Test Yourself

Test your knowledge of Church history—past and present. The answers to the following five questions may be found [below].

1. When was the last time the Quorum of the Twelve presided at a general conference of the Church?

2. Which family had the largest number of children in the history of the Church?

3. What is the oldest meetinghouse continually in use in the Church?

4. How many families make up the Church? 350,000; 750,000; or 1,210,000?

5. Members of the Church were involved in which of the following historical events: Discovery of gold in California; conquest of Mount Everest; or first exploration of Antartica?

1. In 1951, when President George Albert Smith died shortly before general conference. President David O. McKay was then sustained as President in a solemn assembly on the final day of conference.

2. The James Layton and Heber C. Kimball families are tied, with 65 children in each family.

3. The oldest chapel is in Bountiful, Utah, in use since 1863.

4. There are 750,000 families in the Church.

5. Former members of the Mormon Battalion were with the James Marshall party when they discovered gold in California and set off the famed “Gold Rush of 1850.”

Illustrated by Preston Heiselt