The Book of Mormon (Musical)
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40 free The Book of Mormon (Musical) trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway in 2011 and became one of the biggest musical comedies of its era. Written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, it sends two mismatched young missionaries far from home, where their cheerful certainty meets a village with much bigger problems than salvation. This quiz covers the story and its characters, from Elder Price's ambitions and Elder Cunningham's tall tales to Nabulungi's hopes, along with the songs, the people who wrote and staged the show, the original cast and where they went next, and the productions and awards that followed. It is pitched for fans who know the cast album by heart and for anyone who has seen the show once and wants to test what stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries sent to a remote village in which African country?
Uganda
Uganda is where the earnest pair find villagers far more worried about famine, disease and a local warlord than about the message they have come to preach.
Q 02The LDS Church answered The Book of Mormon by buying adverts for its scripture in which publication?
The Playbill
The Playbill handed out at many venues has carried church adverts inviting people who have just seen the show to try reading the scripture itself.
Q 03Hasa Diga Eebowai in The Book of Mormon is a parody of which song from Disney's The Lion King?
Hakuna Matata
Hakuna Matata gets a dark twist: the villagers' cheerful-sounding phrase, sung to lift their spirits in hard times, turns out to be a curse aimed at God.
Q 04Which actor, later the voice of Olaf the snowman, was Broadway's first Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon?
Josh Gad
Josh Gad earned a Tony nomination as the hapless sidekick and left the show in June 2012, the year before his snowman reached cinemas.
Q 05Book of Mormon writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone are best known for creating which animated TV series?
South Park
South Park had already sent up the religion in a 2003 episode, eight years before its creators took the subject to Broadway.
Q 06After losing his faith in Act II of The Book of Mormon, Elder Price drowns his sorrows in which drink?
Coffee
Coffee is his rebellion of choice because Latter-day Saints are taught to avoid it, so for a model missionary a few cups count as hitting rock bottom.
Q 07At the start of The Book of Mormon, Elder Price prays to be sent on his mission to which Florida city?
Orlando
Orlando is his idea of paradise, so learning he is bound for Africa instead, paired with an awkward companion, is the first big shock of his mission.
Q 08Book of Mormon co-writer Robert Lopez went on to co-write the songs for which Disney animated hit?
Frozen
Frozen arrived two years after his Broadway smash, with songs Lopez wrote alongside his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Q 09Which state capital does Nabulungi imagine as an earthly paradise in her Act I solo in The Book of Mormon?
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City sounds like heaven to her after Elder Price promises a paradise on Earth, and she dreams of moving there with the whole village.
Q 10Which actor, later Elijah in HBO's Girls, originated Elder Price in The Book of Mormon on Broadway?
Andrew Rannells
Andrew Rannells earned a Tony nomination as the golden-boy missionary and shared in the Grammy won by the original cast album.
Q 11Which angel, guardian of the golden plates, joins Joseph Smith in The Book of Mormon's All-American Prophet?
Moroni
Moroni is the angel said to have watched over the plates buried near Smith's home, which is why statues of him stand atop many Latter-day Saint temples.
Q 12At which Broadway musical did Trey Parker and Matt Stone first meet Book of Mormon co-writer Robert Lopez?
Avenue Q
Avenue Q was Lopez's own puppet-filled hit; he spotted the pair in the audience in 2003, and over drinks they found they all wanted to write about Joseph Smith.
Q 13Which future Dear Evan Hansen star played Elder Cunningham in the Chicago production of The Book of Mormon?
Ben Platt
Q 21Which Star Trek officer joins Darth Vader and hobbits as Elder Cunningham's conscience in The Book of Mormon?
Lt. Uhura
Lt. Uhura scolds him along with Yoda and his own father as he mixes science fiction into scripture to stop the villagers walking out.
Q 22In his Act II solo in The Book of Mormon, Elder Price declares that God lives on which planet?
Kolob
Kolob comes from the Book of Abraham, where it is a star nearest the throne of God rather than his home, one of several beliefs the song stretches.
Q 23How do the villagers in The Book of Mormon say they always understood Elder Cunningham's invented stories?
As metaphors
The villagers took the tales as metaphors all along, which stuns Nabulungi, who had just told them the stories were untrue.
Ben Platt dropped out of Columbia University after seven weeks to honour his contract with the show, then took the role to Broadway in 2014.
Q 14Which late-night host spent much of a 2011 interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone praising The Book of Mormon?
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart raved about it on The Daily Show on March 10, two weeks before the production's official opening night on Broadway.
Q 15As the Mormon musical ends, Elder Cunningham's converts go door to door with which newly written scripture?
The Book of Arnold
The Book of Arnold is named for Elder Cunningham, whose improvised tall tales have become a faith of their own, with even the warlord joining the door-knockers.
Q 16Which district leader teaches the new arrivals to suppress upsetting thoughts in The Book of Mormon's Turn It Off?
Elder McKinley
Elder McKinley runs a mission that has yet to convert a single villager, and his coping advice becomes a full chorus-line number about repression.
Q 17Book of Mormon writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone owe their interest in the faith to growing up in which state?
Colorado
Colorado lies within the so-called Mormon corridor, so the pair grew up around church members long before they wrote a show about them.
Q 18Which Elder Cunningham number closes Act I of The Book of Mormon?
Man Up
Man Up arrives once Nabulungi tells him the villagers are finally willing to listen, pushing a born follower to take the lead.
Q 19Which actress won the 2011 Tony for Best Featured Actress as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon?
Nikki M. James
Nikki M. James was the only member of the cast to take home a Tony that night, even though three of her co-stars were nominated too.
Q 20Which O.J. Simpson defense lawyer torments Elder Price in his nightmare of Hell in The Book of Mormon?
Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie Cochran turns up among the damned beside Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler, all of them scolding Price for abandoning his mission companion.
Q 24Matt Stone described The Book of Mormon as a love letter to religion written by what kind of person?
An atheist
An atheist's love letter is how Stone summed it up: the show mocks church teachings while painting its missionaries as well-meaning optimists.
Q 25Which future star of FX's Atlanta made his Broadway debut in the original cast of The Book of Mormon?
Brian Tyree Henry
Brian Tyree Henry played the warlord known as the General, five years before finding television fame as the rapper Paper Boi.
Q 26At which Broadway venue did The Book of Mormon open in March 2011?
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, named for the playwright, saw the show break its weekly sales record 22 times in the first year alone.
Q 27Which boy-band singer was among the three finalists to play Elder Price in The Book of Mormon on Broadway?
Nick Lachey
Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees reached the last three with Grey's Anatomy actor T. R. Knight, but the part went to a Broadway regular instead.
Q 28In which city did The Book of Mormon's first North American tour begin previews before opening in Los Angeles?
Denver
Denver saw the tour first, in August 2012, four months earlier than planned; the official opening night followed at the Pantages Theatre.
Q 29The first Australian production of The Book of Mormon opened in 2017 at the Princess Theatre in which city?
Melbourne
Melbourne's run broke box-office records before it had even opened, and the same cast later took the show on to Sydney.
Q 30Which choreographer co-directed The Book of Mormon on Broadway with Trey Parker, sharing a Tony for Best Direction?
Casey Nicholaw
Casey Nicholaw came aboard after the original director left in 2010, and went on to stage Aladdin and Mean Girls on Broadway.