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‘Jeopardy!’ Criticized for Stating That the Church of the Nativity Is in Israel
KTLA ^ | 01/12/2020

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chat; churchofthenativity; godsgravesglyphs; israel; jeopardy; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; religion; waronterror
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To: left that other site
I saw that and cheered!

Same! I believe I added something like, "Stick your anti-Semitic pseudo-geography in your ear, super boring Karen!"

21 posted on 01/12/2020 6:51:05 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: Tax-chick

LOL!

So you yell at the TV during Jeopardy! like I do!


22 posted on 01/12/2020 6:51:56 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

Oh, absolutely. “Why didn’t you bet some money, you spineless wimp nerd?!? You deserve to lose!”


23 posted on 01/12/2020 6:53:05 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: Tax-chick

Ha Ha Ha!

We are kindred spirits.


24 posted on 01/12/2020 6:55:38 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; BenLurkin
"I concluded that perhaps there was some slant to things of which I wasn't aware. "

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".

25 posted on 01/12/2020 7:00:36 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias | "Islam": Allah's useful idiots | Brennan & 0b0z0: Islam's useful idiots)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.

26 posted on 01/12/2020 7:03:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: TXnMA

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*.


27 posted on 01/12/2020 7:05:32 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: left that other site

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.


28 posted on 01/12/2020 7:07:08 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: left that other site

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...).


29 posted on 01/12/2020 7:08:19 PM PST by real saxophonist (Everything I Play Gone Be Funky, From Now On)
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To: real saxophonist

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!


30 posted on 01/12/2020 7:10:09 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: montag813; raybbr

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.


31 posted on 01/12/2020 7:17:47 PM PST by Pelham (RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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To: BenLurkin; Honorary Serb

For “built in the 300”s” correct answer would be “the Roman Empire” (under Constantine Magnus).


32 posted on 01/12/2020 7:29:49 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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To: lightman

They wanted the modern country in which the church was located.


33 posted on 01/12/2020 7:31:51 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The diversity cult is destroying the very foundations of our civilization." ~ Heather MacDonald)
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To: a fool in paradise

yes, LOL!!!


34 posted on 01/12/2020 7:37:23 PM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
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To: BenLurkin

“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.


35 posted on 01/12/2020 7:39:11 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: BenLurkin

I was there and it is in Israel.


36 posted on 01/12/2020 7:40:10 PM PST by dennisw
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To: BenLurkin

Palestine is about as authentic as Kwanza, Islam and Dianetics.

Made from whole cloth by kooks.


37 posted on 01/12/2020 7:44:24 PM PST by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: left that other site
They were very strict in that particular category. One contestant named the CITY where the Sagrada Familia was located (Barcelona) and lost to the other who said “SPAIN”.

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.]


38 posted on 01/12/2020 8:01:24 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Cutest internet video: Charlie bit my finger. Creepiest internet video: Joe Biden bit my finger.)
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To: SunkenCiv
***‘Jeopardy!’ Criticized for Stating That the Church of the Nativity Is in Israel***

Or that Israel is on this Earth.

39 posted on 01/12/2020 8:12:50 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


40 posted on 01/12/2020 9:54:40 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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