# The world's dumbest quiz show answers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805 "2008-02-01T02:07:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/61 "2008-02-02T14:16:55Z")
A couple of years ago I was channel surfing and stopped to watch some _Super Market Sweep_. Sure it was little more than paid product placement, with a little bit of gimme trivia, but it was still better than watching the regular afternoon fare. Even with my low expectations, I was shocked when I saw this exchange: Host: Of the following, which is not likely to be found in a petting zoo: [indent]Deer, lamb\*, plutonium. Contestant: Deer![/indent] \*I won’t swear this was the exact other animal. I will swear that the other two choices listed are the ones that the contestant was given. As is the contestant’s answer. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/62 "2008-02-02T14:55:12Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] On the terrible, terrible UK kiddy gameshow _Funhouse_, host Pat Clark (Britain’s mullet king - [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Funhousesharp.gif](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Funhousesharp.gif) ) asked, “What is the capital of India?” Red team buzzed in and answered “Bombay”. Not a horrible answer, really… but the programme’s researchers _had that listed as the correct answer!_ [/QUOTE] His name is Pat _Sharp_. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/63 "2008-02-02T15:09:28Z")
[QUOTE=Chanteuse] > [@Intelligently Designed](#): > > n Family Feud. > > Richard Dawson: «During what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?» > > Contestant: «September.» > > Dawson laughed so hard he had trouble going on with the show. [Video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNoV_kSe7Dk). The absolute BEST game show moment in history! Poor Dawson, trying SO hard to maintain, but finally giving in to the helpless laughter. I watch this clip whenever I’m feeling down and need a good laugh–it never fails! [/QUOTE] Watching that, I feel so sorry for the poor girl who was there to do the second part of fast money, visibly wondering just what _she_ was doing that had Richard Dawson unable to talk. And then she kills him with her appropriate answer to an unrelated question. 😃 ---
**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:** [February 2, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/64 "2008-02-02T17:35:29Z")
[Gilbert Gottfried on Hollywood Squares](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkkMkefwa8k). I do not like him, but that show had me cracking up. YOU FOOL! ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/65 "2008-02-02T19:06:18Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] When everybody calms down, Drew Carey says, “Over here in the States, that’s pronounced poo-say.” So, you have some idea what she said. But holy cow, I thought they were going to pee their pants. [/QUOTE] I’ve been saying “poo-say” over and over trying to figure this out and can’t. Little hint, please? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/66 "2008-02-02T19:07:45Z")
[QUOTE=missbunny] I’ve been saying “poo-say” over and over trying to figure this out and can’t. Little hint, please? [/QUOTE] PUSSY. A drink of layered liquors is called a Pousse Cafe. ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/67 "2008-02-02T19:09:01Z")
Ah. I still don’t know what that has to do with restaurants. But no matter! Thanks. Edit: now I see the rest of your answer and it makes sense - thanks! ---
**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:** [February 2, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/68 "2008-02-02T19:34:55Z")
Some recipes for [“Poo-say Ca-fays”](http://www.dallasbartenders.com/recipes_pousse_cafe.htm). I don’t want to think about what would be served at a “Pussy Cafe” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/69 "2008-02-02T19:37:00Z")
[QUOTE=missbunny] I’ve been saying “poo-say” over and over trying to figure this out and can’t. Little hint, please? [/QUOTE] Ain’t that just the most darlin’ little thing you ever did hear? ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/70 "2008-02-02T21:07:27Z")
I read (on this board, I believe) that someone lost “Smarter than a 5th grader” because they believed a cliche. When asked the two participants in the Hundred Years War, s/he ruled out France, because they would never last that long in a war. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/71 "2008-02-02T21:58:03Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] To do “it” on “purpose”… do what? Say “Ho” in response to a Jeopardy question? Hell, they weren’t just feeding him the answers, they were scripting his jokes too! 😉 [/QUOTE] [Ken Jennings on ‘What is a ho?’](http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=581) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/72 "2008-02-02T23:22:12Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] On _Jeopardy!_ in 2004, one clue was: “When males join the Sikh religion, they add this five-letter word meaning ‘lion’ to their names.” Some contestant, clearly a big C. S. Lewis fan, buzzed in and said, “What is ‘Aslan’?” [/QUOTE] FWIW, “aslan” actually does mean “lion” in Turkish, and maybe some other Turkic languages, too. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805/73 "2008-02-03T20:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] Any chance the woman was Black? It’s not uncommon, at least in Southern Black vernacular, for “corporation” to be pronounced “cooperation.” [/QUOTE] As a matter of fact, she was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worlds-dumbest-quiz-show-answers/435805.md?page=3)