Tower of Babel Quiz
People tried to build a tower all the way to the sky — until God changed their languages. It's the story behind why the world speaks so many tongues. Complete the quiz to unlock a free 7-day prayer guide!
- What did the people build?
- A big ship
- A castle
- A very tall tower
- Why did they build it?
- To hide from rain
- To reach the sky and make a name for themselves
- To store food
- What did God change?
- Their languages
- Their clothes
- Their homes
- What happened when they couldn't understand each other?
- They stopped building and spread out
- They built faster
- They rested
- Where was the tower built?
- In Egypt
- In a land called Shinar
- On a mountain
- Before the tower, how many languages did everyone speak?
- One language
- Many languages
- None at all
- What did the builders use to make the tower?
- Ice blocks
- Bricks and tar
- Only wood
- What does the name 'Babel' point to?
- 'Confusion' — because languages were mixed up
- 'Tall'
- 'City of gold'
- Why didn't the people want to spread out?
- They loved the rain
- They wanted to stay together and be famous
- They were too tired
- What everyday thing does this story explain?
- Why it rains
- Why the sky is blue
- Why people speak different languages
Tower of Babel Quiz Answers & Bible References
Every answer below, with the King James Bible verse it comes from — so you can look up each one for yourself.
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What did the people build?
A very tall tower
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:4 (KJV) -
Why did they build it?
To reach the sky and make a name for themselves
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:4 (KJV) -
What did God change?
Their languages
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Genesis 11:7 (KJV) -
What happened when they couldn't understand each other?
They stopped building and spread out
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:8 (KJV) -
Where was the tower built?
In a land called Shinar
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Genesis 11:2 (KJV) -
Before the tower, how many languages did everyone speak?
One language
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Genesis 11:1 (KJV) -
What did the builders use to make the tower?
Bricks and tar
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis 11:3 (KJV) -
What does the name 'Babel' point to?
'Confusion' — because languages were mixed up
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9 (KJV) -
Why didn't the people want to spread out?
They wanted to stay together and be famous
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:4 (KJV) -
What everyday thing does this story explain?
Why people speak different languages
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9 (KJV)