Secular versus Solomon: the full round
The game runs ten proverbs. Answers given on air: 'Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench' is Solomon (Ecclesiastes 10:1); 'Peace with a club in hand is war' is secular Portugal; 'If you fear God, you won't fear humans' is secular Albania; 'To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good' is Solomon (Proverbs 17:26); 'Do not take to heart all the things that people say' is Solomon (Ecclesiastes 7:21); 'No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back' is secular Romania; 'Better is the end of a thing than its beginning' is Solomon (Ecclesiastes 7:8); 'Good sense is a fountain of life' is Solomon (Proverbs 16:22); the mystery proverb from the open, 'The pumpkin gives birth and the fence has the trouble,' is secular Morocco; 'A truth spoken before its time is dangerous' is secular Greece. Points land everyone negative, with canned beans pledged to charity. The host closes with the point of the game: can listeners discern biblical wisdom from plaque-worthy sayings.
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