A routine taping of Jeopardy! became social media meme fodder recently when a contestant incorrectly pronounced a well-known 90s rap anthem.

Host Alex Trebek read the clue to contestant Nick Spicher: "A song by Coolio from 'Dangerous Minds' goes back in time to become a 1667 John Milton classic." Most pop culture aficionados would recognize these two titles and mash them together, which is what Spicher attempted to do in his answer: "Gangster's Paradise Lost."

Everything proceeded normally until later in the taping, Spicher was approached by a producer with bad news—the judges had to rescind his previously awarded money after reviewing his answer, because he had incorrectly pronounced one of the titles.

Coolio's rap song is named "Gangsta's Paradise." And according to the explanation on the Jeopardy website, the word "gangsta," is wholly distinct from the word "gangster."

This makes some sense, as the words evoke different cultural situations. The word "gangster" evokes Eliot Ness and Al Capone wearing pinstripes and carrying "tommy guns" circa 1920s Chicago. The word "gangsta" evokes Ice Cube and NWA holding sideways Glocks circa 1990s South Central LA. Two different words, two different times, two different meanings.

Spicher was a good sport about the gaffe afterward, saying on Twitter, "I will be forever proud of the moment that Alex Trebek taught me how to say 'gangsta.'"

This is an important lesson to anyone who wants to provide effective interpretation of a text, whether from the Bible or elsewhere: cultural context matters.

Potential preaching angles: The different names of God reveal different aspects of God, understanding Bible stories means getting into the cultural context of the time, human love and divine love are different enough to use different words both translated as "love," even mistakes that seem insignificant can have significant consequences