Posted on 02/01/2008 1:03:05 PM PST by Squidpup
LONDON (Reuters) - Question: What was Gandhi's first name? Contestant's answer: Goosey Goosey.
Warning to all those know-alls who shout at the television screen when contestants offer dumb answers to blindingly obvious questions -- one day that could be you.
From regional radio shows to "Who Wants To be a Millionaire?" and "University Challenge," people make fools of themselves -- as internet site www.jumpingjacksbar.com found in collating some of the worst howlers.
Here are leading contenders for the "Dumb Down" gold medal:
Presenter: What happened in Dallas on November 22,1963?
Contestant: I don't know, I wasn't watching it then
Presenter: Which American actor is married to Nicole Kidman?
Contestant: Forrest Gump
Presenter: In which country is Mount Everest?
Contestant: Er, it's not in Scotland is it?
Presenter: Name a film starring Bob Hoskins that is also the name of a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci
Contestant: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Presenter: In which European city was the first opera house opened in 1637?
Contestant: Sydney
Presenter: How long did the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel last?
Contestant: (after long pause) Fourteen days
Presenter: Where did the D-Day landings take place?
Contestant: (after pause) Pearl Harbor?
Presenter: What is the currency in India
Contestant: Ramadan
Presenter: Johnny Weissmuller died on this day. Which
jungle-swinging character clad only in a loin cloth did he play?
Contestant: Jesus
With all due respect none of these were as bad as that. IMHO, of course.
I once heard a good one: “When was the War of 1812 fought?”
And, yes, she is a ditz.
1. How long did the Hundred Years War last?
2. Which country makes Panama hats?
3. From which animal do we get catgut?
4. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5. What is a camel’s hair brush made of?
6. The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what animal?
7. What was King George VI’s first name?
8. What colour is a purple finch?
9. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10. How long did the Thirty Years War last?
1. 116 years, from 1337 to 1453.
2. Ecuador.
3. From sheep and horses.
4. November. Before the Revolution the Russians used the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind ours.
5. Squirrel fur.
6. The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.
7. Albert. When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected the wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be called Albert.
8. Distinctively crimson.
9. New Zealand.
10. Thirty years, of course. From 1618 to 1648.
A stellar product of North Carolina’s public schools! Go buy a lottery ticket to fund more of the same!
She’s a pretty good singer with a couple of okay songs.
That’s good - I will go you one better: We were playing the “Smarter than a 5th Grader” board game with some out of town relatives, the mom (redhead not blonde) was asked “what language do they speak in Cuba?” She replied “Puerto Rican?”
That video clip is being passed around all over the MidEast theater now as well. I liked "I've never heard of 'Hungry.' I've heard of Turkey, though." LOL
lol - had me with those
Many years ago on Wheel of Fortune;
“Pat, I wanna buy a vowel. I wanna buy a ‘W’.”
That was another of Jimmy Durante's favorites.
Public education strikes again!
I do not recall seeing anyone, anyone, exhibit that level of sheer mental inoperativity, on TV or anywhere else, any time in the past 20-odd years.
My sympathies on your public schools! BTW, Coulter is just about to be on Hannity to explain her statement about campaigning for Hitlery. THIS ought to be quite amusing. (
''How long was the Hundred Years' War''?
Well? ...
A couple of those caught me. Good post.
I didn’t check the video, but I think the lady on Wheel of Fortune who gave the “famous saying” as “more fun than a barrel of vikings” should be on the list.
Neat quiz! Saw it somewhere a long time ago. Wouldn’t it be a howl to insert those Qs on certain game shows, eh?!?
doh the site URL expired yesterday
November.
huh?
116...1337-1453
Dude - did you cheat and read the answers?
That IS weird
No. That one I knew because when I learned it in college, it pissed me off. “What do you mean the October Revolution was in November!?!”
Also on Wheel one night:
It was College Buddies Week (or something) where 2 people from a college were on a team. The puzzle was one of those “Clue” things where the solution is a hint at the answer to a question asked after the puzzle is solved.
The puzzle solution was “Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains”
The players (2 females from Indiana University for those curious) were then asked what musical that was from. The girls looked at each other for a couple of seconds and then one said:
“Utah?”
Hungary
More people will bite on that one than you can probably imagine.
;^)
She actually did say ‘Hungry’, no middle syllable.
Wrong. Budapest.
And she's not nearly as pretty as Miss Teen South Carolina, who thought the government should give us all maps to find South Africa :-).
Ann Coulter was probably just jerking the media's chain.
Where is it written that the entry fee to a beauty pageant allows inexperienced, marginally literate babettes to lecture the general public on sociopolitical issues?
Maps, is it? Maps, eh? That twit couldn't find her butt with both hands, a mirror and a map on a sunny day.
A few years ago on Wheel of Fortune:
On the screen: T_ _T’S HOLLYWOOD
Contestant: “I want to solve, Pat.”
Pat: “Ok, go for it...”
Contestant: “TART’S HOLLYWOOD!”
{Silence from Pat Sajak...}
Was the contestant Welsh?
Mmmmmmmm......no.
As we were heading up towards the Tomb of the Unknown, one of the girls stopped in her tracks, and exclaimed,
So, that is where they buried him, I always wondered about that.
I looked up wondering what famous American she was talking about.
On the headstone was one word.
MOSES
TV Game host: What animal is associated with Lady Godiva?
Woman contestant: Bear.
(audience laughs)
Woman contestant realizing her answer was wrong: Oh, oh, oh...ants!?
(more laughter)
Remember “a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y or w.”
The pageant organizers want everyone to think it’s about something other than being pretty (and affording the clothes and stylists!).
Maybe she's just ahead of her time. They appear to be working on it, what with a constitution, an army, a currency, etc.
I think we should take away all those extra seats in the UN, and give the EU a single seat. To be polite, we'll make it permanent seat on the Security Council. The extra European seat on the SC can go to India.
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I remember one where Bob Eubanks asked, "What's the name of the closest delicatessen to your house?" The husband gave the name of the nearest hardware store. The wife said, "That ain't a delicatessen. A delicatessen's where you buy drugs and aspirin and stuff."
My all time favorite, though, was, "Where's the weirdest place you've ever made Whoopee?"
The wife said, "In the butt, Bob."
And I thought that Buda-pest was two cities.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Here's a strong candidate:
Jessica Simpson, holding a can of tuna fish, on her silly reality show:
"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.'"
It used to be. It was amalgamated into a single city in 1873.
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