{"id":41,"date":"2007-10-19T00:58:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/accuracy-of-game-shows\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T21:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T10:51:41","slug":"accuracy-of-game-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/accuracy-of-game-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Accuracy of Game Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

How often do TV Game Shows get the answers to their questions wrong?<\/p>\n

A while ago I was flicking through TV channels and fell onto Temptation<\/a><\/i>. After watching a few minutes I came across this question:<\/p>\n

\"Temptation\"<\/a>
Click the image to view video clip (QuickTime Movie, 1.2MB)<\/div>\n

\nQuestion:<\/b> Jane Bennet finally marries Mr Who in Pride and Prejudice?
\nAnswer:<\/b> Mr Darcy [sic]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course anyone who has read Pride and Prejudice would know that Jane Bennet married Charles Bingley, and it was Elizabeth Bennet who married Mr Darcy.<\/p>\n

With a simple mistake like this in the show, and an easily verifiable question at that, you’ve got to wonder how often they get it wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How often do TV Game Shows get the answers to their questions wrong? A while ago I was flicking through TV channels and fell onto Temptation. After watching a few minutes I came across this question: Click the image to view video clip (QuickTime Movie, 1.2MB) Question: Jane Bennet finally marries Mr Who in Pride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allocinit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}