Indeed, it is a sad—and pathetic—world we live in, especially when three “Jeopardy!” contestants cannot answer the most basic Bible question.
Host Mayim Bialik read a clue that began “Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father, which art in heaven, [THIS] be thy name.” The passage, the Lord’s Prayer, is part of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.
Each of the three contestants looked stumped and could not come up with the question. And it didn’t go without notice.
Fans of the show expressed their displeasure on social media over the contestants’ lack of biblical knowledge.
Fox News Digital reported that fans began “tweeting their disdain for the religious blunder.”
Niles Francis tweeted, “Jeopardy is getting borderline unwatchable. Bialik is a terrible host and the contestants don’t know the answers to most of the clues on the board. Like tonight no one buzzed for a $200 clue about the opening sentence of the Lord’s prayer.”
And Kathy Henderson wrote, “Jeez, these #Jeopardy contestants can’t solve clues about The Lord’s Prayer, Big Daddy and Elizabeth Taylor. I give up.”
Jolene tweeted, “There was just a bible question on Jeopardy that I knew the answer to, and none of the contestants did, and I feel the need to warn everyone that this may be a sign of the impending apocalypse.”
Other responses included:
“Today, 3 Jeopardy contestants did not know the first line of the ‘Lord’s Prayer!’ Sad. Our Father, who art in heaven, ________ be thy name; They didn’t know the answer: ‘Hallowed.’ Pathetic,” they wrote.
“@Jeopardy has 3 geniuses on the show today. The question was-In the Bible it says-Our Father, who art in heaven (blank) be thy name. The answer is Hallowed (of course) … none of the 3 knew the answer. Sad world we’re in,” they noted.
Another person joked, “That’s ‘hallowed,’ you heathens!”
“OOF. Watching @Jeopardy tonight, and none of the contestants knew the words ‘hallowed be thy name’ in the Lord’s Prayer,” one user lamented.
Mimi Joeckel tweeted: “Not one contestant on Jeopardy last night new the answer to this … Are you waking up yet?”
Not one contestant on Jeopardy last night knew the answer to this…..
Are you waking up yet? pic.twitter.com/bBIhVntHwd
— Mimi Joeckel (@cantcancelmimi) June 14, 2023
The Lord’s Prayer can be found in the Bible from Matthew 6:9-13.
Fox News Digital reported that the Final Jeopardy clue involved a question about actors. Two of the three contestants answered correctly. {eoa}
Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.
