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A Quiz of the "Uncorrelated Facts" related to The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  1. What was Joseph Smith up to before he started translating the BoM and founding the church? Did he get into any trouble for that?
  2. How many first vision accounts are there? How are they different?
  3. How has the Church portrayed, in official art, the translation of the BoM? How did JS actually do it? What role did the golden plates play? How does this relate to his pre-church days?
  4. What is a seer stone? What did the church teach about Joseph Smith and seerstones prior to ~2000? When did the first photograph of the Jospeh Smith’s seerstone surface from the church?
  5. What 2 works of 19th century literature is the BoM most similar to? How are they similar? How significant, percent-the-same, are the similarities compared to other literature of the time? How much access did JS likely have to these texts?
  6. What are the kinderhook plates? How did JS do at translating them?
  7. Did the witnesses of the BoM see the physical plates?
  8. Name 3 anachronisms in the BoM.
  9. Name 4 pieces of archeological evidence
require 'rrobots'
class Robutt
include Robot
def tick events
turn_radar 1 if time == 1
turn_gun 2 if time % 1
if events['robot_scanned'].empty?
accelerate 2