Q 01/05

As a law clerk, LDS apostle D. Todd Christofferson worked for the judge who presided over which scandal's trials?

A) Iran–Contra

B) Watergate

C) Teapot Dome

D) Pentagon Papers

Answer · why

B) Watergate

Watergate landed on Judge John Sirica's desk soon after Christofferson began clerking for him. The two were the first people outside the White House t...

Q 02/05

Which LDS apostle spent three decades as an airline pilot, making captain at just 29?

A) Robert D. Hales

B) Joseph B. Wirthlin

C) Neil L. Andersen

D) Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Answer · why

D) Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Dieter F. Uchtdorf first trained as a fighter pilot in Big Spring, Texas, where he won the trophy for the best student pilot in his class. He left the...

Q 03/05

Which LDS apostle, a pioneering heart surgeon before his call, later led the church past age 100?

A) Russell M. Nelson

B) Gary E. Stevenson

C) David B. Haight

D) James E. Faust

Answer · why

A) Russell M. Nelson

Russell M. Nelson built his own heart-lung machine in Salt Lake City and used it for Utah's first open-heart operation. He died in 2025 at 101.

Q 04/05

Which LDS apostle sat in Eisenhower's cabinet for eight years without giving up his church calling?

A) J. Reuben Clark

B) Mark E. Petersen

C) Ezra Taft Benson

D) Hugh B. Brown

Answer · why

C) Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson ran the Department of Agriculture through both of Eisenhower's terms with the church president's blessing. An earlier apostle of the ...

Q 05/05

Which LDS apostle spent thirty years in the U.S. Senate and co-sponsored a notorious 1930 tariff?

A) Reed Smoot

B) Moses Thatcher

C) George Q. Cannon

D) Anthon H. Lund

Answer · why

A) Reed Smoot

Reed Smoot faced a four-year fight over whether an apostle could sit in the Senate at all. His tariff raised almost 900 import duties and is widely re...