The Michael Knowles Show - December 29, 2025


Test Your Score： Bible Trivia ｜ Michael Knowles Vs. Matt Fradd


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

179.42896

Word Count

1,923

Sentence Count

275

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

In this episode, we play Bible trivia with a fellow Catholic and a Jew, and neither of them can figure it out. Which one is correct? Which king in the Bible is Solomon? Which prophet cooked food on a fire fueled by excrement?


Transcript

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00:01:00.360 It's getting real, okay?
00:01:01.880 I've played the Bible trivia with Protestants.
00:01:04.800 I've played the Bible trivia with a Jew.
00:01:08.560 Now I'm squaring off on Bible trivia with a fellow Catholic.
00:01:12.320 And of course, neither of us ever read the Bible.
00:01:14.240 I don't even know what it is.
00:01:15.380 Right, the blind leading the blind.
00:01:16.860 Mr. Fradd, thank you for coming on the show.
00:01:19.160 Honor.
00:01:19.420 Okay, so the way it works, Professor Jacob, Jew, has given us all of the way he is.
00:01:26.540 He's given us all of these prompts.
00:01:29.120 He leans a little Old Testament.
00:01:30.720 And then we have to come up with the answer.
00:01:33.440 When I have a lady on, then I say ladies first.
00:01:36.180 But since you are a man, then I will go first.
00:01:38.840 Okay.
00:01:39.540 Which king in the Bible?
00:01:41.000 Look at this.
00:01:41.680 They lowercase the Bible.
00:01:42.820 What kind of nonsense is this?
00:01:44.060 Which king in the Bible was approached by two women who both claimed they were the mother of the same baby?
00:01:49.440 The king threatened to cut the baby in half, to which the real mother begged him to give it to the lying woman.
00:01:53.660 I think it's Solomon.
00:01:58.400 And then do I respond?
00:01:59.780 Yes.
00:02:00.280 Yes, I also think it's Solomon.
00:02:01.960 It is Solomon.
00:02:03.520 Yes.
00:02:03.940 All right.
00:02:04.260 Well, that's a good start.
00:02:05.100 It was kind of an easy one, though.
00:02:06.260 And now I read it.
00:02:07.380 Do I?
00:02:07.800 Now you read it.
00:02:08.520 All right.
00:02:09.120 Number two.
00:02:10.500 The prophet Ezekiel was instructed by God to cook food over a fire fueled by something odd for symbolic reasons.
00:02:18.340 What was the fire fueled by?
00:02:20.020 Oh, my goodness.
00:02:21.260 That's so...
00:02:21.820 I'm so happy you have to go first on that.
00:02:23.760 Oh, my goodness.
00:02:25.240 Not that it'll matter.
00:02:26.140 Neither of us is going to get it.
00:02:28.100 I'm going to...
00:02:29.460 I guess I guess.
00:02:30.620 I don't know.
00:02:31.160 Some oil.
00:02:32.920 Some kind of weird oil.
00:02:34.300 Is it tallow?
00:02:35.160 It was tallow.
00:02:35.780 It was tallow.
00:02:37.520 It was canola.
00:02:37.780 Canola?
00:02:38.480 I think it was canola.
00:02:39.820 No, that is actually fuel from hell.
00:02:44.680 I'm going to say some kind of fat, but not necessarily tallow, but some kind of fat.
00:02:49.800 The answer?
00:02:51.180 Human excrement.
00:02:52.120 Gross.
00:02:52.740 That's like what they do in India.
00:02:53.800 Is there fat in excrement?
00:02:55.020 You may have been right.
00:02:55.800 I don't know.
00:02:56.080 Yeah, is that?
00:02:56.860 I'm sure excrement is somewhat fatty, but I don't...
00:02:59.180 Yeah, it was Ezekiel, like, Punjabi or something.
00:03:01.880 That's very interesting.
00:03:02.460 This was just his way to shame Catholics for not knowing the scriptures, I think.
00:03:06.460 Okay, now this one's going to test how honest I am.
00:03:09.800 Which apostle raised Eutychus from the dead after he fell from a window?
00:03:13.840 Professor Jacob did not...
00:03:15.720 He didn't tape a cover on this, so I actually can see the answer.
00:03:19.860 I can't.
00:03:21.320 You can't.
00:03:22.020 So should you go first?
00:03:23.480 I don't know.
00:03:24.860 It's your game.
00:03:25.580 It's kind of cheating.
00:03:26.400 It's my turn.
00:03:27.500 You know, it's a real problem, though.
00:03:28.840 Just take it.
00:03:29.820 I'll take it.
00:03:30.400 And then you...
00:03:30.940 All right.
00:03:31.740 What if I trick you?
00:03:32.900 What if I say it's one, and then we both get it wrong?
00:03:35.340 I guess that wouldn't benefit me at all.
00:03:36.320 It's Paul.
00:03:36.820 Yeah.
00:03:37.400 It's Paul.
00:03:38.860 Okay.
00:03:39.440 What food did Esau trade Jacob for his birthright?
00:03:42.300 Me?
00:03:43.000 Yeah.
00:03:43.720 So it's sometimes translated porridge, sometimes translated stew, isn't it?
00:03:47.760 I always think of it as porridge, but yeah, right.
00:03:50.180 It's a little...
00:03:50.580 I say porridge.
00:03:51.840 Lentil stew.
00:03:53.060 Hey.
00:03:53.680 Well, there you go.
00:03:54.140 Is it a lentil porridge?
00:03:55.540 Do we get half credit?
00:03:56.280 I think that counts.
00:03:56.860 We both get half a point.
00:03:57.800 What body of water dried up so Israel could cross into the promised land?
00:04:02.800 This is your one, isn't it?
00:04:04.640 That's right.
00:04:05.520 I think it is a porridge-colored sea.
00:04:09.920 I believe it's the Red Sea.
00:04:12.680 Is that right?
00:04:13.760 Yep.
00:04:14.360 That's the Red Sea.
00:04:15.040 That's right.
00:04:15.440 I agree.
00:04:16.940 It says the Jordan River.
00:04:19.240 Really?
00:04:21.460 No.
00:04:21.900 This is the Red Sea, isn't it?
00:04:24.980 Yeah, that's what I thought.
00:04:27.920 Is it the Jordan?
00:04:28.580 Can we get Mr. Davies?
00:04:29.700 Can we get a Protestant fact check in here?
00:04:31.860 Hold on.
00:04:32.400 I'll bring in the expert.
00:04:34.780 Although you got a Jew.
00:04:36.300 This is one of his main books.
00:04:37.720 How could he be wrong?
00:04:38.560 Yeah.
00:04:38.980 Now I'm doubting everything.
00:04:40.360 Hold on.
00:04:41.280 Moses parted the Red Sea.
00:04:43.020 That's correct.
00:04:43.720 So the Hebrews could escape the Egyptians.
00:04:46.700 But Joshua, him, when they carried the ark through the Jordan River,
00:04:50.660 it dried up so they could cross into the promised land.
00:04:53.400 Wow.
00:04:54.020 So hold on.
00:04:54.820 But you would say, I mean, the whole story of the Exodus is from Egypt to the promised land.
00:04:58.720 So a body of water that dried up so that they could cross was the Red Sea.
00:05:03.700 But you're saying, well, but the later body of water, more immediately before the promised land.
00:05:08.620 I think we both lose it.
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00:06:14.680 All right, do you want me to read this one?
00:06:16.540 Yeah.
00:06:17.280 What animals drowned after Jesus cast demons into them?
00:06:21.940 Pigs.
00:06:22.700 Yay.
00:06:23.560 It's pigs.
00:06:24.020 I say it's pigs.
00:06:25.180 Do you think Ben Shapiro has ever had bacon?
00:06:28.420 No, but he did have KFC because they weren't always particularly observant Jews.
00:06:34.700 And so, I think he got into it when he was like 12 or something.
00:06:39.400 So, he is kind of the worst of all worlds.
00:06:41.000 I don't think they ever ate bacon, but he does remember good fast food and all.
00:06:45.700 And then, he gave it up for religion, which is admirable.
00:06:49.320 We got to make him Catholic, but that's very admirable, I think.
00:06:52.240 Okay.
00:06:52.560 What sign appeared at Pentecost when the spirit came upon the disciples?
00:06:58.320 Was it Tongues of Fire?
00:07:01.420 I think it was.
00:07:02.340 All right, these have been pretty decent so far.
00:07:03.900 I feel like we, I feel like less of an idiot than I usually do in this.
00:07:07.860 All right, you're up.
00:07:08.780 Yeah, I saw, who did you have that one with recently, that biblical Protestant scholar?
00:07:13.020 Oh, was that with, oh, Jeremiah.
00:07:16.680 Oh, Jeremiah completely wrecked me.
00:07:19.580 He wrecked me with facts.
00:07:20.160 It'd be like doing this with Dr. Han.
00:07:21.880 It's like me going up against a UFC fighter in a fight.
00:07:25.420 Like, what do you want from me?
00:07:26.220 It's bad.
00:07:27.140 It's like me going up against a UFC fighter in Bible trivia.
00:07:29.800 It's not good.
00:07:31.000 What was, my turn.
00:07:32.260 Okay, what was the first plague that befell Egypt in Exodus?
00:07:37.500 I believe it was the turning of the Nile into blood.
00:07:41.460 Yes.
00:07:41.920 Do you know why I always remember that?
00:07:43.800 No.
00:07:44.740 Because, you know, Moses is a figure of Christ, and the Old Testament prefigures the New Testament.
00:07:49.760 And what was the first public miracle of our Lord?
00:07:51.880 Ah, water into wine.
00:07:53.220 Water into wine, yeah.
00:07:54.420 Okay.
00:07:54.760 Hey, that'll actually help me in the future.
00:07:57.760 Thanks.
00:07:58.020 Yes.
00:07:58.640 I kind of forget.
00:07:59.520 They all kind of map onto it, but I kind of forget the rest still.
00:08:02.480 Okay.
00:08:03.900 What did Samson find inside the lion's carcass that he previously killed?
00:08:12.140 Probably a bunch of guts and bones, right?
00:08:13.840 No, I don't know.
00:08:14.860 That's too easy an answer.
00:08:15.960 What did he find inside the lion's carcass that he killed?
00:08:22.060 I mean, whatever he found, he probably also found guts and carcass, so I feel like he could get a point.
00:08:26.980 Yes, so I'm sticking with my answer.
00:08:28.220 Guts and bones.
00:08:28.820 He definitely found guts and bones in there.
00:08:31.020 Do I go first?
00:08:31.760 I don't even, yeah, I do go.
00:08:32.760 What's yours?
00:08:33.300 I think honey.
00:08:34.800 Honey.
00:08:35.080 Is it honeycomb or a beehive or honey?
00:08:39.160 That sounds like a more of a correct answer than...
00:08:44.080 Excrement.
00:08:45.640 No.
00:08:46.740 He probably found that too.
00:08:48.840 Honey and bees.
00:08:49.800 Does that put Mr. Frat...
00:08:51.820 Oh, shoot, man.
00:08:53.540 So I have to get this next one right, and you have to get it wrong.
00:08:59.540 All right, you go.
00:09:01.040 What object tore into...
00:09:02.780 What object tore into at the moment of Jesus' death?
00:09:10.980 Come on.
00:09:11.780 I think my winning streak on this game just tore into because...
00:09:15.300 You're not serious.
00:09:16.200 You know that one.
00:09:17.180 I do, but you have to get it wrong.
00:09:19.040 The problem is you know it too.
00:09:20.140 Well, what if I throw...
00:09:21.040 You go on.
00:09:21.500 You say it.
00:09:22.120 Okay, the temple veil.
00:09:23.660 Ah, I was going to say a cigar.
00:09:25.640 I got it.
00:09:26.080 You won.
00:09:26.380 You won.
00:09:27.420 Is that, hey, all right, it's a tie.
00:09:29.980 Oh, man.
00:09:31.100 What a lucky break for me, huh?
00:09:33.140 Yeah, I swore it was a cigar.
00:09:35.060 Wow, that's good.
00:09:36.240 Honey and bees.
00:09:37.440 Do I get...
00:09:38.320 Just a quick point of fact.
00:09:42.400 Do I get partial credit for guts and bones?
00:09:45.080 No, no, no.
00:09:45.480 Then you win.
00:09:45.960 Come on.
00:09:46.200 I threw the last one for you.
00:09:47.540 Yeah, I want to be ruthless on this.
00:09:49.180 Do I get...
00:09:49.640 Absolutely not.
00:09:50.600 No, I don't.
00:09:51.480 Okay.
00:09:52.220 All right.
00:09:52.420 Well, hey, man, I feel a little better.
00:09:55.840 It's good to have Catholics doing Bible trivia with Catholics.
00:09:58.680 We can both feel equally smart or dumb, however you look at it.
00:10:02.140 That was what you just did was a corporal work of mercy, by the way, throwing that last question.
00:10:06.220 That was really, very nice of you.
00:10:07.740 Mr. Fradd, thank you.
00:10:09.560 Professor Jacob, thank you for...
00:10:11.280 There was some New Testament in there.
00:10:12.620 That was nice.
00:10:13.580 Thank you to all of you.
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