Book of Mormom basics
The Book of Mormon was burried in what hill?
The hill Cumorah
True or False
Joseph Smith was the oldest child in his family?
False.
Joseph was the 3rd oldest child of 11.
What is the name of the largest group of people talked about in the Bible?
The Jews
If you were born in 1830, what were your odds of surviving to age 5?
50/50
Half of all children died before age 5.
True or False; Joseph Smith was wrote the Book of Mormon?
False.
Joseph only ever read from the plates. It was other people that wrote down what he said.
The book of Mormon tells te story of how many groups of people?
3
Nephites
Jaredites
Mulekites
What was Joseph Smiths wifes name?
Emma Hale
Name the 1st and last books of the Bible?
1st Genesis last is Relevations
If you wee a woman in 1830 what were your odds of dying in childbirth?
1 in 10.
Having children in the past was incredibly dangerous.
Tre or False; There are no surviving copies of the original Book of Mormon transcript?
False.
The Book of Mormon transcript is still around but only parts of it. The complete printers copy still exists.
Joseph Smith was originally gong to ____ the first printed copies of the Book of Mormon
Sell
He nwas originally going to sell the books for about $1.75 each.
Joseph Smith jr. and his wife had how many chldren together?
11
6 died young and the rest grew to adults.
What was the name of the prophet that was swallowed by a "fish"?
Jonah
The average life span of an adult in the 1830's was?
35 years.
True or False
The book of Mormon was 1st printed in the Palmyra Gazette newspaper?
False.
The Book of Mormon was 1st prited as a book.
What was the name of the printer that agreed to print the first copies of the book of Mormon?
E.B. Granthin
How many of Joseph and Emmas children went with Brigham Young to Salt Lake?
None
After Joseph was assisinated Emma and all of her children stayed behind in Navoo.
How many years did Moses and the Jews wander in the desert?
40 years.
What was used for toilet paper in frointer life?
Rag on a stick
corn husk
corn cob
True or False:
No women helped transcribe the Book of Mormon?
False.
Emma Smith heped transcribe parts the book of Mormon. She was in fact Josephs 1st scribe.
How many copies of the Book of Mormon were originally printed?
5,000 copies were originally printed .
It is estimated that there are only about 500 - 700 of these originally copies that still exist.
After Joseph was killed Emma remaired, what was the name of the
Lewis Crum Bidamon
In the movie Indina Jones, what was the object that the Nazis were looking for AND what was inside it?
The Ark of the Covenant and inside were the 10 commandments.
in 1803 America doubled it's territory buy buying what? From who?
The Lousiana purchase from Napolean Bonaparte.
True or False
The church was founded on April 7th 1830?
False
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was founded on April 6th, 1830.