The question was "What was the first satellite of the Earth?"
So I put "The Moon".

They said it was wrong: the answer was "Sputnik".

I said, Get a fucking dictionary and look up the words "first" and "satellite".

The twunt wouldn't accept it. Grr, arg.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 15:41, 2 replies)

I hate quizzes when they get the answer wrong
Especially when you challenge them and they get all officious with their "it's not the answer on my sheet so I can't accept it".
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 15:48, closed)

Yeah
How the fuzzywuzzy are you meant to win if they can just make up the answers? Not so much a quiz, as "guess what's written on my paper". I don't deal with this well, and as a result don't like to play the game.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 15:52, closed)

The worst example of this I experienced
was with my mother, whose knowledge of all things medical is vast. "Ok," boomed the dumb as punched fuck quizmaster reading out the answers. "The first heart transplant occurred in the year .."
We knew it was 1967.
"1867"

No amount of reasoning could persuade him how fucking ridiculous that was. 1867. For fucks sake. Pencillin hadn't even been discovered.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 16:11, closed)

He didn't say
successful heart transplant though, did he?
(salvadorevincent, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 16:21, closed)

I fucking knew some wag would point that out.

( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Fri 29 Apr 2011, 11:56, closed)

N ot a quiz
but a job interview over the phone.

The woman asked me, if I had to create a stored procedure for a MS SQL Server database, but I only had notepad to create it in, what would my first line be?

I said, "USE [INSERT DATABASE NAME]".

Wrong! It should be "CREATE PROCEDURE [INSERT PROC NAME]".

Which is of course, complete crap. Where would it bloody know where to create the procedure unless you first tell it which database to use?!!

I'm still fuming about this one.
(dchurch bah, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 15:58, closed)