Tim Wildmon: Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio.
Tim Wildmon: Thanks for listening to AFR. I am Tim Wildmon. I was out last week with J.J. and Ed here last week. I think they were all right.
Tim Wildmon: Joining me today is Brother Bert Harper. Good to be with you, man.
Bert Harper: The B team. One of the B team has arrived.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Jonathan Coker. Good morning, Jonathan.
Jonathan Coker: The other B team is also here.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, you guys are going to do fine. We were joking before the show. I said, “You know, in sports, when somebody is out and the next person comes in, the coach says, ‘Next man up.’” And I always think, “Well, the next man up isn’t as good as your first man up, or he would have been out there in the first place.”
Tim Wildmon: But I have full confidence in you guys.
Bert Harper: Hey, not to blow it, but it’s fun to be here. I’m nervous.
Tim Wildmon: All right, exactly. It is Trivia Friday. We’re going to ask three questions each in just a few moments, and then we’re going to let you call in and ask us questions.
Jonathan Coker: So it’s answer and ask today.
Tim Wildmon: First-time callers are welcome. We have an eight-week waiting period between calls, so if you haven’t been on the air with us in eight weeks, you’re eligible to call in. If you’ve never been on with us, you’re welcome to call in. Here’s the phone number to reach us: 888-589-8840. Again, 888-589-8840. Call in and be on Trivia Friday.
Tim Wildmon: Now, Bert and Jonathan, y’all have been on before, but it’s unusual for two of you guys to be on the same week.
Jonathan Coker: We’ve been on one time together before, about a year and a half ago or something like that.
Tim Wildmon: I just want to tell our friends who aren’t from the Deep South, our friends in Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and places like that, that I will serve as the interpreter.
Jonathan Coker: Thank you for both of us.
Tim Wildmon: I know most folks don’t believe it, but I do talk a lot better now. I don’t still talk as Southern as I used to.
Bert Harper: If you want to know what word they’re actually saying, just ask me. I can be your national radio interpreter.
Jonathan Coker: It’s fun to say that because there are some of my questions that I’ve been nervous about pronouncing.
Tim Wildmon: See, there, we need an interpreter.
Jonathan Coker: That’s right.
Bert Harper: I don’t really have an accent. I’m pretty generic.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t think I have an accent.
Jonathan Coker: But everybody else does, or at least an accent people can’t understand.
Tim Wildmon: All right, you’re listening to Trivia Friday. Is there anything else we need to do?
Jonathan Coker: What about the mystery question? Out of these questions, we’re going to have a mystery question. You’ll know that you got the mystery question correct when you hear this sound.
Bert Harper: Yes, the beloved cowbell shall ring, and all the world will know you’ve won yourself an AFR Trivia Friday T-shirt.
Tim Wildmon: That’s right. I’m holding it up for those who are watching. It’s the third edition, isn’t it?
Bert Harper: I think so.
Tim Wildmon: We’ve got a nice Learning University T-shirt that we will send your way if you get the question correct.
Jonathan Coker: You can buy one of these Learning University Trivia Friday T-shirts at our store.
Tim Wildmon: I’ll tell you the address in just a few moments. It’s resources.afa.net.
Bert Harper: Go there and get one. They’re about twenty dollars, something like that.
Tim Wildmon: They’re really nice, and we’ll send one out. You can see the shirt at resources.afa.net and get one. We’ve got a lot of other good stuff on that website as well.
Bert Harper: We’ve got some baseball caps and all kinds of good stuff there.
Tim Wildmon: So definitely check that out.
Tim Wildmon: Ed’s traveling, and J.J. was traveling. J.J. is always traveling. J.J., you know the Johnny Cash song, “I’ve Been Everywhere”?
Jonathan Coker: He has. That’s the theme to J.J.’s life right there. “I’ve been everywhere.”
Bert Harper: All right, Bert, go ahead.
Bert Harper: Man, far away. Okay, here are my three questions. The first one is a Bible question. Who caught a fish, opened its mouth, and found a coin?
Bert Harper: My second question is geography. I love geography, and this may be a little difficult, but I’ll give you a hint. There are four state capitals that do not have an interstate highway. Can you name them?
Bert Harper: One hint: It’s not Honolulu. Believe it or not, Honolulu has an interstate system. That would have been a good trivia question right there.
Tim Wildmon: It would.
Bert Harper: My third question is, how many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together? They were two giant stars. John Wayne was mostly military and Western, and Jimmy Stewart could do anything.
Bert Harper: How many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together?
Jonathan Coker: That’s an odd couple to put in a movie together.
Bert Harper: I did some research on it. Why didn’t they do more? They were contemporaries, but they were so different. Can you imagine John Wayne in It’s a Wonderful Life, sitting down to Mr. Potter? I don’t think that would have worked. But they did star in some movies. How many?
Jonathan Coker: Jimmy Stewart was in The Sands of Iwo Jima, too.
Bert Harper: No, The Sands of Iwo Jima.
Jonathan Coker: Was that two of them?
Bert Harper: That’s my three.
Tim Wildmon: All right, go ahead.
Jonathan Coker: Bert and I talked beforehand, and we decided that since he’s an Andy Griffith fan and I’m a John Wayne fan, he was going to do the John Wayne question, and I was going to do the Andy Griffith question.
Bert Harper: I got the Andy Griffith question.
Jonathan Coker: Here’s my first question. What was the name of the elderly lady who turned out to be a con artist and sold Barney Fife his first car on The Andy Griffith Show?
Tim Wildmon: I would say that’s a great question, by the way. That’s one of my favorite episodes.
Jonathan Coker: Number two is a Bible question. What does suffering, or tribulation, produce according to Romans chapter five? There are three things I’m looking for in that answer.
Jonathan Coker: If somebody can answer that without looking it up or asking somebody else, because they know the Scriptures, we’ll send them a Learning University T-shirt.
Tim Wildmon: What’s the question again?
Jonathan Coker: What does suffering, or tribulation, produce according to Romans chapter five?
Jonathan Coker: My last question is, who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Tim Wildmon: That’s also a good question. Way to go, man.
Jonathan Coker: The good American history question.
Tim Wildmon: Can you repeat it?
Jonathan Coker: Who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Bert Harper: Did you say president?
Jonathan Coker: President.
Bert Harper: I know.
Jonathan Coker: I told you I was going to pick on you.
Bert Harper: President. Is that right?
Jonathan Coker: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: All right. That’s the best I’ve got.
Tim Wildmon: Here are mine. Name three types of nondairy milk that Americans consume.
Bert Harper: I got that. I know two, though. I’m looking for the third one.
Tim Wildmon: Here’s my second question. What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”? We use that all the time, don’t we?
Bert Harper: We do.
Tim Wildmon: Bert’s a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist. Where do we get that expression from? What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”?
Tim Wildmon: My third question, speaking of geography: The Great Smoky Mountains are found in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia. Is that true or false?
Bert Harper: Okay, you got me.
Tim Wildmon: Rocky Top, of course, is in Tennessee. But are the Great Smoky Mountains found in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia? Is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon: All right, Jonathan, let’s hit the phones. Our students are waiting to participate.
Jonathan Coker: All right.
Tim Wildmon: They want to find out who the president is.
Bert Harper: President Zent.
Jonathan Coker: I’m going to get that for the next hour.
Tim Wildmon: I’ll stop.
Jonathan Coker: No, I’ve got six in. You can bring it on. I’m good.
Jonathan Coker: All right, we’re going to go to Iowa, where Robert is on the line. Robert, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Robert: Well, thank you.
Bert Harper: Hey, Brother Robert, thanks for calling. Where do you live in Iowa?
Robert: It’s Chillicothe, Iowa.
Tim Wildmon: I was in Davenport recently.
Robert: That’s farther north.
Tim Wildmon: I flew up there, and our plane landed in Davenport. I got out and looked around, and I was surrounded by cornfields. I’m in Iowa now, for sure. There’s a cornfield everywhere.
Tim Wildmon: Do you want to ask and answer both, Robert?
Robert: I’d like to do both.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Robert: I want to do the one about the fish.
Tim Wildmon: The first one. All right, here it is. Who caught a fish, opened its mouth, and found a coin?
Robert: I want to say Peter.
Bert Harper: Yes, right off the bat. Man, way to go.
Tim Wildmon: Robert knows the correct answer right out of the Bible. It is an interesting thing. It’s the only miracle Jesus did that helped Him personally, because they were asking Him to pay the temple tax. Jesus didn’t have the money, and Peter didn’t have his either. So Jesus told him to go and throw a hook into the sea.
Tim Wildmon: That’s unusual, because Peter was usually throwing nets. He put the hook in, and the right fish got on the hook. Peter opened its mouth, and there was a coin in its mouth. The fish hadn’t swallowed it, and Peter brought it back so they could pay the temple tax.
Tim Wildmon: How did you know that, Robert?
Robert: I’ve heard of it before, but I just studied it.
Tim Wildmon: So you’ve been on the trivia show before?
Robert: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Well, welcome back. Fire away with your question.
Robert: On the television show Gunsmoke, what was Doc Adams’s first name?
Robert: On Gunsmoke, what was Doc Adams’s first name?
Tim Wildmon: I guarantee you, when you tell me, I’ll say, “Yes, that seems familiar.”
Bert Harper: That is a deep dive.
Tim Wildmon: Gunsmoke was the longest-running television show in history, I think, until The Simpsons or something. It was a Western, and Bonanza was right behind it.
Robert: Does anybody know that?
Tim Wildmon: I don’t think I know that.
Robert: Sam.
Tim Wildmon: Was it George, Bob, or Sam?
Robert: We watch Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and The Andy Griffith Show all the time. I looked it up on my phone. It starts with a G.
Tim Wildmon: Galen?
Robert: Yes, Galen.
Bert Harper: Galen.
Jonathan Coker: Oh, Galen.
Tim Wildmon: I wonder how many times that was mentioned in the show.
Robert: Only a few times.
Tim Wildmon: All right, hold on a second. Do you know what that is?
Robert: A draw?
Tim Wildmon: That’s a real cowbell.
Bert Harper: Our in-laws were farmers, and the head cow would wear one when they came up to be milked.
Jonathan Coker: What we didn’t hear was what it was.
Tim Wildmon: It sounds like a coffee can.
Bert Harper: It’s a cowbell.
Tim Wildmon: We’ve got a real cowbell. You want to hear what a real cowbell sounds like? Here’s what it sounds like.
Jonathan Coker: I don’t know. You may want to get your cowbell.
Tim Wildmon: Robert, your cowbell sounds sick, everybody. It’s a little out of tune.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Robert. Keep on milking the cows, then. I’m going to put you on hold, because you want to be sure to get your prize. Miss Patti is going to get your information so we can get that shipped out to you. Hang on the line, Robert.
Tim Wildmon: Robert had the Bible question about the fish. Bert, do you want to give another question real quick?
Bert Harper: Here’s one I’ve been wanting to do, and I didn’t have room. What is the name of a group of alligators?
Bert Harper: I love group names. If you go over to your window and pull back the curtains or lift up the blinds, and in your backyard there are multiple alligators, you call your wife over and say, “Honey, come over here and look at this. We have a blank of alligators in our backyard.”
Bert Harper: When my son lived in South Carolina, there were alligators behind his apartment. You would see signs that said, “Don’t feed the alligators.” They were that close.
Bert Harper: A group of alligators has a certain name. What is a group of alligators called?
Tim Wildmon: I don’t know that they ran in groups.
Bert Harper: They can run all together.
Tim Wildmon: It’s not a pack, though, right?
Bert Harper: It’s not a pack.
Jonathan Coker: We’ve already done that. Back to the phones.
Jonathan Coker: We’re going to go to Virginia, where Sarah is calling. Sarah, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Sarah: Hi, professors.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Sarah, for that honor. We are professors at Learning University.
Sarah: Well, by the class of my semester.
Tim Wildmon: Jonathan and Bert are kind of substitute teachers.
Bert Harper: That’s where I want to be useful.
Tim Wildmon: Ask, answer, or both, Sarah?
Sarah: I’ll do both, please.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Sarah: The other Bible question.
Jonathan Coker: This is for a Learning University T-shirt. Sarah, before you answer this, did you have to ask or look it up, or do you know the answer?
Sarah: I did not look it up.
Jonathan Coker: If she gets it right because she just knows it, we’ll send her the Learning University T-shirt. Here’s the question: What does suffering produce according to Romans chapter five?
Sarah: I’m going to answer from my knowledge in the King James. I’m not sure if that makes any difference for your answer, but it’s patience, experience, and hope.
Jonathan Coker: I will take that.
Bert Harper: I had perseverance.
Jonathan Coker: Patience in the King James is really perseverance.
Bert Harper: That’s right.
Jonathan Coker: And then character and hope.
Sarah: What were the three words you gave?
Jonathan Coker: Patience, experience, and hope.
Bert Harper: Experience and character are the same thing.
Jonathan Coker: I think so. It’s close.
Tim Wildmon: Way to go. Thanks for knowing your Bible, Sarah. We’re going to send you the Learning University T-shirt.
Sarah: Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: Are you grateful?
Sarah: Yes, I am. Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: You’re welcome. We’re happy to do it.
Sarah: My question is, in which John Wayne movie was he doing a not-so-convincing Swedish accent?
Tim Wildmon: That’s just wrong. John Wayne doing a Swedish accent?
Jonathan Coker: I don’t think that ranked in the top ten.
Tim Wildmon: John Wayne did a Swedish accent?
Bert Harper: What’s the one where he’s the boxer? I think he was Irish or something.
Jonathan Coker: The Quiet Man?
Tim Wildmon: The Quiet Man.
Sarah: The answer is The Long Voyage Home.
Tim Wildmon: The Long Voyage Home. Was that early or late in his career?
Sarah: It was from 1940. He was a sailor on a merchant steamship.
Tim Wildmon: I think that was early for him.
Jonathan Coker: You guys are John Wayne fans. I only know True Grit and maybe two or three other movies.
Tim Wildmon: You’ve got a John Wayne statue at your home.
Jonathan Coker: I’ve got a picture. I have an upstairs room, and John Wayne is there. He and Roy Rogers are hanging on my wall.
Tim Wildmon: Sarah, you’re kind of young to be up on John Wayne trivia. How did you watch his movies?
Sarah: In movies, I’m very old.
Tim Wildmon: They were better anyway. They don’t make them like that anymore.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Sarah. I appreciate you calling. I’m going to put you on hold. We need to get your address, so Miss Patti is going to pick up and get your information.
Tim Wildmon: You’re having your questions answered here on Trivia Friday on American Family Radio, also known as Learning University. Learning University is on the air.
Tim Wildmon: I’m Tim with Bert and Jonathan. Ed and J.J. have developed an attitude problem, so we put them in timeout to think about it for many days.
Tim Wildmon: I know this is way early, but let’s go ahead and take our break. I don’t want to interfere with a caller. This will give Jonathan and Bert time to reset three new questions, or the ones that haven’t been answered.
Tim Wildmon: We’ll return with more of Trivia Friday, also known as Learning University.
Don Wildmon: It’s an old story I’m sure most of you have heard more than once, but it’s a timeless story and worth passing on again and again, even if we have heard it before.
Don Wildmon: Around the year 1490, there were two young men, both struggling young artists, who were very good friends. But both of them were also poor, and that meant they had to support themselves while they studied art.
Don Wildmon: Because the work took so much of their time and energy, their advancement in the field of art was extremely slow. Discussing their plight, they came upon an agreement. They would draw straws, they decided, and the one who won would study while the other would work to support both of them.
Don Wildmon: The two drew straws, and the one who lost went to work to support both of them. The young artist who won went to the cities of Europe to study. History records that he soon became recognized as one of the outstanding artists of his time.
Don Wildmon: A part of their agreement also said that when the one who won the drawing became successful, he would then support the other in his studies. So after gaining success, the successful artist went home to get his friend and let him come study art while he supported both men with his earnings.
Don Wildmon: When the man who had become a recognized artist saw his friend again, he discovered that the very hard manual labor his friend had performed had caused his fingers to become stiff and twisted. He was no longer able to execute the delicate brushstrokes necessary for an artist.
Don Wildmon: It was apparent that the dream of becoming a successful artist could never come true for the man who had lost the drawing.
Don Wildmon: The successful artist noticed a very unusual trait in his friend, whose fingers were twisted. His friend accepted his fate not bitterly, but was happy that he had played a part in the success of the other man. He actually rejoiced in his friend’s success.
Don Wildmon: One day, the artist came upon his friend unexpectedly. He saw him kneeling and praying. He was praying for the success of his friend, although he himself could no longer realize his dream of becoming an artist.
Don Wildmon: Something about the kneeling man caught the artist’s attention, and he hurriedly sketched the hands folded in prayer.
Don Wildmon: Later, the artist took that sketch and from it drew one of the most famous and copied paintings in the world.
Don Wildmon: The man who painted the hands was Albrecht Dürer. The man whose hands he painted was Franz Knigstein. The picture he painted is known today as The Praying Hands.
Don Wildmon: The beauty and inspiration of The Praying Hands comes from the life that made it possible. Remember also that drawing a picture of beauty and inspiration isn’t nearly as important as living one.
Don Wildmon: This has been My Turn with Don Wildmon, a production of the American Family Association.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we’re back. That was a Western with Clint Eastwood. Who else was in that thing?
Bert Harper: Rawhide.
Tim Wildmon: Mr. Favor was the trail boss. I don’t know his real name.
Bert Harper: I was reading about Westerns one time when I was doing a trivia question about Bonanza. Little Joe, of course, was played by Michael Landon. In the fifteen years or so that show lasted, he had been shot something like twenty-six times and survived.
Tim Wildmon: One of my trivia questions was a Gunsmoke question. How many times had Matt Dillon been shot? I think, if I remember correctly, it was something like fifty-seven.
Bert Harper: It always grazes them.
Tim Wildmon: It never hits them in the chest or anything like that.
Bert Harper: That’s right. They were really bad shots.
Tim Wildmon: All right, go ahead and repeat our questions, and let’s get back to the phones.
Bert Harper: Here’s mine. Geographically, there are four state capitals that do not have an interstate highway going through them. Can you name them? The hint is that it’s not Honolulu.
Bert Harper: That’s a ten-out-of-ten difficult question. If you think about geography and where they’re located, you can figure it out. But it is tough, I admit it. My other two were easy. We’ve got to stretch ourselves and our students.
Tim Wildmon: That’s right.
Bert Harper: How many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together? And what is the name of a group of alligators? If you see a group of alligators, what do you have?
Tim Wildmon: You have a reason to run.
Bert Harper: That’s right.
Jonathan Coker: My first question is an Andy Griffith question. What was the name of the elderly lady who turned out to be a con artist and sold Barney Fife his first car?
Jonathan Coker: Second question: Who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Jonathan Coker: I’m going to add one. This is a car question. What feature of the Plymouth Road Runner distinguishes it from other muscle cars, besides its name?
Tim Wildmon: Here are my three questions. None of them have been answered yet. Name three types of nondairy milk that Americans consume.
Tim Wildmon: Number two: What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”? We use that all the time. Where does that expression come from?
Tim Wildmon: Number three: The Great Smoky Mountains are found in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia. Is that true or false?
Jonathan Coker: All right, back to the phones. We’re going to go back to Virginia, where Aaron is on the line. Aaron, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Aaron: Greetings, professors.
Jonathan Coker: Thank you, Brother Aaron. Where do you live in Virginia?
Aaron: Up in Front Royal, right next to the Shenandoah Valley.
Jonathan Coker: That’s beautiful country up through there.
Aaron: John, you drove through there recently, didn’t you?
Jonathan Coker: Yes, sir. I was on a tour of American history on the East Coast and went through the Shenandoah Valley.
Jonathan Coker: Well, Aaron, thanks for calling. Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Aaron: I’d like to do both. Someone told me at work that I wasn’t too smart, so I took the day off and thought you could help me.
Tim Wildmon: Don’t let them tell you that, Aaron. You can do anything you set your mind to.
Aaron: I’ve heard that, but I’m trying to believe you.
Tim Wildmon: That’s what your mom and dad, your coach, and your teacher told you anyway.
Bert Harper: I went out for basketball, and they said, “You can do anything you set your mind to.” I said, “Well, I can’t jump as high as that guy.” Even though my mind says I can, I can’t do that.
Jonathan Coker: All right, you said both?
Aaron: Yes, sir. I’d like to take a shot at the history question about the chief justice.
Jonathan Coker: Here’s the question: Who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Aaron: I’m going to guess John Adams.
Jonathan Coker: That is a good guess, but it is incorrect.
Aaron: He wasn’t?
Jonathan Coker: He was president, but he wasn’t chief justice.
Tim Wildmon: We’re making it easier by putting the answer in the road here.
Bert Harper: That’s right. Process of elimination.
Tim Wildmon: You’ve got forty-four presidents to choose from.
Bert Harper: So you’ve cut it down to forty-three.
Aaron: I’ll trade a history question. In the Civil War, a general by the name of Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall, got that nickname at a particular battle. How did he get the nickname Stonewall, and at which battle did he receive it?
Tim Wildmon: I’m trying to remember. I know the story. It may have been Gettysburg. Robert E. Lee said everybody was turning, but Jackson was standing like a stone wall.
Bert Harper: That sounds a little late. Gettysburg was in 1863.
Tim Wildmon: I’m pretty sure Stonewall Jackson died before Gettysburg.
Bert Harper: He lost his left arm, I think, and Robert E. Lee said, “He has lost his left arm, and I have lost my right.”
Tim Wildmon: We’ll say the story is right. We’re not sure about the battle, but we’ll say Gettysburg. What about it, Aaron?
Aaron: The quote is correct, but it wasn’t Gettysburg. He was past that. He did die before Gettysburg, I believe. It was at First Manassas, the first major battle of the war, also known as Bull Run. That’s where he got the nickname.
Aaron: It was a fellow officer who said, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall.”
Jonathan Coker: So it wasn’t Robert E. Lee who made that comment. It was somebody else who was under Stonewall Jackson?
Aaron: I believe it was a Georgian. I think it was Bernard Bee.
Tim Wildmon: It wasn’t Lee who gave him the nickname, but Robert E. Lee did say, “He has lost his left arm, and I have lost my right,” meaning that he depended heavily on Stonewall Jackson.
Tim Wildmon: Gettysburg is one of those places I’ve been. You feel like you’re in a certain place. I’ve been to others, like Shiloh, but at Gettysburg you feel the heaviness.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Brother Aaron. Thank you for calling from Virginia.
Jonathan Coker: We’re going to go to Oklahoma, where Mike is calling. Mike, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Mike: Good morning, professors.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, Mike. Where do you live in Oklahoma?
Mike: Bartlesville.
Tim Wildmon: You’ve called before, right?
Mike: Yes, in the past.
Tim Wildmon: If you can sing the first line or two from the musical Oklahoma!, I’ll send you a Learning University T-shirt.
Mike: I’ll pass on that.
Tim Wildmon: Come on, Mike. I already have the shirt ready, and I’ve got the postage on it and everything. You’re not even going to try?
Mike: Okay, okay.
Tim Wildmon: We’ll try it on the next person from Oklahoma.
Jonathan Coker: All right, Mike, ask, answer, or both?
Mike: I’ll try both.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Mike: The question about the three types of nondairy milk.
Tim Wildmon: Name three types of nondairy milk that Americans consume.
Tim Wildmon: I’m only going to say yes or no to all three. I’m not going to say, “You got two out of three,” and tell you what they are, because I’m going to save it for the next person. Unless he gets it right, in which case we’ll give him a handclap.
Mike: I’ve seen oat milk, almond milk, and coconut milk. There are three. I can think of another one, soy milk.
Tim Wildmon: You said four. I wanted the same grade and curve you got right there. When I was in school, I said to my teacher, “How about that?” She said, “You have to write down an answer and stick with it.”
Tim Wildmon: You did get the three, but you’re going to have to pick your three. You’ve got to earn this shirt. Give me your final answer.
Mike: It depends on which is more common. Probably oat, almond, and soy milk.
Tim Wildmon: You got it. Almond, oat, and soy are three of the most common types of nondairy milk.
Mike: The other one I mentioned was coconut.
Tim Wildmon: Can you buy that at a grocery store?
Mike: I’ve got it in my refrigerator right now.
Bert Harper: Coconut milk over cereal?
Mike: No, I don’t like coconut.
Tim Wildmon: What kind of milk do you use, Mike?
Mike: Dairy milk. I like milk from a cow.
Tim Wildmon: You go with the cow.
Tim Wildmon: I remember about ten years ago we went to the grocery store and got some almond milk. When you’re raised on cow’s milk and have drunk cow’s milk for fifty years, you think, “Almond milk? That just sounds sissy.” I didn’t want to tell my friends I was drinking almond milk.
Bert Harper: It’s hard to milk an almond.
Tim Wildmon: But you know what? It was good. I liked almond milk.
Tim Wildmon: Almond, oat, and soy are the three most popular nondairy milks. I believe they’re probably in that order as well. I guess they’re supposedly healthier for you. I don’t know what the appeal is.
Bert Harper: They don’t have some of the things that pasteurized milk has.
Tim Wildmon: My wife knows all that. I just drink what’s in the refrigerator.
Bert Harper: Soy milk doesn’t sound like it would be good.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t know. I could be wrong.
Mike: My question is about Major League Baseball. Who holds the record for the longest consecutive-game streak of getting on base safely?
Tim Wildmon: You threw me a curveball there, to use a baseball metaphor. I thought you were going to ask about the longest hitting streak or the longest playing streak.
Mike: The question is, which Major League Baseball player has the record for the longest consecutive-game streak of getting on base safely?
Tim Wildmon: I know Joe DiMaggio still holds the record for most consecutive games with a base hit. That was fifty-six games. The ways you can get on base include a walk or an error, so somebody would have to be high up there.
Bert Harper: I know more about the older players than the present ones. I don’t keep up with it like I used to. I’m going to go with an old Yankee.
Tim Wildmon: Joe DiMaggio was an old Yankee.
Bert Harper: That’s true.
Jonathan Coker: I’m going with Pete Rose.
Tim Wildmon: I’m going to say DiMaggio.
Bert Harper: Mickey Mantle.
Mike: Joe DiMaggio was in second place with seventy-four games.
Tim Wildmon: Who was first?
Mike: I’ll give you the era and the team.
Tim Wildmon: I’ll guess it for you.
Mike: Late forties and early fifties, into the early sixties.
Tim Wildmon: What team?
Bert Harper: Boston Red Sox.
Tim Wildmon: Ted Williams.
Mike: Ted Williams.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, we should have known that.
Bert Harper: Have you heard about the new forty-forty player in baseball, with forty home runs and forty stolen bases?
Tim Wildmon: No.
Bert Harper: Pete Crow-Armstrong, or PCA. My son and I are Cubs fans, and we keep up with it. He got forty home runs and forty stolen bases.
Tim Wildmon: He’s number seven. Only six others have accomplished that, and he’s the first Cub.
Bert Harper: DiMaggio was second behind Ted Williams, right?
Mike: Yes, eighty-four games straight.
Tim Wildmon: Joe DiMaggio was seventy-four games. That probably included his fifty-six-game hitting streak.
Bert Harper: I’m thinking yes, because when you hit as well as Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio did, they’re going to walk you a lot, too, which gets you on base.
Tim Wildmon: That fifty-six-game hitting streak will stand forever.
Bert Harper: Don’t you love their nicknames? The Splendid Splinter and the Iron Horse.
Tim Wildmon: Ted Williams was the Splendid Splinter, and Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Brother Mike. Good to hear from you.
Jonathan Coker: We’re going to Missouri, where Bob is calling. Bob, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Bob: Good morning.
Tim Wildmon: Thanks for calling. Whereabouts in Missouri are you?
Bob: I’m in Becker, in southern Missouri.
Tim Wildmon: That’s not far from my birthplace. My birthplace was Houston, Missouri, near Fort Leonard Wood, where my dad was.
Bob: Today is my birthday. I have a birthday blessing of being on the show with the esteemed professors.
Tim Wildmon: Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Bob.
Bert Harper: Don’t embarrass your family like we just did.
Tim Wildmon: We’ll send you a recording of that, Bob. You really need it.
Bob: Thanks very much. I’m honored.
Tim Wildmon: Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Bob: I’d like to do both. I’d like to speak to “dyed in the wool.”
Bert Harper: Good. Here’s the question. What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”?
Bob: I believe it goes back to the old times when folks had to make thread from fiber, then make yarn from the thread, and weave that into cloth. “Dyed in the wool” was if you dyed the wool before you spun it.
Bert Harper: That’s a correct answer. In medieval times, people applied vegetable dye directly to raw wool rather than to spun yarn or finished cloth. The goal was to let the dye seep into the fibers, resulting in a more consistent and durable color in the final cloth.
Bert Harper: That technique led to the expression “dyed in the wool,” referring to someone deeply ingrained with a particular belief. We use it today to describe someone who is a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist or a dyed-in-the-wool Cubs fan.
Tim Wildmon: That expression goes all the way back about a thousand years. Most people who use it probably have no idea where it came from, but they know what it means.
Bob: I knew it had to do with sheep and wool, but I had no idea how old it was.
Bert Harper: Well, Bob, you got it correct. Bring us your question.
Bob: My question is an Andy Griffith Show question.
Tim Wildmon: I feel left out here.
Bob: It also has a Gunsmoke connection.
Bert Harper: That makes me feel better. I might have a shot at that.
Bob: A prominent character on The Andy Griffith Show played a prominent character in the radio version of Gunsmoke.
Tim Wildmon: There was a radio Gunsmoke before it became a television program.
Bob: William Conrad played Matt Dillon.
Tim Wildmon: That’s right. When they tried to bring it to television, they didn’t think he would make a good-looking guy. He was short and round, and they needed somebody long and tall, so they went to James Arness.
Bob: What was the radio Doc Adams’s name?
Tim Wildmon: Was it Floyd?
Bob: Floyd the barber?
Tim Wildmon: Floyd the barber. What was the barber’s real name?
Bob: What was the actor’s name?
Tim Wildmon: Bob, we’re waiting on you.
Bob: Being on live radio means my memory has shrunk considerably.
Tim Wildmon: He was also on The Donna Reed Show as a neighbor.
Bob: The first Floyd wasn’t the one who stayed. He was a one-time actor, and they changed Floyd.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Bob. We appreciate you calling from Missouri.
Jonathan Coker: That was Bob from Missouri. We go next to Mississippi, where Haywood is calling. Haywood, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Haywood: Good morning, professors. It’s been a while.
Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, Haywood. Thanks for calling.
Haywood: I’m glad to be back.
Tim Wildmon: Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Haywood: I’d like to do both this morning.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to take a shot at?
Haywood: I’m going to try the Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne question.
Bert Harper: Two of the greatest actors ever. How many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together?
Haywood: I’m going to go with two.
Bert Harper: Not quite. Is the answer more or less?
Haywood: More.
Bert Harper: It is more. Can you name the two you’re thinking about?
Haywood: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and John Wayne’s very last movie, The Shootist.
Tim Wildmon: Both of those are right, but there are more. The Shootist had Ron Howard in it as well. John Wayne had the part and called Jimmy Stewart, who had not done any movies in quite a while because his hearing was basically gone. He asked him to come in and play a doctor, and Jimmy Stewart said yes.
Bert Harper: They started in that one together, but it’s more than two. Those two are correct.
Tim Wildmon: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is hard to beat.
Haywood: My question is about a biblical food that has been known to last thousands of years. What is it?
Bert Harper: I know that one. Honey.
Haywood: That’s right. Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
Tim Wildmon: They found some in Egypt that was nearly three thousand years old, and it was still edible.
Bert Harper: Who was going to be the first one to try it?
Tim Wildmon: Exactly. “Hey, Bill, come over here. You’re expendable. Here’s some toast. Try this honey on it.”
Bert Harper: The milk will spoil, but honey stays good.
Tim Wildmon: Did somebody really try that honey?
Haywood: Yes, sir, they sure did.
Tim Wildmon: You know what I’d name the honey if I were selling it? Mommy Honey.
Bert Harper: Mommy Honey.
Tim Wildmon: You could make a killing off that. “Get your Mommy Honey right here, straight out of the Pharaoh’s pyramid.”
Bert Harper: That’s not funny either.
Tim Wildmon: It’s not funny, Mommy Honey.
Bert Harper: It’s bad.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Haywood. Good to hear from you, my friend.
Tim Wildmon: Let’s give our questions that haven’t been answered. We need at least half of them.
Bert Harper: We’ll do it when we get back.
Tim Wildmon: The music stops for no man. We’re going to take a timeout right here. When we get back, I’m Tim with Bert and Jonathan, and we’ll reset our questions. We have about twenty-five minutes left of education to bring forth unto thee, as you might say in the King James.
Tim Wildmon: Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Trivia Friday on American Family Radio.
Tim Wildmon: Thanks for listening to AFR. I am Tim Wildmon. I was out last week with J.J. and Ed here last week. I think they were all right.
Tim Wildmon: Joining me today is Brother Bert Harper. Good to be with you, man.
Bert Harper: The B team. One of the B team has arrived.
Tim Wildmon: All right, Jonathan Coker. Good morning, Jonathan.
Jonathan Coker: The other B team is also here.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, you guys are going to do fine. We were joking before the show. I said, “You know, in sports, when somebody is out and the next person comes in, the coach says, ‘Next man up.’” And I always think, “Well, the next man up isn’t as good as your first man up, or he would have been out there in the first place.”
Tim Wildmon: But I have full confidence in you guys.
Bert Harper: Hey, not to blow it, but it’s fun to be here. I’m nervous.
Tim Wildmon: All right, exactly. It is Trivia Friday. We’re going to ask three questions each in just a few moments, and then we’re going to let you call in and ask us questions.
Jonathan Coker: So it’s answer and ask today.
Tim Wildmon: First-time callers are welcome. We have an eight-week waiting period between calls, so if you haven’t been on the air with us in eight weeks, you’re eligible to call in. If you’ve never been on with us, you’re welcome to call in. Here’s the phone number to reach us: 888-589-8840. Again, 888-589-8840. Call in and be on Trivia Friday.
Tim Wildmon: Now, Bert and Jonathan, y’all have been on before, but it’s unusual for two of you guys to be on the same week.
Jonathan Coker: We’ve been on one time together before, about a year and a half ago or something like that.
Tim Wildmon: I just want to tell our friends who aren’t from the Deep South, our friends in Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and places like that, that I will serve as the interpreter.
Jonathan Coker: Thank you for both of us.
Tim Wildmon: I know most folks don’t believe it, but I do talk a lot better now. I don’t still talk as Southern as I used to.
Bert Harper: If you want to know what word they’re actually saying, just ask me. I can be your national radio interpreter.
Jonathan Coker: It’s fun to say that because there are some of my questions that I’ve been nervous about pronouncing.
Tim Wildmon: See, there, we need an interpreter.
Jonathan Coker: That’s right.
Bert Harper: I don’t really have an accent. I’m pretty generic.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t think I have an accent.
Jonathan Coker: But everybody else does, or at least an accent people can’t understand.
Tim Wildmon: All right, you’re listening to Trivia Friday. Is there anything else we need to do?
Jonathan Coker: What about the mystery question? Out of these questions, we’re going to have a mystery question. You’ll know that you got the mystery question correct when you hear this sound.
Bert Harper: Yes, the beloved cowbell shall ring, and all the world will know you’ve won yourself an AFR Trivia Friday T-shirt.
Tim Wildmon: That’s right. I’m holding it up for those who are watching. It’s the third edition, isn’t it?
Bert Harper: I think so.
Tim Wildmon: We’ve got a nice Learning University T-shirt that we will send your way if you get the question correct.
Jonathan Coker: You can buy one of these Learning University Trivia Friday T-shirts at our store.
Tim Wildmon: I’ll tell you the address in just a few moments. It’s resources.afa.net.
Bert Harper: Go there and get one. They’re about twenty dollars, something like that.
Tim Wildmon: They’re really nice, and we’ll send one out. You can see the shirt at resources.afa.net and get one. We’ve got a lot of other good stuff on that website as well.
Bert Harper: We’ve got some baseball caps and all kinds of good stuff there.
Tim Wildmon: So definitely check that out.
Tim Wildmon: Ed’s traveling, and J.J. was traveling. J.J. is always traveling. J.J., you know the Johnny Cash song, “I’ve Been Everywhere”?
Jonathan Coker: He has. That’s the theme to J.J.’s life right there. “I’ve been everywhere.”
Bert Harper: All right, Bert, go ahead.
Bert Harper: Man, far away. Okay, here are my three questions. The first one is a Bible question. Who caught a fish, opened its mouth, and found a coin?
Bert Harper: My second question is geography. I love geography, and this may be a little difficult, but I’ll give you a hint. There are four state capitals that do not have an interstate highway. Can you name them?
Bert Harper: One hint: It’s not Honolulu. Believe it or not, Honolulu has an interstate system. That would have been a good trivia question right there.
Tim Wildmon: It would.
Bert Harper: My third question is, how many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together? They were two giant stars. John Wayne was mostly military and Western, and Jimmy Stewart could do anything.
Bert Harper: How many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together?
Jonathan Coker: That’s an odd couple to put in a movie together.
Bert Harper: I did some research on it. Why didn’t they do more? They were contemporaries, but they were so different. Can you imagine John Wayne in It’s a Wonderful Life, sitting down to Mr. Potter? I don’t think that would have worked. But they did star in some movies. How many?
Jonathan Coker: Jimmy Stewart was in The Sands of Iwo Jima, too.
Bert Harper: No, The Sands of Iwo Jima.
Jonathan Coker: Was that two of them?
Bert Harper: That’s my three.
Tim Wildmon: All right, go ahead.
Jonathan Coker: Bert and I talked beforehand, and we decided that since he’s an Andy Griffith fan and I’m a John Wayne fan, he was going to do the John Wayne question, and I was going to do the Andy Griffith question.
Bert Harper: I got the Andy Griffith question.
Jonathan Coker: Here’s my first question. What was the name of the elderly lady who turned out to be a con artist and sold Barney Fife his first car on The Andy Griffith Show?
Tim Wildmon: I would say that’s a great question, by the way. That’s one of my favorite episodes.
Jonathan Coker: Number two is a Bible question. What does suffering, or tribulation, produce according to Romans chapter five? There are three things I’m looking for in that answer.
Jonathan Coker: If somebody can answer that without looking it up or asking somebody else, because they know the Scriptures, we’ll send them a Learning University T-shirt.
Tim Wildmon: What’s the question again?
Jonathan Coker: What does suffering, or tribulation, produce according to Romans chapter five?
Jonathan Coker: My last question is, who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Tim Wildmon: That’s also a good question. Way to go, man.
Jonathan Coker: The good American history question.
Tim Wildmon: Can you repeat it?
Jonathan Coker: Who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Bert Harper: Did you say president?
Jonathan Coker: President.
Bert Harper: I know.
Jonathan Coker: I told you I was going to pick on you.
Bert Harper: President. Is that right?
Jonathan Coker: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: All right. That’s the best I’ve got.
Tim Wildmon: Here are mine. Name three types of nondairy milk that Americans consume.
Bert Harper: I got that. I know two, though. I’m looking for the third one.
Tim Wildmon: Here’s my second question. What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”? We use that all the time, don’t we?
Bert Harper: We do.
Tim Wildmon: Bert’s a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist. Where do we get that expression from? What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”?
Tim Wildmon: My third question, speaking of geography: The Great Smoky Mountains are found in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia. Is that true or false?
Bert Harper: Okay, you got me.
Tim Wildmon: Rocky Top, of course, is in Tennessee. But are the Great Smoky Mountains found in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia? Is that true or false?
Tim Wildmon: All right, Jonathan, let’s hit the phones. Our students are waiting to participate.
Jonathan Coker: All right.
Tim Wildmon: They want to find out who the president is.
Bert Harper: President Zent.
Jonathan Coker: I’m going to get that for the next hour.
Tim Wildmon: I’ll stop.
Jonathan Coker: No, I’ve got six in. You can bring it on. I’m good.
Jonathan Coker: All right, we’re going to go to Iowa, where Robert is on the line. Robert, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Robert: Well, thank you.
Bert Harper: Hey, Brother Robert, thanks for calling. Where do you live in Iowa?
Robert: It’s Chillicothe, Iowa.
Tim Wildmon: I was in Davenport recently.
Robert: That’s farther north.
Tim Wildmon: I flew up there, and our plane landed in Davenport. I got out and looked around, and I was surrounded by cornfields. I’m in Iowa now, for sure. There’s a cornfield everywhere.
Tim Wildmon: Do you want to ask and answer both, Robert?
Robert: I’d like to do both.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Robert: I want to do the one about the fish.
Tim Wildmon: The first one. All right, here it is. Who caught a fish, opened its mouth, and found a coin?
Robert: I want to say Peter.
Bert Harper: Yes, right off the bat. Man, way to go.
Tim Wildmon: Robert knows the correct answer right out of the Bible. It is an interesting thing. It’s the only miracle Jesus did that helped Him personally, because they were asking Him to pay the temple tax. Jesus didn’t have the money, and Peter didn’t have his either. So Jesus told him to go and throw a hook into the sea.
Tim Wildmon: That’s unusual, because Peter was usually throwing nets. He put the hook in, and the right fish got on the hook. Peter opened its mouth, and there was a coin in its mouth. The fish hadn’t swallowed it, and Peter brought it back so they could pay the temple tax.
Tim Wildmon: How did you know that, Robert?
Robert: I’ve heard of it before, but I just studied it.
Tim Wildmon: So you’ve been on the trivia show before?
Robert: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: Well, welcome back. Fire away with your question.
Robert: On the television show Gunsmoke, what was Doc Adams’s first name?
Robert: On Gunsmoke, what was Doc Adams’s first name?
Tim Wildmon: I guarantee you, when you tell me, I’ll say, “Yes, that seems familiar.”
Bert Harper: That is a deep dive.
Tim Wildmon: Gunsmoke was the longest-running television show in history, I think, until The Simpsons or something. It was a Western, and Bonanza was right behind it.
Robert: Does anybody know that?
Tim Wildmon: I don’t think I know that.
Robert: Sam.
Tim Wildmon: Was it George, Bob, or Sam?
Robert: We watch Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, and The Andy Griffith Show all the time. I looked it up on my phone. It starts with a G.
Tim Wildmon: Galen?
Robert: Yes, Galen.
Bert Harper: Galen.
Jonathan Coker: Oh, Galen.
Tim Wildmon: I wonder how many times that was mentioned in the show.
Robert: Only a few times.
Tim Wildmon: All right, hold on a second. Do you know what that is?
Robert: A draw?
Tim Wildmon: That’s a real cowbell.
Bert Harper: Our in-laws were farmers, and the head cow would wear one when they came up to be milked.
Jonathan Coker: What we didn’t hear was what it was.
Tim Wildmon: It sounds like a coffee can.
Bert Harper: It’s a cowbell.
Tim Wildmon: We’ve got a real cowbell. You want to hear what a real cowbell sounds like? Here’s what it sounds like.
Jonathan Coker: I don’t know. You may want to get your cowbell.
Tim Wildmon: Robert, your cowbell sounds sick, everybody. It’s a little out of tune.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Robert. Keep on milking the cows, then. I’m going to put you on hold, because you want to be sure to get your prize. Miss Patti is going to get your information so we can get that shipped out to you. Hang on the line, Robert.
Tim Wildmon: Robert had the Bible question about the fish. Bert, do you want to give another question real quick?
Bert Harper: Here’s one I’ve been wanting to do, and I didn’t have room. What is the name of a group of alligators?
Bert Harper: I love group names. If you go over to your window and pull back the curtains or lift up the blinds, and in your backyard there are multiple alligators, you call your wife over and say, “Honey, come over here and look at this. We have a blank of alligators in our backyard.”
Bert Harper: When my son lived in South Carolina, there were alligators behind his apartment. You would see signs that said, “Don’t feed the alligators.” They were that close.
Bert Harper: A group of alligators has a certain name. What is a group of alligators called?
Tim Wildmon: I don’t know that they ran in groups.
Bert Harper: They can run all together.
Tim Wildmon: It’s not a pack, though, right?
Bert Harper: It’s not a pack.
Jonathan Coker: We’ve already done that. Back to the phones.
Jonathan Coker: We’re going to go to Virginia, where Sarah is calling. Sarah, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Sarah: Hi, professors.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Sarah, for that honor. We are professors at Learning University.
Sarah: Well, by the class of my semester.
Tim Wildmon: Jonathan and Bert are kind of substitute teachers.
Bert Harper: That’s where I want to be useful.
Tim Wildmon: Ask, answer, or both, Sarah?
Sarah: I’ll do both, please.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Sarah: The other Bible question.
Jonathan Coker: This is for a Learning University T-shirt. Sarah, before you answer this, did you have to ask or look it up, or do you know the answer?
Sarah: I did not look it up.
Jonathan Coker: If she gets it right because she just knows it, we’ll send her the Learning University T-shirt. Here’s the question: What does suffering produce according to Romans chapter five?
Sarah: I’m going to answer from my knowledge in the King James. I’m not sure if that makes any difference for your answer, but it’s patience, experience, and hope.
Jonathan Coker: I will take that.
Bert Harper: I had perseverance.
Jonathan Coker: Patience in the King James is really perseverance.
Bert Harper: That’s right.
Jonathan Coker: And then character and hope.
Sarah: What were the three words you gave?
Jonathan Coker: Patience, experience, and hope.
Bert Harper: Experience and character are the same thing.
Jonathan Coker: I think so. It’s close.
Tim Wildmon: Way to go. Thanks for knowing your Bible, Sarah. We’re going to send you the Learning University T-shirt.
Sarah: Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: Are you grateful?
Sarah: Yes, I am. Thank you.
Tim Wildmon: You’re welcome. We’re happy to do it.
Sarah: My question is, in which John Wayne movie was he doing a not-so-convincing Swedish accent?
Tim Wildmon: That’s just wrong. John Wayne doing a Swedish accent?
Jonathan Coker: I don’t think that ranked in the top ten.
Tim Wildmon: John Wayne did a Swedish accent?
Bert Harper: What’s the one where he’s the boxer? I think he was Irish or something.
Jonathan Coker: The Quiet Man?
Tim Wildmon: The Quiet Man.
Sarah: The answer is The Long Voyage Home.
Tim Wildmon: The Long Voyage Home. Was that early or late in his career?
Sarah: It was from 1940. He was a sailor on a merchant steamship.
Tim Wildmon: I think that was early for him.
Jonathan Coker: You guys are John Wayne fans. I only know True Grit and maybe two or three other movies.
Tim Wildmon: You’ve got a John Wayne statue at your home.
Jonathan Coker: I’ve got a picture. I have an upstairs room, and John Wayne is there. He and Roy Rogers are hanging on my wall.
Tim Wildmon: Sarah, you’re kind of young to be up on John Wayne trivia. How did you watch his movies?
Sarah: In movies, I’m very old.
Tim Wildmon: They were better anyway. They don’t make them like that anymore.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Sarah. I appreciate you calling. I’m going to put you on hold. We need to get your address, so Miss Patti is going to pick up and get your information.
Tim Wildmon: You’re having your questions answered here on Trivia Friday on American Family Radio, also known as Learning University. Learning University is on the air.
Tim Wildmon: I’m Tim with Bert and Jonathan. Ed and J.J. have developed an attitude problem, so we put them in timeout to think about it for many days.
Tim Wildmon: I know this is way early, but let’s go ahead and take our break. I don’t want to interfere with a caller. This will give Jonathan and Bert time to reset three new questions, or the ones that haven’t been answered.
Tim Wildmon: We’ll return with more of Trivia Friday, also known as Learning University.
Don Wildmon: It’s an old story I’m sure most of you have heard more than once, but it’s a timeless story and worth passing on again and again, even if we have heard it before.
Don Wildmon: Around the year 1490, there were two young men, both struggling young artists, who were very good friends. But both of them were also poor, and that meant they had to support themselves while they studied art.
Don Wildmon: Because the work took so much of their time and energy, their advancement in the field of art was extremely slow. Discussing their plight, they came upon an agreement. They would draw straws, they decided, and the one who won would study while the other would work to support both of them.
Don Wildmon: The two drew straws, and the one who lost went to work to support both of them. The young artist who won went to the cities of Europe to study. History records that he soon became recognized as one of the outstanding artists of his time.
Don Wildmon: A part of their agreement also said that when the one who won the drawing became successful, he would then support the other in his studies. So after gaining success, the successful artist went home to get his friend and let him come study art while he supported both men with his earnings.
Don Wildmon: When the man who had become a recognized artist saw his friend again, he discovered that the very hard manual labor his friend had performed had caused his fingers to become stiff and twisted. He was no longer able to execute the delicate brushstrokes necessary for an artist.
Don Wildmon: It was apparent that the dream of becoming a successful artist could never come true for the man who had lost the drawing.
Don Wildmon: The successful artist noticed a very unusual trait in his friend, whose fingers were twisted. His friend accepted his fate not bitterly, but was happy that he had played a part in the success of the other man. He actually rejoiced in his friend’s success.
Don Wildmon: One day, the artist came upon his friend unexpectedly. He saw him kneeling and praying. He was praying for the success of his friend, although he himself could no longer realize his dream of becoming an artist.
Don Wildmon: Something about the kneeling man caught the artist’s attention, and he hurriedly sketched the hands folded in prayer.
Don Wildmon: Later, the artist took that sketch and from it drew one of the most famous and copied paintings in the world.
Don Wildmon: The man who painted the hands was Albrecht Dürer. The man whose hands he painted was Franz Knigstein. The picture he painted is known today as The Praying Hands.
Don Wildmon: The beauty and inspiration of The Praying Hands comes from the life that made it possible. Remember also that drawing a picture of beauty and inspiration isn’t nearly as important as living one.
Don Wildmon: This has been My Turn with Don Wildmon, a production of the American Family Association.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we’re back. That was a Western with Clint Eastwood. Who else was in that thing?
Bert Harper: Rawhide.
Tim Wildmon: Mr. Favor was the trail boss. I don’t know his real name.
Bert Harper: I was reading about Westerns one time when I was doing a trivia question about Bonanza. Little Joe, of course, was played by Michael Landon. In the fifteen years or so that show lasted, he had been shot something like twenty-six times and survived.
Tim Wildmon: One of my trivia questions was a Gunsmoke question. How many times had Matt Dillon been shot? I think, if I remember correctly, it was something like fifty-seven.
Bert Harper: It always grazes them.
Tim Wildmon: It never hits them in the chest or anything like that.
Bert Harper: That’s right. They were really bad shots.
Tim Wildmon: All right, go ahead and repeat our questions, and let’s get back to the phones.
Bert Harper: Here’s mine. Geographically, there are four state capitals that do not have an interstate highway going through them. Can you name them? The hint is that it’s not Honolulu.
Bert Harper: That’s a ten-out-of-ten difficult question. If you think about geography and where they’re located, you can figure it out. But it is tough, I admit it. My other two were easy. We’ve got to stretch ourselves and our students.
Tim Wildmon: That’s right.
Bert Harper: How many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together? And what is the name of a group of alligators? If you see a group of alligators, what do you have?
Tim Wildmon: You have a reason to run.
Bert Harper: That’s right.
Jonathan Coker: My first question is an Andy Griffith question. What was the name of the elderly lady who turned out to be a con artist and sold Barney Fife his first car?
Jonathan Coker: Second question: Who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Jonathan Coker: I’m going to add one. This is a car question. What feature of the Plymouth Road Runner distinguishes it from other muscle cars, besides its name?
Tim Wildmon: Here are my three questions. None of them have been answered yet. Name three types of nondairy milk that Americans consume.
Tim Wildmon: Number two: What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”? We use that all the time. Where does that expression come from?
Tim Wildmon: Number three: The Great Smoky Mountains are found in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Georgia. Is that true or false?
Jonathan Coker: All right, back to the phones. We’re going to go back to Virginia, where Aaron is on the line. Aaron, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Aaron: Greetings, professors.
Jonathan Coker: Thank you, Brother Aaron. Where do you live in Virginia?
Aaron: Up in Front Royal, right next to the Shenandoah Valley.
Jonathan Coker: That’s beautiful country up through there.
Aaron: John, you drove through there recently, didn’t you?
Jonathan Coker: Yes, sir. I was on a tour of American history on the East Coast and went through the Shenandoah Valley.
Jonathan Coker: Well, Aaron, thanks for calling. Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Aaron: I’d like to do both. Someone told me at work that I wasn’t too smart, so I took the day off and thought you could help me.
Tim Wildmon: Don’t let them tell you that, Aaron. You can do anything you set your mind to.
Aaron: I’ve heard that, but I’m trying to believe you.
Tim Wildmon: That’s what your mom and dad, your coach, and your teacher told you anyway.
Bert Harper: I went out for basketball, and they said, “You can do anything you set your mind to.” I said, “Well, I can’t jump as high as that guy.” Even though my mind says I can, I can’t do that.
Jonathan Coker: All right, you said both?
Aaron: Yes, sir. I’d like to take a shot at the history question about the chief justice.
Jonathan Coker: Here’s the question: Who was the only person to hold the offices of both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Aaron: I’m going to guess John Adams.
Jonathan Coker: That is a good guess, but it is incorrect.
Aaron: He wasn’t?
Jonathan Coker: He was president, but he wasn’t chief justice.
Tim Wildmon: We’re making it easier by putting the answer in the road here.
Bert Harper: That’s right. Process of elimination.
Tim Wildmon: You’ve got forty-four presidents to choose from.
Bert Harper: So you’ve cut it down to forty-three.
Aaron: I’ll trade a history question. In the Civil War, a general by the name of Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall, got that nickname at a particular battle. How did he get the nickname Stonewall, and at which battle did he receive it?
Tim Wildmon: I’m trying to remember. I know the story. It may have been Gettysburg. Robert E. Lee said everybody was turning, but Jackson was standing like a stone wall.
Bert Harper: That sounds a little late. Gettysburg was in 1863.
Tim Wildmon: I’m pretty sure Stonewall Jackson died before Gettysburg.
Bert Harper: He lost his left arm, I think, and Robert E. Lee said, “He has lost his left arm, and I have lost my right.”
Tim Wildmon: We’ll say the story is right. We’re not sure about the battle, but we’ll say Gettysburg. What about it, Aaron?
Aaron: The quote is correct, but it wasn’t Gettysburg. He was past that. He did die before Gettysburg, I believe. It was at First Manassas, the first major battle of the war, also known as Bull Run. That’s where he got the nickname.
Aaron: It was a fellow officer who said, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall.”
Jonathan Coker: So it wasn’t Robert E. Lee who made that comment. It was somebody else who was under Stonewall Jackson?
Aaron: I believe it was a Georgian. I think it was Bernard Bee.
Tim Wildmon: It wasn’t Lee who gave him the nickname, but Robert E. Lee did say, “He has lost his left arm, and I have lost my right,” meaning that he depended heavily on Stonewall Jackson.
Tim Wildmon: Gettysburg is one of those places I’ve been. You feel like you’re in a certain place. I’ve been to others, like Shiloh, but at Gettysburg you feel the heaviness.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Brother Aaron. Thank you for calling from Virginia.
Jonathan Coker: We’re going to go to Oklahoma, where Mike is calling. Mike, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Mike: Good morning, professors.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, Mike. Where do you live in Oklahoma?
Mike: Bartlesville.
Tim Wildmon: You’ve called before, right?
Mike: Yes, in the past.
Tim Wildmon: If you can sing the first line or two from the musical Oklahoma!, I’ll send you a Learning University T-shirt.
Mike: I’ll pass on that.
Tim Wildmon: Come on, Mike. I already have the shirt ready, and I’ve got the postage on it and everything. You’re not even going to try?
Mike: Okay, okay.
Tim Wildmon: We’ll try it on the next person from Oklahoma.
Jonathan Coker: All right, Mike, ask, answer, or both?
Mike: I’ll try both.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to answer?
Mike: The question about the three types of nondairy milk.
Tim Wildmon: Name three types of nondairy milk that Americans consume.
Tim Wildmon: I’m only going to say yes or no to all three. I’m not going to say, “You got two out of three,” and tell you what they are, because I’m going to save it for the next person. Unless he gets it right, in which case we’ll give him a handclap.
Mike: I’ve seen oat milk, almond milk, and coconut milk. There are three. I can think of another one, soy milk.
Tim Wildmon: You said four. I wanted the same grade and curve you got right there. When I was in school, I said to my teacher, “How about that?” She said, “You have to write down an answer and stick with it.”
Tim Wildmon: You did get the three, but you’re going to have to pick your three. You’ve got to earn this shirt. Give me your final answer.
Mike: It depends on which is more common. Probably oat, almond, and soy milk.
Tim Wildmon: You got it. Almond, oat, and soy are three of the most common types of nondairy milk.
Mike: The other one I mentioned was coconut.
Tim Wildmon: Can you buy that at a grocery store?
Mike: I’ve got it in my refrigerator right now.
Bert Harper: Coconut milk over cereal?
Mike: No, I don’t like coconut.
Tim Wildmon: What kind of milk do you use, Mike?
Mike: Dairy milk. I like milk from a cow.
Tim Wildmon: You go with the cow.
Tim Wildmon: I remember about ten years ago we went to the grocery store and got some almond milk. When you’re raised on cow’s milk and have drunk cow’s milk for fifty years, you think, “Almond milk? That just sounds sissy.” I didn’t want to tell my friends I was drinking almond milk.
Bert Harper: It’s hard to milk an almond.
Tim Wildmon: But you know what? It was good. I liked almond milk.
Tim Wildmon: Almond, oat, and soy are the three most popular nondairy milks. I believe they’re probably in that order as well. I guess they’re supposedly healthier for you. I don’t know what the appeal is.
Bert Harper: They don’t have some of the things that pasteurized milk has.
Tim Wildmon: My wife knows all that. I just drink what’s in the refrigerator.
Bert Harper: Soy milk doesn’t sound like it would be good.
Tim Wildmon: I don’t know. I could be wrong.
Mike: My question is about Major League Baseball. Who holds the record for the longest consecutive-game streak of getting on base safely?
Tim Wildmon: You threw me a curveball there, to use a baseball metaphor. I thought you were going to ask about the longest hitting streak or the longest playing streak.
Mike: The question is, which Major League Baseball player has the record for the longest consecutive-game streak of getting on base safely?
Tim Wildmon: I know Joe DiMaggio still holds the record for most consecutive games with a base hit. That was fifty-six games. The ways you can get on base include a walk or an error, so somebody would have to be high up there.
Bert Harper: I know more about the older players than the present ones. I don’t keep up with it like I used to. I’m going to go with an old Yankee.
Tim Wildmon: Joe DiMaggio was an old Yankee.
Bert Harper: That’s true.
Jonathan Coker: I’m going with Pete Rose.
Tim Wildmon: I’m going to say DiMaggio.
Bert Harper: Mickey Mantle.
Mike: Joe DiMaggio was in second place with seventy-four games.
Tim Wildmon: Who was first?
Mike: I’ll give you the era and the team.
Tim Wildmon: I’ll guess it for you.
Mike: Late forties and early fifties, into the early sixties.
Tim Wildmon: What team?
Bert Harper: Boston Red Sox.
Tim Wildmon: Ted Williams.
Mike: Ted Williams.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, we should have known that.
Bert Harper: Have you heard about the new forty-forty player in baseball, with forty home runs and forty stolen bases?
Tim Wildmon: No.
Bert Harper: Pete Crow-Armstrong, or PCA. My son and I are Cubs fans, and we keep up with it. He got forty home runs and forty stolen bases.
Tim Wildmon: He’s number seven. Only six others have accomplished that, and he’s the first Cub.
Bert Harper: DiMaggio was second behind Ted Williams, right?
Mike: Yes, eighty-four games straight.
Tim Wildmon: Joe DiMaggio was seventy-four games. That probably included his fifty-six-game hitting streak.
Bert Harper: I’m thinking yes, because when you hit as well as Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio did, they’re going to walk you a lot, too, which gets you on base.
Tim Wildmon: That fifty-six-game hitting streak will stand forever.
Bert Harper: Don’t you love their nicknames? The Splendid Splinter and the Iron Horse.
Tim Wildmon: Ted Williams was the Splendid Splinter, and Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Brother Mike. Good to hear from you.
Jonathan Coker: We’re going to Missouri, where Bob is calling. Bob, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Bob: Good morning.
Tim Wildmon: Thanks for calling. Whereabouts in Missouri are you?
Bob: I’m in Becker, in southern Missouri.
Tim Wildmon: That’s not far from my birthplace. My birthplace was Houston, Missouri, near Fort Leonard Wood, where my dad was.
Bob: Today is my birthday. I have a birthday blessing of being on the show with the esteemed professors.
Tim Wildmon: Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Bob.
Bert Harper: Don’t embarrass your family like we just did.
Tim Wildmon: We’ll send you a recording of that, Bob. You really need it.
Bob: Thanks very much. I’m honored.
Tim Wildmon: Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Bob: I’d like to do both. I’d like to speak to “dyed in the wool.”
Bert Harper: Good. Here’s the question. What is the origin of the expression “dyed in the wool”?
Bob: I believe it goes back to the old times when folks had to make thread from fiber, then make yarn from the thread, and weave that into cloth. “Dyed in the wool” was if you dyed the wool before you spun it.
Bert Harper: That’s a correct answer. In medieval times, people applied vegetable dye directly to raw wool rather than to spun yarn or finished cloth. The goal was to let the dye seep into the fibers, resulting in a more consistent and durable color in the final cloth.
Bert Harper: That technique led to the expression “dyed in the wool,” referring to someone deeply ingrained with a particular belief. We use it today to describe someone who is a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist or a dyed-in-the-wool Cubs fan.
Tim Wildmon: That expression goes all the way back about a thousand years. Most people who use it probably have no idea where it came from, but they know what it means.
Bob: I knew it had to do with sheep and wool, but I had no idea how old it was.
Bert Harper: Well, Bob, you got it correct. Bring us your question.
Bob: My question is an Andy Griffith Show question.
Tim Wildmon: I feel left out here.
Bob: It also has a Gunsmoke connection.
Bert Harper: That makes me feel better. I might have a shot at that.
Bob: A prominent character on The Andy Griffith Show played a prominent character in the radio version of Gunsmoke.
Tim Wildmon: There was a radio Gunsmoke before it became a television program.
Bob: William Conrad played Matt Dillon.
Tim Wildmon: That’s right. When they tried to bring it to television, they didn’t think he would make a good-looking guy. He was short and round, and they needed somebody long and tall, so they went to James Arness.
Bob: What was the radio Doc Adams’s name?
Tim Wildmon: Was it Floyd?
Bob: Floyd the barber?
Tim Wildmon: Floyd the barber. What was the barber’s real name?
Bob: What was the actor’s name?
Tim Wildmon: Bob, we’re waiting on you.
Bob: Being on live radio means my memory has shrunk considerably.
Tim Wildmon: He was also on The Donna Reed Show as a neighbor.
Bob: The first Floyd wasn’t the one who stayed. He was a one-time actor, and they changed Floyd.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Bob. We appreciate you calling from Missouri.
Jonathan Coker: That was Bob from Missouri. We go next to Mississippi, where Haywood is calling. Haywood, welcome to Trivia Friday.
Haywood: Good morning, professors. It’s been a while.
Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, Haywood. Thanks for calling.
Haywood: I’m glad to be back.
Tim Wildmon: Do you want to ask, answer, or do both?
Haywood: I’d like to do both this morning.
Tim Wildmon: Which one do you want to take a shot at?
Haywood: I’m going to try the Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne question.
Bert Harper: Two of the greatest actors ever. How many movies did John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart star in together?
Haywood: I’m going to go with two.
Bert Harper: Not quite. Is the answer more or less?
Haywood: More.
Bert Harper: It is more. Can you name the two you’re thinking about?
Haywood: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and John Wayne’s very last movie, The Shootist.
Tim Wildmon: Both of those are right, but there are more. The Shootist had Ron Howard in it as well. John Wayne had the part and called Jimmy Stewart, who had not done any movies in quite a while because his hearing was basically gone. He asked him to come in and play a doctor, and Jimmy Stewart said yes.
Bert Harper: They started in that one together, but it’s more than two. Those two are correct.
Tim Wildmon: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is hard to beat.
Haywood: My question is about a biblical food that has been known to last thousands of years. What is it?
Bert Harper: I know that one. Honey.
Haywood: That’s right. Honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
Tim Wildmon: They found some in Egypt that was nearly three thousand years old, and it was still edible.
Bert Harper: Who was going to be the first one to try it?
Tim Wildmon: Exactly. “Hey, Bill, come over here. You’re expendable. Here’s some toast. Try this honey on it.”
Bert Harper: The milk will spoil, but honey stays good.
Tim Wildmon: Did somebody really try that honey?
Haywood: Yes, sir, they sure did.
Tim Wildmon: You know what I’d name the honey if I were selling it? Mommy Honey.
Bert Harper: Mommy Honey.
Tim Wildmon: You could make a killing off that. “Get your Mommy Honey right here, straight out of the Pharaoh’s pyramid.”
Bert Harper: That’s not funny either.
Tim Wildmon: It’s not funny, Mommy Honey.
Bert Harper: It’s bad.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Haywood. Good to hear from you, my friend.
Tim Wildmon: Let’s give our questions that haven’t been answered. We need at least half of them.
Bert Harper: We’ll do it when we get back.
Tim Wildmon: The music stops for no man. We’re going to take a timeout right here. When we get back, I’m Tim with Bert and Jonathan, and we’ll reset our questions. We have about twenty-five minutes left of education to bring forth unto thee, as you might say in the King James.
Tim Wildmon welcomes Bert Harper and Jonathan Coker for Trivia Friday on American Family Radio. The hosts ask questions about the Bible, state capitals, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart films, The Andy Griffith Show, non-dairy milk, expressions, geography, and American history. Callers from Iowa, Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Mississippi join the game with answers and questions of their own. The program includes Bible questions from Matthew and Romans, classic television trivia, baseball history, Civil War history, and plenty of humor about accents, cowbells, movies, and the Learning University T-shirt prize.
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