My grandmother came from Poland and when I was a kid and did something wrong, [View all]

she would tell me she was going to give me "Pater Noster." As an adult, I asked my mother what that meant and she didn't know any more than I did. Tonight on Jeopardy, there was a category called Literal Latin. The clue was "Meaning 'Our Father', it's another name for The Lord's Prayer" and the answer was the Pater Noster. What do you suppose my grandmother meant by threatening to give me Pater Noster? Maybe instill the fear of God into me?

Who knew that Jeopardy would give me an answer to something I've wondered about for so many years? Or is this common knowledge and I should be embarrassed that I didn't know it? It wouldn't be the first time I was clueless about something that everybody else knows.