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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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