Question: What pre-formatted durable power of attorney documents are provided by the Watch Tower Society to prohibit?
Answer: major blood components

Question: What can Jehovah's Witnesses' members specify on the canned legal forms from the WTS?
Answer: allowable fractions and treatments they will personally accept

Question: What cooperative arrangement did Jehovah's Witnesses establish?
Answer: Hospital Liaison Committees

Question: The Hospital Liaison Committees serve to bridge between hospitals, medical professionals and who?
Answer: individual Jehovah's Witnesses

Question: What term do Jehovah's Witnesses use for members actively involved in preaching?
Answer: publishers

Question: How many publishers did the Jehovah's Witnesses have as of August 2015?
Answer: 8.2 million

Question: How many congregations did the Jehovah's Witnesses have in 2015?
Answer: 118,016

Question: Over how many hours had Jehovah's Witnesses spent preaching and in "Bible study" activity in 2015?
Answer: 1.93 billion

Question: What do Jehovah's Witnesses their worldwide growth rate to be?
Answer: 1.5% per year

Question: Where do the officially published membership statistics come from?
Answer: those who submit reports for their personal ministry

Question: Only about half all Jehovah's Witnesses are actually considered what in the faith itself?
Answer: active

Question: What did a 2008 US Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey discover about Jehovah's Witnesses' retention rate?
Answer: low

Question: Only about what percentage of the people raised in the religion continue to identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: 37%

Question: What is the profession of James A. Beckford?
Answer: Sociologist

Question: When did Beckford study the Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: 1975

Question: What did Beckford classify the Jehovah's Witnesses organizational structure as being?
Answer: Totalizing

Question: What is the conviction that Jehovah's Witness leaders dispense absolute truth?
Answer: absolutism

Question: What is the term for Jehovah's Witnesses' rejection of certain secular requirements and medical treatments?
Answer: world indifference

Question: Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States ranked highest in people whose education extended no further than what?
Answer: high school graduation

Question: Compared to other religions, Jehovah's Witnesses have the highest frequency of doing what with the Bible outside of religious services?
Answer: reading

Question: What religion ranks highest in frequency of religious attendance? 
Answer: Jehovah's Witnesses

Question: Statistically, what is a Jehovah's Witnesses likely not to care about at all?
Answer: politics

Question: What do few Jehovah's Witnesses earn?
Answer: a graduate degree

Question: What has at times led to immense violence against Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: Political and religious animosity

Question: Why have Jehovah's Witnesses sometimes been imprisoned?
Answer: doctrine of political neutrality and their refusal to serve in the military

Question: Of the 20,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany in 1933, how many were later imprisoned?
Answer: 10,000

Question: What were Jehovah's Witnesses identified by in Nazi concentration camps?
Answer: purple triangles

Question: What countries ban the religious activities of Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: China, Vietnam and some Islamic states

Question: Who were Jehovah's Witnesses accused of intentionally provoking in the 1930s and 1940s?
Answer: authorities and other religions

Question: What authors have suggested Rutherford invited and cultivated opposition for the purpose of publicity?
Answer: Whalen, Harrison and Schnell

Question: What did Rutherford hope to convince members about the persecution from the outside world?
Answer: evidence of the truth of their struggle

Question: What did Watch Tower Society literature tell Jehovah's Witnesses they should never seek?
Answer: controversy

Question: What should a Jehovah's Witnesses prefer to paying fines?
Answer: jail

Question: What did Jehovah's Witnesses persistent legal challenges result in, in the United States?
Answer: reinforced judicial protections for civil liberties

Question: What is religious conduct protected from the interference of?
Answer: federal and state

Question: What right to abstain from do Jehovah's Witnesses exercise?
Answer: patriotic rituals and military service

Question: What do patients have the right to refuse?
Answer: medical treatment

Question: Where have cases in the Jehovah's Witnesses favor been heard outside of the U.S.?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who establishes the doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: the Governing Body

Question: What do the Jehovah's Witnesses religion not tolerate any of?
Answer: dissent

Question: What happens to members who disagree with the religion's teachings?
Answer: expelled and shunned

Question: Why should the counsel received from the Governing Body be trusted?
Answer: part of "God's organization"

Question: Who do Jehovah's Witnesses believe introduced independent thinking?
Answer: Satan the Devil

Question: What do former Jehovah's Witnesses members Heath and Gary Botting compare the culture of the religion to?
Answer: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four

Question: Who describes the Jehovah's Witnesses' leadership as being totalitarian? 
Answer: Alan Rogerson

Question: How do the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses cultivate a system of unquestioning obedience?
Answer: disparaging individual decision-making

Question: What do critics of the Jehovah's Witnesses accuse the religion's leaders of exercising over members?
Answer: "intellectual dominance"

Question: What did former Governing Body member Raymond Franz argue the methods employed by the religion were all elements of?
Answer: mind control

Question: What profession did Rodney Stark grow up to become?
Answer: Sociologist

Question: What statement does Stark make about the leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: "not always very democratic"

Question: How do Jehovah's Witnesses see themselves in regards to the power structure of the church?
Answer: "part of the power structure rather than subject to it."

Question: Another Sociologist, Andrew Holden, feels anyone who joins a movement such as the Jehovah's Witnesses has made a what?
Answer: informed choice

Question: Holden acknowledges that defectors are seldom allowed a what from the church?
Answer: dignified exit

Question: What is the New World Translation the most accurate translation of?
Answer: the Bibles most widely in use in the English-speaking world

Question: What do many Bible scholars assume the differences in the New World Translation are the result of?
Answer: religious bias

Question: BeDuhn clarifies that the differences are actually due to what?
Answer: greater accuracy

Question: The NW often errs on the side of what type of translation?
Answer: literal, conservative

Question: What insertion into the New Testament violates accuracy in favor of denominationally preferred expressions?
Answer: Jehovah

Question: Who do Watch Tower Society publications claim God has used?
Answer: Jehovah's Witnesses

Question: What have various Jehovah's Witnesses' publications made predictions about?
Answer: world events

Question: What does God use Jehovah's Witnesses for?
Answer: to declare his will

Question: What has God provided to Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: advance knowledge about Armageddon

Question: What had some of the failed predictions of Jehovah's Witnesses been presented as?
Answer: "beyond doubt"

Question: What does George D. Chryssides suggest the changing views and dates of the Jehovah's Witnesses can be attributed to changed understandings of?
Answer: biblical chronology

Question: What accusations does the Watch Tower Society reject?
Answer: that it is a false prophet

Question: What have Jehovah's Witnesses maintained we are living on the precipice of since their formation?
Answer: the end of time