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It was two students rather than one; the first was from SOAS who interrupted almost immediately Wilde's name was mentioned with The Importance of Being Earnest. The Eng Lit student from Durham then came in with Lady Windermere's Fan (by this stage, as well as being informed it was a one Act play in French, we had also been told it was about a princess from Judea).
It was pretty clear that they were both just coming up with Oscar Wilde plays they'd heard of and were ignoring or hadn't registered the key points about it being a one Act play set in Judea and written in French. Its possible as well that, not being opera buffs, they weren't aware that Wilde had written a setting of Salome.
To be fair, they showed such intelligence and depth of knowledge in other questions, I think their failure here was on account of nerves rather than astounding lack of knowledge.
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