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Dbacksfan12:
This is kind of a takeoff on the thread claiming a B&E show counted a contestant’s answer wrong for appending a “The”.
Have you seen a show provide an actual incorrect answer?  I came across one this afternoon on my lunch break:
https://youtu.be/NRCQ3umMCOQ#t13m54s

The question is referencing an incident in the 1979 Daytona 500.  A contestant answered “Stock car racing” and was ruled wrong, while a contestant answering “Indianapolis Car Racing” (to laughter) was given credit.  I did not see any kind of correction made.

JasonA1:
Countless. Millionaire's incidents in the Regis run were well noted, given the visibility of the show at the time. We can't forget Million Dollar Money Drop. Tom Kennedy said in an interview with David Hammett that 50 Grand Slam had the composer of "Silk Stockings" absolutely wrong -- made worse by the fact I learned years later that it was on a $50,000 round (and win).

-Jason

Casey:
It happened with regularity on Monty Hall's Split Second...  One I remember involved lyrics to a Christmas song.  The contestant who was #3 for the question had to provide lyrics and was ruled wrong, only for the other two contestants to tell Monty she was right.  The "correct" lyrics were not the familiar lyrics - Monty accepted her answer after the other contestants protested.

Chief-O:

--- Quote from: Casey on May 25, 2023, 07:32:48 AM ---It happened with regularity on Monty Hall's Split Second...  One I remember involved lyrics to a Christmas song.  The contestant who was #3 for the question had to provide lyrics and was ruled wrong, only for the other two contestants to tell Monty she was right.  The "correct" lyrics were not the familiar lyrics - Monty accepted her answer after the other contestants protested.

--- End quote ---

I've seen 2 other examples from Hall SS on the YouTubes: Neither the contestants nor the show knew which state Tommy Thompson governed (he's one of Wisconsin's longest-serving governors), and the show had thought Lada automobiles came from the Netherlands (and they ruled the contestant wrong!).





/in fact there's been a thread on this already

Blanquepage:

--- Quote from: JasonA1 on May 25, 2023, 12:13:26 AM ---Tom Kennedy said in an interview with David Hammett that 50 Grand Slam had the composer of "Silk Stockings" absolutely wrong -- made worse by the fact I learned years later that it was on a $50,000 round (and win).

-Jason

--- End quote ---
Oh gosh, it was sloppy. The episode actually exists and I was lucky (for notable game show history's sake) enough to screen it; the champ Stanley gave the correct answer of Cole Porter, and Tom said "no, it was Irving Berlin."
At the end of the champ's round of questions, he's escorted out of the booth, there's an awkward cut to Tom explaining that the answer was "double checked"
and confirmed to be Cole Porter. I suppose in theory the first $50K win could have been worse, but that was some shoddy stuff.

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