Early Life & Calling
Joseph Smith was born in which town/state?
✅ Answer (question-form): “What was Sharon, Vermont?”
100: The “first” heavenly event Joseph Smith described is called the what?
✅ Answer: “What is the First Vision?”
100: What were the “golden plates” used to translate?
✅ Answer: “What is the Book of Mormon?”
100: What is meant by “restoration” in the gospel sense?
✅ Answer: “What is God restoring His church and authority again?”
100: In what year was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints organized?
✅ Answer: “What was 1830?”
200: In what year did Joseph Smith receive the first vision?
✅ Answer: “What was 1820?”
200: In the First Vision, what did Joseph say happened to him when he prayed?
✅ Answer: “What was that he was visited by Heavenly beings?”
200: Joseph Smith received the plates from an angel who is commonly called Moroni. What is Moroni’s role?
✅ Answer: “What was he the messenger/angel who directed Joseph to the plates?”
200: What did Joseph Smith and others eventually receive through heavenly messengers?
✅ Answer: “What is the priesthood?”
200: Who wrote the early church manuscript of the translation as Joseph dictated?
✅ Answer: “Who was Oliver Cowdery?”
300: What significant heavenly beings did Joseph Smith say he saw in the First Vision?
✅ Answer: “Who were God the Father and Jesus Christ?”
300: What book/guide did Joseph later say helped interpret what he was learning?
✅ Answer: “What is the Bible?”
300: What were the tools called that Joseph used to help translate the plates?
✅ Answer: “What are the Urim and Thummim (or interpreters) / seer stone tools?”
300: Who restored the Aaronic Priesthood to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery?
✅ Answer: “Who was John the Baptist?”
300: What is the name of the place where Joseph and the church were first formally established?
✅ Answer: “What is Fayette/Manchester, New York (the early church area)?”
400: What did Joseph Smith say he was seeking at the time of the First Vision?
✅ Answer: “What was which church was true?”
400: What teaching is strongly emphasized by the Restoration that contrasts with “creeds” or “man-made doctrine”?
✅ Answer: “What is that God can reveal truth again?”
400: The plates were buried for centuries before being found. Who hid them according to tradition?
✅ Answer: “Who was the prophet Moroni?”
400: Who restored the Melchizedek Priesthood?
✅ Answer: “Who was Peter, James, and John?”
400: What church publication eventually became a major outlet for doctrine and news?
✅ Answer: “What is the Times and Seasons / Messenger and Advocate / other early periodicals?”
500: What did Joseph Smith learn about joining churches at that time?
✅ Answer: “What was that the churches of the day were not true?”
500: Why is the First Vision considered foundational to the Restoration?
✅ Answer: “What is that it revealed God is active and accessible?”
500: What is the name of the angel who appeared to Joseph on multiple occasions related to the plates?
✅ Answer: “Who is Moroni?”
500: What did priesthood restoration enable the church to do?
✅ Answer: “What is to perform ordinances with divine authority?”
500: What event helped establish the church as a recognized religious body?
✅ Answer: “What is the organization of the church in 1830?”