The American Bible Challenge is a Bible-themed American television game
show created by Game Show Network (GSN). It aired for three seasons from
2012 to 2014. Jeff Foxworthy hosts; Kirk Franklin (pictured) joined from
the second season on. Each nine-episode tournament season asks Bible-
related questions in various formats. One round, Stick a Fork in It, has
teams use a spoon to catapult a fork into glasses labeled with different
answers. Another, Kirk's Righteous Remix, has a choir singing songs
relating to the Bible. The three season champions each won $140,000 for
a chosen charity: Team Judson's Legacy chose a leukodystrophy charity in
honor of a son of two of the team members, Team Wagner Warriors chose a
missionary organization founded by the father of the team members, and
Team Bible Belts chose a nonprofit which combines Bible study and
taekwondo. The show debuted as GSN's highest-rated original program. In
2014, it was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game
Show.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Bible_Challenge>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1800:
War of the Second Coalition: French forces won a victory at the
Battle of Neuburg, ending Austrian control over the River Danube.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Neuburg_%281800%29>
1869:
The military phase of the Meiji Restoration in Japan was
completed with an imperial victory in the Boshin War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boshin_War>
1954:
Jacobo Árbenz resigned as President of Guatemala following a
CIA-led coup against his administration.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2008:
Robert Mugabe was re-elected as President of Zimbabwe with an
overwhelming majority after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew,
citing violence against his party's supporters.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Zimbabwean_general_election>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
purblind:
1. Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
2. Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
3. (figuratively)
4. Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted,
unintelligent.
5. Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
6. (obsolete)
7.
8. Completely blind.
9. Having one eye blind.
10. Near-sighted, short-sighted; myopic.
11. (rare) Far-sighted, long-sighted; hypermetropic.
12. A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.
13. (transitive, literary, often passive) To cause (someone) to have
impaired vision or become partially blind.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/purblind>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is
the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
--Emma Goldman
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman>