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Where was the first temple built outside of the United States?
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Cardston, Alberta
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Who ordained Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery to the Aaronic Priesthood?
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John the Baptist
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What 1879 Supreme Court decision distinguished between religious belief, e.g. polygamy, and religious practice?
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Reynolds v. United States
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What repentant Book of Mormon character became the subject of two novellas (1889, 1896), a play (1902), and a feature film (1931)?
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Corianton
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What drink became a popular Mormon substitute for coffee in the twentieth century?
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Postum
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Who has been the oldest serving Church President?
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Russell M. Nelson
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What did Utah women do before any other group of women in the United States, including Wyoming?
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Vote
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What is Utah’s official state snack and a cornerstone of Mormon cuisine?
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JELL-O
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What was the name of the company of men Joseph Smith led to Missouri in 1834 to alleviate persecution of Mormon towns?
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Zion's Camp
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What was the name of a “white Lamanite” found buried by that group of men?
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Zelph
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Who is the most famous character created in the late nineteenth-century anti-Mormon literature craze?
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Sherlock Holmes
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What name did Mormons give to the place where Joseph Smith received the Golden Plates?
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The Hill Cumorah
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What event was held there nearly every year from 1937 to 2019?
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The Hill Cumorah Pageant
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What chemical substance is not forbidden by the Word of Wisdom but is often still avoided by Mormons?
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Caffeine
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What type of instrument was created by bandleader Alvino Rey?
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Pedal steel guitar
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What science-fiction franchise was created by Glen A. Larson and features elements of Mormon cosmology and Church organization?
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Battlestar Galactica
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Who is the President of the Aaronic Priesthood in each ward?
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The Bishop
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What general authority office, in existence since the early Church, was discontinued in 1979?
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The Presiding Patriarch
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What is the longest book within the Book of Mormon?
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Alma
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What was the first language outside of English that the Book of Mormon was translated into?
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Spanish
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What are the two most famous companies founded by Nolan Bushnell? (name either)
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Atari / Chuck E. Cheese
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Who reorganized the Relief Society in Utah and served as its first president there?
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Eliza R. Snow
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What young German man was excommunicated from the Church then beheaded by the Nazis in 1942 for his opposition to Hitler?
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Helmuth Hübener
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What was the original name of the book that became the Doctrine and Covenants?
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The Book of Commandments
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Who was the only British-born President of the Church?
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John Taylor
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What item saved his life on June 27, 1844?
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His pocket watch
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What were the home and visiting teaching programs replaced by in 2018?
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Ministering
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What young woman may have secretly been Joseph Smith’s first plural wife?
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Fanny Alger
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What cultural event involved teenagers traveling to different meetinghouses to present short plays?
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Road shows
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Who did Joseph Smith speculate had been taken from the earth or wandered towards the North Pole?
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The Lost Ten Tribes
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Who is referred to as an elect lady in Doctrine and Covenants 25:3?
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Emma Smith
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What was she commanded to compile in that same revelation?
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Hymns
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What major event in California history happened after being first publicized to the rest of the United States by a Mormon newspaper?
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The Gold Rush
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What is the name of the largest polygamous colony in Mexico, founded in 1886 in response to anti-polygamy legislation in the U.S.?
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Colonia Juarez
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Who, with his wife, lost 116 pages of the original Book of Mormon manuscript?
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Martin Harris
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What literary franchise was written by Stephenie Meyer?
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Twilight
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What was the name of the 1857 conflict between the federal government and Utah Territory that presaged the coming Civil War?
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The Utah War
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In what Vermont town was Joseph Smith born?
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Sharon
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What animated film franchise was created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio and included aspects of their faith?
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Despicable Me
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What is the oldest continually operational temple (except for temporary renovations)?
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St. George, Utah
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Where did a group of Mormons kill at least 120 members of a California-bound wagon train?
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Mountain Meadows
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Who was the only person executed for that event?
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John D. Lee
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What city founded by Joseph Smith did he claim meant “beautiful” in Hebrew?
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Nauvoo, Illinois
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What Salt Lake City building did Frank Lloyd Wright call one of the architectural masterpieces of the world?
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The Salt Lake Tabernacle
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What was the Mormons’ original desired name for Utah Territory?
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Deseret
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What Church President testified to Congress that he had not received any revelations while in office?
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Joseph F. Smith
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What did he later see in a vision shortly before his death?
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The Spirit World
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What was the Church’s organization for teenagers from 1869 until the 1970s?
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The Mutual Improvement Association
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What historian led a decade of intense academic study at the Church History Department that became known as “Camelot”?
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Leonard J. Arrington
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What Secretary of the Home Department investigated Mormon missionaries for sedition in 1910, ultimately allowing them to remain in the UK?
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Winston Churchill
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What animal nearly destroyed the crops in Salt Lake City in 1848, forever entering Mormon folklore?
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Mormon cricket
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What Republican presidential candidate’s campaign was tanked when he said he had been “brainwashed” about the Vietnam War?
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George Romney
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What Church President worked to overhaul the Church’s media presence in the 1990s and 2000s?
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Gordon B. Hinckley
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What major ad and Internet public relations campaigns did he launch? (name either)
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I'm a Mormon / Mormon Messages
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Where was the Church’s first temple built?
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Kirtland, Ohio
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What country’s capital do critics say possibly gave Joseph Smith the name of an angel?
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Comoros
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In what city did missionaries arrive on July 20, 1837, the first to preach outside of North America?
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Liverpool
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In what century does the narrative of the Book of Mormon conclude?
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400s
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In what Illinois town were Joseph and Hyrum Smith killed?
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Carthage
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Who is the only person raised as a Mormon to serve as a head of state?
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Jacinda Ardern
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What architectural element, preserved by the Smithsonian, gave its name to a twentieth-century magazine and annual symposium?
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Sunstone
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What fictional bouncy substance was invented by author and screenwriter Samuel W. Taylor?
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Flubber
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What are Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris often collectively known as?
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The Three Witnesses
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What cheesy casserole dish is often made for Church functions in Utah?
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Funeral potatoes
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What military unit marched 2,100 miles as part of the Mexican-American War but never engaged in a major battle?
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The Mormon Battalion
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What is the basic unit of Church organization and Mormon society, begun among pioneers in Nebraska and brought into full use in Utah?
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The ward
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What organization inspired much of the temple endowment ceremony and the markings on the temple garments?
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Freemasons
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What was publically disclosed for the first time by Orson Pratt in 1852?
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Polygamy
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What invention by scientist Harvey Fletcher revolutionized the film, television, and music industries?
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Stereo
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What animals were brought to southern Utah in the 1870s to unsuccessfully create a new industry?
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Silk worms
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How many wives is Brigham Young believed to have had throughout his life?
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56
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What Biblical character, along with the city he led, does Mormon scripture claim was translated directly to heaven without dying?
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Enoch
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What does the Word of Wisdom claim tobacco is good for?
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All sick cattle
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What was the common phrase “Mind your own business” known as in the 1800s?
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The Mormon Creed
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What former Mormon directed the films Harold and Maude, In the Heat of the Night, and Being There?
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Hal Ashby
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What Mormon invented television in 1927?
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Philo T. Farnsworth
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What is the fourth and smallest book of standard works of Mormon scripture?
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The Pearl of Great Price
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What book within that scripture contains controversial portions of drawings on papyrus?
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The Book of Abraham
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What Church President encouraged Mormons to “lengthen their stride” and "do it”?
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Spencer W. Kimball
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Many Mormons have believed that the people of what area are descended from the people of Hagoth in the Book of Mormon?
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Polynesia
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Up to 120 tons of what has been stored under Brigham Young University’s football stadium?
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Dinosaur bones
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What popular food item did Oregon farmer F. Nephi Grigg invent in 1953?
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Tater tots
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What objects did Joseph Smith claim were ancient and translated a small portion of, only to have them later revealed as a hoax?
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The Kinderhook Plates
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What free Black woman lived with Joseph Smith's family, walked as a pioneer to Utah, and advocated for racial and gender equality within Mormonism?
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Jane Manning James
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What did many pioneer companies use to cross the plains in the 1850s and 60s, despite the Willie and Martin companies' tragic events in 1856?
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Handcarts
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What attempt at egalitarian communal living was practiced in Mormon towns like Orderville?
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The United Order
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What did Joseph Smith buy four of from traveling exhibitor Michael Chandler in July 1835?
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Mummies
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What group of people were excommunicated in rapid succession in September 1993?
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The September Six
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What gunsmith revolutionized firearms with his single-shot rifle and gas-operated machine gun?
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John M. Browning
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What author and leader led Utah’s suffragists and worked nationally with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
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Emmeline B. Wells
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Who has been called “the apostle Paul of Mormonism” thanks to his prodigious writing and missionary travels?
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Parley P. Pratt
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What organization did the Church first affiliate with in 1910, its first year of existence, and adopt Church-wide by 1913?
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The Boy Scouts of America
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What Missouri governor issued an 1838 executive order that the Mormons be killed or driven from the state?
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Lilburn W. Boggs
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What portion of the Doctrine and Covenants was removed and de-canonized in 1921?
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The Lectures on Faith
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What Church President was the first since Joseph Smith to be clean shaven?
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David O. McKay
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What program, introduced by apostle Harold B. Lee, seeks to regiment Church doctrine and programs?
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Correlation
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What Democrat held the highest level of office out of all Mormons in the U.S. government?
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Harry Reid
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What single-word name was eventually adopted for the Church's efforts to relieve economic suffering during the Great Depression?
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The Welfare Program
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What creature have many Mormons believed is the Biblical figure Cain, from an 1835 description by apostle David Patton?
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Bigfoot
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What book by apostle Bruce R. McConkie was intended as a comprehensive compendium of Mormon doctrine, but has largely fallen out of favor?
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Mormon Doctrine
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