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Rotten Questions
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:45 pm
by ROSSKEEN
What's the worst question anyone's ever had on a quiz machine? You know the one where the machine basically says "not today old chum"?
I know theres a topic on wrong / errors in questions so I'm only talking about legit questions whereby the answer is correct, but very few people (unless they learned the questions) would ever know the answer.
The Weakest Link once asked me for Mike Tyson's prison number.
And dont get me started on spot the difference deluxe :x ....
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:00 pm
by Nil Satis
My all-time favourite is still being asked Michael Caine's serial number in the Army on (I think) the original Give Us A Break. I love that sort of question - realistically a maximum of one person in the entire world would know the answer!
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:40 pm
by cool
you could say that not a lot of people would know that fact.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:30 pm
by wigwamsun
But if someone asked you what was Nelson Mandela's prison number, quite a few of us would know!!!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:48 pm
by Drpepper
Got asked about 5 ridiculous unanswerable questions in a row on football manager quiz last night, which i battled through, then the game made me miss 2 penalties in a row... what a joke.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:29 pm
by Nil Satis
drpepper wrote:Got asked about 5 ridiculous unanswerable questions in a row on football manager quiz last night, which i battled through, then the game made me miss 2 penalties in a row... what a joke.
Your signature phrase - "What's the point?" - answers your dilemma - Football Manager is comfortably one of the worst games I've ever seen so please don't waste any more money on it!
Re: Rotten Questions
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:56 pm
by ZAX
ROSSKEEN wrote:What's the worst question anyone's ever had on a quiz machine? You know the one where the machine basically says "not today old chum"?
I know theres a topic on wrong / errors in questions so I'm only talking about legit questions whereby the answer is correct, but very few people (unless they learned the questions) would ever know the answer.
Ross I know what you're getting at but basically I have yet to find a game that doesn't hit me with these questions after a while and there are that many of them and they are that varied this topic could stretch on forever! For some reason odd ones do stay in my mind tho - Gold Digger once asked me how many tonnes of cheese the USA produced in 2001 and gave me 3 eight digit numbers... Caveman once gave me an 0800 number and asked me which business did it belong to ( I guessed and it was Lombard Direct!) and I think it was Hi Spy that gave me a complex differential equation to solve with three similar looking answers! Still hacked it though!
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:11 pm
by Drpepper
Nil Satis wrote:drpepper wrote:Got asked about 5 ridiculous unanswerable questions in a row on football manager quiz last night, which i battled through, then the game made me miss 2 penalties in a row... what a joke.
Your signature phrase - "What's the point?" - answers your dilemma - Football Manager is comfortably one of the worst games I've ever seen so please don't waste any more money on it!
Aah, worry not... was the first and last 50p that it will receive of my money.
Got to 2 goals scored, and i was anticipating a decent payout and wondering what could go possibly wrong... then it sent my perfectly placed shot over the bar, then asked me a minute of "how many points did partick thistle end up with in the 1978/79 season?" type questions.
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:09 pm
by SWP
Hex appeal last night.
Category "Planetary Moons".
Answer MARS.
Duh!
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:29 am
by Weyland
This thread makes me dread to think what a QI-based game would be like.
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:03 pm
by SWP
Not sure if this a "rotter" or not, but I can't find any substantion for it (despite getting the answer right with some twisted logic):
Which sportsmen cannot wear beards?
Answer: Jockeys.
Can anyone enlighten me as to why this might be so? (better still provide a URL)
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:29 pm
by Ernest W. Quality
This is due to a special safety rule that has been in place since the Great Ascot Beard Disaster of 1925.
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:31 pm
by SWP
pmsl
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:55 pm
by Mattb
Heh, i knew the answer to that jockey question....too much quizzing
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:17 pm
by SWP
Heh, i knew the answer to that jockey question....too much quizzing
Yes Matt, but why is this so? (not calling EQW a liar - but I think he may be mistaken :P)