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Tim Wildmon Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. Tim, Ed and jj, thanks for listening to afr, American Family Radio. We're here every Friday with this, show, providing, what, what do we, what do we strive for, Ed?

Ed Vitagliano Well, we aim to make our students here at Learn the University smarter, betterer and awesomer.

Tim Wildmon Right, right.

Ed Vitagliano I mean, you really.

Tim Wildmon And, you know, charter. We have.

Ed Battagliano That's right.

Ed Vitagliano And, and this is graduation weekend for a lot of people. And, you know, JJ, we encourage our young people to give 110.

Ed Battagliano We do. And we want to make this a, pitch for you. We're going to start a rugby team. And if you have no problem with getting multiple concussions, we got a spot for you on our vultural, Vultural virtual rugby team here at Learning University. Hey, guys, I want to make mention next weekend. I'm going to be in Newton, Kansas all weekend. Newton Weekday Bible School 100th year celebration. Free event, no tickets. Lindley Hall. That's next Saturday evening, Sunday morning, I'll be speaking at Emanuel Baptist Church in Newton. Sunday evening. Newton Bible Church. Can't wait to meet so many of our Kansas, listeners next weekend.

We are going next to Louisiana, and Joe is on the line

Tim Wildmon Back to the phones.

Ed Vitagliano All right, we are going next to Louisiana, and Joe is on the line. Joe, welcome to Trivia Friday.

Caroline Hello, distinguished professors. Glad to be on with you today.

Ed Battagliano Thank you for your honesty.

Ed Vitagliano Joe, where do you live in Louisiana?

Caroline I live in Oil City.

Ed Vitagliano Oil City, Louis. Isn't there an Oil City, Pennsylvania, too?

Ed Battagliano There is.

Ed Vitagliano All right.

Ed Battagliano Near Cranberry and, that's a good area.

Caroline We're just, we're just about, about 15 miles north of Shreveport.

Ed Battagliano Okay.

Ed Vitagliano All right.

Caroline You know where that is.

Ed Battagliano You know all about some, you know all about some, good cooking down there with all of the crawfish boils.

Caroline Yeah, I hadn't missed any meals lately.

Ed Battagliano Yes, sir. Hey, you want to ask answer or Joe?

Caroline We're gonna, we're gonna do both today.

Ed Battagliano Which one you feel confident about?

Caroline Confident? Absolutely. Sure. the three friends. So called friends or counselors?

Ed Battagliano I'm glad you said so called friends. Here's the Old Testament question. Who did Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar try to comfort slash counsel?

Caroline That would be our friend job.

Ed Battagliano Yes, sir. Nicely done. They came and tried to offer some comfort, but it, it was pretty, it was more of a dog pile. They really gave him a lot of. A lot of grief.

Tim Wildmon What did they do that for?

Caroline Yes, sir.

Ed Battagliano You know, they just wanted to say, you're hurting because of your sin. Yeah. He was very successful. And they said, you've obviously sinned. If you'll just repent of your sin, you'll get back to good health. And he said, guys, I can't think of anything I've done wrong. And they just told him to shut up. And they said, are you going to argue with God? Look at you. You clearly you sinned, and that's the reason for your problem. And then if that wasn't enough for one to do that, the next one did and the other one did.

Tim Wildmon So do you think they colluded on that one?

Ed Battagliano Yeah, I don't know. It was. It. It. It takes up a quite a few chapters there in Joe. But there are a lot of good, A lot of good instruction there.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Where was the first over the water oil well drilled in the United States

All right, so, Joe, I asked a good answer.

Ed Battagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon From Job in the Old Testament. So question, what's your question for us?

Ed Battagliano All right.

Caroline Where was the first over the water oil well drilled in the United States?

Ed Battagliano Oh, wow. So you got those rigs out there in the coast, and I'm gonna guess it's off the coast of Louisiana. Since Joe said that, I'm gonna say.

Ed Vitagliano It'S in the Gulf of America.

Ed Battagliano Oh, Joe.

Ed Vitagliano The way you think, in the Gulf of America. Merica.

Ed Battagliano but where off of which I'm.

Tim Wildmon Gonna go off the shore of Louisiana.

Ed Battagliano That's right off the shore of Louisiana. I'll go Galveston. But Louisiana?

Caroline Yeah, you're gonna have to go a few hundred miles north. It would be an oil city, Louisiana, on Caddo Lake.

Ed Battagliano Okay.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, so it's an.

Ed Battagliano Oh, really? Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Well, why wouldn't it be? I mean, if it's in the ground in Louisiana, it doesn't necessarily. It could be the ground under a lake. Right?

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, true.

Tim Wildmon That's what we're talking about here. So. So we're talking about, You said. You said you're. You're, Oh, it's near you.

Caroline Yeah, I live on the lake.

Tim Wildmon Wow. Okay.

Ed Battagliano So you look out there, you can see that oil rig, that floating oil rig.

Ed Vitagliano Is it still out there?

Caroline Oh, there. Well, there's a bunch of oil rigs out there. They're not rigs. They have whales. Bunch of oil wells now.

Ed Battagliano Right.

Caroline They're all over the.

Ed Battagliano Just built on a platform. Like on. On a huge platforms. Yeah.

Caroline Yes, sir. They're on platform. Well, A lot of them are still on wooden poles, like telephone poles. A lot of them are.

Ed Battagliano That's impressive.

Caroline Yeah, that was, ah, in 1911. Now they said there was another oil well built over water, but you could access it from the land. But the first true where you had to reach it by barge was in. On Caddo Lake in Oil City.

Ed Battagliano You know, now I want you to think about those of you that do the DIY projects. You're going to be doing a lot of that over this weekend to get out there on a barge and a little bit wobbly, and then you're having to handle all the materials and you're having to do the work. It's hard. you just take somebody on a lake. This building, Pierce, for somebody, that's harder than it looks.

Ed Vitagliano So there's probably a few wrenches down on the bottom of the lake.

Ed Battagliano That's a good way to drop that.

Ed Vitagliano someone dropped.

Ed Battagliano You know, there is.

Tim Wildmon You're not far from Atlanta, are you, Joe?

Caroline No, sir. We're probably 25, 30 miles from Atlanta south. Straight down. Straight down. Atlanta, Texas? Yes.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, there's, Atlanta, Texas, what he said. Is the traffic as bad there as it is in Atlanta, Georgia?

Caroline Afraid not. No.

Tim Wildmon Yeah. No, there is an Atlanta, Texas, just south of, between Texas, Canada and Shreveport. Right. Yeah.

Ed Battagliano Hey, Joe, thank you for listening. And how long you been listening to afr?

Caroline Oh, probably about four or five years.

Ed Battagliano Wonderful.

Tim Wildmon Well, thank you.

Ed Battagliano Tell your friends. Thank you. And great answering this Bible question and good question for us.

Ed Vitagliano All right, have a good weekend, Joe.

Tim Wildmon Who's next, dad?

Tony is on the line with Trivia Friday and he lives in Kentucky

Ed Vitagliano All right, we're going to Kentucky and Tony is on the line. Tony, welcome to Trivia Friday.

Caroline Good morning, gentlemen. Thank you.

Ed Vitagliano That deep voice. Tony.

Tim Wildmon Thank you, Tony.

Ed Battagliano Oh, Tony, what part of the Bluegrass State?

Caroline I live in the suburbs of New York.

Tim Wildmon Such as what? Like, which.

Ed Battagliano Oh, maybe this was NY instead of ky. So you live in New York?

Caroline No, I live in Kentucky. Suburbs of New York, Kentucky.

Ed Battagliano Oh. Oh, no, there was a New York.

Ed Vitagliano I just threw my hands up when you said New York. I just got done saying I didn't know there was an Atlanta, Texas, and I was afraid to say I didn't know there was a New York. Kentucky.

Ed Battagliano Where is that, Tony? What's it close to?

Caroline Well, it's about 20 miles west of Paducah.

Ed Battagliano Okay.

Ed Vitagliano It's your neck of the woods.

Ed Battagliano Yeah. I grew up in Owensboro. Do you know where Owensboro is?

Caroline Yeah, that's way east.

Ed Battagliano Yeah, way east.

Tim Wildmon Way east. Like 30 miles.

Caroline Like 150 miles.

Ed Battagliano Oh, wow. Yeah, I'm between.

Tim Wildmon Okay.

Ed Battagliano Louisville and Paducah. You know, right there in the middle.

Tim Wildmon Tony knows his. His home. His home states.

Ed Battagliano That's right, Tony, you want to ask, answer or do both?

Caroline I want to do both. I was going for that Fujita question, but somebody got it. so I'll do both.

What flower is associated with Memorial Day? The poppy

I'll take the, Memorial Day flower question.

Ed Battagliano Here's the question. What flower is associated with Memorial Day?

Caroline That would be the poppy. Correct?

Ed Battagliano The poppy.

Ed Vitagliano Wow.

Ed Battagliano The red poppy. You guys have time for a little backstory. Lt. Col. John McCrae, a surgeon, spotted a cluster of poppies. A spring after a horrible battle. the Germans unleashed lethal gas for the first time. 87,000 Allied soldiers were killed, 37,000 on the German side. A friend of his, his best friend was among the dead, and he saw the bright red blooms on the broken ground. So he wrote a poem in Flanders Field that got so famous. That poem was published in a magazine in 1915, and it was used for for many years at countless memorial ceremonies and became one of the Mason most famous works to emerge from World War I. And so because of that, in Flanders Field, he talked about those red poppies, all these parades, if you remember when you were young, the veterans would have a little red silk poppy on their uniform, and they would sell these little red silk poppies to raise money for veterans. So there's the backstory.

Ed Vitagliano Wow. Great. Great background on that. Great question.

Ed Battagliano Hey, nicely done. What's your question for us? Yeah, so it's, those red poppies as the flower associated with Memorial Day.

Caroline That's right.

Ed Battagliano What's your question for us?

Caroline My question is. I'm sorry, go ahead.

Ed Battagliano What's your question for us?

Caroline My question is also military related or war related? I was at Normandy beaches a couple of years ago. I wanted to know what is the code name of the operation that included the invasion of Europe at Normandy?

Ed Battagliano I've heard that so many m. Times.

Ed Vitagliano I can't. I can't.

Ed Battagliano And it is our military.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, I'm not an expert. I cannot remember it. It's one of those things that I did know at one point, and it's disappeared into a locker somewhere.

Ed Battagliano all right, what's the answer?

Ed Vitagliano What's the answer?

Caroline Operation Overlord.

Ed Vitagliano Over.

Ed Battagliano Overlord. Of course. That's heard that.

Tim Wildmon So what does that mean? I wonder? You know, what was the. What was the genesis of the name?

Ed Vitagliano yeah. I don't know.

Caroline It's a good question.

Ed Battagliano I don't know, sometimes they just come up with names like, I guess like they do for thoroughbreds.

Tim Wildmon CB Handles.

Ed Battagliano Yeah. The Kentucky Derby. Just some kind of name that maybe, you know, you like. You're trying to pick your pen for your computer. You don't want it to be easily, you know.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Password?

Ed Battagliano Yeah. Your password.

Ed Vitagliano Password. Like, you know, like my password. 3, 4.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, right. Nobody ever think of that one.

Ed Vitagliano Hey.

Ed Battagliano Hey, thanks for listening, Tony. Have a great Memorial Day weekend in New York, Kentucky.

Eight Days of Hope is deploying to Kentucky to help after devastating tornado

Yeah. Hey, London, Kentucky. The storm damaged the Runway, tore up a bunch of airplanes, really.

Tim Wildmon Destroyed, the other day.

Ed Battagliano Yeah, the other day. Destroyed a lot of the town. In fact. Eight Days of Hope. They're deploying there right now. So anytime you hear of tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, you think of our ministry partner. Eight Days of Hope. You can go to Eight Days of Hope, find out more. They're going to Kentucky to try to help that hard hit area.

Ed Vitagliano So you can sign up there to volunteer. Sign up or give.

Ed Battagliano Pray for them. Donate. That's right. But they're looking for volunteers. Volunteers. If you're a retired or men's ministry or Sunday school class, homeschool, family, you can head that way. That's where they're being deployed right now.

Ed Vitagliano And you don't have to have building skills. There's all sorts of jobs that they have and they'll feed you and put you up. And so it's a, it's a, it's a really important ministry.

Tim Wildmon Eight Days of Hope.

Ed Battagliano Eight days of Hope. Calm. I love how Steve Tiber says we're just trying to be the hands and feet of Jesus.

Ed Vitagliano Right.

Ed has two questions remaining: One true false and one biblical question

Tim Wildmon let's repeat our questions for the last time, for this show.

Ed Vitagliano Okay, I have two questions remaining. The first one is a true false. Here it is. Cheese is known to be the most frequently stolen food in the world. Is that true or false? And then a Bible question. At the end of each of the seven letters in the book of Revelation, a promise is made to the. To the one who does what.

Ed Battagliano How many dice are used to play Yahtzee? How many dice are used to play Yahtzee? That's the only one I've got. I can add one if that gets taken. Tim.

Tim Wildmon Yes. So, my lone question remaining is this. For four years in a row, this sport was named the fastest growing Sport in the U.S. what is it? Back to the phones, Ed.

Daniel from New Mexico calls in with a question about New Mexico

Ed Vitagliano All right, we go to New Mexico and I had a question from, a caller from New Mexico. In a while, Daniel is on the line. Daniel, welcome to Trivia Friday.

Caroline Good morning, gentlemen.

Ed Vitagliano Hey, where do you live in, New Mexico, Daniel?

Caroline I live in beautiful Raton, New Mexico.

Ed Vitagliano Raton. All right.

Ed Battagliano Daniel, where do you live in.

Tim Wildmon In the Mexican.

Ed Battagliano I see. Moybien.

Ed Vitagliano Lived for a while in Las Cruces and Albuquerque.

Caroline Oh, that's where I was born, in Albuquerque.

Ed Vitagliano It's a. It's a beautiful state. In fact, I think it's. I think it's the most diverse state in the country in terms of, you know, terrain and climate. And it's, It's. It's a beautiful place.

Ed Battagliano I rode a bicycle across the. The entire state. Started in the Red river area and. And went up to Albuquerque. And, And what's. Where's the. The snow skiing thing at? I just drew a blaze.

Ed Vitagliano Taos.

Ed Battagliano Taos. Went from Red river to Taos and Taos to Albuquerque. I forget how many miles. Couple hundred miles or whatever, riding a bicycle across the state.

Ed Vitagliano Did you go faster uphill or downhill?

Ed Battagliano We were going faster downhill, but I was a little delirious after riding day after day.

Tim Wildmon What he's taken.

Ed Battagliano That's right. Hey, ask, answer, or do both?

Caroline let's do both.

Ed Battagliano Which one?

Caroline And I can. Which question I wanted to answer.

Ed Battagliano Yes, sir. Which one you want to answer, Daniel?

Caroline I'm not sure. the one, at the end of Revelation, is it.

Ed Vitagliano All right, let me. Let me repeat that. Let me repeat the question, Daniel. At the end of each of the seven letters in the book of Revelation, a promise is made to the one who does what. What do you say?

Caroline Who. Who has an ear. Let him hear.

Ed Vitagliano Okay. all right. So let him hear. Okay. I. I'm gonna give it to you simply. Well, no, because there's not a promise made.

Caroline You.

Ed Vitagliano You are right. At the end of each of the seven letters, it does say, he who has an ear to hear, let him hear.

Ed Battagliano Did it add something?

Ed Vitagliano But then it adds a promise to the person who does what. I'll give you another shot at it.

Caroline I cannot remember.

Ed Vitagliano Okay. All right. We still got nine minutes, so I'm going to wait. Yeah. Keep it alive a little bit, because I don't have a whole lot of questions remaining. But you. You did get that. That part, right. so good on you, Daniel.

Ed Battagliano Thanks for reading your Bible. Daniel, what's your question for us?

Lew Wallace who wrote Ben Hur served in two armies

Caroline I have a question. the governor, Lew Wallace of New Mexico, who wrote Ben Hur, he served in two armies. Which two armies were they?

Ed Vitagliano he served in both the, Union army and then the Confederate Army.

Caroline No, it Was a Mexican army.

Ed Vitagliano He served in the Mexican army?

Caroline Yes, very briefly. And then he came back to the United States.

Tim Wildmon Yeah.

Ed Battagliano That's remarkable.

Tim Wildmon What was his name?

Ed Battagliano He wrote Ben Hur.

Tim Wildmon Yeah, one of the most famous. I mean, that's a classic. Yeah, that book.

Ed Battagliano Hey, nicely done. Thank you for listening to afr. Hasta luego.

Ed Vitagliano Have a great weekend. Daniel. By the way, Ben Hur was in the 1800s, the 19th century, the best selling book, behind the Bible, second to the Bible, very popular novel.

Ed Battagliano And a little boy had a puppy and fellow walking by. What's your puppy's name? He said, ben Hur. He said, did you name that? And he said, yes, sir. He said, well, I just got to ask you, that's such a unique name. Why would you name that puppy dog Ben Hur? Said, well, said, we started off naming it, we thought it was a girl, and then we realized it was a boy. So they changed the name.

Tim Wildmon Her Ben Hur.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, Ben.

Ed Battagliano Oh, they started name. They called him Ben, then realized it was a female, Oh, a few weeks old.

Ed Vitagliano I'm guessing that's not true.

Ed Battagliano No, that's not true.

Aaron, welcome to Trivia Friday. Where do you live in Mississippi

Ed Vitagliano All right, we go to Mississippi and Erin is on the line. Erin, welcome to Trivia Friday.

Caroline Good morning.

Ed Vitagliano Good morning to you, sir. Where do you live in Mississippi?

Caroline I live in Wiggins, Mississippi.

Ed Vitagliano Wiggins. All right.

Tim Wildmon Stone County.

Ed Vitagliano So, Erin, you want to ask, man.

Ed Battagliano You know, your gi.

Ed Vitagliano He does.

Ed Battagliano I mean, can somebody can say, you know, wherever, Maine.

Ed Vitagliano It blows my mind.

Ed Battagliano Are you right next to Clay County? You know, highway, whatever he names the highway.

Tim Wildmon I'm just pretty good at that.

Ed Battagliano I'm not that.

Caroline I'm not that good.

Ed Battagliano You know the problem, though? They don't, they don't offer that in the Olympics. But that's going to change because if they got break dancing, then they're going to create that category for Tim to get.

Tim Wildmon My college roommate, one of my college roommates was from Wiggins, Stone County. That's how I know that you don't.

Ed Battagliano Have to give all your secret parlor tricks. Don't give away all your secrets, Tim.

Tim Wildmon Yep.

Ed Vitagliano All right.

Ed Battagliano Or both.

Caroline I'd like to do both, please.

Ed Battagliano Which one you feel good about?

Caroline well, the only one I was confident about was the one about Job. I knew it for sure. I don't know the answer to your other biblical question, but I am interested to know the answer when, if you'll give the answer when the show's.

Tim Wildmon We will. Yes, we will. do you. So you're.

Caroline I'LL just get.

Tim Wildmon Go ahead, you want to answer? So which one do you want to answer?

Caroline I'll, I'll just go with the true or false.

Cheese is known to be the most frequently stolen food in the world

Ed Vitagliano All right. Cheese is known to be the most frequently stolen food in the world. Erin, is that true or false?

Caroline I'll say true.

Ed Vitagliano It is true. What? It is the most frequently stolen food in the world.

Ed Battagliano For those.

Tim Wildmon Why would you say that, Erin? What made you think of that?

Caroline I don't know. But I do remember, when I was in high school, some of the guys I was in school with, our ag teacher had started selling beef jerky and cheese. And he had a huge cheese wheel out in the fridge in the shop. And one of the guys I went to school with shoved that whole cheese wheel in his backpack and took it out to his truck and the whole thing ruined.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, wow, what a waste.

Caroline why did he do borrows from a basketball?

Ed Vitagliano Wow.

Tim Wildmon He stole the teacher's.

Ed Vitagliano Was it a prank?

Caroline No, it wasn't a prank. He intended on keeping it, but it ruined in his truck.

Ed Battagliano Well, there you go. That shows you people are doing, I guess. What is it easy to stick in your pocket or.

Ed Vitagliano Well, no, it's because it's, ah. When I, when I was researching this, it is because it's a, it's a staple food, but also because of the the fact that it does come in these big wheels.

Ed Battagliano Right.

Ed Vitagliano That people could steal it and, and cut it up and sell it individually. Oh, especially in Europe. Especially Europe.

Tim Wildmon Central America. It's a big. They got your cheese cartels. It's a big problem.

Ed Vitagliano Yes, it, it is.

Tim Wildmon And you just don't want to get on the wrong side of those people.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, you don't have a problem with the American cheese, but you do with some of the other kind of, sharp cheeses. Oh, okay. Erin, what's, what's your question for us?

Aaron: In the Laura Ingalls Wilder books,

Caroline Okay. In the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, little the Little House on the Prairie books and the Long Winter Almanzo, Wilder and his friend went to get wheat because everyone was starving. What was his friend's name?

Ed Battagliano My 10 year old daughter is shouting out the answer. She's binge watched every episode about three times, but this is in the books. Yeah, she.

Tim Wildmon Can I take a shot?

Ed Battagliano Yes, absolutely. Please.

Tim Wildmon Tom Sawyer. Am I right?

Ed Battagliano I, know if he's going to go with Tom Sawyer. I'm going to say Huck Finn from the 1800s.

Ed Vitagliano I'm going to say Cesar Geronimo.

Tim Wildmon No, no, I don't. That that. That's a classic book series. So.

Ed Battagliano So great.

Tim Wildmon But great.

Ed Vitagliano I don't know. Pretty deep. Hey, we're up against the end of the show. Aaron. What's the answer, Cap?

Caroline Garland.

Ed Battagliano Tap. Oh, everybody.

Ed Vitagliano Oh, yeah.

Ed Battagliano Garland. Cappy is what his close friends called him. Thanks, buddy. Huh? Huh?

Caroline Hey, he also died young. He also died real young in a threshing accident. One of the threshing machines got him, and he died pretty young.

Tim Wildmon Oh, that's a true story, right?

Caroline That's true. Yes, sir.

Ed Battagliano Wow.

Ed Vitagliano Hey, Erin, we got to let you go because.

Ed Battagliano Happy Memorial Day weekend.

Tim Wildmon Brad next week. Brad in Georgia. Hold on. We'll get your phone number, and we'll get you on next week. Go ahead.

Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the United States

Ed Vitagliano All right. At the end of each of the seven letters in the book of Revelation, a promise is made to the one who does what.

Ed Battagliano He who endures.

Ed Vitagliano He who endures or overcomes. I would have taken either one.

Ed Battagliano how many dice are used to play Yahtzee, guys?

Ed Vitagliano I don't. Is it five?

Ed Battagliano What do you say, Tim?

Tim Wildmon Two?

Ed Battagliano Isn't it five?

Tim Wildmon Five. Way to go in.

Ed Vitagliano Well, I just. That talks.

Ed Battagliano You got to have a full house like. Like playing cards, you know?

Tim Wildmon All right.

Ed Battagliano Full house and stuff.

Tim Wildmon Four years in a row now, this sport's been named the fastest growing Sport.

Ed Battagliano In the U.S. u.S. Pickleball, ladies and gentlemen.

Tim Wildmon Yes, you're right, J.

Ed Vitagliano Is it a sport or is it a game?

Tim Wildmon Pickleball.

Ed Battagliano It's a sport, boys and girls.

Tim Wildmon You have to move around with paddling.

Ed Battagliano People are going to Costa Rica, Las Vegas. They're having tournaments all over the world.

Tim Wildmon Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in.

Ed Battagliano The US I would have picked a different name.

Tim Wildmon I don't know.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah, I don't know.

Tim Wildmon What's kind of like miniature tennis.

Ed Vitagliano Yeah.

Tim Wildmon Really? When our. Our glorified table tennis. That's what you want to call it. all right. Have a great weekend, everybody. Thanks for listening.