passing or guessing on some of them, but it will be helpful. Thanks!
Yes, the quiz Sarah is running will be held right here in these comments.
i do not like my picture! How do i change it?
and, do we have to have correct spelling on the answers? :)
@ RC: You have to have a gravatar account.
Yes, you do have to have perfect spelling.
I don't think we're requiring perfect spelling.
Let's talk about changing pictures later. :) Quiz is about to start.
I would say you dont have to have correct spelling, but please try to. Also, spell check works wonders! :D
@ Sarah: if the spelling doesn't have to be perfect, how will we be scoring the entries?
I am going to wait another minute to make sure everyone is here...let me also go run and get my laptop charger. :P
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! :) www.gravatar.com @Rachel Crosswhite
I am ready and here! NASB junior (probably obvious) :) national -- I am like on week 4 and something! :)
Thank you everyone who is participating in this week's quiz! Here we go!
Question #1, list the reference:
PRIMARY
KJV: He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
NKJV: He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
ESV: Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
NIV: Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
NASB: He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.
Oh spelling! I was totally thinking wrong. I thought we were talking about words! *faceslap*
READY WHEN YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Super401 - YES!!!!
Question #2:
PRIMARY
KJV: The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
NKJV: The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, A refuge in times of trouble.
ESV: The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
NIV: The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
NASB: The LORD also will be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble;
Super401 - They are made beforehand. Sarah is waiting to make sure everyone has enough time to answer. Thanks.
Question #3:
PRIMARY
KJV: Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
NKJV: Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me.
ESV: Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
NIV: Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.
NASB: Establish my footsteps in Your word, 
And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.
ok, sarah posts the verse and you tell her the reference! hurry!!!!!
Stump:
We are on the second question of the Bible Bee quiz. Sarah is posting verses for which you need to post the references. We are on Q 2 (if you scroll up you will see it). You can answer Q1 by indicating this in your answer.
i thought you were doing the quiz, not talking about our monsters. lol :)
Question #4:
JUNIOR
KJV: O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
NKJV: Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
ESV: Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
NIV: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
NASB: Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
@SBG - I used to until FINALLY i figured out how to post my picture on!
YOU replied.
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i refresh the comments after i've posted my answer - how about every one else?
@Super401: I thought you were taking a quiz, not commenting on BBJ11's comments about your commenting about your face!
Question #5:
PRIMARY
KJV: And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
NKJV: And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD; It shall rejoice in His salvation. All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like You, Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?â€
ESV: Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his salvation. All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?"
NIV: Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and delight in his salvation. My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, LORD? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.â€
NASB: And my soul shall rejoice in the LORD; It shall exult in His salvation. All my bones will say, “LORD, who is like You, Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him, And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?â€
You will be reciting the next five verse passages. Please post your reference first, the verse, the reference again, and your translation. Thank you. You have until 4:30 EDT for this Q.
Question #6:
Proverbs 13:4
@RC - turn off TV, pack up books, and forget computer (except for memverse!) and work AHEAD! that's what ive been doing!
I'm lagging too. I memorize by starting with the last segment of the verse and work my way up to the first.
Question #6: Proverbs 13:4 Hatred stirs up dissension but love covers over all wrongs. Proverbs 13:4 - NIV
?? Or is that 10:12?
I should be available this time. Though I'm not sure I'd have the time to help score. I'll have to see how Friday is going before I make that decision, unless you want to know far in advance.