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?

Would that point have made a difference to you winning the quiz ?

Thats always the case!
All quiz masters are the same!
They dont always research their quiz, they pinch it from other sources, and then are looking for wrong answers!
They also tend to get arsey when you point it out to them, but I only make a big deal if the end result is down to those points! LOL

We attended a pub quiz recently where one of the questions was about why Police were nicknamed peelers. Everyone said because of Sir Robert Peel, but the person who wrote the quiz was adamant it was John Peel and wouldn't accept Robert Peel as the answer

And presumably so would Tom 😂

They should have scrapped that question, accepting wrong answers is just daft

Tbf Colleen Nolan still seems to think she’s married to Shane Ritchie

Quiz we went to many years ago descended into chaos at the question who won the US Open - some were adamant it referred to tennis, others golf and others swimming. Quizmaster couldn't handle the ambiguity. Shouted everyone down it was obviously golf, he said 🤷 🙄😆

That's easy, the Queen.

The irony of your response given the topic of this thread is hilarious 😆

That reminds of a question which is colder the North Pole or South Pole... the quizmaster gave North Pole was the South Pole is actually colder by a huge margin... still annoyed.

honeylulu you shouldn't have got a point anyway because USA is not a nationality ☺️ (tiptoes away)

Yes - pub quizzes have unofficial rules (that are really annoying to rule-sticklers).

And that 24 letter monster of a word just tripped off your tongue?

It’s Tom Kaulitz!!!!! I was obsessed with his twin brother Bill Kaulitz and Tokio Hotel as a teenager 🤣

Our quiz had a rule that the Quiz master had the final say! Even if wrong .TBH if the wrong answer is given then that is incorrect .I would be annoyed too

He really will need a kiss from a rose to revive him 😂

I gave up on pub quizzes when they had the wrong answer for who wrote Peter Pan.

Did anyone answer Seal?

It’s annoying, but people do get worryingly het up over pub quizzes.

I hosted one once at work. One of my questions was about the founder members of the EEC. I agreed to accept both Germany and West Germany as answers and some of the people who’d put West Germany were apoplectic. Also, my tiebreaker was “How many grandchildren and great-grandchildren does Queen Elizabeth have?” Someone tried to argue it wasn’t fair as I hadn’t specified which Queen Elizabeth. I pointed out that a) I’d phrased the question in the present tense, meaning it wasn’t going to be the one who died over 400 years ago and b) given that Elizabeth I was famously known as the Virgin Queen, it would be fairly obvious that the answer was none.

I got similarly worked up at a quiz recently when we had to decode a number of dingbats. One of them was 'DEDNAH'. I put 'back-handed' but was told the answer was 'left-handed' and they wouldn't let us have the point. Still makes me mad when I think about it! 😂

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@Moonfishstar No? 🤷‍♀️

We had similar, quiz master asked which player had the most grand slams and had the answer as Novak Djokovic. DH politely pointed out that while he was the male tennis player with the most grand slams, Margaret Court had more.

Two questions later quiz master asked who had the record for the fastest serve in men's tennis. Can't remember who they had as the answer, but it was wrong (its actually an obscure Australian player called Sam Groth).

They also claimed Italy were the only team not to have won the Six Nations title (Scotland also haven't) and insisted that Liverpool had won more domestic trophies than Manchester United.

I think they were struggling a bit with the sports round!

Come on @jay55, don't leave us hanging, who did they think wrote it?😀

And this is why I don’t go to pub quizzes anymore. I am the least competitive person ever unless there’s absolutely nothing at stake. The question was the top 5 cat names and then they awarded points for any they got in the top 10 (I had 4 out of the top 5).

I was fuming at a quiz on holiday a few years ago. The question was "where would you find the carpal bones?" We put wrist, but nope the quizmaster said "hand" and would not accept wrist. As I tried to point out, THE CARPAL BONES ARE THE BLOODY WRIST!!!" He wouldn't have it and I will stew over that forever.