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190 free Book of Mormon trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 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 02How many books make up the Book of Mormon, from First Nephi through Moroni?
Fifteen
Fifteen books run from First Nephi to Moroni; four of them carry the name Nephi (1, 2, 3 and 4 Nephi), and five of them are only a single chapter long.
Q 03Which two older brothers repeatedly threaten Nephi's life on the journey?
Laman and Lemuel
During the ocean voyage they tie Nephi up until a storm drives the ship backward and they relent. Nephi is the fourth of six sons.
Q 04Nephi and his brothers return to Jerusalem to obtain what record from a man named Laban?
The brass plates
Laban rebuffs the brothers twice and seizes the family fortune before Nephi finds him drunk in the street. Nephi's own record says Laban's sword had a hilt of pure gold and a steel blade.
Q 05Which sentence, spoken by Nephi in 1 Nephi 3:7, is one of the most-quoted lines in the book?
I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded
'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' is Nephi's reply when Lehi asks his sons to return for the brass plates. 'Adam fell' is 2 Nephi 2:25 and 'wickedness never was happiness' is Alma 41:10.
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). Sariah, Sam and Nephi eat the fruit; Laman and Lemuel refuse to come.
Q 08What name did Lehi's family give the sea where Nephi built his ship?
Irreantum
Nephi translates the name as 'many waters'. Sidon is a river near Zarahemla, Shelem is the mount the brother of Jared climbed, and Ripliancum is a body of water in the Jaredite record.
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 single-chapter book links the small plates of Nephi to Mormon's abridgment?
Words of Mormon
Words of Mormon, 18 verses long, is where Mormon explains adding the small plates of Nephi to his abridgment and briefly summarises King Benjamin's reign. Enos, Jarom and Omni are also single chapters.
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 erected so the multitude could hear; the speech begins in Mosiah chapter 2, says serving your fellow beings is serving your God, and ends with Benjamin handing the kingship to his son Mosiah.
Q 13Which prophet was burned to death after preaching to King Noah and his priests?
Abinadi
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 assassinating the chief judge Pahoran, promising members government posts if he became chief judge himself.
Q 23Where did Samuel the Lamanite stand to preach after the Nephites refused to let him through the gates?
On the wall
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 14After an angel rebuked him, Alma the Younger lay unable to move or speak for how long?
Three days and nights
Three days and nights: Alma recalls 'for the space of three days and three nights could I not open my mouth, neither had I the use of my limbs' (Alma 36:10), then rose and preached repentance.
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): if it is good, Alma says, it will 'begin to swell within your breasts' and grow into a tree bearing fruit. The sermon is among the book's best-known passages on faith.
Q 20How old was Moroni when the Nephites appointed him chief captain of all their armies?
Twenty-five
Twenty-five: Alma 43:17 says Moroni was 'only twenty and five years old' when appointed chief captain. He armed his men with breastplates and shields and beat Zerahemnah's Lamanite-Zoramite force at the river Sidon.
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 prophesied Christ would be born in how many years, with a night as bright as day?
Five
The sign was 'one day and a night and a day, as if it were one day'. He also foretold three days of darkness at the crucifixion, which 3 Nephi later describes.
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), after a great storm, earthquake and three days of darkness. Christ tells them they are the 'other sheep' he spoke of in the Gospel of John.
Q 26How many disciples did Christ choose and give power to baptize during his visit in 3 Nephi?
Twelve
3 Nephi 19 names them, including Nephi, his brother Timothy whom he had raised from the dead, and Kumen and Kumenonhi. Three of them asked to remain on earth until Christ's return.
Q 27After the Nephites' final battle, how many of his people did Mormon say stood with him the next morning?
Twenty-four
Mormon 6 lists commander after commander who had 'fallen with his ten thousand', which puts the dead at 230,000 or more. His son Moroni was among the survivors.
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 after what event?
The fall of the Tower of Babel
The fall of the Tower of Babel (Ether 1:33), when languages were confounded. God led them across the ocean in eight enclosed barges lit by stones the brother of Jared had asked the Lord to touch.
Q 30How many stones did the brother of Jared carry up Mount Shelem for the Lord to touch?
Sixteen
Sixteen, two for each of the eight vessels (Ether 3:1). They were 'white and clear, even as transparent glass', and when the Lord touched them the brother of Jared saw his finger.