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 Wed 10 Dec 14 18:15 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Robin O'Reliant
On The Chase tonight -

Q. Who was the first monarch to send a transatlantic telegram?

A. Elizabeth the 1st.
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 Wed 10 Dec 14 18:22 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Manatee
One from Dumb Britain today, in the Eye:

Pressure Pad, BBC1.

John Barrowman:
The two categories to choose from are 19th century novels, or Crufts.

Contestant:
I'll be honest with you - I don't even know what crufts are. I'll have to go with novels.
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 Wed 10 Dec 14 19:38 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - VxFan
Family Fortunes was always good for dumb answers

Name a bird with a long Neck? - Naomi Campbell

Name something red? - my jumper

Name a part of the body beginning with 'N'? - Knee

Name something associated with the police? - Pigs

Name something in the garden that's green? - Shed

Name a dangerous race? - The Arabs
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 Wed 10 Dec 14 19:49 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Fullchat
Q. Most prevalent non contagious disease?
A. Tooth decay. (According to what fell out of a Christmas cracker today)
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 Wed 10 Dec 14 20:17 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Robin O'Reliant
A famous one from University Challenge -

Q. What was Ghandi's first name?
A. Goosey.
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 Wed 10 Dec 14 21:16 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Haywain
"Q. What was Ghandi's first name?
A. Goosey."

Which is, of course, wrong.

It should be Goosey Goosey.
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 01:37 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - VxFan
>> It should be Goosey Goosey.

No, that's his first and middle name.
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 08:13 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Haywain
"No, that's his first and middle name."

I stand corrected!

Or should it have been hyphenated?
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 08:33 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Cliff Pope
It was in fact Mohandas.
Not many people know that - I looked it up.

(Mahatma was of course an honorific, not his name)
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 10:35 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Ted

In fact, he was Mohandas K Ghandi. Probably Kirsty or Karen !

I always call Twiglets ' Ghandi's legs '......disrespectful sod that I am !
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 11:53 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Roger.
.......but was he a gandy dancer, too?
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 12:46 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - WillDeBeest
I'd like to see a citation for that one. Doesn't sound like a UC question to me.
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 13:22 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - henry k
Not a quiz but question but...

Sorry its in the Wail
Eddie Redmayne met Prof Stephen Hawking.
Noting that his January birthday was two days before that of Hawking, Redmayne,32, observed that both were Capricorns.

Came the robotic response from Hawking's voice machine " I am an an astronomer, not an astrologer"
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 13:47 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Zero
Hawking is a complete vegetable, he says and thinks nothing, his computer was hacked into years ago.
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 14:16 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Manatee
>> I'd like to see a citation for that one. Doesn't sound like a UC question
>> to me.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8716210/Idiotic-quiz-show-answers-the-best-of-the-worst-contestants.html
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 15:39 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - WillDeBeest
You'll have to do better than that, M. I googled '"university challenge" Gandhi' and saw the quote everywhere - including the Daily Mail in 2009 - but no video clips to substantiate it. I suspect some Telegraph intern did much the same to compile that article. Virtual pint says 'urban myth'.
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 15:54 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Bromptonaut
The questioner is named as Bamber Gascoigne which probably puts it before the era when clips would be easily available. Which, of course is actually giving credence to the quote, just making it more difficult to prove/disprove..
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 16:15 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - WillDeBeest
Is there a 'not' missing from that, Bromp? Attributing it to Gascoigne not Paxman doesn't make it more credible, just means it was made up earlier. It's such an inane question, not UC material at all, even today when Paxo asks about Boyzone and Westlife.
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 Thu 11 Dec 14 16:24 
 Dumb Quiz Answers - Bromptonaut
WdeB

There is a 'not' missing. The meaning was that absence of a recording does not make the quote any more credible.
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