History Series / AmericanBibleChallenge

* SpeedRound: The Final Revelation

Television quiz shows surrounding Literature/TheBible have been done before, but have often ended up being low-budget affairs that don't end up being that memorable. But what happened when Creator/{{GSN}} decided to do one of its own? The result was the American Bible Challenge, hosted and produced by comedian and recently unemployed game show host Jeff Foxworthy (for those who don't know, he ''is'' a devout Christian) whose recent claims to fame have included [[Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader assessing adults on their knowledge of grade school subjects.]]

* GameShowHost: Jeff Foxworthy

** "The Chosen Three" references not only having ''3'' contestants and choosing ''3'' answers, but [[http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/3.html 3 shows up a lot in the Bible too]]

** Each team's podium resembles a giant open bible.

!!GameShowTropes in use

* Personnel
** GameShowHost: Jeff Foxworthy
** A gospel choir serves as a house band
* SpeedRound: The Final Revelation

!!This series provides examples of

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar[=/=]MeaningfulName: Foxworthy was genuinely confused when he initially misheard the name of the team "Victorious Secret" as "Victoria's Secret"

Television quiz shows surrounding Literature/TheBible have been done before, but have often ended up being low-budget affairs that don't end up being that memorable. But what happened when [[Creator/GameShowNetwork GSN]] decided to do one of its own? The result was the American Bible Challenge, hosted and produced by comedian and recently unemployed game show host Jeff Foxworthy (for those who don't know, he ''is'' a devout Christian) whose recent claims to fame have included [[Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader assessing adults on their knowledge of grade school subjects.]]

But what happens to the player that each team sets aside? Well, in round 4, they get to play ''[[{{Greed}} Greed]]'' (a.k.a. The Chosen Three). Each player gets a question with 6 choices each; they must, on their own, choose the three correct answers. Each answer is worth a [[GoldenSnitch very important 100 points]]; very important as in only the top two scoring teams at the end of this round advance to the final round! Said round is known as "The Final Revelation"; the two teams get 10 minutes backstage to study the Bible on a revealed category. One team is put in isolation, while the other team gets 60 seconds to correctly answer as many questions in the specified category as possible. The second team then tries to beat their score using the exact same stack of questions; whoever gets more questions correct wins the game. The winner in each episode won $20,000 for their charity, and also advanced into a $100,000 tournament at the end of the season.

Surprisingly for such a niche program on a somewhat niche channel (and we mean that as in, GSN isn't strictly a religious channel either), the premiere of ''The American Bible Challenge'' garnered 2.3 million viewers, the largest audience in GSN's history. It also did well enough to earn a second and third seasons.

Television quiz shows surrounding Literature/TheBible have been done before, but have often ended up being low-budget affairs that don't end up being that memorable. But what happened when [[Creator/GameShowNetwork GSN]] decided to do one of its own? The result was the American Bible Challenge, hosted and produced by comedian and recently unemployed game show host Jeff Foxworthy (For those who don't know, he ''is'' a devout Christian); whose recent claims to fame have included [[Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader assessing adults on their knowledge of grade school subjects.]]

* Personel

* RuleOfSymbolism: Each team's podium resembles a giant open bible.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: In what could have been considered a tease at GSN's then-upcoming revival of ''Series/MinuteToWinIt'', Season 2 started introducing rounds with physical challenges; including building a tower of books with the correct order of certain chapters, and a round that can only be described as Beer Pong meets ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'''s "Dis or Dat" rounds (60 seconds, three cups, three answers shared by each question; answer as many questions as possible by trying to bounce a ping-pong ball into the cup for the right answer)

The show (if the first season is enough to go by) uses a tournament format with teams playing for their respective charity; three teams of three compete in each episode through various rounds of trivia from the Good Book itself to earn progressively increasing values of points. The first round simply involves answering multiple-choice questions from a certain Bible story, while the second round involves answering questions in a novelty category; such as, for instance, "Did this quote come from The Bible or ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''?", analyzing a biblical figure's "[[Website/{{Facebook}} Faithbook]]" page or [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweets]], and "[[{{Series/CSI}} CSI: Holy Land]]". For the third round, one contestant in each team is set aside, and the remaining two contestants of each team must answer two multiple-choice questions from a category (the first has 2 choices, the second has 3).

Surprisingly for such a niche program on a somewhat niche channel (and we mean that as in, GSN isn't strictly a religious channel either), the premiere of ''The American Bible Challenge'' garnered 2.3 million viewers, the largest audience in GSN's history. It also did well enough to earn a second season in 2013.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: In what can only be a tease at GSN's upcoming revival of ''Series/MinuteToWinIt'', Season 2 started introducing rounds with physical challenges; including building a tower of books with the correct order of certain chapters, and a round that can only be described as Beer Pong meets ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'''s "Dis or Dat" rounds (60 seconds, three cups, three answers shared by each question; answer as many questions as possible by trying to bounce a ping-pong ball into the cup for the right answer)

The show (if the first season is enough to go by) uses a tournament format with teams playing for their respective charity; three teams of three compete in each episode through various rounds of trivia from the Good Book itself to earn progressively increasing values of points. The first round simply involves answering multiple-choice questions from a certain Bible story, while the second round involves answering questions in a novelty category; such as, for instance, "Did this quote come from The Bible or ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''?", analyzing a biblical figure's "[[Website/{{Facebook}} Faithbook]]" page or [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweets]], and "[[{{CSI}} CSI: Holy Land]]". For the third round, one contestant in each team is set aside, and the remaining two contestants of each team must answer two multiple-choice questions from a category (the first has 2 choices, the second has 3).

Television quiz shows surrounding Literature/TheBible have been done before, but have often ended up being low-budget affairs that don't end up being that memorable. But what happened when [[GameShowNetwork GSN]] decided to do one of its own? The result was the American Bible Challenge, hosted and produced by comedian and recently unemployed game show host Jeff Foxworthy (For those who don't know, he ''is'' a devout Christian); whose recent claims to fame have included [[AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader assessing adults on their knowledge of grade school subjects.]]

The show (if the first season is enough to go by) uses a tournament format with teams playing for their respective charity; three teams of three compete in each episode through various rounds of trivia from the Good Book itself to earn progressively increasing values of points. The first round simply involves answering multiple-choice questions from a certain Bible story, while the second round involves answering questions in a novelty category; such as, for instance, "Did this quote come from The Bible or ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''?", analyzing a biblical figure's "[[{{Facebook}} Faithbook]]" page or [[{{Twitter}} tweets]], and "[[{{CSI}} CSI: Holy Land]]". For the third round, one contestant in each team is set aside, and the remaining two contestants of each team must answer two multiple-choice questions from a category (the first has 2 choices, the second has 3).

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: In what can only be a tease at GSN's upcoming revival of ''MinuteToWinIt'', Season 2 started introducing rounds with physical challenges; including building a tower of books with the correct order of certain chapters, and a round that can only be described as Beer Pong meets ''VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack'''s "Dis or Dat" rounds (60 seconds, three cups, three answers shared by each question; answer as many questions as possible by trying to bounce a ping-pong ball into the cup for the right answer)

Television quiz shows surrounding TheBible have been done before, but have often ended up being low-budget affairs that don't end up being that memorable. But what happened when [[GameShowNetwork GSN]] decided to do one of its own? The result was the American Bible Challenge, hosted and produced by comedian and recently unemployed game show host Jeff Foxworthy (For those who don't know, he ''is'' a devout Christian); whose recent claims to fame have included [[AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader assessing adults on their knowledge of grade school subjects.]]

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: In what can only be a tease at GSN's upcoming revival of ''MinuteToWinIt'', Season 2 started introducing rounds with physical challenges; including building a tower of books with the correct order of certain chapters, and a round that can only be described as Beer Pong meets ''YouDontKnowJack'''s "Dis or Dat" rounds (60 seconds, three cups, three answers shared by each question; answer as many questions as possible by trying to bounce a ping-pong ball into the cup for the right answer)

Surprisingly for such a niche program on a somewhat niche channel (and we mean that as in, GSN isn't strictly a religious channel either), the premiere of ''The American Bible Challenge'' garnered 2.3 million viewers, the largest audience in GSN's history. It also did well enough to earn an upcoming second season.

** "The Chosen Three" references not only having ''3'' contestants and choosing ''3'' answers, but [[http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/3.html 3 shows up a lot in the Bible too]]

** "The Chosen Three" references not only having '''3''' contestants and choosing ''3'' answers, but [[http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/3.html 3 shows up a lot in the Bible too]]

But what happens to the player that each team sets aside? Well, in round 4, they get to play ''[[{{Greed}} Greed]]''. Each player gets a question with 6 choices each; they must, on their own, choose the three correct answers. Each answer is worth a [[GoldenSnitch very important 100 points]]; very important as in only the top two scoring teams at the end of this round advance to the final round! Said round is known as "The Final Revelation"; the two teams get 10 minutes backstage to study the Bible on a revealed category. One team is put in isolation, while the other team gets 60 seconds to correctly answer as many questions in the specified category as possible. The second team then tries to beat their score using the exact same stack of questions; whoever gets more questions correct wins the game. The winner in each episode won $20,000 for their charity, and also advanced into a $100,000 tournament at the end of the season.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Each team's podium resembles a giant open bible.

The show (if the first season is enough to go by) uses a tournament format with teams playing for their respective charity; three teams of three compete in each episode through various rounds of trivia from the Good Book itself to earn progressively increasing values of points. The first round simply involves answering multiple-choice questions from a certain Bible story, while the second round involves answering questions in a novelty category; such as, for instance, "Did this quote come from The Bible or ''TheLordOfTheRings''?", analyzing a biblical figure's "[[{{Facebook}} Faithbook]]" page or [[{{Twitter}} tweets]], and "[[{{CSI}} CSI: Holy Land]]". For the third round, one contestant in each team is set aside, and the remaining two contestants of each team must answer two multiple-choice questions from a category (the first has 2 choices, the second has 3).

Television quiz shows surrounding TheBible have been done before, but have often ended up being low-budget affairs that don't end up being that memorable) But what happened when [[GameShowNetwork GSN]] decided to do one of its own? The result was the American Bible Challenge, hosted and produced by comedian and recently unemployed game show host Jeff Foxworthy (For those who don't know, he ''is'' a devout Christian); whose recent claims to fame have included [[AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader assessing adults on their knowledge of grade school subjects.]]

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: Each team's podium resembles a giant open bible.

The show (if the first season is enough to go by) uses a tournament format with teams playing for their respective charity; three teams of three compete in each episode through various rounds of trivia from the Good Book itself to earn progressively increasing values of points. The first round simply involves answering multiple-choice questions from a Bible story on the buzzer, but the second round involves answering questions in a more humorous category (such as, for instance, "Did this quote come from The Bible or ''TheLordOfTheRings''?", analyzing a biblical figure's "[[{{Facebook}} Faithbook]]" page or [[{{Twitter}} tweets]], and "[[{{CSI}} CSI: Holy Land]]"). In the third round, one contestant in each team is set aside, and the remaining contestants of each team must answer two multiple-choice questions from a category (the first has 2 choices, the second has 3).

But what happens to the player that each team sets aside? Well, in round 4, they get to play ''[[{{Greed}} Greed]]''. Each player gets a question with 6 choices each; they must, on their own, choose the three correct answers. Each answer is worth a [[GoldenSnitch very important 100 points]]; very important as in only the top two scoring teams at the end of this round advance to the final round! Said round is known as "The Final Revelation"; the two teams get 10 minutes backstage to study the Bible on a revealed . The first team gets 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible; the second team, using the exact same stack of questions, must try to beat the other team's score to win. The winner in each episode won $20,000 for their charity, and also advanced into a $100,000 tournament at the end of the season.

The show (if the first season is enough to go by) uses a tournament format with teams playing for their respective charity; three teams of three compete in each episode through various rounds of trivia from the Good Book itself to earn progressively increasing values of points. The first round simply involves answering multiple-choice questions from a Bible story on the buzzer, but the second round involves answering questions in a more humorous category (such as, for instance, "Did this quote come from The Bible or ''TheLordOfTheRings''?", analyzing a biblical figure's "[[{{Facebook}} Faithbook]]" page, and "[[{{CSI}} CSI: Holy Land]]"). In the third round, one contestant in each team is set aside, and the remaining contestants of each team must answer two multiple-choice questions from a category (the first has 2 choices, the second has 3).

But what happens to the player that each team sets aside? Well, in round 4, they get to play ''[[{{Greed}} Greed]]''. Each player gets a question with 6 choices each; they must, on their own, choose the three correct answers. Each answer is worth a [[GoldenSnitch very important 100 points]], since only the top two teams actually go on to the final round, the "Final Revelation". Here, after learning their category, the two teams get 10 minutes to study a copy of the Bible to freshen up their memory on the category. The first team gets 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible; the second team, using the exact same stack of questions, must try to beat the other team's score to win. The winner in each episode won $20,000 for charity, while the winners of a season-ending tournament won an additional $100,000

Surprisingly for such a niche program on a ''general interest'' channel (and we mean that as in, GSN isn't strictly a "religious" broadcaster), the premiere of ''The American Bible Challenge'' garnered 2.3 million viewers, the largest audience in GSN's history. It also did well enough to earn an upcoming 2nd season too.

* Personell

Television quiz shows surrounding [[TheBible Bible]] trivia have been done before (and have often ended up being low-budget affairs that don't end up being that memorable). But what happened when [[GameShowNetwork GSN]] decided to do one of its own? The result was the American Bible Challenge, hosted and produced by comedian and recently unemployed game show host Jeff Foxworthy (For those who don't know, he ''is'' a devout Christian); whose recent claims to fame have included [[AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader assessing adults on their knowledge of grade school subjects.]]

The show (if the first season is enough to go by) uses a tournament format with teams playing for their respective charity; three teams of three compete in each episode through various rounds of trivia from the Good Book itself to earn progressively increasing values of points. The first round simply involves answering multiple-choice questions from a Bible story on the buzzer, but the second round involves answering questions in a more humorous category (such as, for instance, "Did this quote come from The Bible or ''TheLordOfTheRings''?", analyzing a biblical figure's "[[{{Facebook}} Faithbook]]" page, and "[[{{CSI}} CSI: Holy Land]]"). In the third round, two of the contestants in each team must answer two multiple-choice questions each from a category (the first has 2 choices, the second has 3).

But what happens to the player that each team sets aside? Well, in round 4, they get to play ''[[{{Greed}} Greed]]''. Each player gets a question with 6 choices each; they must, on their own, choose the three correct answers. Each answer is worth a [[GoldenSnitch very important 100 points]], since only the top two teams actually go on to the final round, the "Final Revelation". Here, after learning the category, the two teams get 10 minutes to study a copy of the Bible. The first team gets 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible; the second team, using the exact same stack of questions, must try to beat the other team's score to win. The winner in each episode won $20,000 for charity, while the winners of a season-ending tournament won an additional $100,000

* CarriedByTheHost: Jeff Foxworthy's trademark humor shines here just as well as it did on ''Fifth Grader''. Also literally, as Foxworthy is also the producer.

** A gospel choir serves as a house band too

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything" The teams' podium and buzzer resemble a giant open bible.