Thanks BenLurkin.
Posted on 01/12/2020 5:47:09 PM PST by BenLurkin
The controversy erupted during Friday evening’s episode, which included the category “Where’s that Church?”
A $200 clue stated: “Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity.”
Contestant Katie Needle quickly buzzed in, answering “What is Palestine?”
Host Alex Trebek responded, “no.”
Competitor Jack McGuire then buzzed in, answering: “What is Israel?”
His answer was deemed correct.
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Same! I believe I added something like, "Stick your anti-Semitic pseudo-geography in your ear, super boring Karen!"
LOL!
So you yell at the TV during Jeopardy! like I do!
Oh, absolutely. “Why didn’t you bet some money, you spineless wimp nerd?!? You deserve to lose!”
Ha Ha Ha!
We are kindred spirits.
A little "slant" called, "Historical Fact" -- well-documeted for over two thousand years.
The church memorializes an important, thoroughly-documented birth that occurred there, over two millenia ago -- in the Jewish region of Judæa. At that time, there was no such entity as "Palestine"
"Palestine" is a false Muslim humbug. Claiming otherwise is precisely as asinine as claiming that East Germany is, "USSR".
Thanks BenLurkin.
At the time of Jesus’s birth, Bethlehem was in the Roman province of Judea. Today, it is in the country of Israel. The category was about *countries* in which a church was located. Contestants and our in-house audience were getting tripped up by the need to name the *country*.
I could be a contestant this year: I auditioned last April. I haven’t heard anything yet, but you never know, and my mom is ready to pay for my plane ticket to Los Angeles. She would be the star of her apartment building in The Villages, FL, if I were on Jeopardy! All the old ladies have to rush home by 7:00 to watch.
I’ve been told I should go on Jeopardy!, but I’d never make it because I start cussing when I get something wrong (which is rare, BTW...).
They’re advertising a test very shortly. There’s no harm in taking it. I was surprised when I got an email saying I should go to Savannah to audition, because my nerd sons told me I got a lot wrong on the online test!
It was the Roman province of Judea up until AD 130.
After the Bar Kokhba revolt Rome wanted to strip the region of its Jewish identity and they renamed it Syria Palaestina.
For “built in the 300”s” correct answer would be “the Roman Empire” (under Constantine Magnus).
They wanted the modern country in which the church was located.
yes, LOL!!!
“Palestine” is a bogus term created by the Romans to shame the Jews. From the term Philistine, a name for a group of people that disappeared over 500 years earlier, the Romans renamed Israel after the Jews ancient enemies. There has never been a Palestinian language, nation, ethnic group, King, besides the Jews and Canaanites.
I was there and it is in Israel.
Palestine is about as authentic as Kwanza, Islam and Dianetics.
Made from whole cloth by kooks.
The category was explained as requiring the country. One contestant had to correct himself from California to the United States to avoid a wrong answer.
On j-archive.com this is listed on Curch of the Nativity question:
(Katie: What is Palestine?)(Alex: No.)
[NOTE: Katie's score displayed $4,600 at the end of the round after being ruled incorrect and $4,800 at the beginning of the next round, with no explanation. This clue caused a break in taping for judges' deliberation in which compliance officials were involved. A replacement clue, which Jack got correct, was played and recorded, but not included in the aired edit of the show.]
Or that Israel is on this Earth.
There isn’t, and never has been, a nation called Palestine. The people claiming to be Palestinian have no distinct language, culture or history (until 1948) as compared to the Arabs in neighboring countries. They are not a nation.
OTOH, Jerusalem has been the capital of the only Jewish nation for the last 3,000 years, even if others like the Romans, Turks or Arabs occupied it and prevented the active exercise of sovereignty by the Jews.
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