Well I say I won it
The rollover question in that week's pub quiz was "What was the first object ever to be photographed in colour?". Nobody had got one of these right for ages so there was about £200 in the pot. I knew the answer - it was the photographer's wife's hair ribbon. I wrote "hair ribbon" on the paper. The quizmaster came around. "Wrong. My clipboard says 'tartan ribbon'". No £200.

I found out last week that he's been fired from hosting any further quizzes and barred from a large range of pubs for pocketing the rollover money.

I think this counts as an eventual win for me.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 15:13, 11 replies)

You won your place as a vehicle of karma.

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 15:20, closed)

Even more so
As it's a pretty small town and he is/was fairly well known. I don't think he'll be able to show his face around here for a long time.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:21, closed)

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, closed)

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)

Actually
Was it Vic Reeves or Bob Mortimer? The questions sound suspiciously like "Name a hairy dog. I'm sorry, it was a cocker spaniel."
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 16:09, closed)

One for the Merkins
We had a question in a pub quiz, something along the lines of 'What is the US Armed Forces version of the NAAFI'.
I answered that it was the 'Post Exchange'. Wanker said it wasn't, it was the 'PX'. I said that PX is short for Post Exchange, he pointed out that exchange actually starts with an 'E'. Which is a fair point I suppose...
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Fri 29 Apr 2011, 16:10, closed)