# Dumbest game show answers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2007, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921 "2007-01-06T08:58:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/21 "2007-01-06T15:01:20Z")
I don’t understand French that well, so I’m not totally sure what goes on in this clip: [http://www.shermix.com/video.php?id=592](http://www.shermix.com/video.php?id=592) But it seems to me that French people do not know if the sun orbits earth or not. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/22 "2007-01-06T15:09:02Z")
Family Fortunes, a family from my hometown . Name an item of clothing made from straw An overcoat ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/23 "2007-01-06T15:09:25Z")
[QUOTE=SenorBeef] This certainly doesn’t qualify for all time dumb responses. [/quote] I’ll concede that. I included the question & answer because I thought it was hilarious. However it is only funny if you know who Cezanne was, and I accept that he was not as famous as, say, Homer Simpson. If you are a golf fan for example and you hear the question _Is Tiger Woods a golfer or a ventriloquist?_ you might find it amusing if the answer given was the latter. No prizes will be given to any poster asking who is Tiger Woods, but if anyone can confirm Woods to be a ventriloquist (with a cite) I will be seriously impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/24 "2007-01-06T15:20:09Z")
From a German game show: Q: Which ancient Roman god of war had the same name as a chocolate bar? A: Snickers ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/25 "2007-01-06T15:22:08Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first to say it, but the winner is [Up the butt, Bob](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/newlywed.asp) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/26 "2007-01-06T15:36:29Z")
Answers given by contestants in the UK version of “The Weakest Link” What insect is found hovering above lakes Answer: Alligators Which letter comes between P and R Answer: O Which “A” is a small tube in the human digestive system Answers: Arse What “Z” describes a human who has returned from the dead Answer: Unicorn ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/27 "2007-01-06T18:18:24Z")
Several years ago, on \*Jeopardy!, \*a contestant made two dumb responses in the same game. And I’m paraphrasing: Clue: “In a wedding, these men escort people to their seats.” Response: “What are pallbearers?” Clue: “A two-wheeled Roman vehicle.” Response: “What is a bicycle?” ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/28 "2007-01-06T19:12:27Z")
Anyone remember the _Who Wants to be a Millionaire_ when the contestant had to choose the largest of four choices including the moon and an elephant and she chose the elephant? I didn’t see it, but recall the ubiquitous image macro _ **Elephants** : Larger than the moon_. I hope it wan’t fudged. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/29 "2007-01-06T19:12:40Z")
Ken Jennings on Jeopardy: This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure-seeker. What’s a ho? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/30 "2007-01-06T19:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Ken Jennings on Jeopardy: This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure-seeker. What’s a ho? [/QUOTE] Hey, I like that answer. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/31 "2007-01-06T19:51:43Z")
[QUOTE=Viridiana] Anyone remember the _Who Wants to be a Millionaire_ when the contestant had to choose the largest of four choices including the moon and an elephant and she chose the elephant? I didn’t see it, but recall the ubiquitous image macro _ **Elephants** : Larger than the moon_. I hope it wan’t fudged. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I kind of liked the “Which animals did Hannibal take over the Alps?” being answered with (after a 50/50 limited to “elephants” and “llamas”) with “llamas.” Right before, the poor sap said something like “I… well, I know it couldn’t be elephants!” Not up there with the all-time stupidest answers, but it tickled me. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/32 "2007-01-06T19:58:56Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Ken Jennings on Jeopardy: This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure-seeker. What’s a ho? [/QUOTE] Couldn’t “rake” also be correct? ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/33 "2007-01-06T20:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] Couldn’t “rake” also be correct? [/QUOTE] “Rake” was the right answer. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/34 "2007-01-06T20:08:41Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] Couldn’t “rake” also be correct? [/QUOTE] That was, in fact, the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/35 "2007-01-06T20:14:14Z")
Family Feud Bonus Round: Q: During what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant? A: September ---
**Author:** ![4.66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/2bfe46/32.png) [@4.66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4.66)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/36 "2007-01-06T20:35:16Z")
Q: Number of squares on a chess-board? A: 52 ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/37 "2007-01-06T20:36:29Z")
The combination of a dumb contestant and a dumb host is twice as bad. I give you, from “Sale of the Century”, a dreadful UK game show made in Norwich in the seventies, the following exchange: Host (the truly appalling Nicholas Parsons): What was the name of William Shakespeare’s wife? Contestant: errr… Mrs Shakespeare? Host: Oh… well, technically, I suppose you’re right! I’m going to have to give you that… ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/38 "2007-01-06T20:41:33Z")
[Dumb Britain](http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=dumb_britain&): > [@](#): > > **Anne Robinson:** What G was the complex knot severed by Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC? > > **Contestant:** Granny. > > **Anne Robinson:** What is the highest mountain in Scotland, Ben… what? > > **Contestant:** Ben Everest. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/39 "2007-01-06T21:03:58Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Ken Jennings on Jeopardy: This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure-seeker. What’s a ho? [/QUOTE] I _still_ think he got screwed, that seems like a perfectly valid answer to me. ---
**Author:** ![Molly\_Polly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@Molly\_Polly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molly_Polly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921/40 "2007-01-06T21:06:11Z")
These new shows are so damned slow! Jeopardy is fast, during the game part at any rate. Family Feud is fast. But the new ones will drag out, and stall, and stammer, over every piddly question. UGH [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-game-show-answers/386921.md?page=3)