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239 free Book of Mormon trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Book of Mormon trivia questions with answers. The Book of Mormon runs from Lehi's flight out of Jerusalem around 600 BC to Moroni burying the plates in the fifth century AD, and this quiz walks the whole arc: Nephi and the brass plates, the Liahona, the brother of Jared's sixteen stones, King Benjamin's tower, Abinadi before King Noah, Ammon at the waters of Sebus, the title of liberty, Samuel on the wall, and the Savior's visit at the temple in Bountiful. It also covers how the book reached print: the golden plates and Cumorah, the seer stone and the Urim and Thummim, Martin Harris and the 116 pages, Oliver Cowdery, the Three and Eight Witnesses, E. B. Grandin's Palmyra print shop, and how the chapters and verses got their numbers. Because plenty of people searching for this topic mean the Broadway show, the last few questions are clearly labelled as being about the 2011 musical. Questions range from Primary-class easy to seminary-scholar hard. Every answer was checked against the scripture text on churchofjesuschrist.org or a Wikipedia article and the source is shown under each explanation.
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Q 01What is the name of Lehi's wife, the mother of Nephi and his brothers?
Sariah
Sariah, Lehi's wife, complains bitterly when her sons are long away fetching the brass plates, then testifies that her husband is truly a prophet when they return (1 Nephi 5).
Q 02What are most of the fifteen books within the Book of Mormon named after?
Prophets
Prophets who kept the records give most of the fifteen books their names, from First Nephi to Moroni; Ether is the odd one out in time, the story of a people who arrived centuries before Lehi.
Q 03Which two older brothers repeatedly threaten Nephi's life on the journey?
Laman and Lemuel
Laman and Lemuel, Lehi's eldest sons, resent a younger brother who 'thinks to rule over us'; after their father dies they plot to kill Nephi outright, and he flees into the wilderness with all who will follow.
Q 04On their second attempt, what do Nephi and his brothers offer Laban for his record?
Their family's gold and silver
Their family's gold and silver: Laban wanted the treasure but not the trade, so he threw the brothers out and sent servants to kill them, and they fled, leaving it all behind (1 Nephi 3:22-26).
Q 05Which line does Nephi speak in 1 Nephi 3:7?
I will go and do
'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' is Nephi's answer when Lehi sends his sons back for Laban's record; his older brothers had just complained that it was 'a hard thing'.
Q 06What was the Liahona, found outside Lehi's tent one morning?
A brass ball with two spindles
A brass ball with two spindles, 'of curious workmanship': one spindle pointed the way the family should travel through the wilderness, and the Church's international magazine is named after it.
Q 07In Lehi's dream, what does the multitude cling to as they press through the mist of darkness?
A rod of iron
A rod of iron runs along the river bank to the tree with the white fruit (1 Nephi 8); those who never grasp it lose their way in the mist, and Nephi later tells his brothers the rod is the word of God.
Q 08What name did Lehi's family give the sea where Nephi built his ship?
Irreantum
Irreantum, which Nephi says means 'many waters' (1 Nephi 17:5); camped on its shore, he made bellows from animal skins and smelted ore into tools before he could begin the ship.
Q 09Which prophet's writings does Nephi copy at length in 2 Nephi chapters 12 through 24?
Isaiah
Isaiah: 2 Nephi 12–24 reproduces Isaiah chapters 2–14 from the brass plates, and Nephi says his soul delights in the words of Isaiah (2 Nephi 25:5).
Q 10Which book bridges the small plates of Nephi and the abridged history that follows them?
Words of Mormon
Words of Mormon is an editor's aside: writing centuries later, with his people nearly destroyed, Mormon explains that he found the small plates among the records and added them to his own abridgment.
Q 11Which record-keeper opens his single-chapter book with a 'wrestle' before God while hunting in the forest?
Enos
Enos, son of Jacob, prayed all day and into the night while hunting before hearing that his sins were forgiven (Enos 1:2–5); his son Jarom took the plates after him.
Q 12In the Book of Mormon, King Benjamin's crowd was too large to hear him inside the temple, so he spoke from what?
A tower
A tower was built because the crowd overflowed the temple walls (Mosiah 2:7); even then not everyone could hear, so Benjamin had his words written down and sent out among the people.
Q 13Which prophet was burned to death after preaching to King Noah and his priests?
Abinadi
One priest, Alma the Elder, believed him and went on to baptize followers in secret at the Waters of Mormon. Mosiah 17 says he sealed 'the truth of his words by his death'.
Q 21Captain Moroni made the 'title of liberty' by writing his rallying words on what?
A piece of his torn coat
A piece of his torn coat (Alma 46:12): Moroni rent his coat and wrote 'In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children', then fastened it to a pole.
Q 22In the Book of Mormon's Book of Helaman, the secret criminal band that plagues the Nephites takes its name from which man?
Gadianton
Gadianton took over the band Kishkumen had formed after murdering a chief judge, promising its members power if they put him in the judgment seat; when the plot failed he led them into the wilderness.
Q 23Where did Samuel the Lamanite stand to preach after the Nephites refused to let him through the gates?
Q 14Alma the Younger was trying to destroy the church with which companions when an angel stopped them?
The sons of Mosiah
The sons of Mosiah: the king's four sons were with Alma when the angel struck him helpless, and all five then travelled the land trying to repair the injuries they had done to the church.
Q 15In the Book of Mormon, how did Ammon, tending King Lamoni's flocks, fight off the raiders at the waters of Sebus?
Cutting off their arms
Cutting off their arms with his sword as they raised their clubs; the other servants carried the severed arms to the king as proof, and six raiders fell to Ammon's sling.
Q 16In the Book of Mormon, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies covenanted never to take part in war again and did what with their weapons?
Buried them
Buried them: having covenanted not to fight, they later moved to Nephite lands as the 'people of Ammon', and their sons, who had never taken the oath, became Helaman's young army.
Q 17How many 'stripling' sons of the people of Ammon marched to war under Helaman?
2,000
2,000 young men marched under Helaman (Alma 53:22); their mothers had taught them that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them, and though many were wounded, none died in battle.
Q 18In Ammonihah, the lawyer Zeezrom offers Amulek how many onties of silver to deny the existence of God?
Six
Six onties of silver (Alma 11:22). Alma 11 lays out the Nephite money system first, and an onti was the largest silver piece, 'as great as them all'. Zeezrom later repented and was healed by Alma.
Q 19In Alma 32, Alma compares the word of God to what for the Zoramite poor?
A seed
A seed (Alma 32:28): Alma was speaking on a hill to people barred from the synagogues they had built because of their coarse clothing, and told them to plant the word and see whether it swells.
Q 20Moroni, made chief captain at just twenty-five, gave his men what edge over Zerahemnah's Lamanite army?
Body armor
Body armor: Moroni's men wore breastplates, arm-shields and head-plates, while most of Zerahemnah's far larger army fought nearly naked and was 'exceedingly afraid' at the sight (Alma 43:19-21).
On the wall
On the wall of Zarahemla (Helaman 13:4): the people threw stones and shot arrows at him but could not hit him. He is unusual in the book as a Lamanite prophet preaching to Nephites.
Q 24Samuel the Lamanite gave which sign for Christ's death?
Three days of darkness
Three days of darkness, from Christ's death until he rose, with thunder, earthquakes and broken rocks (Helaman 14:20-21); 3 Nephi 8 reports a darkness so thick that no candle or fire could be lit.
Q 25In 3 Nephi, the resurrected Christ appears to a multitude gathered around the temple in which land?
Bountiful
The land Bountiful (3 Nephi 11:1), where survivors of the great destruction had gathered at the temple; Christ tells them they are the 'other sheep' he spoke of in the Gospel of John.
Q 26In 3 Nephi 11, what power does Christ give Nephi and eleven other disciples?
To baptize
To baptize: Christ gave the twelve the exact words to say, told them to immerse each convert, and added that there should be no more disputes among them about how it is done (3 Nephi 11:21-28; 12:1).
Q 27About how many Nephite dead does Mormon 6 count, listing commanders fallen 'with their ten thousand each'?
230,000
230,000: Mormon counts twenty-three commanders, himself and his son among them, whose ten thousands each fell, and says only twenty-four of his people stood with him the next day.
Q 28Mormon 9:32 says the record was written in characters called what, 'handed down and altered by us'?
Reformed Egyptian
Reformed Egyptian (Mormon 9:32). Nephi earlier says he wrote in 'the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians' (1 Nephi 1:2); no script of that name is known outside the book.
Q 29The Book of Ether tells of the Jaredites, who left the Old World at the time of which biblical event?
The Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel: Jared's family left 'at the time the Lord confounded the language' (Ether 1:33), after his brother prayed that their own speech be spared, and crossed the sea in eight sealed barges.
Q 30What were the brother of Jared's sixteen stones meant to do?
Light the barges
Light the barges: the vessels were built 'tight like unto a dish', with no windows or fire allowed, so he smelted sixteen stones, two for each, and saw the Lord's finger as it touched them.