From the beginning of the "Monkey" Trial, John T. Scopes's lawyers hoped to get William Jennings Bryan on the witness stand as a "biblical expert." According to Scopes, Clarence Darrow arrived in Dayton, Tennessee, with a set of "loaded" questions to direct at the "Great Commoner." Darrow and his "colleagues were both delighted and surprised when Bryan agreed to testify. During such exchanges as the following, Darrow was able to expose Bryan's intellectual shortcomings to the public: Darrow: Do you claim that everything in the Bible should be literally interpreted? Bryan: I believe that everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there. Darrow: But when you read that Jonah swallowed the whale — or the whale swallowed Jonah — excuse me, please, how do you literally interpret it? You believe that God made such a fish, and that it was big enough...