April 2011 General Conference Jeopardy
Trivia
100 Where are the three new Temples going to be built? (Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA, Meridian, Idaho, USA, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
200 How many missions and full time missionaries? 340 missions and 52,225 full time missions
300 Who was Elder Christofferson’s mission president?
400 How many temples in operation and under construction or planned ? 134 in operation 26 under construction or planned 200 pt bonus what % of members live within 200 miles of a temple? (85%)
500 How many languages is conference delivered in? (94)
Stories
100 Sis Stevens: A member of the 70 visited an Area in Hong Kong where the members were struggling to provide for their temporal needs. He told the bishop that the people needed to pay their tithing. The Bishop was worried about how to accomplish this. Who did he talk to first, and what happened? (Children. It worked!)
200 Gonzalez told a story about a kid who went on a mission – despite the fact that his family told him they would not be his family anymore if he went. With a sad heart, he went anyway. When it was time for him to return home, what happened? (His mom asked him to stay out longer because they were receiving so many blessings. And today he is a stake Patriarch.)
300 Quentin L. Cook spoke about the “incredible” women of the church. He told about some YW leaders who found a purse after an activity and looked inside for some identification. Before they found the identification, they found several other items. Name three. (FTSOY, notebook w/scriptures, cake recipe, breath mints, soap, lotion)
400 What Story did Elder Ballard use to illustrate the concept that the gospel is simple, even though we try to make it complicated? (The gold prospector.)
500. Tell your favorite conference story, who told it, and the gospel principle it illustrated.
Quotes
100 Perry: “The Old Testament is a study of _________&_________ The New Testament is focused on…____________.” ( the life and influence of the only man who came into mortality with dual citizenship in heaven and on earth; our Savior and redeemer, Jesus Christ.)
200 Packer: “If someone is looking for a church that requires very little_______ ___ ____ ____ _____. (This is not the one.)
300 According to Oaks, what is the worldly quartet? (Property, prominence, pride and power.)
400 Who said, “To become as He is, we must also do the things he did. . . . To-be and to-do are inseparable. As interdependent doctrines they reinforce and promote each other.” (Elder Lyn G. Robbins)
500 Oaks: Desires dictate our________ (priorities). ___________(Priorities) shape our _______(choices) and our __________(choices) determine our ________(actions).
Welfare
100 What anniversary on the welfare program is it? (75th)
200 Who started the Welfare program? (Heber J Grant w/ counselors J Ruben Clark & David O McKay) Burton’s talk
300 The Welfare program or concept has had other names in times past. What are these names? (Law of Consecration and United order.)
400 Who said, “The prophetic welfare plan is not merely an interesting footnote in the history of the church. The principles upon which it is based defines who we are as a people. It is the essence of who we are as individual disciples of our Savior and exemplar, Jesus the Christ.” (Bishop David Burton)
500 Origional name of the church welfare program in 1936? (church security plan)
Analogies
100 Uchdorff said gaining a testimony often comes a bit at a time and is like what? (putting together the pieces of a puzzle.)
200 Who are the “bedlamites” that Elder Holland referred to? (the ones causing bedlam at FHE) (Children!)
300 Bednar talked about two different ways of having light in our lives. What were the two ways, and what point was he trying to illustrate? (Light switch and sunrise. Revelation)
400 Paul V. Johnson said, “The only way to see the view is to make the climb,” as he referred to a favorite hike in Logan canyon. How did this relate to life or the gospel? (going through difficulties before blessings—many examples from scriptures and church history) also , you can’t have the blessings unless you have the trial)
500 What is the cafeteria approach? (pick and choose what commandmants to keep) Nelson
600 Uchdorf was too busy talking about ??? and so there were no aviation analogies this time. (not waiting around for huge spiritual experiences to give us a testimony) (I know this is an extra question, but I thought of it at the last minute, and I didn't want to erase any of the other good questions!)
Pain and Suffering
100 Johnson said: We want more than someone just to tell us, “Well. You’re done. Instead we want to hear the Lord say, ________________ (“Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”)
200 Kent F Reichard gave his whole talk about this subject. He introduced the topic by telling about his profession. What did he do? (surgeon)
300 What were some of Paul’s light afflictions – as spoken of by Paul V Johnson? (Beaten stoned shipwrecked, imprisoned.)
400 Boyd K. Packer told of a young man whose wife died after childbirth because of an infection the doctor had brought from a previous patient. The young man was very angry. His stake president talked to him and said, ____? (Leave it alone)
500 What did Christofferson suggest are purposes of diving chastening? (persuade to repent, refine and sanctify, redirect life’s course to what god knows is a better path for us.)
Bonus question for the girls: A man was going to go steal corn from his neighboor’s field and his son was posted as the look out. The man looked all around him, and didn’t see anyone. But then the boy said, Dad< ____________________ (you forgot to look up!)
Bonus question for the boys: There was a couple that argued a lot and wanted to get divorced. But Pres. Monsoon got a call at 2:00 AM and this couple wanted him to come over right then and help them. While he was there he had the inspiration to have them do what? (go witness a sealing.)
