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 in 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!
Words fail me. Nothing more I can say.
ReplyDeleteYes, Carol. Truly staggering! LMAO!
DeleteWow. I mean they practically give you the answer in the question.
ReplyDeleteTo be kind to her, Bob, I think what happened - but it's only my guess - is that on hearing the word 'equine' she lost a millisecond in recollecting its meaning and that distracted her from the rest of the question. But it's only funny (and it IS) at the superficial level. Once one starts analyzing on why, it gets boring. :-)
DeleteWe call it a cross walk, but even I know the answer!
ReplyDeleteBefore I posted this, Sadie, I checked that Americans use the word as do - and though I've heard the term 'cross-walk' it's something we Brits never use.
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