You could probably devote an entire blog to this subject, but I’ll make do with a single post for now. I have actually seen some of these on TV, so most (if not all) are genuine:
Anne Robinson : What insect is commonly found hovering above lakes?
Contestant : Crocodiles.
Anne Robinson : Wh…?
Contestant (interrupting) : Pass!BBC GMR, PHIL WOOD SHOW (Give this host an ‘A’ for effort)
Wood : What “K” could be described as the Islamic Bible?
Contestant : Er…
Wood : It’s got two syllables… Kor…
Contestant : Blimey?
Wood : Ha ha ha ha no. The past participle of run…
Contestant : (Silence)
Wood : OK, try it another way. Today I run, yesterday I…
Contestant : Walked?THIS MORNING
Judy Finnegan : The American TV show ‘The Sopranos’ is about opera. True or false?
Contestant : True?
Judy Finnegan : No, actually, it’s about the Mafia. But it is an American TV show,so I’ll give you that.
Lots more, including some Family Fortunes gems at office-humour.co.uk.
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you know, on the This Morning one I’m not sure whose the most stupid - Judy or the contestant
Jay Leno does a man-on-the-street feature where he asks the most basic questions of passersby.
It is done in Hollywood, which is one factor in mitigation — but to say that nearly all of these people are dumber than a box of rocks is only to insult rocks everywhere. And the worst, and most frightening, are the college students….
Scott Adams has it nailed on with his posts about ‘in-duh-viduals’. The world is a frightening place.
Are your universities full of people taking courses like ‘Media Studies’ where you just watch TV all day? I have no doubt it’s a government plan - keep the populace dumb, full of junk food and in front of Big Brother and they’ll never bother us…
It’s working I think
Was the contestant who thought crocodiles were insects named Bush?
*lol* that last quote is kinda funny but the first two are shocking. reminds me of that who wants to be a millionaire episode where the contenstant was asked “which one is bigger? and amongst the 4 options were an elephant and the moon… this contestant decided that the elephant was the biggest thing on that list
I’ve seen a screen cap of that