Many quiz show contestants waved goodbye to large sums of money after giving incorrect answers. Photo / BBC ITV.
Many quiz show contestants waved goodbye to large sums of money after giving incorrect answers. Photo / BBC ITV.
Competing to potentially win a life-changing sum of money on TV can certainly puts the pressure on quiz show contestants.
But some have managed to go so badly wrong on simple questions, that they doubtless left viewers howling at the screen.
With more than a third of Brits admitting that quiz shows are their top TV indulgence, GalaBingo.com has compiled 14 of the most hilarious wrong answers from popular shows, including The Chase and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
They include a man who struggled to identify the date that Christmas Day falls on, replying with 'Wednesday', while a Weakest Link guest claimed that apes had laid the foundations for the A5 motorway.
Scroll down to read their blunders and see if you would have fared better. The correct answers are at the bottom.
After misunderstanding the simple question, these guests lost £1,000,000 on their first turn, insisting that Justin Timberlake won an award for 'protecting his film Friends with Benefits'.
Photo / BBC ITV.
3. TIPPING POINT
Created in a New York Bakery in May 2013, the 'cronut' is a cross between a croissant and what other food item?
A guest couldn't work out which pastry rhymes with 'cronut' to reveal the inspiration for the dessert, and passed the question to another guest.
Photo / BBC ITV.
4. WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
Which of these girls' names it the title of a Jane Austen novel?
The name of which pasta sauce derives from an Italian phrase literally meaning in the sailor's style?
Carbonara
Puttanesca
Marinara
Arabbiata
Self-proclaimed £100k Drop superfans lost £100,000 on the first question, splitting their money between 'carbonara' and 'puttanesca' for the sailor-inspired Italian sauce.
This Who Wants to be a Millionaire guest used his '50:50' lifeline and still got the answer wrong, walking away with no money after choosing 'front' as the 'prevailing weather conditions of a region'.
Back in the days when Bamber Gascoigne used to present University Challenge, one guest had a surprising name for Gandhi, responding 'Goosey' when asked for activist's first name.
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9. THE CHASE
In 2009, Sunderland scored against Liverpool when the football deflected in off what object?
Host Jeremy Clarkson, accidentally congratulated this guest for the wrong answer, assuring him that an ibex was indeed a type of deer. It was only when the correct answer lit up that Clarkson and the guest realised the error, immediately putting a stop to his celebrating.
