The Chase - wrong answers

LambshankRedemption

My father introduced me to the chase, he was an avid fan and watched at least two episodes a day. I seem to have caught the bug. However, Ive notcied that sometimes the correct answer is actually wrong. I was wondering if anyone else noticed this.

Just tonight the question was "How many events are in a Heptathalon", the contestant said two and Bradley said correct. There are 7 events in a Heptathlon. During the week the question was "What colour is the wax on BabyBel cheese?" the contestant said Blue and Brad said, "no, it green". The wax on Baby Bel is 100% red.

NIMAN

Also heard this one

Bradley : in which city is the area called the Brandywell?

Contestant : Londonderry

Bradley: incorrect, it's Derry.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450537#Comment_121450537

Did Celtic Symphony immediately start playing next?

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450537#Comment_121450537

Controversial!

cdeb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058325537/the-chase-wrong-answers

Are you sure the question wasn't how many days are in the heptathlon? That's two afaik

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450553#Comment_121450553

One might hope.

You would think they would take out questions that had any kind of controversial correct answer or interpretation.

Collie D

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058325537/the-chase-wrong-answers

You sure you heard the question right? Difficult to believe they would get something as simple as the heptathlon one so wrong.

EDIT Poster above makes a very plausible suggestion.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450566#Comment_121450566

Er.... I could not swear to it. I can't run it back to check. The baby bel one though is definitely accurate, I downloaded the episode and was definitely wrong with no ambiguity.

Alun

There's a vegan Babybel which is wrapped in green wax, are you sure that wasn't the question?

NinjaTruncs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450580#Comment_121450580

You should go back and check as you are definitely wrong on the babybel question as it was what colour is the wax on the vegan babybel. Which is green.

They may not have said vegan, it could have been called plant based. But I remember hearing the question and it definitely wasn't the red version

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450664#Comment_121450664

OK fair enough.

Penn

Those quiz shows are pretty stringent on making sure the questions and answers are correct, and usually have independent adjudicators assigned to keep things above level, mainly because getting things wrong could lead to possible legal comeback as well as discrediting the show. Bradley Walsh even has to try keep the same speed and tempo when asking questions to the contestants and the Chaser.

Sorry, but it's far more likely you may have misheard either the question or the answer than they got questions (fairly easy ones from your examples) wrong.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450724#Comment_121450724

As I said in the post above yours. Fair enough.

I will go and research these two occurrences, and return. (well return, if I heard right, but more likely not return)

mightyreds

The heptathlon one was 100% how many days is it competed over? I only watched it a couple of days ago.

I have seen when he told them the answer was wrong and then when the round was over he said he'd been told it could be accepted and they got an extra score

squonk

Aside from stringent fact checking, given the chasers are top of their game quiz pros, you’d imagine they’d be feeding back into the system if there was a sizeable proportion of wrong accepted answers. It’s in their interest to keep the game honest as much as anyone else’s. .

MrCostington

If I may go OT, I remember watching Millionaire (Chris Tarrant era) and the first or second question, the ones with the funny wrong answers, was something like which is a unit of computer data, byte was the answer they were looking for, but one of the "wrong" was "nibble". But, that is actually correct too, it's 4 bits!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble

Kimbot

If its the chase then nothing beats this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1Zfz-Widc

artanevilla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450537#Comment_121450537

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHvQRGpzT0g&ab_channel=CurnybopCrap

Very clearly been dubbed over.

So, so far in this thread there have been zero wrong answers and just people mishearing questions.