Singh. Surely they aren’t asking for it in the native script…
Singh. It is a transliteration, but it’s the overwhelmingly commonly accepted transliteration. (Women add “Kaur”, pronounced “core”.)
TPIR contestant can’t quite figure out how 10 Chances works but wins anyway, be sure to watch Bob’s reaction.
Family Fortunes: Turkey! Turkey! Turkey!
I think the “qui” in the question establishes subject and object. The dude was just plain ignorant.
As for the fellow who answered “Aslan” being a C.S. Lewis fan – not necessarily; perhaps he was just more familiar with Turkic languages than with Indic ones.
The question as given translates literally as “What is it that orbits around the Earth?”. Not much room for misinterpretation there. My most charitable assumption would be that the contestant, and 56% of the audience, do not fully understand the word ‘orbits’.
This was told to me, I didn’t witness it. On Who Wants to be a Millionaire a contestant was asked:
If you have 99 bottles of beer on the wall and 7 down, how many will be left?
The answer: I have to ask the audience, I don’t drink alchohol
Just last week on family feud one family was sitting at two strikes for “words that start with the word under” and they went with “under control”, what did the other family try to counter with to steal? “under water”.
Here are two moments that “silenced:”
Geoff Edwards, hosting “Jackpot,” had a question for a contestant, “What kind of dance might a Playboy centerfold do? The correct answer, “The Bunny Hop.” The contestant responded “The hora.” The response, according to Edwards, was silenced.
Art Fleming, hosting “Jeopardy,” recounted this exchange:
Fleming: “The answer is, ‘If you believe in fairies, you believe in me.’”
Contestant: “Who is Liberace?”
According to Fleming, the TV audience simply heard a gap after he read the answer, and then uproarious laughter from the studio audience upon hearing the contestant’s answer.
To be fair, “underwater” is a perfectly legitimate word (adjective or adverb).
I was watching Wheel of Fortune once. The puzzle was so far revealed as
CAPTAIN IR OF THE ENTERPRISE
The idjit spun and screams out “P!”
Ah, Captain Pirp, he had a short but distinguished career.
Speaking of Wheel of Fortune, I saw an episode where the board showed something like:
GENERAL MOTORS COR_ORATION
And the woman screamed out, “General Motors Cooperation!”
ALL THE NEWS THAT’S _IT TO PRINT
I’m still not sure what a “yit” was supposed to be.
The cherry on the top of this sundae of dumbness is that there’s already a ‘P’ in the puzzle.
I saw it. It was actually on “1 versus 100” but it was pretty close to what you described. The woman did say something along the lines of “I don’t drink beer, so this is hard.”
Any chance the woman was Black? It’s not uncommon, at least in Southern Black vernacular, for “corporation” to be pronounced “cooperation.”
Is this from the same show? Bob’s suit looks the same.
Guy “cheats” on Price of Right
He doesn’t cheat. He just pushes the button early.
I couldn’t find it on YOUTUBE but swear it happened: there was an episode of Feud during the Ray Combs years when the question was “Name an uncomfortable item of clothing” and the contestant answered “Gotta be handcuffs, Ray!”
One of the “true, true” moments on The Simpsons was when Moe was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and the question was about particle physics. Moe reasons it out with (paraphrasing) “Well let’s see… I was born in Indiana and my sister plays drums…”. It wasn’t that far fetched.
The cruelest (though funny) gameshow moment I’ve seen was on one of the 2 or 3 episodes of Deal or No Deal I’ve seen. The contestant called the banker “a serpent” and he sent out his offer in a briefcase that she was to open, and it was filled with snakes. Evidently NBC keeps them on hand for just such a moment.
Family Feud moment.
Host: Name something that droops.
Contestant: Breasts!
The contestant immediately turns a lovely shade of crimson and hangs his head in humiliation as the audience roars with laughter. Barely keeping a straight face, the hosts looks up at the game board and calls out “breasts?”
It was the number 2 answer.
Tie’s different.