From an old “World’s Greatest Bloopers”;
Q: Who wrote “THe Tree Musketeers?”
A: Alexander Dumb-ass!
(laughter)
Oh, I mean Henry Dumb-ass!
A friend emailed me a photograph recently of a scene from Millionaire (no idea which country’s version though). It was a woman who was asked: "Which of these is the largest:
A: A kettle
B: A peanut
C: An elephant
D: The moon.
She had locked in C. I really hope the photograph was faked.
The worst I ever personally saw was the guy on Australian Millionaire who confidently locked in “South America”, when asked which continent the world’s ten highest mountains were located on.
Raaahahaha (OMG) 
I’ve been sitting here reading some of these posts and laughed so hard that I actually started crying. Of all the time I’ve been posting here, This has to be the most halarious topic I’ve read yet…This is DEFNITELY one for the archives
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Then there are stupid questions as well.
I remember one from International Jeopardy some time back.
It’s not so much stupid, as funny.
The…Icelandic, IIRC, contestant selects.
Category:
Foreign Body Parts.
Daily Double comes up.
Clue:
If a Japanese doctor asks you to stick out your Shita, this is what you would present.
Contestant thinks for a few moments. Obviously doesn’t know. Finally comes up with something:
‘What is your bum?’
Alex, the audience, the other contestants, and, yes, him, get a good giggle out of it, and the game moves on.
(The actual answer is, of course, your tongue.)
Personal favourite comes from an Irish radio show, Larry’s just a minute quiz.
Larry: What bird is famous for rising from its own ashes?
Contestant: A duck
I remember a similar episode back in the late 80’s, when they still had you buy the overpriced crap. This man had, IIRC, over $60,000 in the bank and the board looked like so (category "Phrase):
THE THR-LL OF V-CTORY, THE AGONY OF DEFEAT.
Despite the fact that “A” was already placed on the board, he read the thing as “The Thrall of Victory…”
If that was me and I’d have lost $60k+, I would’ve just walked off the set if for no other reason than to stop the taping and make them start over with new contestants. You know that’s gotta suck… you tell everybody you know that you’re going to be on WoF and then you fall on your face like that.
From the old MTV game show “Remote Control”. Occasionally they would have questions designed to be so easy that anyone could get them.
Ken: Batman’s secret identity was Bruce Wayne. For ten points, what was Bruce Wayne’s secret identity?
Moron contestant: Uhh… Robin?
I take it you’ve seen the Snake Charmer one that they show on It’ll Be All Right On The Night? Nothing wrong with the picture as a whole, but the order in which the blocks were removed makes it excruciatingly funny.
The UK satirical magazine Private Eye runs a column of stupid quiz answers in every issue. Here’s a couple of recent highlights:
Q: The Ashmolean in Oxford was England’s firs what?
A: Indian restaurant.
Q: The brothers Derek and Alan Longmuir were members of which famous boy band of the 70’s?
A: The Osmonds.
(Quizmaster: No… they tended to be called “Osmond”, as a rule.)
Q: Which animal builds dams and lodges?
A: Sheep.
Q: “Bolster” is an anagram of which marine crustacean?
A: Crab.
Q: Who starts opposite Jude Law in the film Cold Mountain?
A: Ethel Merman.
OK, so if you don’t know you should guess… but come on!
I love this one.
As with the ‘Shita’ answer above, I love when the contestants get witty when they’re on the spot like that.
One of my favorites from Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?:
Q: What animal did Hannibal use to cross the Alps:
The choices were A) Donkeys B) Elephants C) Llamas D) Camels. The guy is real puzzled and clearly doesn’t know the answer (this is the first question, btw). So he uses one of his lifelines to have two answers removed. The only two left are B) Elephants and C) Llamas.
The guy is like, well, my first guess is gone. I’ll go with llamas, because I KNOW it’s not elephants.
Good times.
Trivia contest on WBZ Boston, mid-'70s. The question:
If you travel due west from the United States, what is the first continent you run into?
None of 5 players getting any ideas. The buzzer is about to go off, and one guy shouts down the phone:
“Cuba!”
No, I haven’t heard of the first one …so tell us about it.
I thought Private Eye was long defunct. Apparently not?
The whole picture was a snake rising out of a basket on the left, with that yellow robot guy they use on the right dancing in top hat and tails with a cane.
Now, let’s number the blocks:
123
456
789
The first block removed (IIRC) was 3, which showed the robot guy with a big cheesy grin on his face. The second removed was 5, which showed his hand moving up and down with the tip of a round-ended cylindrical object in it. Take a moment here to picture the scene.
…
OK. Now, the third block removed was block 1, which had the snake’s head nodding up and down with a goofy smile, looking down at block 5. By this point, not only were the audience laughing uncontrollably, but it was all the contestants could do to remain vertical and even Roy Walker was struggling to avoid hysterics. The blocks that would have clarified the innuendo were 6 and 8, and try as they might nobody could get the damn things removed.
Needless to say, the segment didn’t make it to air.
Christ, no. Ian Hislop of Have I Got News For You fame is the editor - in fact, that’s why he’s on the show. You’re thinking of Punch, I suspect.
This is from one of my Quiz Bowl competitions. Not a stupid answer, just a humorous one:
Q: What is hasenpfeffer?
A: Rabbit.
Q: More specific? (The answer is rabbit stew)
A: (after several seconds) Brown rabbit.
Another Quiz Bowl guy checking in. Even worse, I gave this answer!
Q: This famous blind musician wrote Georgia On My Mind.
A: Ray Stevens!
Man, I felt like an ass.
It was “A group of well-wishers”
Oh, that reminds me of when I was in Reach for the Top.
Question: What is the medical field concerned with aging and the aged?
Answer: Gerontology.
I ring in. Suddenly I blank. I KNOW the answer…I can’t get it out. All I can remember is it starts with G.
I sit there groping for a few moments. Suddenly it comes to me.
GYNECOLOGY! … :smack: :o :smack: :rolleyes:
Hoagy Carmichael was blind?
Strainger: It was years and years ago, I can’t remember the exact question. Needless to say, Ray Charles was the right answer. Not the guy who gave us such classics as The Streak and Ahab the Arab.