200 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
She complains bitterly when her sons are gone so long fetching the plates, then testifies that her husband is truly a prophet when they return. Abish is a Lamanite servant woman and Isabel a harlot in Alma; Sherem is a man.
Q 02How many books make up the Book of Mormon, from First Nephi through Moroni?
Fifteen
Four of them carry the name Nephi. Third Nephi was still printed as 'III Nephi' in the 1879 edition and only became 'Third Nephi' in 1920.
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
Nephi says it in reply to his father's request that the sons go back for the plates. The other three phrases all come from later books, two of them from the same verse in 2 Nephi.
Q 06What was the Liahona, found outside Lehi's tent one morning?
A brass ball with two spindles
One spindle pointed the direction the family should travel through the wilderness. The Church's international magazine and a high school in Tonga are both 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
It runs along the bank of a river to the tree with the white fruit, opposite a 'great and spacious building'. Lehi's wife, Sam and Nephi eat the fruit; the two eldest brothers refuse.
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 09In 2 Nephi 2:25, 'Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have' what?
joy
The verse comes from Lehi's farewell teaching to his son Jacob and is one of the book's most-cited statements on the Fall.
Q 10Which is the only book in the volume not titled a 'book', a single 18-verse chapter?
Words of Mormon
It links the small plates of Nephi to the rest of the record and briefly summarises King Benjamin's reign. Enos, Jarom and Omni are also one chapter each but carry 'The Book of' in their titles.
Q 11Which record-keeper opens his single-chapter book with a 'wrestle' before God while hunting in the forest?
Enos
He was the son of Jacob and prayed all day and into the night before hearing that his sins were forgiven. His son Jarom took the plates after him.
Q 12Because the crowd was too large to hear him inside the temple walls, King Benjamin spoke from what?
A tower
The speech begins in Mosiah chapter 2 and includes the line that serving your fellow beings is serving your God. Benjamin then handed the kingship to his son Mosiah.
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
The words were 'In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children.' A banner copying it was carried by rioters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Q 22The secret criminal band that plagues the Nephites in Helaman is named after which man?
Gadianton
He took over the group Kishkumen had formed after assassinating the chief judge Pahoran, promising the band 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
Q 14After an angel rebuked him, Alma the Younger lay unable to move or speak for how long?
Three days and nights
He later described seeing God on his throne during that time. He went on to become the first elected chief judge of the Nephites as well as their high priest.
Q 15How did Ammon, shepherding for King Lamoni, fight off raiders at the waters of Sebus?
Cutting off their arms
The other servants carried the severed arms in to the king as proof. Ammon slew only the leader with his sword; six others fell to his sling.
Q 16The Anti-Nephi-Lehies swore never to fight again and did what with their weapons?
Buried them
They later moved to Nephite lands and took the name 'people of Ammon'. 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
Helaman wrote that they had been taught by their mothers that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them, and that 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
Alma 11 lays out the whole 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
If it is good, he says, it will 'begin to swell within your breasts' and eventually grow into a tree bearing fruit. The sermon is one of 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
He introduced body armour to Nephite soldiers and led them against Zerahemnah's Lamanite-Zoramite force at the river Sidon. He shares his name with the much later prophet who buried the plates.
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, and Donny Osmond played him in the church's outdoor pageant in 1997.
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 visit follows 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 27Which prophet abridged the large plates of Nephi and narrates from Mosiah onward, giving the book its name?
Mormon
He said he was named after the land of Mormon where Alma founded the church, and was told by Ammaron at about age ten where the records were hidden.
Q 28After 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 29Mormon 9:32 says the record was written in characters called what, 'handed down and altered by us'?
Reformed Egyptian
Nephi earlier says he wrote in 'the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians'. No scholarly reference work recognises the script, which is why apologists compare it to hieratic or Demotic.
Q 30The Book of Ether tells of the Jaredites, who left the Old World after what event?
The fall of the Tower of Babel
God led them across the ocean in eight enclosed 'barges' lit by stones the brother of Jared had asked the Lord to touch. Their civilisation collapsed around the time Lehi's family arrived.