Question (an easy-peasy one just to relax the contestant into the general knowledge round) - What equine-type animal gives its name to a pedestrian road crossing with distinctive alternate black and white stripes? Her answer - "Horse!" LAUGH? Well it's hard not to!
This was on a broadcast a few days ago of our national 'Mastermind' quiz. Obviously sidetracked by the word 'equine' with which I should have thought that more than half the population would be familiar. Okay, so we know that going solo under television lights on a nationally transmitted programme can easily cause confusion to a contestant, only this was one where she'd already come first in both her initial heats as well as in the quarter-finals and was now at the semi-final stage (in which she eventually actually finished in joint second-place) so one would think she'd have got the idea how to play it by then. Heigh-ho!
