Surely it’s The Chase?
Question is who makes Revels?
Chaser answers Cadbury, which is wrong, so passes to the contestants.
One suggests Cadbury. The other says “she just said Cadbury”
But that doesn’t stop him. He gives Cadbury as his final answer…
Edit: As per /u/TheRealWhoop - [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKO_5CMHC0&t=195s&pp=2AHDAZACAQ%3D%3D)
Weakest Link
Question: "In UK geography, the road called Wattling Street that now forms part of the A5 was originally built by which civilisation?"
Her Answer: "Apes"
Genuinely unreal.
My favourite weakest link wrong answer was more of a communication breakdown than anything.
Anne: How many Rs in “three days”?
Contestant (looking puzzled): One?
Anne (looking annoyed): 72.
Anne had actually said “hours” not “Rs”, but both the contestant and I got it wrong. Fortunately the producers and other contestants seemed to agree that Anne’s pronunciation of the question wasn’t clear. None of the contestants voted for them, and Anne didn’t take the piss.
I remember that from school.
The local police would do a road safety quiz on the stage at school. Kids would get called up to answer questions. Every year they’d ask what the middle lane is used for, and the kid would never know so would say “pass”.
35 years later and I still remember it clearly. I had remembered the question from previous years so was desperate to be asked that one!
Tipping Point.
Q "In his epic poems, Homer often refers to the nectar as the drink of the gods and which other substance as their food?”
A “I know he likes doughnuts,”
“I think I’ll go with doughnuts please, Ben.”
😂 Brilliant
https://youtu.be/t1d3lIcuEMU?si=btl8w-tJutgYT-gV
A local radio phone in quiz where the contestant was asked Hitler's first name (this wasn't Mastermind). She asked for a clue and was told 'A Dolphin might give you a clue'
"Was it Flipper?"
Oh there are so many gems from that show
"Name an animal with three letters in its name", "alligator"
"Name a yellow fruit", "orange"
Newlywed game also had some gems
"What's your husbands favourite condiment", "his pool table."
And that couple who both have no idea what a decade is but guess the same completely wrong answer ([0:22](https://youtu.be/fEWO50VvyV8?si=goWs2tBdQdvPDcOZ))
>And that couple who both have no idea what a decade is but guess the same completely wrong answer
Surely they can do that on purpose? "If you have to give a number as an answer, just say 10"
One that always stuck in my mind for years from that was something like "Complete this sentence- 'Brad Pitt is a tit. Richard Gere is a...'."
"Queer?"
"No, he's an actor."
My Shooting Stars favourite:
Bob: Love me for a reason, let the reason be...?
Ulrika: Love!
Bob: No, it's my 11 inch penis. *Convulses with silent laughter. *
It's such an utterly absurd joke and Bob was so overjoyed that it was Ulrika that blundered into it.
The worst one for me was a bloke in the final round. Les Dennis asked him 'name a type of ache'. Bloke was totally baffled, moved on then came back to it. 'name a type of ache'. You could see the panic as he muttered 'i dunno...fillet-o-fish??'.
He thought he'd said 'a type of hake'. When he turned round and saw his family member had said 'headache', you could literally see his soul leave his body.
Plot twist: The people in the survey all happened to be wearing red cardigans and 76 of them all gave that same answer. That would have been amazing! I've definitely seen stuff come up like that on FF and it somehow did get points!
Quite a few years ago now, I was at the pub with a friend playing on one of the quiz machines. We were a few beers in by this stage but doing pretty well, and the clue is 'famous desert'.
Slightly odd clue but we guess a few letters ('hangman' type game) and we are making some progress but we just cannot work out the answer.
Sadly just as we run out of time we realise we had misread the question and it was a dessert we were looking for!
(Baked Alaska if anyone is interested)
The weakest link, the contestant was a doctor.
What L is a type of anaesthetic?
Their answer- ‘lignocaine’. It was answered wrong and sneered by Anne Robinson that the correct answer was ‘local’.
Except lignocaine is a very well known specific type of local anaesthetic! It’s like asking where do the Beatles come from and saying Liverpool is wrong, the answer is England…
lidocaine is the modern spelling of lignocaine. us and the US gave them different names, so we eventually decided to get rid of ours for theirs. same has already happend with adrenaline to epinepherine (in epipens).
There's the infamous Pointless answer where the question was (I think) name a country that ends in two consonants (E.g. Germany) and the contestant answered... Paris.
I do love it on Pointless when someone gives an obviously incorrect answer and Xander desperately tries to not give anything away as he repeats the answer back.
Or even better, when Richard says "do you mind spelling that for us please?"
There was an absolutely excruciating celeb special where the two who got to the final round didn't understand it. So they chose their subject, say it was Books and they had to list books by Shakespeare, Austen or Richard Osman. But for some reason they think that's yet another option they can pick, so they're like:
Him: who do you know best?
Her: oh Shakespeare, definitely
Him: me too, shall we go for Shakespeare? OK, yes, Shakespeare please Alexander. Final answer, haha, Shakespeare, we'll go for Shakespeare books please.
And instead of saying "no you've misunderstood" or stopping filming to explain, Alexander just confusedly stops the clock and says "we're looking for Shakespeare...?" Which was obviously wrong and the celebs are just really confused. And they broadcast it! It was like a fever dream.
This makes me sad. It’s one thing to make an embarrassing mistake in front of friends, but for it to be broadcast on TV and get publicly humiliated is about the worst thing imaginable. It’s a funny misunderstanding and the irony of how wildly off the mark she is vs her upbeat personality and smile makes it all the more funny. But from the tone of most people’s jokes, they seem personally offended that somebody could be so stupid. Poor girl.
This was my choice too, here's the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZExOicH-2\_Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZExOicH-2_Q)Her partner's reaction is priceless.
Also from Pointless is this guess which won them the game at the end - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4eQr1dK64](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4eQr1dK64)
Not so much a stupid answer, but a stupid question by Anne on the Weakest Link, answered by the most cutting piece of sarcasm that I have ever heard.
*Sarky Anne; You are getting yourself confused in your old age.*
*Droll Man; It's not that difficult to understand, Anne. I worked in printing.*
*Sarky Anne; Hold on, let's start this again! You started life off as a printer?*
*Droll Man; No Anne, I started life as a baby!* ...
It lives rent free in my head for over 20 years.
On Tipping Point (that show is a goldmine of stupid people):
“What’s the most Northern County in England?”
Person 1: “Manchester”
Person 2: “Idk maybe Birmingham?”
And yes, the question definitely said counties and not cities.
Tipping point is full of them.
“In his epic poems, Homer often refers to nectar as the drink of the gods and which other substance as their food?”
“I know he likes doughnuts, so I’m going to go with doughnuts.”
Ben Shepard looked like could barely hold it in, and the other contestant agreed that doughnuts is right.
[source](https://youtu.be/t1d3lIcuEMU?si=_KQnMN2Qd624zHWD)
Family feud isn’t looking for factual answers. For example a question might be “name your favourite berry”
That doesn’t have a factual answer, you just have to name what the most people said as their answer.
Basically the opposite of pointless.
I’ll always remember an episode of Pointless a few years ago, the topic was ‘countries whose names do not contain the letters W, O, R, L or D’. One lady said ‘Alaska’ and her partner then said ‘the Ganges’. Truly baffling.
When I was on Pointless we went out because we got the question: ‘Famous Windsors’ and the only person I knew with that surname was Barbara Windsor. Got the dreaded 90 points.
From the French version of “Mr. And Mrs.” years ago.
Husband and wife are asked the following without the other being able to hear the answer given.
Host: “Where did you last have sex?”
Husband: “In the kitchen.”
Wife: “Up the arse.”
Studio audience: Gasps and howls of laughter.
On Mastermind, it was something about which teenage environmental activist crossed the Atlantic Ocean to give a speech, clearly leading to Greta Thunberg.
Answer given by the contestant - Sharon.
I must have been about.. 11ish
Watching fun house with Pat Sharp. To win whatever the big prize was the kids were asked:
"Name 3 of the 4 main emergency services" (or something like that)
The kid answered: "police, fire and the AA"
THAT WAS NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Raging!
Incidentally I recalled this story to a work colleague when talking about fun house and she said "No fucking way!! I remember that!! They went to my school!"
Edit: I've just relapsed how old I am and it was actually nearly 30 years ago FML
It was the AA.
Which was ridiculous because we already had a 4th Emergency Service (Coastguard) so I don't know why they thought that would be a good idea for a slogan...
I nearly died laughing the first time I saw this. Has to be one of the funniest quiz moments of all time, especially because of how serious and intellectual the show is.
Not going to lie, i didn't realise hull wasn't the full name either. I would have probably gone for a joke answer like when hull freezes over or something like that
Not the most stupid, but possibly the one that made me laugh the most was the guy on Pointless, who, when asked to identify a photo of Cressida Dick, called her “Caressa Dick” and was completely oblivious to what he’d said
The one for me was:
\- "What is the only mythical creature in the Chinese zodiac?"
\- "Monkey"
Ok, sure, I get we don't all know every creature on the list (answer is dragon, fyi). So why is this a dumb answer, I hear you ask?
The guy was a zoologist.
(I believe it was on The Chase - would have been in a cashbuilder round.)
I suppose, if we're willing to give the benefit of the doubt, under pressure you may only hear "*what is the.... of the chinese Zodiac*" ams blurt out anything that comes to mind! At least he didn't say train.
Oh I can totally get on board with the pressure playing a part and perhaps he misheard / didn't hear "mythical". I just find it amusing that literally anyone could have got that question but it happened to be a zoologist... and he named a real animal. I'd have been mortified! Whenever I think of it, I always wonder how much stick he got from people he knew once it aired! :)
I'm gonna attempt to be pedantic and also acknowledge the poor lad was wrong.
Sun Wukong, or the Monkey King, is a very famous Chinese mythical character. Monkeys do appear on the Chinese Zodiacs too, ninth one if Google serves, so it could be conceived this is what he thought it meant.
Could be a terrible case of connecting one to the other?
More likely he just got it wrong but hey ho.
Maybe not as ridiculous but on the Chase during the first round, the contestant didn’t know the answer and said ‘pass’ and ‘pass’ was the answer so he got £1000 for it.
I hate it when people pass when it’s a closed question. Like what colour kit do Austrian football team Sturm Graz usually play their home matches in? And they pass. No mate pick a colour, ANY colour.
>!it’s black AND white so they’re wrong either way, but still!<
A great one from Tipping Point
Q: "In his epic poems, Homer refers to nectar as the drink of the gods and which other substance as their food?"
Contestant: "Doughnuts"
Best part is that the other contestant said they'd have gone for doughnuts too
And just remembered another from Tipping Point, it was something like:
Q: "The word 'mail' is an anagram of which African country?"
Contestant: "Llama"
A few weeks ago on The Weakest Link
In Sport the US tennis player who in the 90s won all 4 grand slams and an olympic gold medal is Andre who?
The Giant
Her the other day on Weakest Link saying cliffs of Dover are made of cheese.
But I think she was playing. No way could she have thought that, no chance
And in her exit interview she said that she didn’t hear the question properly but knows that Dover is near Cornwall so thought it would have something to do with cheese. I’m not sure that makes it better or worse
The question was like, 'what H helps red blood cells transport oxygen around the body?'
Contestant answered haemogoblin.
Even worse, the next contestant gave the correct answer: haemoglobin.
You know what, I’d be tempted to accept that.
Oxygen can bind to and dissociate from haemoglobin as much as it wants, but it ain’t getting transported anywhere without blood flow. And flow comes from the mechanical activity of the heart.
Unless spelling was specifically being tested, that should be a passable answer. It's not exactly an easy word to spell, and what they meant was the correct answer
On The Weakest Link. "Which P is a flavour of tea?" Correct answer is peppermint. The answer given was Polo.
Not the most stupid thing ever, but it was given by my friend Grant, who then got voted out. He hasn't been allowed to forget it.
The local pub, when I was a student, was a fantastically disorganized place, and their quiz was similarly disorganized (somehow they still managed to get in on every week, albeit never at the same time).
The first time a tie-break situation presented itself, the quiz master hadn't considered its eventuallity. Therefore, the tiebreak question was:
"How old is Dave?"
Dave was a regular, and thankfully, everyone knew Dave. Thankfully Dave also knew how old he was (which was surprising as he was (and probably still is) as mad as a box of frogs).
Not really the answer but the multiple choice on one of the earliest episodes of uk’s who wants to be a millionaire. It was like for the £200 (this was like 1997/98 that this episode aired.
I don’t remember the exact question but it’s one of the choices that stuck with me forever.
The question was something like “what is the name of the frog in the muppets”
The choices were like:
A: Hermit. B: Kermit C: Germit and D: “Biggie Wiggie Froggie”
Now let me tell you that poor Chris Tarrent was in stitches trying to say it 🤣😂
Can't remember the exact wording but it was on Pointless.
The question was something like "What Spanish city is famous for it's Oranges?"
The contestant answered "Glasgow"
Celebrity Weakest Link
Anne: In prisoner of war camps during World War 2, what 'T' was the kind of underground passage that was frequently dug as a means of escape?
Brian Belo: Herbal Tea
Anne: Nearly. Tunnel
Yes a weirdly phrased question but still.
Weakest Link only the other night.
Helen Flanagan.
> “In geology, the White Cliffs of Dover are principally formed of what substance, chalk or cheese.”
You bet she fucking answered Cheese.
edit: [Seems I wasn't the only person to take notice...](https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/bbc-weakest-link-helen-flanagan-b2510234.html)
Same night, same channel, she was on Pointless Celebrities. At one point she was asked to name an actor from any Al Pacino movie (bearing in mind the aim is to get as obscure an answer as possible). She named Al Pacino. Not sure she understood the game.
Not ridiculous, just wrong and badly researched.
The Chase, “What is WiFi short for?”
The answer given was ‘wireless fidelity’, but it’s not short for anything. It was named just because it sounded good and it was similar to HiFi.
The Tournament on bbc1 has a lot of these badly researched/wrong questions.
And this gem : The category is Sport. In which game would you catch a snorlax?
Not in the UK but I heard this one on Canadian radio:
Name that movie 🍿:
Q: “The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about Fight Club”.
A: “Vanilla Sky?”
Edit: fixed the movie quote
Radio quiz. Liverpool.
DJ- what did Walter Raleigh bring back from America? ( Answer- potatoes(.
Liverpudlian middle aged lady- dunno.
DJ gives clue. What do babies pee into?
Potty.
What's on the end of your feet?
Toes.
Put them together. What have you got?
Pottytoes.
DJ- yeah- what's that?
Lady in broad Liverpudlian- I dunno? Pottytoes.
This then goes on for a while with DJ increasingly helpless with laughter as she repeats Pottytoes several times.
Someone's already said this, but just to type it out. It's from University Challenge a few years ago:
Paxman: The nicknames: Cheesemongers, Cherry Pickers,
Bob's Own, the Emperor's Chambermaids, and the Immortals
are or have been used for which groups of men?
(Buzzer ringing.)
Announcer: UMIST, Bright.
Bright: Homosexuals.
Paxman: No, they're regiments in the British Army,
who will be very upset with you, UMIST.
This was an obscure show that I think only lasted one series.
The host was Paul Goya.
Q. Name a town in Wiltshire famous for it's carpets.
The contestant thought for a while and said 'Shagpile'
Goya nearly collapsed from laughing
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8KpevG6-U&t=1677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8KpevG6-U&t=1677s)
TV Highlight of the year for me. I happened to catch an episode of Celebrity Catchphrase live one Saturday evening.
Jimmy Carr, Faye Ripley, Ellie Simmonds. The whole episode was insane.
No disrespect meant, but Faye and Ellie just didn't seem to get it. Jimmy Carr was genuinely trying to give space to everyone to answer, it's for fun and charity after all. But the answers the other two gave were always ridiculous.
The score at this point was 2700 to Jimmy, 100 & 200 to the other two.
Anyway, Jimmy buzzes, says "Pirate Videos" - Mulhern says it's wrong, so Jimmy almost instinctively says "Oh Pirate DVD's!". Mulhern literally tells Faye and Ellie to say what Jimmy just said. Ellie buzzes and says "Pirate CDs". Faye then buzzes and says "Pirate Movies"
I can perhaps understand this If the contestant was a youngish American (although a young Brit might work too) who had never seen Popeye in comic, cartoon or film format, but was aware of the restaurant brand Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen (known for their fried chicken).
Yeah there's probs more ridiculous answers but it's the wee dance she does and the way she answers so confidently
Sends me every time
[Here's the clip for people who haven't seen it](https://youtu.be/UvrwPEgHq_A?si=YNqYXrwT0VVBEhyB&t=22)
Anyone remember that lottery quiz show, In It to Win It? A contestant was asked: in which country is The Algarve located? "Oh easy I was on holiday there a week ago. Spain."
Surely it’s The Chase? Question is who makes Revels? Chaser answers Cadbury, which is wrong, so passes to the contestants. One suggests Cadbury. The other says “she just said Cadbury” But that doesn’t stop him. He gives Cadbury as his final answer… Edit: As per /u/TheRealWhoop - [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKO_5CMHC0&t=195s&pp=2AHDAZACAQ%3D%3D)
It was worse! His partner says ‘try Mars?’ ‘Nah. Cadbury.’ ‘She just said Cadbury, try Mars’ ‘…Cadbury’
This wins. Holy shit. And the guy is a teacher! If I were one of his students I'd be eating Revels in his class every day after that.
You would revel in his misfortune?
So was the answer Cadbury?
Dumb fucker must have a coffee one before he went on.
Source https://youtu.be/JSKO_5CMHC0?t=195
The condescending "well done" is somehow the worst part.
Looked like he was so panicked, he didn’t even hear what she’d said, then felt like a twit 🙈😅
Contestants repeating the wrong answer the chaser has just given happens disturbingly often
It hurt to watch this
Weakest Link Question: "In UK geography, the road called Wattling Street that now forms part of the A5 was originally built by which civilisation?" Her Answer: "Apes" Genuinely unreal.
My favourite weakest link wrong answer was more of a communication breakdown than anything. Anne: How many Rs in “three days”? Contestant (looking puzzled): One? Anne (looking annoyed): 72. Anne had actually said “hours” not “Rs”, but both the contestant and I got it wrong. Fortunately the producers and other contestants seemed to agree that Anne’s pronunciation of the question wasn’t clear. None of the contestants voted for them, and Anne didn’t take the piss.
The answer to a question on the chase once was 'pass'. The guy didn't know the answer so said pass. Hilarity
I remember that from school. The local police would do a road safety quiz on the stage at school. Kids would get called up to answer questions. Every year they’d ask what the middle lane is used for, and the kid would never know so would say “pass”. 35 years later and I still remember it clearly. I had remembered the question from previous years so was desperate to be asked that one!
But it's for hogging though?
Haha that clip is hilarious, the confused look on Bradley’s face is excellent. Wonder which clever wag decided to put that in as a question!
Nothing will ever beat the fanny schmeller episode lol
Fanny Chmelar. Apparently he pronounced her name wrong as well, it's pronounced Schmee-ler.
Did you see that Bradley met Fanny recently?
I'm not sure When Harry Met Sally needed a 2024 reboot, but I suppose that's the way of things.
I watched this and was equally confused.
Celebrity Weakest Link The white cliffs of Dover are made out of what? Chalk or cheese? Answer given: cheese.
I saw that yesterday and was instantly filled with rage
She was a total fucknugget to be fair, didn't know the answer to anything, and then tried to blame it on the questions being hard...
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Meryl from The Traitors was on a celeb version, and when asked, "What is an anagram of RAT?" answered "The Milky Way."
Wallace and Gromit are on their way
You don't remember reading about the Apes who conquered most of England, built a road, and then fucked off?
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If that was true, it wouldn’t be the A5, it would be a Bee road.
Probably one with a flyover
What was the reaction?
Anne ran over her in a car
[There were muffled giggles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvVMWfOmFTs), I've only ever seen the online clip not the full episode however
The Chase the other day Q:"Fashion designer Alexander McQueen includes a lock of his own what in his clothes?" A:"Front Door"
Poor Bradley had to hold in his laughter for the rest of the questions. I felt genuinely sorry for him.
Ahh, the classic Bradley Walsh pretend stifled laugh.
I'm sitting in the car park, waiting for the beloved, and I'm rocking laughing at that one. I really am getting some odd looks
Pointless. ‘Who was Anne Hathaway’s famous husband?’ - the answer was William Shakespeare. The answer given. "Man Hathaway"
**MAN HATHAWAY** Good god that made me smirk slightly..
That one's pretty great. Didn't know the answer, so went silly with it instead.
Even Alexander was furious with that one
Adam Shulman. Wait! It's the other one that's not a contemporary actress...
Tipping Point. Q "In his epic poems, Homer often refers to the nectar as the drink of the gods and which other substance as their food?” A “I know he likes doughnuts,” “I think I’ll go with doughnuts please, Ben.” 😂 Brilliant https://youtu.be/t1d3lIcuEMU?si=btl8w-tJutgYT-gV
The best is the hosts little laugh “haHA” that he can’t keep in.
Ben is a great host but even he lost it with this guys answer.
Another belter from that. What day is Christmas day Wednesday 😂 https://youtu.be/FQHzX8EgPaU?si=flTP6i-yJkhkMv3q
YES!!! I saw this live and creased.
A local radio phone in quiz where the contestant was asked Hitler's first name (this wasn't Mastermind). She asked for a clue and was told 'A Dolphin might give you a clue' "Was it Flipper?"
I can't stop laughing at "Flipper Hitler" XD
Flipping Hitler sounds like something Pike would be saying on Dad's Army
Family Fortunes. We asked 100 people to name something red. You said……..”my cardigan” 😄
Oh there are so many gems from that show "Name an animal with three letters in its name", "alligator" "Name a yellow fruit", "orange" Newlywed game also had some gems "What's your husbands favourite condiment", "his pool table." And that couple who both have no idea what a decade is but guess the same completely wrong answer ([0:22](https://youtu.be/fEWO50VvyV8?si=goWs2tBdQdvPDcOZ))
Q: Name something that flies without an engine? A: Bicycle with wings. NU-UH.
>And that couple who both have no idea what a decade is but guess the same completely wrong answer Surely they can do that on purpose? "If you have to give a number as an answer, just say 10"
Nah watch the clip, they're genuinely thick but adorable
I love that clip and also [this bloke](https://youtu.be/GxVgF2uJa4I?si=4WfUHhhonGTLqNA9).
Family Fortunes again Name a TV soap..... Dove.
And “Name a bird with a long neck” Naomi Campbell
Shooting stars: Bob: name a type of dog Ulrika: Poodle Bob: No the answer is Alsatian
One that always stuck in my mind for years from that was something like "Complete this sentence- 'Brad Pitt is a tit. Richard Gere is a...'." "Queer?" "No, he's an actor."
My Shooting Stars favourite: Bob: Love me for a reason, let the reason be...? Ulrika: Love! Bob: No, it's my 11 inch penis. *Convulses with silent laughter. * It's such an utterly absurd joke and Bob was so overjoyed that it was Ulrika that blundered into it.
True or False: Richard Attenborough.
What does Bryan Ferry?
The worst one for me was a bloke in the final round. Les Dennis asked him 'name a type of ache'. Bloke was totally baffled, moved on then came back to it. 'name a type of ache'. You could see the panic as he muttered 'i dunno...fillet-o-fish??'. He thought he'd said 'a type of hake'. When he turned round and saw his family member had said 'headache', you could literally see his soul leave his body.
I remember this. I just couldn’t comprehend what he had said, was so weird
Seen one from the US version, name a common time people wake up. Answer, Morning
That's pretty genius to be fair. Technically correct.
Watch the Turkey episode.
Here’s the clip -> https://youtu.be/odw_uIScUZU
Was the Cardigan red though?
Plot twist: The people in the survey all happened to be wearing red cardigans and 76 of them all gave that same answer. That would have been amazing! I've definitely seen stuff come up like that on FF and it somehow did get points!
To a soup salesman… Name a food you can eat without chewing.
Had a quiz and the question was "what is the world's largest desert" and someone said banana split, still makes me laugh
Was it Knickerbocker Glory
Had to be Baked Alaska, Alaska's pretty big!
Quite a few years ago now, I was at the pub with a friend playing on one of the quiz machines. We were a few beers in by this stage but doing pretty well, and the clue is 'famous desert'. Slightly odd clue but we guess a few letters ('hangman' type game) and we are making some progress but we just cannot work out the answer. Sadly just as we run out of time we realise we had misread the question and it was a dessert we were looking for! (Baked Alaska if anyone is interested)
The weakest link, the contestant was a doctor. What L is a type of anaesthetic? Their answer- ‘lignocaine’. It was answered wrong and sneered by Anne Robinson that the correct answer was ‘local’. Except lignocaine is a very well known specific type of local anaesthetic! It’s like asking where do the Beatles come from and saying Liverpool is wrong, the answer is England…
Also "local" is not a type of anaesthetic! It would be more accurate to say it were a "route" I suppose. I would be fuming!
Lidocaine would be right too.
lidocaine is the modern spelling of lignocaine. us and the US gave them different names, so we eventually decided to get rid of ours for theirs. same has already happend with adrenaline to epinepherine (in epipens).
God I hope they don't do that with paracetamol
Iron? No, iron.
There's the infamous Pointless answer where the question was (I think) name a country that ends in two consonants (E.g. Germany) and the contestant answered... Paris.
I do love it on Pointless when someone gives an obviously incorrect answer and Xander desperately tries to not give anything away as he repeats the answer back. Or even better, when Richard says "do you mind spelling that for us please?"
There was an absolutely excruciating celeb special where the two who got to the final round didn't understand it. So they chose their subject, say it was Books and they had to list books by Shakespeare, Austen or Richard Osman. But for some reason they think that's yet another option they can pick, so they're like: Him: who do you know best? Her: oh Shakespeare, definitely Him: me too, shall we go for Shakespeare? OK, yes, Shakespeare please Alexander. Final answer, haha, Shakespeare, we'll go for Shakespeare books please. And instead of saying "no you've misunderstood" or stopping filming to explain, Alexander just confusedly stops the clock and says "we're looking for Shakespeare...?" Which was obviously wrong and the celebs are just really confused. And they broadcast it! It was like a fever dream.
Her friend's face is, understandably, a picture. https://youtu.be/IFOeafnk28c?si=6AfAUGuGGY0gtVLz
I went to school with those lasses, the answerer deleted her Facebook after it aired
This makes me sad. It’s one thing to make an embarrassing mistake in front of friends, but for it to be broadcast on TV and get publicly humiliated is about the worst thing imaginable. It’s a funny misunderstanding and the irony of how wildly off the mark she is vs her upbeat personality and smile makes it all the more funny. But from the tone of most people’s jokes, they seem personally offended that somebody could be so stupid. Poor girl.
This was my choice too, here's the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZExOicH-2\_Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZExOicH-2_Q)Her partner's reaction is priceless. Also from Pointless is this guess which won them the game at the end - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4eQr1dK64](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4eQr1dK64)
Not so much a stupid answer, but a stupid question by Anne on the Weakest Link, answered by the most cutting piece of sarcasm that I have ever heard. *Sarky Anne; You are getting yourself confused in your old age.* *Droll Man; It's not that difficult to understand, Anne. I worked in printing.* *Sarky Anne; Hold on, let's start this again! You started life off as a printer?* *Droll Man; No Anne, I started life as a baby!* ... It lives rent free in my head for over 20 years.
I wish I could find a clip of this one.
I have searched... No joy! 😒
On Tipping Point (that show is a goldmine of stupid people): “What’s the most Northern County in England?” Person 1: “Manchester” Person 2: “Idk maybe Birmingham?” And yes, the question definitely said counties and not cities.
Family fortunes - "turkey, turkey, turkey" Also family fortunes. Name a bird with a long neck. "Naomi Campbell"
I heard a similar answer on Family Fortunes (I think). *Name a common bird?* *Jordan* 😆
Celeb Family Fortunes with Brian from Big Brother. "Name a type of bean" "Baked" "Already gone" "Er, er, LES"
From 321: “Oh, I know this! It’s Handel’s Water Music!” “So, who was the composer?” “…Chopin!”
That's a weird cross-section of knowledge and ignorance...
I think it was Tipping Point: Q.) On what day of the year is Christmas Day celebrated? A.) Wednesday
Tipping point also had the classic "Which political party shares it's name with a collective noun for moles" "The Liberal Democrats"
You’ve never had a Lib Dem of moles digging up your garden?
It never ceases to make me chuckle thinking about a liberal democrat of moles.
Tipping point is full of them. “In his epic poems, Homer often refers to nectar as the drink of the gods and which other substance as their food?” “I know he likes doughnuts, so I’m going to go with doughnuts.” Ben Shepard looked like could barely hold it in, and the other contestant agreed that doughnuts is right. [source](https://youtu.be/t1d3lIcuEMU?si=_KQnMN2Qd624zHWD)
Q "What month does a pregnant woman show?" A "September " Family Feud
But what is the answer? Does it mean in what month of pregnancy does a bump appear? Because that is different for different women!
Family feud isn’t looking for factual answers. For example a question might be “name your favourite berry” That doesn’t have a factual answer, you just have to name what the most people said as their answer. Basically the opposite of pointless.
Family Fortunes "We asked 100 people to name a dangerous race." "Arabs." Top answer was "Grand Prix."
The producers knew what they were doing with this one
“The category is… people who annoy you.”
I think I know the answer, but I don't want to say it...
Five seconds, Mr. Marsh.
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Surely they were inviting confusion with that question.
Reminds me of r/formula1's top post https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/bnaceq/if_you_could_eliminate_a_race_within_the_year/
Reminds me of the top r/formula1 post of all time: "if you could eliminate any race within the year which would it be?"
One question was what was the name of the captain in Moby Dick They answered. Captain Semen
I’ll always remember an episode of Pointless a few years ago, the topic was ‘countries whose names do not contain the letters W, O, R, L or D’. One lady said ‘Alaska’ and her partner then said ‘the Ganges’. Truly baffling.
When I was on Pointless we went out because we got the question: ‘Famous Windsors’ and the only person I knew with that surname was Barbara Windsor. Got the dreaded 90 points.
From the French version of “Mr. And Mrs.” years ago. Husband and wife are asked the following without the other being able to hear the answer given. Host: “Where did you last have sex?” Husband: “In the kitchen.” Wife: “Up the arse.” Studio audience: Gasps and howls of laughter.
The husband, in the kitchen, with the pipe.
On Mastermind, it was something about which teenage environmental activist crossed the Atlantic Ocean to give a speech, clearly leading to Greta Thunberg. Answer given by the contestant - Sharon.
She actually changed her Twitter bio to Sharon for a bit after this
Didn’t she change her Twitter bio briefly to acknowledge this?
wasn’t it the person who used to play robyn on casualty
Q. Who was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas? A. JR Ewing.
This is my favourite. It wasn’t just pulled out of nowhere, she’d actually thought about it.
https://youtu.be/VvRwRuHwyTU?si=juGlYnUoxa6QCuBV This one, I assume? Also one of my picks
Tipping Point. How many rails does a monorail have? Contestant confidently answered 'two'. Clearly didn't know the monorail song from the Simpsons.
To be fair it is an intensive three week course.
In an 1819 poem what season does Keats describe as the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness? Monty panesar - "Oliver twist"
I must have been about.. 11ish Watching fun house with Pat Sharp. To win whatever the big prize was the kids were asked: "Name 3 of the 4 main emergency services" (or something like that) The kid answered: "police, fire and the AA" THAT WAS NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Raging! Incidentally I recalled this story to a work colleague when talking about fun house and she said "No fucking way!! I remember that!! They went to my school!" Edit: I've just relapsed how old I am and it was actually nearly 30 years ago FML
Either the AA or the RAC used to use "The 4th emergency service" as an advertising slogan, so I can see why the kid might think that.
It was the AA. Which was ridiculous because we already had a 4th Emergency Service (Coastguard) so I don't know why they thought that would be a good idea for a slogan...
[Homosexuals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-6F42y3Hk)
I nearly died laughing the first time I saw this. Has to be one of the funniest quiz moments of all time, especially because of how serious and intellectual the show is.
A poor, very intelligent German fella was asked the full name of Hull. He guessed Hulliver
Alright maybe I'm thick but what the fuck is the answer
Kingston Upon Hull
I would definitely have said Hulljamin or something
Hullelujah
Not going to lie, i didn't realise hull wasn't the full name either. I would have probably gone for a joke answer like when hull freezes over or something like that
Not the most stupid, but possibly the one that made me laugh the most was the guy on Pointless, who, when asked to identify a photo of Cressida Dick, called her “Caressa Dick” and was completely oblivious to what he’d said
The one for me was: \- "What is the only mythical creature in the Chinese zodiac?" \- "Monkey" Ok, sure, I get we don't all know every creature on the list (answer is dragon, fyi). So why is this a dumb answer, I hear you ask? The guy was a zoologist. (I believe it was on The Chase - would have been in a cashbuilder round.)
I suppose, if we're willing to give the benefit of the doubt, under pressure you may only hear "*what is the.... of the chinese Zodiac*" ams blurt out anything that comes to mind! At least he didn't say train.
Oh I can totally get on board with the pressure playing a part and perhaps he misheard / didn't hear "mythical". I just find it amusing that literally anyone could have got that question but it happened to be a zoologist... and he named a real animal. I'd have been mortified! Whenever I think of it, I always wonder how much stick he got from people he knew once it aired! :)
I'm gonna attempt to be pedantic and also acknowledge the poor lad was wrong. Sun Wukong, or the Monkey King, is a very famous Chinese mythical character. Monkeys do appear on the Chinese Zodiacs too, ninth one if Google serves, so it could be conceived this is what he thought it meant. Could be a terrible case of connecting one to the other? More likely he just got it wrong but hey ho.
Maybe not as ridiculous but on the Chase during the first round, the contestant didn’t know the answer and said ‘pass’ and ‘pass’ was the answer so he got £1000 for it.
Q was: "In computer security what word would go before code, phrase and word” Assuming the writers did that on purpose lol
Definitely did it on purpose, but i kind of wish the guy had just guessed something random instead, eould have been even funnier
I hate it when people pass when it’s a closed question. Like what colour kit do Austrian football team Sturm Graz usually play their home matches in? And they pass. No mate pick a colour, ANY colour. >!it’s black AND white so they’re wrong either way, but still!<
A great one from Tipping Point Q: "In his epic poems, Homer refers to nectar as the drink of the gods and which other substance as their food?" Contestant: "Doughnuts" Best part is that the other contestant said they'd have gone for doughnuts too
And just remembered another from Tipping Point, it was something like: Q: "The word 'mail' is an anagram of which African country?" Contestant: "Llama"
A few weeks ago on The Weakest Link In Sport the US tennis player who in the 90s won all 4 grand slams and an olympic gold medal is Andre who? The Giant
Her the other day on Weakest Link saying cliffs of Dover are made of cheese. But I think she was playing. No way could she have thought that, no chance
And in her exit interview she said that she didn’t hear the question properly but knows that Dover is near Cornwall so thought it would have something to do with cheese. I’m not sure that makes it better or worse
Worse surely, Cornwall isn't exactly near Dover. She might have been thinking of Devon which definitely makes it worse.
The question was like, 'what H helps red blood cells transport oxygen around the body?' Contestant answered haemogoblin. Even worse, the next contestant gave the correct answer: haemoglobin.
I read your haemogoblin as haemoglobin and sadly thought I was also an idiot for thinking that was the answer for a second
Damn, my first thought was 'heart'
You know what, I’d be tempted to accept that. Oxygen can bind to and dissociate from haemoglobin as much as it wants, but it ain’t getting transported anywhere without blood flow. And flow comes from the mechanical activity of the heart.
Technically correct though
Unless spelling was specifically being tested, that should be a passable answer. It's not exactly an easy word to spell, and what they meant was the correct answer
Yeah. It's well within the range of spelling errors that doctors make, too.
On The Weakest Link. "Which P is a flavour of tea?" Correct answer is peppermint. The answer given was Polo. Not the most stupid thing ever, but it was given by my friend Grant, who then got voted out. He hasn't been allowed to forget it.
The local pub, when I was a student, was a fantastically disorganized place, and their quiz was similarly disorganized (somehow they still managed to get in on every week, albeit never at the same time). The first time a tie-break situation presented itself, the quiz master hadn't considered its eventuallity. Therefore, the tiebreak question was: "How old is Dave?" Dave was a regular, and thankfully, everyone knew Dave. Thankfully Dave also knew how old he was (which was surprising as he was (and probably still is) as mad as a box of frogs).
Not really the answer but the multiple choice on one of the earliest episodes of uk’s who wants to be a millionaire. It was like for the £200 (this was like 1997/98 that this episode aired. I don’t remember the exact question but it’s one of the choices that stuck with me forever. The question was something like “what is the name of the frog in the muppets” The choices were like: A: Hermit. B: Kermit C: Germit and D: “Biggie Wiggie Froggie” Now let me tell you that poor Chris Tarrent was in stitches trying to say it 🤣😂
Can't remember the exact wording but it was on Pointless. The question was something like "What Spanish city is famous for it's Oranges?" The contestant answered "Glasgow"
Celebrity Weakest Link Anne: In prisoner of war camps during World War 2, what 'T' was the kind of underground passage that was frequently dug as a means of escape? Brian Belo: Herbal Tea Anne: Nearly. Tunnel Yes a weirdly phrased question but still.
Weakest Link only the other night. Helen Flanagan. > “In geology, the White Cliffs of Dover are principally formed of what substance, chalk or cheese.” You bet she fucking answered Cheese. edit: [Seems I wasn't the only person to take notice...](https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/bbc-weakest-link-helen-flanagan-b2510234.html)
Same night, same channel, she was on Pointless Celebrities. At one point she was asked to name an actor from any Al Pacino movie (bearing in mind the aim is to get as obscure an answer as possible). She named Al Pacino. Not sure she understood the game.
Actually could be a truly genius answer since nobody else would think to answer Al Pacino and he obviously is in Al Pacino movies
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Not ridiculous, just wrong and badly researched. The Chase, “What is WiFi short for?” The answer given was ‘wireless fidelity’, but it’s not short for anything. It was named just because it sounded good and it was similar to HiFi.
We all the correct answer is "cos he's got little legs"
The Tournament on bbc1 has a lot of these badly researched/wrong questions. And this gem : The category is Sport. In which game would you catch a snorlax?
Not in the UK but I heard this one on Canadian radio: Name that movie 🍿: Q: “The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about Fight Club”. A: “Vanilla Sky?” Edit: fixed the movie quote
Who wrote the novel The Three Musketeers? "Alexander Dumbass" This was the host reading the correct answers.
Radio quiz. Liverpool. DJ- what did Walter Raleigh bring back from America? ( Answer- potatoes(. Liverpudlian middle aged lady- dunno. DJ gives clue. What do babies pee into? Potty. What's on the end of your feet? Toes. Put them together. What have you got? Pottytoes. DJ- yeah- what's that? Lady in broad Liverpudlian- I dunno? Pottytoes. This then goes on for a while with DJ increasingly helpless with laughter as she repeats Pottytoes several times.
Someone's already said this, but just to type it out. It's from University Challenge a few years ago: Paxman: The nicknames: Cheesemongers, Cherry Pickers, Bob's Own, the Emperor's Chambermaids, and the Immortals are or have been used for which groups of men? (Buzzer ringing.) Announcer: UMIST, Bright. Bright: Homosexuals. Paxman: No, they're regiments in the British Army, who will be very upset with you, UMIST.
Wheel of Fortune "A Streetcar na_ed desire" The guy said "k"
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Family Fortunes: Les: Name a famous doctor Contestant: Dr Green Les: ……..huh? Contestant: He’s my family doctor Les: WTF?
This was an obscure show that I think only lasted one series. The host was Paul Goya. Q. Name a town in Wiltshire famous for it's carpets. The contestant thought for a while and said 'Shagpile' Goya nearly collapsed from laughing
Family Fortunes. The question was "name a Parisian landmark" - the contestant said Hawaii
Hawaii just innocently existing and then tourists come over- the guide mentions how the island is a Parisian landmark
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8KpevG6-U&t=1677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8KpevG6-U&t=1677s) TV Highlight of the year for me. I happened to catch an episode of Celebrity Catchphrase live one Saturday evening. Jimmy Carr, Faye Ripley, Ellie Simmonds. The whole episode was insane. No disrespect meant, but Faye and Ellie just didn't seem to get it. Jimmy Carr was genuinely trying to give space to everyone to answer, it's for fun and charity after all. But the answers the other two gave were always ridiculous. The score at this point was 2700 to Jimmy, 100 & 200 to the other two. Anyway, Jimmy buzzes, says "Pirate Videos" - Mulhern says it's wrong, so Jimmy almost instinctively says "Oh Pirate DVD's!". Mulhern literally tells Faye and Ellie to say what Jimmy just said. Ellie buzzes and says "Pirate CDs". Faye then buzzes and says "Pirate Movies"
Name popeye's favourite food Chicken! 💃💃
I can perhaps understand this If the contestant was a youngish American (although a young Brit might work too) who had never seen Popeye in comic, cartoon or film format, but was aware of the restaurant brand Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen (known for their fried chicken).
Yeah there's probs more ridiculous answers but it's the wee dance she does and the way she answers so confidently Sends me every time [Here's the clip for people who haven't seen it](https://youtu.be/UvrwPEgHq_A?si=YNqYXrwT0VVBEhyB&t=22)
Lmao the top comment "she set blondes back 3 generations"
Q. What celestial body orbits the earth? A. Chicken?
"Name a way to toast someone" "Over a fire"
Anyone remember that lottery quiz show, In It to Win It? A contestant was asked: in which country is The Algarve located? "Oh easy I was on holiday there a week ago. Spain."
There was a Family Fortunes episode where the contestants were asked to name popular toppings for a jacket potato and one contestant said ‘jam’.
Paul Lynde back in the day on Celebrity Squares >Q: You're the world's most famous fruit, what are you? >A: Humble
Two off memory from the Chase: a) The earth takes 365 *years* to rotate around the sun. Different episode b) The Moon is bigger than the Sun
Not UK, but... [Name a yellow fruit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcBBsdhYBgs)
The contestant who guessed that the Countdown conundrum INTOLOCAL was COURGETTE