Top 10 Most Humiliating Contestant Answers on British TV

[@tomhammond3495]

I saw an interview with the Turkey guy and apparently he had accidentally seen the "food often stuffed" question because the host wasn't so good at hiding the question cards. So he'd already decided he was going to give Turkey as the answer to that question and then when the round started his brain was all confused because he thought that was going to be the opening question.

[@RJSRdg]

As I understood it, while the first contestant was giving his answers, the second contestant was taken to a different part of the studio and had headphones put on with music playing so he couldn't hear the first contestant's answers. The music cut out briefly, and he heard the word "chicken" but didn't hear the question that went with it. So he answered "turkey" to each question,

[@RJSRdg]

@@TonyEnglandUK No, Charles Ingram was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? not Family Fortunes, and doesn't look anything like Turkey man.

[@dancedecker]

Excellent. Relating to the first question about Dallas, I once heard a contestant being asked , "What happened in Dallas in 1963?", to which the contestant replied "I don't know, I wasn't watching it then." Fell off my chair with laughter. Lol.

[@frankbrodie5168]

At 1pm in fact.

[@lucypreece7581]

"Sharon" is the best wrong answer ever. Poor Amanda Henderson. Sweet as pie but that was a hell of a blunder.

[@DBuckyBoy]

Why?

[@lucypreece7581]

@@DBuckyBoy because Greta Thunberg is like one of the most well known people on the planet so the answer would have been obvious.

[@warreng675]

Is that Sharon Osbourne or Sharon Stone

[@irielion3748]

@@DBuckyBoy Your 'why' is even more shocking! You should be ashamed :)

[@npc-bl2vw]

Should have said Karen.

[@cymro6537]

" *Naomi Cambell* " An answer from a contestant on Family Fortunes when asked :' _Name a bird with a long neck_ '😅

[@swervature]

Vyvyan, Neil, Mike, and Rick. Best University Challenge contestants EVER.

[@tomhaskett5161]

His name had been changed to 'P'RICK !

[@johncohen222]

What is the world record for the amount of marsh mallows stuffed up one nostril? 604. Toxteth O'Grady, USA. The world's stupidest bottom burp? Rick, Britain!

[@wimbledan]

Look on her team mates face after saying Paris. Quality

[@caribstu]

Spoke volumes.

[@MrPsychomonkey]

Demonstrating studying geography does not mean learning names countries like Iceland, Egypt, Germany. But generally how people are affected by or effect the place around them. But country Vs a city that's probably primary school geography

[@wimbledan]

@@MrPsychomonkey 🤣🤣

[@davidspear9790]

@@MrPsychomonkey She was wrong on two counts. Paris is neither a country nor does it end in two consonants! Even if she said France, she'd have still been wrong!

[@robloxfan4271]

6:55

[@RyanYoung-br1iz]

His face when he said homosexuals 😂 stone cold

[@Harlequin19]

Another great Pointless answer was a periodic table question where one of the contestants said Unobtainium. For those who don't know, that's the fictional mineral in James Cameron's Avatar.

[@brianartillery]

And James Cameron "Borrowed" that from the 2003 movie 'The Core'.

[@jdb47games]

@@brianartillery In the nineties it was already being used as a joke in Indycar racing about the expensive lightweight metals they were using.

[@tesisau123]

Honourable mention to Sarah Pascoe for the time she answered the name of Simba's father in The Lion King as "DADDY" on The Chase 🦁 🤣🤣

[@frankbrodie5168]

To be fair to Sarah, people probably assume everyone knows the answer to some questions. But I'm a bright bloke who also has no idea what the answer to that is. I have watched very few children's films in my entire life. And even less animated ones.

[@jcurrie3577]

The "Sharon" answer was solely because she didn't;t know the answer but in Mastermind, if there is a tie, the number of "passes" you give goes against you. Therefore contestants often throw in a random wrong answer instead of saying "pass".

[@OfflineSetup]

In regard to "turkey guy". Years later and now "years ago", his son was interviewed on an ITV "bloopers" show where this clip was played. The son said that as his father was waiting to go on he asked someone for an answer (as a joke) and was told turkey.... the rest is TV history.

[@vincentking2552]

turkey guy wasn't humiliating, it was legend....turkey!

[@francis1971]

He was a legendary turkey!

[@GreyHulk2156]

Apparently, while backstage, he had overheard one of the answers given was chicken. So was already determined to answer turkey. He just did it too early. Twice. :)

[@jamesbrawn5458]

What is omitted from the Turkey guy video is when the host announced the prize - ‘two weeks in Turkey’. Priceless

[@warreng675]

He was a right turkey

[@warreng675]

He was thinking on the prize

[@littlejohnnyturtle8770]

'Cherry pickers, Bob's own'. F*cking classic 🤣

[@ABomb_Plays]

Pointless also had a school teacher who, when asked to name a US state with a coastline, said Mexico.

[@irielion3748]

WOW. That is shocking. Get that man out of the classroom immediately.

[@davidz2808]

The ridiculous reason for the Family Fortunes answer was the second contestant overheard the first give the answer chicken, but didn't hear the question. He assumed chicken to be a good answer & therefore turkey would also be. He decided to repeatedly answer turkey to give at least one good answer.

[@DBuckyBoy]

Was you there then?

[@powerspyin1games]

Apparently, the family were so embarrassed, that they tried to bribe the producers of Family Fortunes money so that the episode wouldn't be aired.

[@davidz2808]

@@DBuckyBoy No, but I've seen a documentary about quiz shows which talked about it.

[@Erika-ox3tq]

that last guy knew turkey was somewhere up there

[@GreyHulk2156]

Exactly. Apparently, while backstage, he had overheard one of the answers given was chicken. So was already determined to answer turkey. He just did it too early. Twice. :)

[@davidspear9790]

@@GreyHulk2156 But why didn't he listen to the questions and answer Turkey to the most appropriate one?

[@GreyHulk2156]

@@davidspear9790 I think he panicked.

[@sabbyali3212]

Why did he say so many pointlessly mean things about Katherine but simply made fun of the answers the other people said. He even gave Piers a few mild compliments.

[@Doctorgoatboy]

It’s very odd.

[@wallywest4727]

and Katherine is great as well, one of my favourite female comedians.

[@phippskat]

I totally agree. He just laid into her for no reason. And it's a comedy show where they often over exaggerate for comic effect

[@martinsmith5535]

Yeah, it was a pretty bizarre commentary. I actually think Katherine is a reliably good panel show contestant. And contestants making a big deal out of getting the answer, just to find they got it wrong at the reveal is something that commonly happens to contestants on this show.

[@MuttleyVonErich00]

He is probably 'anti american' and has no idea that she is Canadian.

[@teahop0768]

"Homosexuals" LMAO 🤣

[@missylissy200]

The Turkey one is iconic

[@davidz2808]

It's bizarre that many people don't know which places are countries & which are cities. In another ep of Pointless, the contestant's answer of a landlocked country was Warsaw.

[@nakkadu]

Also Paris doesn't end in two consonants 😆

[@ejl1000]

My own sister thought India was in Africa... Education in this country really needs a kick up the arse.

[@tigerbw3361]

@@ejl1000 You study all that in primary school mate.

[@Akalaur]

@@ejl1000 I just think your sister is an idiot lmao

[@leesmith3346]

@@tigerbw3361 Obviously not.

[@georgehayward532]

'Name a yellow fruit" "orange"

[@ptsteen]

Country. Ending in two consonants. "Paris" 🤭

[@jackdey9153]

Each end doesn't end with a consonants.

[@craigbarrack9956]

@@jackdey9153 it's not a county.... 🤣

[@jackdey9153]

@@craigbarrack9956 I know I know.

[@scsutton1]

That journey home must have the quietest of all time.

[@craigbarrack9956]

@@scsutton1 legend has it she was in charge of navigation and they are still not home yet

[@danny3565]

On Pointless the category was countries who won a medal at the last Winter Olympics and someone said Jamaica because they had seen cool runnings

[@DBuckyBoy]

And?

[@BroskiRIP]

@@DBuckyBoy It was a wrong answer.

[@chrischarlescook]

I ain't kissing no egg!

[@animaltvi9515]

Cool running was based on a true story. Don't think they won any medals tho.

[@ericforsyth]

@@DBuckyBoy Jamaica have never, and famously so, even come close to medalling in the winter olympics. That's why their Bobsleigh team became a news story. It's akin to guessing Eddie the Eagle as the greatest ski jumper ever

[@MarkyBoyTV]

In the 2017 Weakest Link episode, all the contestants were just *trying* to be the weakest link

[@markstafford1410]

8:53, Hoar, is correct as is Hoarfrost, but the synonym is rime. as in the term poem. Yea, I had to check it out.

[@jonmday87]

The “Turkey” guy is a viral game show LEGEND in the States...or at least to me. Haha!

[@ianmax69]

In Strike it Lucky with Michael Barrymore there where once two Wrens on from Essex as a team and one of the questions was names of special hats... and they had the list up on the board of the 5 answers.. and these two names where both up there.. Barrymore asked the girl.. "name a hat a Bishop might wear?" and she studied and looked at it as unsure quietly answered... Fez... Well Barrymore and the audience fell about..and of course after recovering himself.. he had to do a Tommy Cooper impression.. "ahhh I was talkin to the Bishop of Durham the other day.. He said Tommy.." Then this poor Wren realised what it was.. and in a broad Essex/Cockney accent screamed "OH ITS WANNA THOSE IN'IT!!" and she nearly p*ss*d herself laughing.. and she had one of the funniest high pitched laughs you could imagine.. And it just made everybody else in the studio howl !! How they got that episode edited into 30 minutes was beyond me!!!

[@titchmoynihan2171]

Australian version of the Chase. Question: which British naturalist wrote the Origin of Species? Answer: Agatha Christie.

[@RJSRdg]

Well, it's a work of fiction!

[@salahudeeniqbal3460]

Piers Morgan asking if people like Ian Hislop is like Ted Bundy asking if people like MLK

[@brucephillips8458]

Anyone who watches 8 out of 10 cats does countdown knows that the scores mean absolutely nothing. The banter between the celebs is what people tune in to watch. The banter is almost always insulting to one of the participants. This supposed humiliation of Katherine was typical of what happens multiple times per episode.

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

I remember one from 'Weakest Link' the question was Madonna has just done a tour called Blond what, the contestant said 'Tart' 😅

[@sarahmillard6401]

David Lammy MP on Celebrity Mastermind takes some beating. “Which Marie, together with her husband Pierre, won the Nobel Prize for physics for their work on radiation?” “Antoinette.” “Who succeeded his father Henry the Eighth to the English throne in 1547?” “Henry the Seventh.” Cringe.

[@mattylamb9194]

It's better to give a wrong answer than to say pass on Mastermind. If there's a tie at the end of the show, the one that gives less passes is the winner. It was probably tactical.

[@coolnegative]

You should do a video on American actors/tv personalities that are well known/popular in the UK, but are virtually unknown in their home country.

[@Marky11694]

Name one if they’re American Stars then there known in America just as British Stars are of course known in Britain

[@coolnegative]

@@Marky11694 perhaps I didn't explain well. There are American citizens who will move to another country, say maybe Japan, or In my original post, Britain. Perhaps they had done a commercial or two in America, but was not able to make a living by acting, singing, hosting, etcetera. However, after moving to the new country, find great success in that particular country or region as a media personality, but never achieve international fame, meaning that even though the, we'll just say American, finds huge success and fame in the country they moved to, but are still unknown or unheard of in their native/home country.

[@Marky11694]

@@coolnegative Fair Enough

[@valentinch0]

Like Katherine Ryan?

[@coolnegative]

@@valentinch0 who? 😆😆😆

[@bookwormgem4616]

Brian Dowling's answer to Vernon Kaye's Family Fortune question (Name a type of Bean) is still my favourite 😂 Just FYI, his answer was lesbian.

[@davidz2808]

Why, during the 2010s in the UK, did sketch shows disappear & panel shows (most of which are awful) grow massively in number?

[@AJARyan-yn2uv]

Because why come up with your own material every week when you can just laugh at others?

[@caribstu]

Cheap TV. Costs much less. Plus it's easier for the BBC to shoehorn their ideological beliefs into the content.

[@Thrill_Hou]

It’s cheaper.

[@sirrh9812]

I’m guessing it’s because that panel shows are cheaper and a lot easier to create than sketch shows as it’s pretty much just a bunch of comedians put together answering questions whilst having banter where as a sketch show needs to be written and acted out

[@oneandonlyjaybee]

Panel shoes are crammed with people desperate to further their 'comedy' careers and sell tickets to their stand up shows. Therefore they appear for next to, or even nothing. That makes for cheap television and an ability to film multiple shows in a short space of time and an ability to fill the schedules on the cheap

[@Damien-l9y]

9.10 Even JEREMY RAXMAN LAUGHED

[@PhilipJSmithNov1990]

Rosemary repeats part of the question like a broken record probably helps her answer but more likely waste time

[@richardignatowicz8532]

Funniest answer was the student and country question. Cant believe she has A-level in georgraphy!!

[@bronwynroberts860]

What about the time on Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel when the question was name any fruit or vegetables that are green, it was going really well until it got to Big Narstie, he said orange 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RJSRdg]

On a more recent episode of The Wheel, Nigel Havers said he'd worked with Laurence Olivier. Alison Hammond then said "Oh, was he the guy on Changing Rooms?"

[@krisinsaigon]

The best answer I ever saw on Family Fortunes- “name a kind of ache?” “Fillet”

[@davidspear9790]

Turkey might have been a good answer to the first question.........had it been the in Australia, where they often have Christmas dinner on the beach!

[@robspereall8203]

Back in October 2012, someone on Pointless said Anne Hathaway was married to Man Hathaway.

[@brianartillery]

That's why I don't watch quiz shows anymore. There seem to be too many people nowadays, who know nothing at all, including stuff that people of my age would have known when they were ten or so. It's rather depressing, actually - some people think that it's actually cool, somehow, to be ignorant. It isn't. You just look inadequate.

[@RHNGaming]

It's because people find stupidity funny so a lot of people on TV act retarded because it sells

[@davidspear9790]

A) A quiz show where everyone consistently gave the correct answers would not be entertaining and would have a very short lifespan and B) TV companies don't want to be giving the jackpot away every day/week.

[@Evie_SG]

I just like looking at idiots failing to answer simple things lol

[@blofeld2430]

The universal answer to all questions is : 42 turkeys.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

except in Star Trek where it's 47

[@HassanAhmed-wt3kc]

'Mo, Mo, Mo' 😂😂😂

[@AtheistOrphan]

How common a name is ‘Sharon’ in Sweden?

[@luisclaudiofugolin6250]

As a brazilian, I sympathize with the people who answered wrong, I'd do that too.

[@deandeifir9515]

Randy Marshs infamous answer on american game show jeopardy belongs here

[@windsorSJ]

On a list that's titled "Top 10 Most Humiliating Contestant Answers on British TV"? Anne Robinson would love you.

[@Unknown-mz3ww]

Wheel of Fortune

[@KT926]

Countdown numbers game: (9+25)-1=33 33x8=264 264+100=364 or 9x10=90 90+1=91 (100/25)x91=364

[@JennFaeAge]

At least the top clip wasn't like modern Family Feud, where you suspect some people intentionally give a stupid answer to get on the internet

[@frankbrodie5168]

"You can't say that on TV!"

[@AtheistOrphan]

I’m a big fan of Mo Mo-Mo.

[@mgthestrange9098]

Wasn’t that that made up thing that was meant to be terrifying children on You Tube Kids? LOL.

[@warreng675]

So am i

[@Random-xw1fg]

Mo too

[@Random-xw1fg]

Mo Farah

[@ESCLukemar666]

even Paris doesn't end in 2 consonants despite being a city😁

[@ef1265]

6:14 sharon!!!!!!!!!!

[@scsutton1]

There's another moment from Pointless where the contestant mispronounced the name of the soon-to-be former Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick. He missed out the 'ID' when saying it and it came out as something very different.

[@henrywilloughby2327]

I love that the university for #2 is "U.M.I.S.T." Yes, he did. Spectacularly.

[@RJSRdg]

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

[@robertfoulkes1832]

​@@RJSRdg Correct. That's the Uni that I went to. They were so embarrassed they were absorbed into the main Manchester University and so don't take part in U C any more! 😂

[@Jordan-ti9oc]

There needs to be a statue of the Turkey guy built in Turkey of him holding a Turkey.

[@PaulCarew-j9j]

Always knew that Katherine Ryan and Maya Jama were thick so why would they appear on a programme asking them questions- that's right, thick people don't always think they are thick.

[@Kyrelel]

STOP NARRATING. There is NO point in telling us what we are watching.

[@oliverharris9567]

Sharron !! Brilliant

[@Sasquatch10]

I can't stop laughing at the thought of homosexuals being known as "The Immortals".

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

He might have been thinking the Immorals

[@azza0911]

Missed the one recently on Pointless with famous Van's and they had of Jean Claude Van Damme on...the woman thought it was Van Diesel...then to carry it on the bloke on the team who got it right said if it wasn't Van Damme he would had said Van Diesel...ermm Vin people??

[@Dim4323]

Never get Rosemary shregger on a quiz show

[@richardchristie3203]

I always thought he was given the answer Turkey. His brother thought that he might get stuck on that one as he gave the most obvious answer already.

[@alsunpilsut]

Quite legendary to f*ck up this bad though 😂. I low key respect it.

[@harrymcnally6437]

What? Who tf gets sick of Katherine Ryan?

[@nguyendailam6703]

Anybody with a brain ?

[@andrewleah1983]

Her fellas.

[@dutchy777]

my god, these people are using valuable oxygen

[@krissymarklewis1793]

I would have gone for Dallas too, shoot me!

[@ryanhey3425]

I swear they probably took the A level geography students grade away from her after saying Paris!?!? Turkey guy was closer!!

[@irielion3748]

Well at least Turkey is a country but 2 final consonants were required - but Turkey has an 'e' before the 'y'. Both wrong.

[@AlanFleming7499]

There's been quite a few dreadful answers on Tipping Point the one I remember was the guy who mistook Homer the ancient poet for Homer Simpson and when asked what name he used for food he answered doughnuts. And the other contestant agreed with him! Off course the guy was a teacher as teachers seem to have a serious lack of knowledge when you see them on quiz shows. As for Katherine Ryan one of the unfunniest people imaginable but yet crops up on all kinds of shows. I saw her on Richard Osman's House Of Games where she was unable to answer an easy question about Only Fools And Horses and then admitted that she has never seen it. Now I know she is Canadian but she has been over here for about 20 years and as a comedian you would have thought she might have said to herself I must watch the greatest British sitcom ever made!

[@jonnysloffy]

I’m afraid I only clicked for Mya Jama! 😍 Clever use of clickbait!

[@swervature]

At least 'Sharon' and 'Sweden' both end in 2 consonants.

[@mirandolina46]

no they don't!

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

​@@mirandolina46Stockholm does

[@Mayhamsdead]

I didn't even click on this video and have never willfully clicked on any video this channel has ever produced; yet, KZbin, with its stellar auto-play function decided this mess would be relevant to my interests. Pathetic.

[@spyk_]

I am gay and I think we should all start calling ourselves ‘The Immortals’.

[@jackmellor5536]

Number 2 on the list are real life Randy Marsh moments

[@Marky11694]

6:52 How could she not think of England

[@RJSRdg]

On Pointless, the rule is that countries are states recognised by the UN. As England is not an independent country recognised by the UN, "England" would not be a correct answer. Ireland, Poland, Iceland and New Zealand would be valid answers though.

[@warreng675]

Its not Mo Mo Mo, its Mo Szyslak

[@Random-xw1fg]

Mo Farah

[@dbmikeyg255]

9:03 lmao

[@mintomax2]

is it just me or is the turkey guy Bernard Mathews? no wonder all he says is turkey

[@GirGir183]

The weakest link ones don't count. They TRY to get them wrong just to appear stupid.

[@beavis4763]

Turkey is a good answer for any question you don't know hehe

[@Renegade2786]

3:52 - 3:56 that's sound familiar.

[@warreng675]

Yeah, he did get the third one right, Turkey. Name a country

[@maximillianford9301]

Good to see insecurity has been a recurring theme throughout Piers' Morgan's life. The man has a pathological inability to take humour directed at him. Genuinely turns into a child at the smallest jibe

[@koradestiny]

She thought Paris was a country?

[@sarahtrusty6717]

Wow! The person who wrote this hates Catherine Ryan. I'm not sure they understand comedy either.

[@jessicakaemery]

*Turkey? Ahahahah*

[@coolfulldowns]

some bias against Katherine Ryan there lmao

[@coolfulldowns]

oh nvm I get it now I hear Piers Morgan has bravado now loll

[@TheQ-Continuum]

Q - What was Gandhi's first name A - Goosey !!

[@borismuller86]

Why does “dog handler” sound like a euphemism?

[@potocatepetl]

Wow, someone has issues! People had enough of Katherine on panel shows? Stop speaking in the name of others! Say: "I have enough of her" and stand up for what you think, no matter how vile, but don't put words in other's mouth. By the way, she was great in Task Master. One of the best contestants!

[@MrWidmerpool99]

If your audience is so dim that you have to explain what the correct answer is then maybe the question isn't so easy.

[@tomhaskett5161]

The #1 guy who thought he was being funny by replying Turkey to every question was definitely Peter Kays "Uncle Knobhead".

[@RJSRdg]

He wasn't trying to be funny. He had somehow heard the first guy give chicken as an answer, but didn't know which question!

[@neuronneuron3645]

they weren't nicknames, they were insults given to the british army - cheesemongers for being from posh backgrounds, cherrypickers for whiling away their time during crisis etc.. so homosexuals is not far from the truth in that they weren't meant to be derogatory and to imply a lack of masculinity and fortitude

[@crocsmart5115]

Tbf,if you see a question about Dallas,the first connection is going to be JR etc,not a politician getting shot!

[@thomasknight1190]

I don’t know why some of his contestants go on these shows

[@animaltvi9515]

I've seen that Turkey clip so many times. But what did he say for the last 2 answers. None of them show it.

[@Scorpion-Gamer82]

I think the contestant and Max laughed the rest of the time down and he didn't answer them.

[@davidz2808]

@@Scorpion-Gamer82 The second contestant's 20 seconds is often not long enough, because they have to think of another answer if their first answer is the same as that given by the first. It should be 30 seconds.

[@m1j1browning]

The full version is on KZbin if you search for it. He gives the same snooker player as his team mate then runs out of time thinking of another.

[@davidspear9790]

@@davidz2808 I agree. 5 extra seconds is not enough if you duplicate an answer and the buzzer goes and you are asked for another.

[@minired1234]

That Weakest link episode was hilarious, other answers were finish off this novel, Harry potter and the chamber of .... warlocks Whats the opposite of North .... East Its a must watch episode hahahahahahahahha

[@Marky11694]

2:17 Is it just me or did she say 125 X 3 is 175

[@robloxfan4271]

1:41 fine example as to why americans dont work on british shows

[@alanthomson7770]

What about Family Fortunes again . Name a bird with a long neck . Answer Naomi Campbell