to think this is a ridiculous pub quiz rule?

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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?

I used the wrong turn of phrase, that is all.

I know it’s ridiculous but this really got my back up. I feel as annoyed as if I’d been there 😁

You were the one asking if you were being unreasonable to think it's a ridiculous rule... 🙄

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I had this at a quiz once about a musical term and the quizmaster's answer was just plain wrong but they wouldn't accept the right answer even after googling for proof because apparently she found her answer on google (no idea where as it was honestly that wrong).

I've been a quiz master and had someone argue a question with me. My question and answer were correct, they just hadn't heard the full question properly and wouldn't listen to my explanation of it. I'm a meticulous quiz writer though. I check, double check and triple check my questions and answers, and any where I think there could be too much confusion I replace with a different question. That one argument is the only one I've had in all the quizzes I've written.

And I'm better at writing questions and checking them than I am the autocorrects from my phone. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Can't edit on the app either.

I also meant to add that unfortunately the rule tends to be that the quizmaster's say is final. But it's bloody annoying when you know they're plain wrong.

I'm still salty about the picture of Liz Taylor and Conrad Hilton being marked wrong as the quiz master thought it was Richard Burton.

I'm still mad about a quiz where there was a round titled 'one hit wonders'. You had to guess the band/artist from a verbal clue. The answer to one of the questions in the one hit wonders round was A-Ha. They're definitely not a one hit wonder by any definition. Just because the quiz master only knew Take On Me!!

We had something similar recently when the question was asking Donald Trump's daughter's name.
Loads of people put Ivana, (his ex wife) when the actual answer was of course IvanKA.
He said they could have half a point for it. We were furious (having got it correct).

Yes she's a bloody idiot

He also has a daughter called Tiffany so I hope they accepted that if anyone remembered her.

We actually got a quiz master to overturn an error last week.
He asked who had won the most women's grand slam titles ever with 23. Everyone put Selena Williams but our team (full of avid tennis fans) knew it was Margaret Court with 24

It was the 23 that muddied the waters.

@SilkFloss Well, whoever put Selena Williams was definitely wrong! 😁

I once attended a pub quiz where the question was: Name the horse who won the Grand National 3 Times in the 1970s.

EVERYONE had Red Rum as the answer. The quiz master said the answer was Helsinki and wouldn't have it that she was wrong!!!!!!

At least noone benefitted

How old was her quiz!

I'd be turning over bar tables, lol! NO, that's BS. She is not married to Seal, his name's Tom I think. So was she offering one point for Seal and 2 for Tom, or none for Tom? It should not be any for Seal! I think the answer is quite hard (I had to look it up) but so it should be when there's money at stake!
Yeah, that's awful. How can their research be that fucking shite. What a crap quiz firm. I hope you told the pub you don't want them back!

I agree with you OP. I'm still bitter about something that happened 30 years ago! 😆

It was a music round and we had to identify each piece of music and the composer for 2 points. One of the pieces was "Air on the G String" by J. S. Bach which my team correctly identified. A few other teams identified the piece as the "Hamlet Cigar advertisement".

We were marked wrong, because the "Hamlet Cigar advertisement" was listed on the quizmaster's answer sheet as the right answer. After a lot of argument, the quizmaster agreed to give us 1 point for our entirely correct answer and to give 2 points to the teams that said it was the bloody Hamlet Cigar advertisement! 😡

I might not be so bitter if we hadn't drawn for first place with a "Hamlet Cigar advertisement" team and then lost the tiebreaker! 😫

We gave up on our local pub quiz. Partly due to one particular staff member who never quite got her answers correct either.
Main reason we stopped was the incessant barking of one regular man's ddog. 90 mins continously one week.. Maybe he knew the answers and was trying to butt in but I doubt it... Just a hairy pita.

That would have annoyed me too - especially as Take On Me didn't even get to number 1 in the charts, The Sun Always Shines On TV did!
I have been known to nearly cry when a quizmaster has got a question/answer wrong and wouldn't listen to reason!

I'm still annoyed about getting it wrong when asked who/what was on a £5 or £10 note. The answer given was for a Bank of England issued note

We rarely see them and answered with whoever was on the bank of Scotland note.

A riot ensued as the quizmaster hadn't specified

This was about 20 years ago and I'm still annoyed 🤣

This would have my blood boiling.

As a teen i actually hosted a pub quiz but could only use question sheets from their folder. The questions mixed up osmosis and photosynthesis, and also Eros and Anteros. The fact the manager wouldnt listen to me was enraging!

How infuriating!

This happened to us at a quiz night on holiday in Fuerteventura. It was years ago but my bloody is boiling remembering it as it was the "decider" question between us and one other team and we were deprived of winning a bottle of cheap cava but I digress.

The question was what is Madonna's nationality? We answered USA. The other team answered Italian AND THE QUIZMASTER DECLARED THEY WERE RIGHT.

The original Madonna is from some highly contested land that I wouldn't ask about in a pub quiz.

Years ago our annual village quiz night descended into chaos when the answer to a question about a WW2 battle was "Arnhem". Which was correct, but the only team to get it right had misspelled "Arnhem". So they weren't allowed the point. Totally ridiculous as it was obviously correct.

The ensuing row ended up with one of the losing team writing to The Times about it, and the letter was published.

They were totally robbed.

Has anyone read the novel "Us" where the narrator recounts a scene at the local school PTA quiz night? Very funny and totally relatable

Ooh, actually I remember - this didn't happen to me - someone came home from a pub quiz and was a bit annoyed because they had answered the question "what is the name for the phobia of Friday the 13th?" with 'triskaidekaphobia' and been told it was wrong.

It is, we told him. Triskaidekaphobia is the phobia of 13 but the phobia of Friday the 13th has a more specific name - friggatriskaidekaphobia. Another term for it is paraskavedekatriaphobia.