Book of Mormon Trivia Questions

1 Nephi

1. What five-word phrase is used 1424 times in the Book of Mormon?
2. In what language did Nephi write the book of Nephi?
3. What three women are named in the Book of Mormon (not counting bilical characters)?
4. Why did Nephi and his brothers return to Jerusalem from the Red Sea (the first time)?
5. Why did Nephi murder Laban?
6. How did Nephi kill Laban?
7. Why did Nephi and his brothers return to Jerusalem from the Red Sea the second time?
8. In Lehi's dream, who in his family ate from the happy fruit tree?
9. Why did Nephi make his plates?
10. Nephi, Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Zoram all got married on the same day. Who were the lucky brides?
11. Nephi broke his bow in the wilderness. What was it made of?
12. How did Lehi's and his family find their way through the wilderness?
13. Why did Lehi murmur against God?
14. What did Lehi and his family eat during their eight-year trip to Bountiful?
15. Who made the compass that Nephi used to steer his ship to the promised land?
16. When Lehi's family arrived in the promised land, what did they call it?
17. According to Zenock, Neum, and Zenos, when Jesus is crucified there will be a sign to the people who live on islands. What will that sign be?
18. According to 1 Nephi 22:13, who will get drunk on their own blood?

    2 Nephi

19. How many sisters did Nephi have?
20. Why did God blacken the skin of Nephi's brothers?
21. How did God make Nephi's brothers loathsome to the Nephites?
22. How did the descendants of Nephi's brothers become an idle people, full of mischief?
23. What did God say would happen to those who mixed their seed with Nephi's cursed brothers?
24. Who were the first Christians?
25. According 2 Nephi 29, why will fools reject the Book of Mormon?

    Jacob

26. Why did the Nephites hate the Lamanites?
27. What did Jacob say would happen to the Nephites if they didn't repent?
28. Sherem asked Jacob for a sign from the Holy Ghost that Jesus would come 500 or so years later. God gave him a sign. What was it?
29. What is the only French word in the Book of Mormon?

    Enos

30. According to Enos, what was the only thing that many of the Lamanites would eat?

    Jarom

31. Why did Jarom write the book of Jarom?
32. For whom did Jarom write his book?
33. Why didn't Jarom include his prophecies and revelations in his book?
34. According to Jarom, who loved to murder and drink the blood of beasts?

    Omni

35. Why did Jarom tell his son Omni to write on plates?
36. What character in the Book of Omni called himself a wicked man?
37. What Book of Mormon author wrote only one verse?

    Mosiah

38. What language did King Benjamin teach his sons?
39. In 124 BCE, how many of King Benjamin's people took on the name of Christ?
40. What is the greatest gift a man can have?
41. What percent of the people's ziff did King Noah tax?
42. What wicked king became a wine-bibber?
43. What Book of Mormon character had a shining face like Moses's on Mount Sinai?
44. What Book of Mormon character read Isaiah 53 from the King James Version of the Bible more than 1750 years before the KJV existed?
45. Who said four times in four consecutive verses, "How beautiful upon the mountains were their feet"?
46. How did God save the people of Alma from the Lamanites?
47. What character in the Book of Mosiah was struck by an angel so he couldn't speak or move his hands?
48. What did Alma Sr. do when he found out that the angel struck Alma Jr. so he couldn't speak or move his hands?

Alma

49. What preacher in the Book of Alma said that everyone would be saved?
50. What was the name of the Lamanites king who succeeded Amalickiah?
51. What was the name of the man who built ships that Nephites sailed on the west sea?
52. What Book of Mormon politician lost the election, but his followers made him king anyway?
53. Who killed Amlici with a sword (and God's help)?
54. What Book of Mormon character interpreted the writing on the wall of the temple that was written with God's finger?
55. Who was the greatest person who ever lived?
56. Why didn't Alma save his followers from being burned to death?
57. What Book of Mormon hero killed six Lamanites with a sling, cut off the arms of many more, and then carried the arms back to show the king?
58. Who did Ammon say had a faith that was greater than that of any Nephite?
59. According to the Book of Mornon, who was the first person to speak in tongues?
60. What were the Lamanites who were converted by Aaron and his brothers called after their conversion?
61. What did the king of the Anti-Nehi-Lehies name his son?
62. Why did the Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords in the ground?
63. Who are the Lamanites still hunting for?
64. Whose soul separated from his body (as it were) because he was so joyful?
65. What man is called Anti-Christ in the Book of Mormon?
66. Korihor asked for a sign. What sign did Alma (and God) give him?
67. What did the Nephites call the ball, director, or (being interpreted) compass that God made for them?
68. God made a stone that shines in the dark for his servant. What was the servant's name?
69. What was the name of the harlot that Coraintor went after?
70. How did Captain Moroni punish those who refused to fight for their country?
71. How many draft-dodging king-men did Moroni's army kill for refusing to fight for their country?
72. Who killed Amalickiah by thrusting a javelin through his heart while he was sleeping?
73. Who became the Lamanite king after Amilickiah died?
74. How many Lamanite POWs were killed by the Nephites?
75. How many stripling soldiers were in Helaman's little band?
76. How many of Helaman's band of stripling soldiers died in battle?
77. How were the king-men who refused to fight for their country and the cause of freedom punished by Maroni and Pahoran?
78. Who killed Ammmoron by thrusting a javelin near his heart while he was sleeping?
79. What man killed two kings by thrusting a javelin through (or near) their hearts while they was sleeping?
80. What man built large ships that Nephites sailed away on the west sea?

Helaman

81. Who killed Pahoran Jr. but couldn't be found because he was in disguise?
82. Who learned through disguise about the secret plan to kill Helaman?
83. According to Helaman 3, what material did the Nephites use to build their houses?
84. According to Helaman 3:16, what happened when the Nephites mixed with the Lamanites?
85. What two guys in the Book of Helaman stood in the midst of a fire but were not harmed?
86. Who said the Nephites would be dog food if they don't repent?
87. Who in the Book of Mormon was taken by the Spirit and conveyed away?
88. According to the Book of Helaman, who did God give the power to smite the earth with famine, pestilence, and destruction?
89. Who did God say these words to in the Book of Mormon?
90. Who asked God to send a famine that killed thousands of people?
91. According to Helaman, what must God do to get people to remember him?
92. What Book of Mormon character delivered a sermon while standing on a wall?
93. What Book of Mormon prophet referred to God as our great and Eternal Head?
94. According to the Book of Mormon, how long was it dark over the whole earth after Jesus died?
95. What Book of Mormon prophet predicted in 6 BCE that Jesus would be born in five years and that the night before he was born would be as bright as day?
96. When the people threw stones and shot arrows at Samuel, they couldn't hit him. Why?

3 Nephi

97. Who announced his own birth on the night before he was born?
98. What did God do to the Lamanites who joined the Nephites in 3 Nephi 2?
99. How do robbers gird themselves in the Book of Mormon?
100. Who raised his brother from the dead?
101. According to the Book of Mormon, how long was it dark after Jesus died?
102. How many people did Jesus kill in the Book of Mormon?
103. What happened to Jesus's Nephite disciples after he blessed them?
104. Who gave the Nephites wine to drink?
105. What was the new commandment that Jesus gave the Nephites in 3 Nephi 23?
106. What book of the Bible did the Father tell Jesus to give to the Nephites?
107. How much of the things Jesus said to the Nephites did Mormon write down?
108. At what age did Jesus say the nine mortal disciples would die?
109. How many of the Nephite disciples did Jesus say would never die?
110. Why didn't Mormon write the names of the three immortal disciples?

4 Nephi

111. Why did Ammaron hide the sacred records?

Mormon

112. What did Mormon call the record of the things that he'd seen and heard?
113. How old was Mormon when Ammaron asked him to (14 years later) find the sacred recrods?
114. Mormon was the author of the Book of Mormon. What was his father's name?
115. Why, according to Mormon, did the Holy Ghost stop coming on the Nephites?
116. Why did God shut Mormon's mouth?
117. In Mormon 3, who said he'd make sure all of the Nephites would be killed?
118. Why did the Lamanites become a dark, filthy, and loathsome people?
119. What did Mormon say the Lamanites would believe in if they believed in the Bible?
120. Why doesn't God do miracles anymore?
121. What happens to people who don't believe?
122. What are the signs of a true believer?
123. What language would the Book of Mormon had been written in if the plates had of been larger?
124. Moroni said the plates wouldn't have had any mistakes if they had of been written in what language?
125. Why was the Book of Mormon written?

Ether

126. Who killed more than two million Jaredites?
127. Who was Ether's grandfather?
128. Whose seed did God promise would become the greatest nation on earth?
129. Why did the Lord chasten the brother of Jared for three hours?
130. What were built exceedingly tight like unto a dish?
131. Who saw the Lord's finger?
132. What human saw every other human that has lived or ever will live?
133. When the Jaredites discovered America in 2200 BCE, how many barges did they use?
134. Why could no water hurt the Jaredite barges?
135. How many people were aboard the eight Jaredite barges?
136. How many children did Jared's brother have?
137. How many children did the righteous king Orihah have?
138. What woman danced to get her grandfather's head on a platter?
139. What is the most wicked and abominable thing to God?
140. Who even saw the Son of Righteousness?
141. How long did Emer's son, Coriantum, live?
142. What caused the greatest destruction ever seen on earth?
143. Who couldn't hide his finger from the sight of Jared's brother?
144. Who moved the mountain of Zerin?

Moroni

145. What did Mormon say would happen to people who believe in infant baptism??