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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSomething funny about tonight's Jeopardy question in the NYT today...
category: I'm a Papal Person!"
The name of the pope following the fifth successor of St. Peter named Alexander I.
I "got" the answer but it wasn't the answer as the Jeopardy said...I checked the Catholic Encyclopedia for a chronological listing to see if I was right...but...well, you'll see...
I don't know Popes except for those involved in great Italian art and one of the popes with this name was involved with the commission of famous art...
Anybody figure out the disconnect here?
sarge43
(28,940 posts)Alexander VI (Borgia) was succeeded by Pius III (Piccolomini) who died within a month after his election. He was followed by Julius II (Rovere).
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)There was a Sixtus I, which was the 7th pope (hence my confusion).
There were later popes named Sixtus and it was Sixtus IV who commissioned or built the Sistine Chapel. The name of the chapel means Sixtus. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14032b.htm
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hence 'Sixtus'. Did Peter even call himself pope?
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)malthaussen
(17,175 posts)Not like there's anything tricky here, like trying to sort out antipopes and Babylonian Captivities.
Cute that it was Sixtus, but since he's actually Seventhus, doesn't quite make it.
-- Mal
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)They only accept Papal.
malaise
(268,664 posts)CTyankee
(63,883 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)CTyankee
(63,883 posts)who's on first
what's on second
I don't know is on third
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)But it is not a Pope-ular fact.
-- Mal
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)And you are right about Sixtus being seventh but the clue clearly states it is the pope who followed Alexander I. That is the source of my confusion
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)I don't understand your confusion.
Peter, Linus, Anacletus, Clement I, Evaristus, Alexander I, Sixtus I.
Alexander I is the fifth successor of Peter (thus sixth Pope), Sixtus I is the sixth successor of Peter (and thus seventh Pope).
-- Mal
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)I get it now!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...and I'm just glad that I'm not a contestant on Jeopardy tonight.
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)Even without knowing the exact order, the name Sixtus implies he's the sixth, which would be "next" after Alexander I.
It's all a plot to drive us crazy. Except for Malthaussen who is a big smart-pants!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
After reading all of this I still can't tell my sixtus from my seventhus..
It would be much better if all of this was illustrated with Renaissance paintings.
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)but I shudda known the difference. I'm an idiot.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Hell, I was raised Catholic and I don't know this shit. The only way I'll know what's going on is to watch Jeopardy tonight (or consult malaise afterward ).
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...I just ask malaise.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)So we won't know until tonight what Jeopardy considers the correct answer. Right?
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)Malthaussen straightened me out since I misread the sentence. They were asking the successor to Peter which puts Sixtus at 7th place in a chronological list of popes. Hence my confusion.