Holiday Merriment

[kernelbogey]

A member of my family received Private Eye's 'Eyeballs' as a gift; it contains a section on 'Dumb Britain' - mainly answers to quiz questions. I thought members might enjoy these:

Anne Robinson: Which British composer wrote 'The Lark Ascending' and 'The Wasps' overture?
Contestant: Er... Beethoven?
The Weakest Link, BBC1

Dom or Dick: What instrument represents the Duck in Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf'?
Contestant: I'm trying to think which instrument looks like a duck.
Are you smarter than a ten-year-old?

Anne Robinson: Which ballet by Tchaikowsky is also an instrument used to break open snacks such as almonds?
Contestant: Hammer.
The Weakest Link, BBC1

Anne Robinson: Gilbert and Sullivan's opera 'The Yeomen of the Guard' is set in which London landmark?
Contestant: Canary Wharf.
The Weakest Link, BBC1

Please feel free to add to this thread other jollity of any kind!

[vinteuil]

... is sneering at those less well-eddicated than wot we is in any way edifying?

[kernelbogey]

I think most humour is aggressive. (Discuss.) I found these funny.

[vinteuil]

I think most humour is aggressive. (Discuss.).

... and humour that attacks the powerful, the pompous, the hypocritical - of course - and aggressive as you like!

But why pick on the poor mites who haven't had the middle-class benefit of knowing the location of a Gilbert & Sullivan work?

Funny, eh??

[cloughie]

... and humour that attacks the powerful, the pompous, the hypocritical - of course - and aggressive as you like!

But why pick on the poor mites who haven't had the middle-class benefit of knowing the location of a Gilbert & Sullivan work?

Funny, eh??

Yes but surely it stretches the imagination to think that Beethoven was British!

[vinteuil]

Yes but surely it stretches the imagination to think that Beethoven was British!

... yes indeed. Let's laugh at stupid people

[kernelbogey]

I'd argue that whoever the humour is directed at, its purpose is to put its creator one up from whoever the target is. Not having a television, I haven't watched these shows, but I imagine the producers would deliberately include in the filming contestants who are bound to get many such answers wrong.

[MrGongGong]

... yes indeed. Let's laugh at stupid people

Now whatever happened to.....................

[Serial_Apologist]

Anne Robinson: Gilbert and Sullivan's opera 'The Yeomen of the Guard' is set in which London landmark?
Contestant: Canary Wharf.
The Weakest Link, BBC1

The crows will be raven...

[Serial_Apologist]

Now whatever happened to.....................

Hmmmm

[kernelbogey]

I don't think people are stupid.... We all have different learning styles, and absorb knowledge of different kinds in different ways. I would appear 'stupid' on such a show if asked a question about sport, which would no doubt amuse those who are knowledgeable about it....

[MrGongGong]

I don't think people are stupid.... We all have different learning styles, and absorb knowledge of different kinds in different ways. ..

the school I went to seemed to relish "kinesthetic learning" particularly in PE

and what is this "sport" of which you speak ?

[kernelbogey]

...and what is this "sport" of which you speak ?

Apparently, bovine attempts to vault lunar hurdles cause amusement in small dogs, and cutlery has been known to move suddenly.

[Petrushka]

Apparently, bovine attempts to vault lunar hurdles cause amusement in small dogs, and cutlery has been known to move suddenly.

[Serial_Apologist]

cutlery has been known to move suddenly.

Has anyone else on here ever run away with a dish?