Answer: The angel Moroni appeared to Smith one night and described them
In the LDS Church's "Joseph Smith--History," (abbreviated hereafter as JSH) Smith gave the date and described praying for forgiveness for his minor sins in bed that night. He told of seeing the Angel Moroni appear before him in a brilliant white light and wrote that Moroni "said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang. He also said that the fulness of the everlasting Gospel was contained in it, as delivered by the Savior to the ancient inhabitants..." (JSH 1:27-34)
From Quiz: Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon
Answer: a man dressed in white
Lehi saw a man who was dressed in white. The man then asked Lehi to follow him.
1 Nephi 8:5
"And it came to pass that I saw a man, and he was dressed in a white robe; and he came and stood before me."
From Quiz: Lehi's Dream
Answer: Land of Ishmael
Alma 17:19
"And Ammon went to the land of Ishmael, the land being called after the sons of Ishmael, who also became Lamanites."
Ammon and his brothers split up when they reached the Lamanite lands. Ammon went to the land of Ishmael.
From Quiz: Ammon and the Lamanites
Answer: 15
There are fifteen different books. The are, in this order, First Nephi, Second Nephi, Jacob, Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon, Mosiah, Alma, Helaman, Third Nephi, Fourth Nephi, Mormon, Ether, and Moroni.
From Quiz: The Book of Mormon
Answer: Abish
She had been converted on account of a vision that her father had. (Alma 19:16)
From Quiz: ABCs of the Book of Mormon
Answer: the Lamanites
At this point, the Nephites have been completely destroyed, leaving Moroni alone among enemies determined to hunt him down and kill him. He writes these last things and includes a few epistles of his father, Mormon.
The end of Moroni 1:4 reads, "...but I write a few more things, that perhaps they may be of worth unto my brethren, the Lamanites, in some future day, according to the will of the Lord."
From Quiz: The Book of Moroni
Answer: John the Beloved
Nephi sees an apostle who he later reveals is John. He is the one ordained to write many of the things that will happen in the end of the world. See 1 Nephi 14:18-22,27.
From Quiz: 1 Nephi 12 - 2 Nephi 4
Answer: Lehi (father) and Sariah (mother)
Most people probably think that Nephi meant that his parents were righteous by calling them "goodly" parents. While Lehi and Sariah were undoubtedly righteous, it's also possible that Nephi was referring to their many possessions. Lehi is introduced in 1 Nephi 1:4, and Sariah in 1 Nephi 2:5.
From Quiz: 1 Nephi Chapters 1-3
Answer: Moroni
Moroni summarized the 24 plates found clear back in the days of King Mosiah. Answer found in Ether 1:1.
From Quiz: Ether Chapters 1-7
Answer: He prophesied their chief judge's death
The other answers may be similar to other scripture stories.
From Quiz: Helaman Chapters 8-12
Answer: Lehi
Sariah and Lehi are husband and wife. Their sons are Laman, Lemuel, Nephi, and Sam. The righteous ones are Nephi and Sam. Righteous means upright, just, virtuous, honest, true, etc.
From Quiz: Book of Mormon
Answer: Smith said he recognized where to dig from a vision showing the place
Smith wrote: "I went to the place where the messenger [Moroni] had told me the plates were deposited;" but he added: "and owing to the distinctness of the vision which I had had concerning it, I knew the place the instant that I arrived there." (JSH 1:50)
He was referring to the vision he reported upon Moroni's first visit: "While he [Moroni] was conversing with me about the plates, the vision was opened to my mind that I could see the place where the plates were deposited, and that so clearly and distinctly that I knew the place again when I visited it." (JSH 1:42)
From Quiz: Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon
Answer: Aaron, Ammon, Omner, Himni
Mosiah 27:34 lists these four sons of Mosiah. The angel appeared to them in Mosiah 27:11. Alma was with the sons of Mosiah when they were converted, and they all later became missionaries who did a lot of good for the church.
From Quiz: People in the Book of Mormon
Answer: Nephi and Sam
Nephi and Sam were two of Lehi's sons. Lehi was happy for Nephi and Sam as they were righteous and were striving to follow the commandments of God.
1 Nephi 8:3
"And behold, because of the thing which I have seen, I have reason to rejoice in the Lord because of Nephi and also of Sam; for I have reason to suppose that they, and also many of their seed, will be saved."
From Quiz: Lehi's Dream
Answer: He was tied up and taken to the king
Alma 17:20
"And as Ammon entered the land of Ishmael, the Lamanites took him and bound him, as was their custom to bind all the Nephites who fell into their hands, and carry them before the king; and thus it was left to the pleasure of the king to slay them, or to retain them in captivity, or to cast them into prison, or to cast them out of his land, according to his will and pleasure."
From Quiz: Ammon and the Lamanites
Answer: Ishmael
1 Nephi 7:2 - "And it came to pass that the Lord commanded [my father] that I, Nephi, and my brethren, should again return unto the land of Jerusalem, and bring down Ishmael and his family into the wilderness."
Laban was the man who had the Plates of Brass (1 Nephi 3:3).
Zoram was Laban's servant, who willingly went into the wilderness with Nephi (1 Nephi 4:35).
Jacob is one of Nephi's younger brothers (1 Nephi 18:7).
From Quiz: The Book of Mormon
Answer: Bow
His first bow was made of steel. When that broke he made one out of wood. Makes you wonder why his brothers didn't make new bows when theirs "lost their springs." (1 Nephi 16:8)
From Quiz: ABCs of the Book of Mormon
Answer: laying on of hands for the Gift of the Holy Ghost
After baptism in today's church, a person is confirmed a member and given the Gift of the Holy Ghost. When Christ was in Jerusalem, the Saints did not have the Holy Ghost. They received it after his death.
When Christ visited the Americas, he instructed his disciples: "Ye shall call on the Father in my name, in mighty prayer; and after ye have done this ye shall have power that to him upon whom ye shall lay your hands, ye shall give the Holy Ghost; and in my name shall ye give it, for thus do mine apostles." (Moroni 2:2)
From Quiz: The Book of Moroni
Answer: shocked them
The Lord threatened Laman and Lemuel that if they touched Nephi, he would wither them like a reed, but since they didn't touch Nephi, that never occurred. See 1 Nephi 17:53.
From Quiz: 1 Nephi 12 - 2 Nephi 4
Answer: Egyptian
Moroni says that he wrote in Reformed Egyptian. It never says what Nephi used. By that time it had probably changed because they had been isolated for so long. 1 Nephi 1:2 reads "Yea, I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians."
From Quiz: 1 Nephi Chapters 1-3
Answer: the tower of Babel and the confounding of human language
People were trying to get to heaven by building a tower. The Lord confounded their language, and people were scattered across the earth. The Jaredites were led to America. Answer found in Genesis 11:9 and Ether 1:33.
From Quiz: Ether Chapters 1-7
Answer: 5
A trifle, I know, but this site is about trivia, after all.
From Quiz: Helaman Chapters 8-12
Answer: an account . . . of the ministry of my people
The genealogy of Nephi's ancestors is contained in the book of Lehi and in the brass plates. The other two descriptions are of Nephi's large plates. See 1 Nephi 9.
From Quiz: 1 Nephi Chapters 4-12
Answer: Kishkumen
Coriantumr was the leader of the Lamanite army, and killed Pacumeni, not Pahoran II. Paanchi may have had a part in the assassination plot, but without doubt did not personally kill Pahoran II. See Helaman Chapter 1, Verse 9.
From Quiz: Helaman Chapters 1-3
Answer: A breastplate and the Urim and Thummim
After prying open the stone box, Smith reported: "I looked in, and there indeed did I behold the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate." (JSH 1:52) Smith had said Moroni predicted those things would be in the box. During his first vision, he recalled Moroni saying, about the contents: "Also, that there were two stones in silver bows--and these stones, fastened to a breastplate, constituted what is called the Urim and Thummim..." (JSH 1:35)
From Quiz: Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon
Answer: in his sixteenth year
Mormon 2:1-2 says that he was in his sixteenth year when he went at the head of the Nephite armies.
From Quiz: People in the Book of Mormon
Answer: many hours
Lehi says he travelled in the mists for many hours. Apparently he began to worry and begged the Lord that he would deliver him from these mists.
1 Nephi 8:8
"And after I had traveled for the space of many hours in darkness, I began to pray unto the Lord that he would have mercy on me, according to the multitude of his tender mercies."
From Quiz: Lehi's Dream
Answer: To let him marry his daughter
Alma 17:24
"And it came to pass that king Lamoni was much pleased with Ammon, and caused that his bands should be loosed; and he would that Ammon should take one of his daughters to wife."
The king was obviously very impressed with Ammon and offered up one of his daughters.
From Quiz: Ammon and the Lamanites
Answer: 1 Nephi 8
1 Nephi 8: 2-35
Nephi also had the same vision, which is in 1 Nephi 11.
From Quiz: The Book of Mormon
Answer: Coriantumr
He is mentioned in passing in the book of Omni. He lived with the people of Zarahemla for "nine moons." For the rest of his story you have to read Ether. (Omni 1:21)
From Quiz: ABCs of the Book of Mormon
Answer: Isaiah
Mark is an unlikely pick because he lived many years after Nephi. The others are possibilities, but Nephi devotes over ten chapters to Isaiah, and none to the others. See 1 Nephi 19:23.
From Quiz: 1 Nephi 12 - 2 Nephi 4
Answer: Jerusalem
The Book of Mormon begins in Jerusalem, but most of it takes place in the Americas. 1 Nephi 1:3
From Quiz: 1 Nephi Chapters 1-3
Answer: for not calling upon the name of the Lord
The Lord spoke to Jared in a cloud for 3 hours about it! Answer found in Ether 2:14.
From Quiz: Ether Chapters 1-7
Answer: The love of God
The great and spacious building was the pride of the world; the scriptures were the iron rod; the mist of darkness was the temptations of the devil. See 1 Nephi 11:21-22
From Quiz: 1 Nephi Chapters 4-12
Answer: Cezoram
It is unclear whether Nephi was voted out of office or whether he voluntarily gave it up. See Helaman 5:1.
From Quiz: Helaman Chapters 3-7
Answer: Coriantumr
Coriantumr, who was the leader of the lamanite armies, threw him against a wall. See Helaman Chapter 1, Verse 21.
From Quiz: Helaman Chapters 1-3
Answer: 'Now it came to pass.....'
Yep! It's 'Now it came to pass....'
From Quiz: Book of Mormon
Answer: He left them there and returned to the place once each year to meet Moroni
Joseph Smith claimed he was not allowed to have the contents at first: "I made an attempt to take them out, but was forbidden by the messenger [Moroni], and was again informed that the time for bringing them forth had not yet arrived, neither would it, until four years from that time; but he told me that I should come to that place precisely in one year from that time, and that he would there meet with me, and that I should continue to do so until the time should come for obtaining the plates." (JSH 1:53) Smith said he did not remove the contents to his home until the four years were up, in 1827.
From Quiz: Bringing Forth the Book of Mormon
Answer: was never seen again among the Nephites
Helaman 16:7-8 states that Samuel began to prophecy among his own people (the Lamanites) and the Nephites never heard anything more of him.
From Quiz: People in the Book of Mormon
Answer: he wanted his family to eat the fruit, too
As Lehi loved his family very much, the first thing he thought of was sharing the fruit with them, wanting them to feel the joy he felt.
1 Nephi 8:12
"And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit."
From Quiz: Lehi's Dream
