Book of Mormon Trivia

[Vort]

You got the first correct answer, so I guess so.

Vort, when are you going to give up the answers of your other BoM quiz?

Done. Well, more or less.

[Wingnut]

Done. Well, more or less.

I like your response to my #14. It's a pretty cheap shot at a question to begin with, though.

[Vort]

I like your response to my #14. It's a pretty cheap shot at a question to begin with, though.

Hey, it's First Presidency level!

Doncha love how I asked about the Nephite Twelve at the "Quorum of Twelve" level? I'm so proud! Or I would be if I weren't so humble.

[pam]

Heyyyyy don't talk about the "other" thread on this thread. hahaha Just answer my question.

[pam]

Oh wait..never mind...it was answered..I missed it in all the conversation about the other thread. lol

[Wingnut]

Hey, it's First Presidency level!

Doncha love how I asked about the Nephite Twelve at the "Quorum of Twelve" level? I'm so proud! Or I would be if I weren't so humble.

I actually didn't notice that. Clever.

[Vort]

You two answer each other's questions too darn fast.

I threatened earlier this morning to leave off for work, which I guess I'm going to do now.

[Wingnut]

I should probably actually do something with my day, huh?

[pam]

Hey I raked some leaves earlier today..so does that qualify as having done something with my day?

[Vort]

Martin Harris was given a translation of the Book of Lehi on 116 pages of foolscap, which he lost or had stolen from him. If the Book of Lehi existed and were printed in our Book of Mormon, approximately (within say 25%) how many printed pages would it occupy?

[pam]

Large or small print? hahaha

[Vort]

Isn't large print in a bigger book, so the page count is the same? If not -- normal-sized print.

[pam]

Geez Vort..must you be so logical? lol

[Vort]

Geez Vort..must you be so logical? lol

:) Several people on this forum will be only too happy to inform you how deficient my logic is.

[pam]

I can't even take a guess on this one.

[Vort]

The Book of Mormon printer's manuscript contains about 463 pages. Today's Book of Mormon contains roughly 532 pages (iirc, which I probably do not). That works out to be around 1 1/6 typeset pages for each manuscript page. Now, I do not know for certain that the Book of Lehi was written on the same type of paper or at the same word density: One could surmise that the printer's manuscript might have been written more tightly than the original, and so (for example) a page of manuscript might only have produced a page of typesetting. I don't know how many pages the original contained, and unfortunately most of that has been destroyed.

But based on the above, I think it would be safe to guess that 116 pages of manuscript would have produced somewhere around 125 or so pages of typesetting. This number is fluid, depending on how many footnotes there would be and such. We can probably pretty safely guess at between 100 and 150 pages. A pretty good chunk, roughly the same length as our present Small Plates translation -- perhaps unsurprising, since it covers the same time period, albeit with a much different focus.

[Vort]

Two-parter:

• How long did the sons of Mosiah spend among the Lamanites?
• What brought them back to the Nephites?

[pam]

a. 14 years

b. To bring about safety of their Lamanite converts who were being persecuted they helped them settle in the Nephite land of Jershon and continued in their ministry.

[Vort]

a. 14 years

b. To bring about safety of their Lamanite converts who were being persecuted they helped them settle in the Nephite land of Jershon and continued in their ministry.

Perfect! Follow-up:

c. Given that Ammon, Aaron, Omner, and Himni spent a significant portion of their young adult lives among the Lamanites, did Mosiah have any grandchildren?

:)

[Vort]

Under the leadership of Zeniff and during the reign of Benjamin, a sizeable group of Nephites left Zarahemla in an attempt to return to "inherit" the land of Nephi. A couple of generations later, some men set out from Zarahemla in search of the descendants of these "lost" Nephites, by permission of Benjamin's son, king Mosiah.

Is there any evidence (aside from the bare fact that they were allowed to go) that any of these men might have had a position of special influence with the king?

[pam]

Perfect! Follow-up:

c. Given that Ammon, Aaron, Omner, and Himni spent a significant portion of their young adult lives among the Lamanites, did Mosiah have any grandchildren?

:)

24 of them?

[Connie]

Under the leadership of Zeniff and during the reign of Benjamin, a sizeable group of Nephites left Zarahemla in an attempt to return to "inherit" the land of Nephi. A couple of generations later, some men set out from Zarahemla in search of the descendants of these "lost" Nephites, by permission of Benjamin's son, king Mosiah.

Is there any evidence (aside from the bare fact that they were allowed to go) that any of these men might have had a position of special influence with the king?

Well, it appears that King Mosiah may have named one of his son's after the leader, Ammon. Is that any kind of evidence?

[Vort]

Well, it appears that King Mosiah may have named one of his son's after the leader, Ammon. Is that any kind of evidence?

It is to me, sister! It's perhaps significant to note that this was Mosiah's eldest son, almost certainly born before those men left Zarahemla. I would suppose that Ammon was an admired friend of king Mosiah II.

[Moksha]

Okay, if Captain Moroni Leaves Provo, Utah fully loaded with armor at 4:05 AM traveling at 15 MPH on I-80 and Pahoran leaves Palmyra, New York at 7:05 AM traveling 25 MPH on I-90, when would they meet and would they have time to stop in Des Moines to see the giant hairball?

[Connie]

It is to me, sister! It's perhaps significant to note that this was Mosiah's eldest son, almost certainly born before those men left Zarahemla. I would suppose that Ammon was an admired friend of king Mosiah II.

Hmmm, that never occurred to me. Probably because i always assumed Aaron was the oldest because he is the one the people want to be the next king. Do we know for certain that Ammon was the oldest?