The Michael Knowles Show - Test Your Score: Bible Trivia | Michael Knowles Vs. Matt Fradd
Aired: 2025-12-29
Duration: 09:14


=== Red Sea Riddle (05:22) ===

[00:00:00]  It's getting real, okay?
[00:00:01]  I've played the Bible trivia with Protestants.
[00:00:04]  I've played the Bible trivia with a Jew.
[00:00:08]  Now I'm squaring off on Bible trivia with a fellow Catholic.
[00:00:12]  And of course, neither of us ever read the Bible.
[00:00:13]  So you're- I don't even know what it is.
[00:00:15]  Right, the blind leading the blind.
[00:00:16]  Mr. Frad, thank you for coming on the show.
[00:00:18]  Okay, so the way it works, Professor Jacob, Jew, has given us all of the way he is.
[00:00:26]  He's given us all of these prompts.
[00:00:28]  He leans a little Old Testament.
[00:00:30]  And then we have to come up with the answer.
[00:00:33]  When I have a lady on, then I say ladies first.
[00:00:35]  But since you are a man, then I will go first.
[00:00:38]  Okay.
[00:00:39]  Which king in the Bible?
[00:00:40]  Well, look at this.
[00:00:41]  They lowercase the Bible.
[00:00:42]  What kind of nonsense is this?
[00:00:44]  Which king in the Bible was approached by two women who both claimed they were the mother of the same baby.
[00:00:49]  The king threatened to cut the baby in half, to which the real mother begged him to give it to the lying woman.
[00:00:53]  I think it's Solomon.
[00:00:58]  And then do I respond?
[00:00:59]  Yes.
[00:01:00]  Yes, I also think it's Solomon.
[00:01:01]  It is Solomon.
[00:01:03]  Yes.
[00:01:03]  All right.
[00:01:03]  Well, that's a good start.
[00:01:04]  It was kind of an easy one, though.
[00:01:06]  And now I read it.
[00:01:07]  Do I?
[00:01:07]  Now you read it.
[00:01:08]  All right.
[00:01:08]  Number two.
[00:01:10]  The prophet Ezekiel was instructed by God to cook food over a fire fueled by something odd for symbolic reasons.
[00:01:18]  What was the fire fueled by?
[00:01:19]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:01:21]  That's so, I'm so happy you have to go first on that.
[00:01:23]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:01:24]  Not that it'll matter.
[00:01:25]  Neither of us is going to get it.
[00:01:27]  I'm going to...
[00:01:29]  I guess I guess.
[00:01:30]  I don't know.
[00:01:32]  Oil, some kind of weird oil.
[00:01:34]  Is it tallow?
[00:01:34]  It was tallow.
[00:01:35]  It was definitely tallow.
[00:01:37]  It was canola.
[00:01:38]  I think it was canola.
[00:01:39]  No, that's that.
[00:01:40]  What is actually fuel from hell?
[00:01:45]  Some kind of fat, but not necessarily tallow, but some kind of fat.
[00:01:49]  The answer?
[00:01:50]  Human excrement.
[00:01:51]  Gross.
[00:01:52]  That's like what they do in India.
[00:01:53]  Is there fat in excrement?
[00:01:54]  You may have been right.
[00:01:55]  I don't know.
[00:01:55]  Yeah, is that?
[00:01:56]  I'm sure excrement is somewhat fatty, but I don't, yeah.
[00:01:59]  Was Ezekiel like Punjabi or something?
[00:02:01]  That's very interesting.
[00:02:02]  This was just his way to shame Catholics for not knowing the scriptures, I think.
[00:02:06]  Okay, now this one's going to test how honest I am.
[00:02:09]  Which apostle raised Eutychus from the dead after he fell from a window?
[00:02:13]  Professor Jacob did not, he didn't tape a cover on this.
[00:02:17]  So I actually can see the answer.
[00:02:19]  I can't.
[00:02:21]  You can't.
[00:02:21]  So should you go first?
[00:02:23]  I don't know.
[00:02:25]  It's kind of chi.
[00:02:26]  It's my turn.
[00:02:27]  You know, it's a real problem, though.
[00:02:28]  Just take it.
[00:02:29]  I'll take it.
[00:02:30]  And then you can, all right.
[00:02:31]  What if I trick you?
[00:02:32]  What if I say it's one and then we both get it wrong?
[00:02:34]  I guess that wouldn't benefit me at all.
[00:02:36]  It's Paul.
[00:02:36]  Yeah.
[00:02:37]  It's Paul.
[00:02:38]  Okay.
[00:02:39]  What food did Esau trade Jacob for his birthright?
[00:02:42]  Me?
[00:02:42]  Yeah.
[00:02:43]  So it's sometimes translated porridge, sometimes translated stew, isn't it?
[00:02:47]  I always think of it as porridge, but yeah, right.
[00:02:49]  It's a little longer.
[00:02:50]  I say porridge.
[00:02:51]  Lentil stew.
[00:02:52]  Hey, what is it?
[00:02:53]  All right, does that, is it a lentil porridge?
[00:02:55]  Do we get half credit?
[00:02:56]  I think that counts.
[00:02:56]  We both get half a point.
[00:02:57]  What body of water dried up so Israel could cross into the promised land?
[00:03:02]  This is your one, isn't it?
[00:03:04]  That's right.
[00:03:06]  I think it is a porridge-colored sea.
[00:03:10]  I believe it's the Red Sea.
[00:03:12]  Is that right?
[00:03:13]  Yep, that's it.
[00:03:14]  That's the Red Sea.
[00:03:14]  Okay.
[00:03:15]  I agree.
[00:03:16]  It says the Jordan River.
[00:03:19]  Really?
[00:03:21]  No.
[00:03:23]  This is the Red Sea, isn't it?
[00:03:24]  Yeah, that's the Red Sea.
[00:03:26]  That's what I thought.
[00:03:27]  Is it the Jordan?
[00:03:28]  Can we get Mr. Davies?
[00:03:29]  Can we get a Protestant fact check in here?
[00:03:31]  Hold on, I'll bring in the expert.
[00:03:34]  Although you got a Jew, this is one of his main books.
[00:03:37]  How could he be wrong?
[00:03:38]  Yeah, now I'm doubting everything.
[00:03:40]  Hold on.
[00:03:40]  Moses parted the Red Sea.
[00:03:42]  That's correct.
[00:03:43]  So that the Hebrews could escape the Egyptians.
[00:03:46]  But Joshua, him, when they carried the ark through the Jordan River, it dried up so they could cross into the promised land.
[00:03:53]  Wow.
[00:03:53]  So hold on.
[00:03:54]  But you would say, I mean, the whole story of the Exodus is from Egypt to the promised land.
[00:03:58]  So a body of water that dried up so that they could cross was the Red Sea.
[00:04:03]  But you're saying, well, but the later body of water, more immediately before the promised land.
[00:04:08]  I think we both lose it.
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=== Pigs and Guts (04:07) ===

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[00:05:14]  All right, do you want me to read this one?
[00:05:16]  Yeah.
[00:05:16]  What animals drowned after Jesus cast demons into them?
[00:05:21]  Pigs.
[00:05:22]  Yay.
[00:05:23]  It's pigs.
[00:05:23]  I say it's pigs.
[00:05:24]  Do you think Ben Shapiro has ever had bacon?
[00:05:28]  No, but he did have KFC because he wasn't, they weren't always particularly observant Jews.
[00:05:34]  And so I remember, like, I think he got into it when he was like 12 or something.
[00:05:39]  So he is kind of the worst of all world.
[00:05:40]  I don't think they ever ate bacon, but he does remember like good fast food and all.
[00:05:45]  And then they gave it up for religion, which is admirable.
[00:05:49]  You know, we got to make him Catholic, but that's very admirable, I think.
[00:05:52]  Okay.
[00:05:52]  What sign appeared at Pentecost when the spirit came upon the disciples?
[00:05:58]  Was it tongues of fire?
[00:06:01]  I think it was.
[00:06:02]  All right, these have been pretty decent so far.
[00:06:03]  I feel like we, I feel like less of an idiot than I usually do.
[00:06:07]  All right, you're up.
[00:06:08]  Yeah, I saw, who did you have that one with recently, that biblical Protestant scholar?
[00:06:12]  Oh, was that with Jeremiah?
[00:06:16]  Oh, Jeremiah.
[00:06:17]  That wasn't fair.
[00:06:18]  Wrecked me.
[00:06:19]  He wrecked me this way.
[00:06:19]  I feel like doing this with Dr. Hahn.
[00:06:22]  It's like me going up against a UFC fighter in a fight.
[00:06:25]  What do you want from me?
[00:06:26]  It's bad.
[00:06:26]  It's not like me going up against a UFC fighter in Bible trivia.
[00:06:29]  It's not good.
[00:06:30]  What was my turn?
[00:06:32]  Okay, what was the first plague that befell Egypt in Exodus?
[00:06:37]  I believe it was the turning of the Nile into blood.
[00:06:41]  Yes.
[00:06:42]  You know why I always remember that?
[00:06:43]  No.
[00:06:44]  Because, you know, Moses is a figure of Christ and the Old Testament prefigures the New Testament.
[00:06:49]  And what was the first public miracle of our Lord?
[00:06:51]  Ah, water into wine.
[00:06:53]  Water into wine.
[00:06:53]  Yeah.
[00:06:54]  Okay.
[00:06:56]  That'll actually help me in the future.
[00:06:57]  Thanks.
[00:06:57]  Yes.
[00:06:58]  I kind of forget.
[00:06:59]  They all kind of map onto it, but I kind of forget the rest still.
[00:07:02]  Okay.
[00:07:03]  What did Samson find inside the lion's carcass that he previously killed?
[00:07:11]  Probably a bunch of guts and bones, right?
[00:07:13]  No, I don't know.
[00:07:14]  That's too easy an answer.
[00:07:16]  What did he find inside the lion's carcass that he killed?
[00:07:21]  I mean, whatever he found, he probably also found guts and carcass.
[00:07:25]  So I feel like he could get it.
[00:07:26]  So I'm sticking with my answer.
[00:07:27]  Guts and bone.
[00:07:28]  He definitely found guts and bones in there.
[00:07:30]  Do I go first?
[00:07:31]  I don't even, yeah, I do go.
[00:07:32]  What's yours?
[00:07:33]  I think honey.
[00:07:34]  Honey.
[00:07:34]  Was it honeycomb or a beehive or honey?
[00:07:39]  That sounds like a more of a correct answer than excrement.
[00:07:45]  No.
[00:07:46]  He probably found that too.
[00:07:48]  Honey and Bees.
[00:07:49]  Does that put Mr. Frat?
[00:07:51]  Oh, shoot, man.
[00:07:53]  So I have to Get this next one right and you have to get it wrong.
[00:07:59]  All right, you go.
[00:08:00]  What object tore intorent two at the moment of Jesus' death?
[00:08:10]  Come on.
[00:08:11]  I think my winning streak on this game just tore into because.
[00:08:15]  You're not serious.
[00:08:15]  You know that one.
[00:08:17]  I do, but you have to get it wrong.
[00:08:18]  The problem is you know it, too.
[00:08:19]  Well, what if I throw...
[00:08:20]  Go on.
[00:08:21]  You say it.
[00:08:21]  Okay, the Temple Veil.
[00:08:23]  Ah, I was going to say a cigar.
[00:08:25]  You want it?
[00:08:26]  You want?
[00:08:27]  Hey, all right, it's a tie.
[00:08:29]  Oh, man.
[00:08:30]  What a lucky break for me, huh?
[00:08:33]  I swore it was a cigar.
[00:08:34]  Wow, that's good.
[00:08:35]  Honey and bees.
[00:08:37]  Do I get just a quick point of fact?
[00:08:42]  Do I get partial credit for guts and bones?
[00:08:44]  No, no, no.
[00:08:45]  Then you win.
[00:08:45]  Come on, I threw the last one for you.
[00:08:47]  Yeah, I want to be ruthless on this.
[00:08:48]  Do I get absolutely not?
[00:08:50]  No, I don't.
[00:08:51]  Okay.
[00:08:51]  All right.
[00:08:52]  Well, hey, man, I feel a little better.
[00:08:55]  It's good to have Catholics doing Bible trivia with Catholics.
[00:08:58]  We can both feel equally smart or dumb, however you look at it.
[00:09:02]  That was what you just did was a corporal work of mercy, by the way, throwing that last question.
[00:09:05]  That was really very nice of you.
[00:09:07]  Mr. Frad, thank you.
[00:09:09]  Professor Jacob, thank you for some New Testament in there.
[00:09:12]  That was nice.
[00:09:13]  Thank you to all of you.