Q 01/05

The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries sent to a remote village in which African country?

A) Kenya

B) Nigeria

C) Uganda

D) Ghana

Answer · why

C) 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 pr...

Q 02/05

The LDS Church answered The Book of Mormon by buying adverts for its scripture in which publication?

A) The Playbill

B) The New Yorker

C) New York Post

D) The Village Voice

Answer · why

A) 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 03/05

Hasa Diga Eebowai in The Book of Mormon is a parody of which song from Disney's The Lion King?

A) Circle of Life

B) Hakuna Matata

C) Be Prepared

D) He Lives in You

Answer · why

B) 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 G...

Q 04/05

Which actor, later the voice of Olaf the snowman, was Broadway's first Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon?

A) Josh Gad

B) Jason Segel

C) Dan Fogler

D) Skylar Astin

Answer · why

A) 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 05/05

Book of Mormon writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone are best known for creating which animated TV series?

A) Family Guy

B) Futurama

C) Rick and Morty

D) South Park

Answer · why

D) South Park

South Park had already sent up the religion in a 2003 episode, eight years before its creators took the subject to Broadway.