#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $2000: This Dutch scholar put out a 1516 translation of the Bible that made it more accessible & helped lead to the Reformation Erasmus |
#8939, aired 2023-09-28 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $1200: During the 1604 Hampton Court Conference, this king accepted a request for a new translation of the Bible King James |
#8882, aired 2023-05-30 | MIDDLE "G" $2000: St. Jerome gets the credit for this translation of the Bible that he completed around 405 the Vulgate |
#8111, aired 2019-12-09 | HAVE AN ARTSY CHRISTMASTIME $2000: This composer's 1734 "Christmas Oratorio" uses as part of its text Martin Luther's Bible translation Johann Sebastian Bach |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $400: Many version of the Bible use the word "murder" in the 10 commandments, but the King James Version uses this shorter verb kill |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $800: St. Jerome translated much of the Bible into this language for the Vulgate Latin |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $1200: John Wycliffe had this brother sell his birthright to Jacob for bread and pottage; in other versions it's lentil stew Esau |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $1600: Many translations use this 4-letter word, as in seek God "with all thy heart and all thy" this; Robert Alter uses "being" soul |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BIBLE TRANSLATION $2000: The Message Bible brings "a prize-winning heifer" to the prodigal son's feast instead of this familiar phrase a fatted calf |
#7218, aired 2016-01-20 | WALES $400: The publication of the complete translation of this in 1588 helped preserve the Welsh language the Bible |
#7053, aired 2015-04-22 | DEDICATIONS $400: A 1611 Bible translation was dedicated to this "most dread Sovereign" King James |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BIBLE BRIEFS $400: Titled translation:
K.J.V. the King James Version |
#6522, aired 2013-01-15 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $600: St. Jerome was responsible for the Vulgate, a translation of the Bible into this language Latin |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | I'M BURNIN' FOR YOU $1200: William Tyndale, who completed his English translation of this in 1525, was burned in Brussels in 1536 the New Testament |
#6472, aired 2012-11-06 | WE'VE GOT TO STOP MEETING LIKE THIS $1200: During the 1604 Hampton Court conference, this king accepted a request for a new translation of the Bible King James |
#5135, aired 2006-12-29 | THE MIDDLE AGES $2000: Wyclef Jean was a musician from the Fugees; this theologian inspired a 1382 English Bible translation John Wycliffe |
#5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1663 John Eliot's translation of this, both the old & new parts, appeared in Algonquin The Bible |
#4383, aired 2003-10-01 | THE GOOD BOOK $400: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible helped spread the "New High" version of this language German |
#4278, aired 2003-03-19 | LANGUAGES $1000: Gaspar Karolyi's translation of the Bible in 1590 was influential in the development of this as a national language Hungarian |
#4161, aired 2002-10-07 | REMAKES $600: Released in 2002, "Today's New International Version" is a non-gender specific translation of this the Bible |
#3992, aired 2002-01-01 | MMM, LEGUMES! $1200: The New Revised Standard Bible translation says Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of this legume's stew lentil |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | LONG LIVE THE KING! $1,500 (Daily Double): A translation of the Bible is named for this king of England & Scotland James (I) |
#3731, aired 2000-11-20 | MONEY TALKS $400: It was an old translation of the Bible that turned "money obtained dishonestly" into "filthy" this lucre |
#3547, aired 2000-01-25 | THE SHORT VERSION $100: A translation of the Bible:
KJV King James Version |
#2959, aired 1997-06-12 | RELIGION $100: The first translation of this book printed in America was John Eliot's 1661-63 Algonquian one the Bible |
#2536, aired 1995-09-18 | ART $600: Durer's "Four Apostles" shows his Protestant leanings; John holds this man's translation of the Bible Luther |
#2176, aired 1994-02-07 | THE 17th CENTURY $200: This authorized translation of the Bible was issued in 1611 the King James |
#1916, aired 1992-12-28 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Her W. Va. birth home displays her father's Chinese translation of the Bible & a picture of her Oriental nurse Pearl S. Buck |
#1722, aired 1992-02-11 | WORLD RELIGION $1,300 (Daily Double): The Catholic translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible named for a place in France the Douay version of the Bible |
#1715, aired 1992-01-31 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible called the Septuagint was made in this Egyptian city Alexandria |
#1581, aired 1991-06-17 | RELIGION $300: The Douay version is a 16th century Catholic translation of the Bible into this language English |
#1572, aired 1991-06-04 | THE 14th CENTURY $200: In the 1380s John Wycliffe sponsored the 1st translation of this to English the Bible |
#1383, aired 1990-09-12 | SAINTS $600: His Latin translation of the Bible is known as the Vulgate St. Jerome |
#1367, aired 1990-07-10 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: This British ruler sponsored a translation of the Bible that now bears his name King James I |
#1359, aired 1990-06-28 | THE BIBLE $1000: Tradition holds that 70 men worked on this first Greek Old Testament translation Septuagint |
#1180, aired 1989-10-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: It was Luther's translation of this book that spread the use of the new High German literary language the Bible |
#1079, aired 1989-04-20 | THE BIBLE $300: The Douay translation is the official English version of the Bible for this religion (Roman) Catholic |
#612, aired 1987-04-14 | RELIGION $200: Martin Luther's translation of the Bible into this language is considered a literary masterpiece German |
#340, aired 1985-12-27 | RULERS $200: 1st to rule all of Britain, probably best remembered for bible translation he sponsored King James I |
#261, aired 1985-09-09 | THE RENAISSANCE $1000: His brilliant 16th century translation of the Bible into German became the basis for modern German Martin Luther |
#184, aired 1985-05-23 | RELIGION $400: Protestant translation of the Bible named for the British king who authorized it the King James Version |