to think this is a ridiculous pub quiz rule?

[Chocolatebiscuitcollection]

Recent pub quiz.

The question was "Heidi Klum is married to whom?"

Two members of our team knew that she was divorced from Seal quite a long time ago and spent ages trying to think of the name of her new partner, who isn't a household name like Seal was.

When she came to giving out the answers, the host said the answer was Seal. Pub got a bit noisy, people pointed out they are divorced, she looked it up on her phone and said "ooops sorry" ... but then said "you can have a point if you put Seal because that's the answer I was looking for"

When challenged she would not back down!

That's totally wrong isn't it?

Yes she should have just taken that question out of the quiz and discounted it

Did your team lose to someone who had put Seal down?

But yeah, shitty.

Did it affect the outcome of the quiz?

It's not a ridiculous rule, it's just really bad quiz-making.

So the quiz is 'guess what the host thinks the answer is' rather than 'what is the answer to this question' !?

I had this in a quiz once, it was the amount of times a particular football club had won the FA Cup. He gave a point for the WRONG ANSWER. Still mad and it was about 2 years ago.

The general rule in pub quizes I have been involved in has normally been that if the quiz master has asked a wrong question or given a wrong answer, that everyone with both the correct answer and the one given gets a point. In this instance where there wasn't another correct answer, I think I would have given a point to everyone, effectively nullifying the question.

They divorced 10 years ago, so wouldn’t trust her other answers to be honest.

That would have pissed me off too. You can't just change the rules, the answer is the answer, it's not guess what the host thinks the answer is.

We had this issue at a pub quiz a few years ago when the question was "who was pictured on a £10 note?". The image had recently been changed, so when the quizmaster gave the old image as the answer we challenged it and got out a new £10 note to prove that we were right.

I swear that’s raised my blood pressure!

These are the hills I live and die on! It’s not bloody right!

Ugh I absolutely hate this - our local pub quizmaster (using the term loosely) has form for this too.

I can’t remember the question as it was years ago, but basically even with the whole pub telling him he was wrong, he refused to back down.
The next week hardly anyone did the quiz and he threatened to walk out (no one stopped him, and yet he stayed).

It’s just poor form.

Similar situation in my pub quiz recently but our (very lovely) quizmaster accepted he was wrong with good humour and discounted that question completely.

The problem with accepting both Seal and whatever new Mr Klum's name is, is that it doesnt account for those who passed on the question because they knew it wasn't Seal so therefore missed out on a point.

It is only a pub quiz and a bit of fun but this kind of thing rankles.

Very annoying!

I was at a pub quiz years ago and a question was What is the largest fish in the ocean - with the emphasis on the word fish. Of course the answer is shark, because a whale is a mammal, but he allowed whale as an answer 😡I still haven't got over that!

"It's not a ridiculous rule, it's just really bad quiz-making"

You win the prize for most pedantic reply. Well done!

But it isn't a RULE, it IS just bad quiz making, don't have a go at another poster for being correct, you won't do yourself any favours.

That would really annoy me 🤣 Either the answer is correct or it's not correct.

In this instance, it is not correct. Therefore no points should be awarded.

I was at a quiz once where the question was which organisation has the publication The Watchtower (Jehovah's Witness) and the answer was given as Salvation Army (which is War Cry).

We were so annoyed at not getting the mark for our correct answer that a member of our team went up to the quiz host and told them they were a JW and were highly offended! It worked anyway. Tho this was many years ago and I clearly am still angry lol.

Yes @Chocolatebiscuitcollection that is very annoying.

I’d be furious!!!

If I were the quizmaster I would have put that in as a trick question, knowing that people would put Seal and it would be wrong

Wouldn’t do a quiz with that quizmaster again. No point

Part of me wants to say it's really not a big deal, it's just a pub quiz.

BUT 90% OF ME IS ACTUALLY FUMING

🤣🤣

You should have challenged them to throw their shoe over the pub. That's how you find the real winner.

She's married to Tom Kaulitz. I'd be very annoyed.

How rude.

The poster is right, it's not a rule just a badly run quiz

I had this with a question about a historical event where the 'correct' answer according to the quizmaster was taken from a movie about the event and totally inaccurate - 'who did X?' and the movie had the wrong person doing it, probably to limit the number of characters needed. I challenged this, she looked it up and saw I was right, and then said that either answer could have a point. Quite irritating!

Seal has been put down???😁