Secular vs Solomon: the laughter Bible quiz
Ben runs a ten-question online Bible quiz on laughter in the Bible, reading the questions and multiple-choice options while the other two play along. Rounds cover Abraham and Sarah's laughter, Psalm 2, the sword-drawn wicked (Psalm 37), Proverbs 29 ("there is no rest"), Ecclesiastes 3 ("to everything there is a season"), Ecclesiastes 7 (sorrow better than laughter; the crackling of thorns), Psalm 30 ("girded me with gladness"), Psalm 126, and Ecclesiastes 10:19 ("a feast is made for laughter... money answereth all things"). Final score: 7 of 10 — which Ben notes is rough, since the quiz has been taken 10,000 times since March 2007 with an average score of 99. Mike takes the fall ("I'm not a proverbs, psalms, Ecclesiastes man... I'm a 75-pound teenager" on the bobsled team) and dubs Ben "Thighbreaker" after a miss.
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