One of Private Eye’s more mean-spirited features is Dumb Britain, in which we’re invited to sneer at stupid mistakes made by people on quiz shows. [In light of which, you’d imagine they’d think twice before accusing Richard Dawkins, in his Enemies of Reason TV programmes, of shooting fish in a barrel, but still…] In the latest issue, for instance, there’s this from The Weakest Link:
Anne Robinson: Which famous writer fought in the Crimean War, Leo Tolstoy or Charles Dickens?
Contestant: Charles Dickens
Or this, from the National Lottery Jet Set:
Eamonn Holmes: Assam is what kind of beverage?
Contestant (young male): Is it beer?
Hilarious, eh?
This, though, is in a different class. From the French version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It’s not just the contestant…
(Via A Welsh View)
Mick Hartley 
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