The world's dumbest quiz show answers

[OtakuLoki]

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.

[An_Gadai]

@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 ) 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!

His name is Pat Sharp.

[OtakuLoki]

@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.

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!

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.

[Annie-Xmas]

Gilbert Gottfried on Hollywood Squares. I do not like him, but that show had me cracking up.

YOU FOOL!

[missbunny]

@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.

I’ve been saying “poo-say” over and over trying to figure this out and can’t. Little hint, please?

[Annie-Xmas]

@missbunny

I’ve been saying “poo-say” over and over trying to figure this out and can’t. Little hint, please?

PUSSY. A drink of layered liquors is called a Pousse Cafe.

[missbunny]

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!

[Annie-Xmas]

Some recipes for “Poo-say Ca-fays”.

I don’t want to think about what would be served at a “Pussy Cafe”

[KneadToKnow]

@missbunny

I’ve been saying “poo-say” over and over trying to figure this out and can’t. Little hint, please?

Ain’t that just the most darlin’ little thing you ever did hear?

[HubZilla]

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.

[jacquilynne]

@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!

Ken Jennings on ‘What is a ho?’

[Kyla]

@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’?”

FWIW, “aslan” actually does mean “lion” in Turkish, and maybe some other Turkic languages, too.

[PoorYorick]

@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.”

As a matter of fact, she was.