Q 01/05

Which communist country got an LDS temple in 1985, the only one ever behind the Iron Curtain?

A) Romania

B) Bulgaria

C) East Germany

D) Czechoslovakia

Answer · why

C) East Germany

East Germany surprised church leaders in 1978 by suggesting the temple itself, after years of travel limits that kept members from reaching one abroad...

Q 02/05

Locals nicknamed the spired Washington D.C. Temple after a land in which classic film?

A) The Wizard of Oz

B) Sleeping Beauty

C) Alice in Wonderland

D) Lost Horizon

Answer · why

A) The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz stuck as a nickname, Oz, after schoolgirls promoting their 1974 production hung a message from the story on a bridge over the nearby ...

Q 03/05

How long did pioneers take to build the Salt Lake Temple, using stone quarried twenty miles away?

A) Five years

B) Ten years

C) Twenty years

D) Forty years

Answer · why

D) Forty years

Forty years separated the first cornerstone in 1853 from the dedication, a date picked so the building would be finished four decades to the day after...

Q 04/05

Early guidebooks compared the Laie Hawaii Temple, dedicated in 1919, to which famous monument?

A) The Parthenon

B) The Taj Mahal

C) The Alhambra

D) Angkor Wat

Answer · why

B) The Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal comparison helped turn the spireless temple into a tourist stop on Oahu. It was the first LDS temple built outside the contiguous United...

Q 05/05

The baptismal font in the Salt Lake Temple rests on the backs of twelve of which sculpted animals?

A) Oxen

B) Lions

C) Lambs

D) Eagles

Answer · why

A) Oxen

Oxen carry the font because the great bronze basin of Solomon's Temple, described in 2 Chronicles, stood on twelve of them.