119 Fun Facts About Latter-day Saints

What was Joseph Smith's church called when he organised it in 1830, before 'Latter Day Saints' joined its name?

Church of Christ. Other congregations already used that name, so an 1834 conference voted to become the Church of the Latter Day Saints, and an 1838 revelation joined the two.

Joseph Smith was born on 23 December 1805 in which state?

Vermont. Killing frosts in 1816, the 'year without a summer', ruined the family's crops there, so the Smiths gave up their farm and moved to western New York.

Joseph Smith said that in 1823 an angel directed him to a buried book made of what?

Golden plates. Smith said he handed them back to the angel once the translation was finished, so no outsider has ever been able to examine the Book of Mormon's original.

Which angel, now a trumpet-blowing statue atop many temples, did Joseph Smith say guarded the buried record?

Moroni, whom Smith called the last prophet of the Book of Mormon, is the figure in Cyrus Dallin's 1892 statue on the Salt Lake Temple; a 2020 earthquake knocked the trumpet from its hand.

Whom did Joseph Smith elope with and marry in January 1827?

Emma Hale married Joseph Smith on 18 January 1827 after they eloped; he had met her while boarding at her family's home in Harmony, Pennsylvania, and she remained in Illinois after his death.

Which Ohio town became the headquarters of Joseph Smith's church in 1831 and the site of the first temple?

Kirtland, Ohio, became church headquarters in 1831 and the site of the first temple; the era ended after the collapse of the church-backed Kirtland Safety Society bank.

Which denomination owned the first Latter Day Saint temple, in Ohio, for over a century before transferring it in 2024?

Community of Christ. First led by Joseph Smith's eldest son, it kept the temple until 2024, when the building passed to the Salt Lake church along with historic sites in Illinois.

What Hebrew-derived name did Joseph Smith give the Illinois town of Commerce?

Nauvoo. Smith said the name meant a beautiful place of rest; the Saints arrived as refugees and drained the riverside swamps to build their new city.

At its mid-1840s peak, the Saints' city on the Mississippi was nearly as large as which other Illinois city?

Chicago. Converts from the eastern states and England swelled the Saints' city until the two were close in size; mobs then drove most of its people west in 1846 while Chicago kept growing.

Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed by a mob on 27 June 1844 in the jail of which Illinois town?

Joseph and Hyrum Smith were held in Carthage Jail after the destruction of a dissident newspaper's press; a mob with blackened faces stormed the jail and shot both brothers.

How did Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential platform propose to end American slavery?

Buying their freedom with land-sale money. He wanted Congress to pay slaveholders from public land sales by 1850, but he was killed that June, the first US presidential candidate to be assassinated.

Who took over leadership of most of the church after Joseph Smith's death and led its members west?

Brigham Young, the senior apostle, won the Saints' vote over Sidney Rigdon in August 1844, led them to Utah in 1847 and became the territory's first governor in 1851.

What did the Saints' leader reportedly say on first seeing the Salt Lake Valley?

The church's leader reportedly said 'This is the right place, drive on' from a wagon at the mouth of Emigration Canyon; Utah marks 24 July as Pioneer Day.

Winter Quarters, the Latter-day Saints' 1846-47 encampment before Utah, was in what is now which state?

Nebraska. Winter Quarters stood at present-day Florence, now part of Omaha, where hundreds of Saints died of disease in makeshift shelters before the 1847 trek to Utah.

Between 1856 and 1860, nearly 3,000 poor European converts crossed the plains pulling what?

Handcarts, a cheap substitute for wagons and oxen. In 1856 two late-starting companies were trapped by early snow in Wyoming, and more than 200 people died before rescuers reached them.

On the 1847 trek to the Salt Lake Valley, what did the first pioneer company's men build onto a wagon wheel?

An odometer. Scribe William Clayton was tired of walking beside a wagon counting its wheel's turns, so the Vanguard Company's men cut wooden gears to do it; his mileages became a guidebook for later emigrants.

Which church president issued the declaration that suspended new plural marriages among Latter-day Saints?

Wilford Woodruff, church president from 1889, issued the declaration after Congress had disincorporated the church and seized its assets; Utah statehood followed in 1896.

Which 1857 atrocity saw Utah territorial militiamen kill 120 or more members of an Arkansas wagon train?

The Mountain Meadows Massacre of September 1857 saw militiamen kill about 120 members of the Baker-Fancher party in southern Utah; John D. Lee, the only man tried, was executed by firing squad in 1877.

The Salt Lake Temple took how many years to build?

40 years, from 1853 to 1893. In 1858 the Saints buried the foundation to hide it from an approaching US army, and when they dug it up, cracked stones forced them to rebuild much of it.

The Salt Lake Temple's stone was quarried in which canyon, now home to the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts?

Little Cottonwood Canyon. Wagon teams needed about four days for each round trip with the pale quartz monzonite blocks until a railway spur reached the quarry in the 1870s.

Which star pattern is carved into the exterior of the Salt Lake Temple?

The Big Dipper. Its pointer stars line up with the real North Star, a sign that the priesthood guides people home; the temple's six spires stand for that same priesthood authority.

What must a Latter-day Saint hold to enter a temple once it has been dedicated?

A current recommend. Anyone may tour a new temple during its open house; after dedication a member needs this pass, signed after interviews with a bishop and a stake leader.

Which ordinance for the dead did Joseph Smith first preach at an 1840 funeral in Illinois?

Baptism for the dead, first preached by Joseph Smith at a funeral in August 1840, lets living members be baptised by proxy for deceased ancestors, driving the church's vast genealogical work.

Which monthly donation, given on top of tithing, does a Latter-day Saint bishop spend on local members in need?

Fast offerings. Members go without two meals on the first Sunday of the month and give at least what the food would have cost; tithing, a tenth of income, is separate.

The church's health code, dictated by Joseph Smith as a revelation in 1833, is known as what?

The Word of Wisdom. It was first sent out 'not by commandment or constraint', and only in the 1920s did abstaining become a firm requirement for entering the church's temples.

The church's health code bans 'hot drinks', which has been interpreted as forbidding which two beverages?

Coffee and tea. Church leaders have long taught that 'hot drinks' means those two specifically, and in 2012 the church pointed out that the revelation never mentions caffeine.

How long do young male Latter-day Saint missionaries typically serve?

Two years for young men and 18 months for young women. They are not paid: missionaries or their families generally cover the cost themselves.

The name tags worn by LDS missionaries give their surname with which title for men?

Elder. Young men are ordained to that priesthood office before they leave, which is why an 18-year-old can carry the title; women missionaries are called Sister.

What do Latter-day Saint missionaries call the one day a week set aside for errands and emails home?

Preparation day. Since 2019 missionaries may also phone or video-call their families on it; before that change, home heard from them mostly through letters and email.

By the church's own count, more than half the people of which Pacific nation are Latter-day Saints?

Tonga. As of 2025 the church lists about 69,000 members there, roughly three in five Tongans; its first missionaries landed in 1891 and went to ask the king's leave to preach.

Which church president announced the 1978 revelation that opened the priesthood to Black men?

Spencer W. Kimball. He spent many hours praying alone in the Salt Lake Temple before the change, which ended a restriction that had stood since 1852.

In Latter-day Saint leadership, which body outranks the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?

The First Presidency, the church's president and his counselors. It dissolves the moment a president dies; the Twelve then lead until their longest-serving apostle is set apart as the next president.

Who was announced as church president in October 2025 following the death of Russell M. Nelson?

Dallin H. Oaks, the senior apostle and Nelson's first counselor, was set apart as the church's 18th president on 14 October 2025, following the succession by seniority used since the 1840s.

What does 'Deseret', the name pioneers chose for their proposed state, mean in the Book of Mormon?

Honeybee. Congress never recognised the State of Deseret and created a smaller Utah Territory in 1850 instead, but the beehive survives on Utah's state seal.

Which Asian country has the most Latter-day Saints, more than 900,000 by the church's 2025 count?

The Philippines. Missionaries only began teaching there in 1961, when the government recognised the church; it now has the fourth-largest membership of any country.

In 2018 the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was renamed The Tabernacle Choir at which Salt Lake City site?

Temple Square. The choir took the new name in October 2018 after the church's president asked that 'Mormon' be dropped; it first sang in August 1847, 29 days after the pioneers arrived.

The Tabernacle Choir's weekly broadcast, on air since July 1929, is called what?

Music & the Spoken Word. For the first broadcast the choir, organ and announcer shared one microphone hung from the Tabernacle ceiling, so the announcer spoke from the top of a ladder.

Which US president dubbed the Tabernacle Choir 'America's Choir'?

Ronald Reagan. He coined the nickname at his first inauguration in 1981, when the choir's parade float stopped at his reviewing box to sing the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'.

The church's flagship university, founded in 1875, is located in which Utah city?

Provo. Karl Maeser, the German immigrant who ran the school from 1876, was told by its founder not to teach even the multiplication tables without the Spirit of God.

What is the name of BYU's cougar mascot?

Cosmo. Student Daniel Gallego first wore the cougar suit in 1953, and when the mascot was unmasked before a crowd in 1960, the man inside turned out to be the university's president, Ernest Wilkinson.

BYU–Idaho in Rexburg was known by what name until 2001?

Ricks College. In the 1930s the church tried to give the struggling school to the state of Idaho, which turned the gift down, so it stayed a church college and grew into BYU-Idaho.

FamilySearch, the church's free family-tree service, was founded in 1894 under what name?

The Genealogical Society of Utah. From 1938 it photographed records in archives and churches on microfilm, the collection that FamilySearch now serves up free online.

Where does FamilySearch keep its master copies of genealogical records?

A vault built into Granite Mountain. Tunnelled 600 feet into a canyon wall, it keeps well over a million rolls of microfilm cool and dry; scanned copies are what users see online.

Which Bible translation does the LDS Church use in English?

The church uses the King James Version in English and since 1979 has published its own edition with footnotes cross-referenced to the Book of Mormon and other standard works.

Latter-day Saints sustain their church president as 'prophet, seer and' what?

Revelator. Members raise their right hands to sustain the president, his counselors and the Twelve Apostles under the full title, 'prophets, seers and revelators'.

Mitt Romney served a 30-month LDS mission in which country?

Mitt Romney served in France from 1966 to 1968, surviving a serious car crash there; he later served as a bishop in Belmont, Massachusetts, and president of the Boston Stake.

Which duo wrote the Broadway musical 'The Book of Mormon' with Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez?

Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The South Park creators met Lopez in 2003 after going to see his puppet musical, and the show the three wrote together won nine Tony Awards.

How did the LDS Church respond to the Broadway musical mocking it?

The church's response was simple: it bought ads in the playbill with lines like 'You've seen the play, now read the book', treating the show as a chance to promote its scripture.

Which church declaration is printed as Official Declaration 1 in the Doctrine and Covenants?

The 1890 Manifesto, Official Declaration 1, announced the church's intention to submit to laws against plural marriage and opened the way to Utah statehood in 1896; a Second Manifesto followed in 1904.

Aurelia Spencer Rogers first organised Primary, the church's children's organisation, in 1878 in which Utah town?

Farmington. Aurelia Spencer Rogers worried that the town's young boys were running wild, so in August 1878 she gathered more than 200 children to learn manners, prayer and punctuality.

In the year they turn 12, Latter-day Saint children leave Primary for which pair of organisations?

Young Men and Young Women. Children used to move up on their twelfth birthdays; now a whole age group advances together each January.

What is the name of the Primary class for three-year-olds?

Sunbeams. The class shares its name with the old children's hymn 'Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam', whose parody by the Vaselines Nirvana went on to play on MTV Unplugged.

The Primary theme, 'All thy children shall be taught of the Lord', comes from which book of the Bible?

Isaiah. The line goes on, 'and great shall be the peace of thy children'; the Book of Mormon quotes the same chapter, so the church's handbook cites the verse from both books.

How many Articles of Faith are there?

Thirteen. Joseph Smith tacked them onto the end of an 1842 letter to a newspaper editor who had asked about the church for a friend's history book.

Naomi W. Randall wrote the words of which well-loved hymn in 1957?

I Am a Child of God. Randall first wrote 'Teach me all that I must know'; an apostle later asked her to change the last word to 'do', saying that knowing isn't enough.

What do the letters CTR on a CTR ring stand for?

Choose the Right, the title of a hymn. Primary names its classes for four- to six-year-olds CTR, and each child there is given the green shield ring as a reminder.

Latter-day Saint children are baptised at eight, the 'age of accountability', by which method?

Full immersion. The church teaches that children younger than eight are not yet accountable, so it baptises no infants; if any part of the body stays dry, the baptism is done again.

In which river did Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery baptise each other on May 15, 1829?

Smith and Cowdery baptised each other in the Susquehanna River near Harmony, Pennsylvania, after saying John the Baptist had conferred the Aaronic priesthood on them that day.

Which site near Joseph Smith's boyhood home is where he said he had his First Vision in 1820?

The Sacred Grove. By his best-known account, Smith went into the woods on the family farm as a boy to ask which church to join; part of that old-growth wood still stands.

On which yearly return visit after first seeing the plates in 1823 did Smith get them?

Smith said he returned to the hill each September 22 and was allowed to take the plates on the fourth yearly return visit, in 1827, four years after first seeing them.

Mormon crickets, said to have been eaten by gulls to save 1848 pioneer crops, are really what?

Katydids, not true crickets: Mormon crickets are flightless shield-backed katydids, and the gulls said to have eaten them in 1848 later earned the California gull its place as Utah's state bird.

Which Utah temple was completed first, sixteen years before the Salt Lake Temple?

The St. George Temple, finished in 1877, stands on swampy ground that workers firmed up with an old cannon, filled with lead and dropped as a pile driver to pound rock into the mud; Logan and Manti followed in the 1880s.

Book of Mormon prophet Enos, who prayed all day and night, was the son of which record-keeper?

Jacob, the brother of Nephi, handed the record to Enos, who says his father's words about eternal life sank into his heart while he hunted in the forest and drove him to his knees.

Which son of Mosiah won King Lamoni's trust by defending the royal flocks?

Ammon cut off the arms of the raiders who scattered the flocks at the waters of Sebus, which convinced Lamoni he was more than a man; the episode came early in the brothers' fourteen years of teaching among the Lamanites.

What name did Joseph Smith reportedly give for the Book of Mormon's unnamed brother of Jared?

Mahonri Moriancumer is the name Joseph Smith reportedly gave in 1834 while blessing Reynolds Cahoon's baby son; the Book of Ether itself uses Moriancumer only as the name of a place by the sea.

Early Latter-day Saint leaders taught that the Garden of Eden had been in which US state?

Missouri: several early apostles said Joseph Smith placed Eden in Jackson County, where he had planned the city of Zion before vigilantes expelled the Saints in 1833.

At which frontier settlement, then church headquarters, did Joseph Smith receive the 1838 revelation on tithing?

Far West was the church's headquarters when Joseph Smith asked how much the Lord required 'for a tithing'; the answer became Doctrine and Covenants 119, and within a year the Saints had been driven from the town.

Which church-run thrift store chain, founded in 1938, is part of its welfare programme?

Deseret Industries opened late in the Great Depression to give jobless and older members paid work sorting and repairing donated goods, which its stores then sold at low prices.

Which book completes the church's four 'standard works' with the Bible, Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants?

The Pearl of Great Price began as an 1851 Liverpool pamphlet that mission president Franklin D. Richards compiled so British converts could read scarce writings of Joseph Smith; it became a standard work in 1880.

Which dessert brand gives the Latter-day Saint heartland around Utah its 'Belt' nickname?

Jell-O is so tied to church potlucks that Utah's Senate named it a favourite state snack in 2001, after Utahns campaigned to win back the title of top consumer.

Which Latter-day Saint, a former missionary in Spain, won 74 games of Jeopardy! in a row in 2004?

Ken Jennings served as a volunteer missionary in Madrid years before his record streak, and he later became the quiz show's host.

Which Wild West outlaw was born Robert LeRoy Parker to Latter-day Saint converts in Utah?

Butch Cassidy left home as a teenager and took his alias surname from Mike Cassidy, a cattle thief who had been his mentor on a dairy ranch.

In the Primary song 'Popcorn Popping', the blossoms that look like popcorn grow on which tree?

Apricot blossoms are the 'popcorn' in Georgia W. Bello's song, which children act out with improvised actions as they sing.

In the Book of Mormon, which brass ball with two spindles guided Lehi's family like a compass?

Liahona, the family's name for the ball, pointed the way only while they had faith and heeded it, and it stopped working when they rebelled at sea.

A Latter-day Saint congregation, called a ward, is led by an unpaid member with which title?

Bishop is a volunteer calling: he is chosen from among the ward's own members and serves without pay, usually for four to seven years.

Which night of the week do Latter-day Saint wards keep free of meetings for Family Home Evening?

Monday became the preferred night in 1970, though the idea goes back to a 1915 letter urging families to set aside a regular 'Home Evening'.

Which 'Empress of Soul', raised a Baptist, was baptised a Latter-day Saint in 1997?

Gladys Knight followed her son and daughter into the church, then created and directed the Saints Unified Voices gospel choir.

In the Book of Mormon, which son of Lehi builds a ship in the land of Bountiful?

Nephi builds the ship at God's command, and during the voyage his brothers tie him up, freeing him only after a storm drives them back.

Latter-day Saint farm boy Philo Farnsworth, born in a Utah log cabin, pioneered which invention?

Television's key idea came to him from ploughing: the back-and-forth rows suggested scanning an image as lines, and his first transmitted picture was one straight line.

In the Book of Mormon, which powerful man in Jerusalem keeps the brass plates that Lehi's sons go back for?

Laban's plates were a record of the Jews' laws, customs, history and lineage, which Lehi wanted his family to carry with them.

In the Book of Mormon, what is the name of Lehi's wife, who crosses the ocean with him?

Sariah famously complains to Lehi when she fears their sons have died on an errand, then gains her own testimony when they come back safely.

In the Book of Mormon, which prophet is burned to death after rebuking wicked King Noah?

Abinadi's words persuaded one of the king's own priests, Alma, who went on to become a prophet himself.

In the Book of Mormon, which prophet leads 2,000 young 'stripling warriors' and calls them his sons?

Helaman credits their survival to faith taught by their mothers: every one of the young soldiers is wounded, yet none is killed.

In the Book of Mormon, which ruler has a tower built so crowds camped in tents can hear him?

King Benjamin still could not be heard by everyone, so he had his words written down and sent out among those beyond the sound of his voice.

In the Book of Mormon, which Lamanite prophet preaches from a city wall as arrows miss him?

Samuel had already been rejected by the city once, so he returned and spoke from its wall, foretelling the signs of Christ's birth and death.

In Lehi's dream in the Book of Mormon, what do travellers hold to reach the tree of life?

An iron rod runs along the riverbank to the tree, and when the dreamer's sons ask what it means, they are told it is the word of God.

In the Book of Mormon, Ammon defends the flocks of which Lamanite king at the waters of Sebus?

Lamoni first has Ammon bound as a prisoner, then is so pleased with him that he offers a daughter in marriage; Ammon asks to be a servant instead.

Which early scribe to Joseph Smith lost the first 116 manuscript pages of the Book of Mormon?

Martin Harris was a farmer who had given $50 toward the translation; the pages had never been copied and are presumed destroyed.

Joseph Smith said he dug up the record behind the Book of Mormon from which hill in New York?

Cumorah is a drumlin, a hill shaped by glaciers, and it formerly hosted a large, free outdoor pageant each July.

Which weekday religion classes for Latter-day Saint teenagers began beside a Utah high school in 1912?

Seminary began beside a Salt Lake City high school; where church members are few, teenagers attend early-morning or home-study classes instead.

Which Latter-day Saint children's magazine, launched in 1902, shortened its title at the end of 1970?

The Friend was called The Children's Friend for nearly seven decades and was run by the church's Primary organisation.

Five to ten Latter-day Saint wards usually form which larger unit, led by its own president?

A stake borrows its name from an Old Testament image of a tent made firm by strengthening its stakes, and it works much like a diocese.

Which Utah state holiday on July 24 marks the first Latter-day Saint settlers' arrival in 1847?

Pioneer Day fills Utah with parades, fireworks and rodeos, and church members in other countries mark it too with songs, dances and potlucks.

Latter-day Saints are told which tribe of Israel they belong to during which rite of lifelong guidance?

A patriarchal blessing is given by an ordained patriarch, who lays his hands on the recipient's head, and is modelled on the blessings Jacob gave his sons before he died.

Which Latter-day Saint author and BYU graduate dreamed the idea for her 'Twilight' vampire novels?

Stephenie Meyer had no experience as an author before the series, and her membership of the church shaped the novels.

Which family group from Ogden, Utah, began as a barbershop quartet of Latter-day Saint brothers?

The Osmonds first sang at their weekly church services, were spotted performing at Disneyland, and topped the pop chart in 1971 with 'One Bad Apple'.

Which Latter-day Saint and former BYU player coached the Kansas City Chiefs to Super Bowl titles?

Andy Reid reached BYU almost by accident: its coach wanted his junior-college teammate and recruited him too, to help persuade the other player to come.

Which 2004 cult comedy set in Preston, Idaho, grew out of a short film by two BYU film students?

Napoleon Dynamite, its director said, was the name of a man he met on the streets of Illinois while serving as a missionary.

Which hotel chain grew from a 1927 root beer stand run by a returned Latter-day Saint missionary?

Marriott's founder passed through sweltering Washington on his way home from his mission and watched a pushcart of cold drinks sell out in minutes.

Which biblical name is given to the spectacle-like stones Joseph Smith said he used to translate?

Urim and Thummim was a later label: the phrase never appears in the Book of Mormon itself and was first linked to the spectacles in 1832.

In which New York village did printer E. B. Grandin publish the first edition of the Book of Mormon?

Palmyra was where Grandin had started as an apprentice printer at eighteen, at a newspaper office he went on to buy.

Which New Testament epistle's promise of wisdom to all who ask God led young Joseph Smith to pray?

James 1:5 so impressed the teenager that he went into the woods near his home and knelt for what he called his first vocal prayer.

In Latter-day Saint scripture, which star is described as nearest to the throne of God?

Kolob comes from an account of the stars in the Book of Abraham, and it gives its name to the hymn 'If You Could Hie to Kolob'.

In the Book of Mormon, what do the Zoramites call the high prayer stand that admits one person?

Rameumptom means 'the holy stand': worshippers climbed it one by one to offer the same prayer of thanks, then did not speak of God again until the next gathering.

In the Book of Mormon, which animals are listed beside elephants as useful to the Jaredites?

Cureloms are never described: the verse naming them only ranks them with elephants as the animals most useful to man.

Which language became the first other than English in which the Book of Mormon was printed, in 1851?

Danish came first: missionaries reached Denmark just after a new constitution granted freedom of religion, and their earliest converts were Baptists.

In the Book of Mormon, what does a Nephite commander call the banner made from his torn coat?

The title of liberty read 'In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children', and he raised it on a pole.

In the Book of Mormon, which leader gives his name to a secret band of robbers and assassins?

Gadianton took over a group first formed by Kishkumen, whose members swore a pact to keep an assassin's identity secret.

The Jaredites of the Book of Mormon leave the Old World at the time of which Old Testament event?

The Tower of Babel story has every nation's language confounded, but Jared's people are spared and later cross the sea in barges.

In the Book of Mormon, what do the Lamanite converts later called the people of Ammon do with their weapons?

They bury them as a sign of their covenant never to fight again; years later their sons, who had sworn no such oath, go to war in their place.

Who was the mother of the Latter-day Saint founding prophet, noted for a memoir of her son and his ancestors?

Lucy Mack Smith's memoir appeared as Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations; she outlived five of the six sons she raised to manhood.

In the Book of Mormon, which anti-Christ demands a sign from Alma and is struck dumb as a result?

Korihor then admits the devil had appeared to him as an angel and taught him what to say, and he is later trodden down and dies.

In the Book of Mormon, which officer enters an enemy camp and kills King Amalickiah with a javelin?

Teancum later let himself down over a city wall and killed Ammoron, the dead king's brother and successor, with a javelin, but he was caught and slain.

Which land serves as the Nephites' capital and religious centre for much of the Book of Mormon?

Zarahemla already had its own people when Nephite refugees arrived: the two societies united and the Nephite leader became king of them all.

Which flower's bulbs fed hungry Latter-day Saint pioneers and later became Utah's state flower?

Sego lily bulbs were a food the Shoshone taught the settlers to dig, and the plant was formally made the state flower in 1911.

In the Book of Mormon, which lawyer offers Amulek six onties of silver to deny that God exists?

Zeezrom is introduced as 'expert in the devices of the devil', and the same chapter sets out the Nephite money system just before his bribe.

Replicas of which Bertel Thorvaldsen marble of the risen Jesus were adopted by Latter-day Saint leaders?

Christus was carved for a Lutheran church rebuilt after a British naval bombardment; the church took up replicas to stress how central Jesus is to its teaching.

In the Book of Mormon, which 'exceedingly curious man' builds large ships that vanish in the west sea?

Hagoth built them near a narrow neck of land; one shipload set out northward a second time and 'were never heard of more'.

Which programme replaced home teaching and visiting teaching among Latter-day Saints on April 1, 2018?

Ministering deliberately plays down teaching: members are asked instead to consider prayerfully what the people assigned to them need, and to serve them.