America's fastest-growing internet game show: the host reads proverbs and the players guess secular (naming a country of origin) or Solomon. All five opening rounds are Solomon — Ecclesiastes 6, Ecclesiastes 7:5, Ecclesiastes 9, Ecclesiastes 10, and Proverbs 4:23 — and the players go nearly all secular in a four-way fail ('Put down the chicken legs, boys. Pick up a Bible.'). Secular rounds follow: a Burundi proverb (sparking a discussion of sponsored water children, giving to Guatemala and Afghanistan, and renaming Nyakawazira 'Neo'), a Yemeni proverb, a Danish bird proverb, an Italian donkey proverb, and a Mongolian donkey proverb. The radio audience is signed off and the chat audience continues.
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