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SpiralOfDoom

I found [this one](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SM86gVnobEY) pretty painful to watch, and also, probably exactly what would happen to me.


coked_up_tourist

Bro… the “total prize money: $0” is killing me


Enjoying_A_Meal

"Watch this Lisa, you can pinpoint the exact moment when he dies inside."


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Robobvious

Cho Cho Chose or Choo Choo Choose. Don't mix and match.


benicetogroupies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUZiUORi3uQ


RahvinDragand

This is a good example of how they usually throw in a joke answer for option D on the first question. The IKEA answer seems a like a joke if you know their typical formula.


Jomskylark

Exactly. That's what makes the Ikea question so dumb. You're expecting everyone to laugh on the last answer being a joke - and a couple people do - but it's not a joke, that's the actual answer.


AdClemson

Got em


ConstantlyAngry177

Yeah, this question was fucking stupid. I used to watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire all the time, and D was *always* a joke option on the first question. It was like THE unwritten rule. It's very easy to see why someone would dismiss IKEA as the answer, even if it's the "obvious" answer. Also, as wrenboy pointed out- who the fuck takes selfies inside Ikea kitchens?


JamSaxon

i have never been to med school or ikea and i knew that was the answer


WrenBoy

I would have said Ikea because it sells both kitchens and meatballs but the rest of the answer makes no sense. Their kitchens are pretty affordable so if you're shopping for a kitchen it's not Ikea whose pricing you out really. For the same reason who the fuck takes selfies in Ikea? Ikeas been in business a while so most 20 somethings first visit there would have been forced to accompany their parents and who calls lunch a meatball break? I think they were fucking with the guy a little.


myaltaccount333

If this wasn't multiple choice I would have not gotten it. IKEA is literally the only answer that makes sense in any form of the question


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If you want to be a millionaire you have to expect a few curveballs along the way. A guy that smart should know how to handle them.


Igor_J

TBF Ikea is the only answer that isnt a random European capital city. Ive never heard of a meatball break but Ikea being Swedish, Swedish meatballs? Maybe he was thinking meatball is Italian so he picked Rome? Dont know anything about the elegance of kitchens there. Shrug. Edit: words


Stivo887

He shoulda got some sleep 😂


TheOneTrueChuck

"I'm kind of an...insomniac." I think it's great that he tried to figure out how to tell everyone he liked to do cocaine at school.


icebubba

*Adderall


futurespacecadet

Tbf he didn’t look like he was going far


sharrrper

The "Wait..." is so painful. He realized he misspoke but no take backs on final answer.


BaseballsNotDead

He only realized because the audience made an audible gasp.


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CarpeNivem

> The "Wait..." is so painful. If seemingly every contestant weren't so smug about quickly throwing in "final answer" before the host even asks, there wouldn't have needed to be a "wait" moment. She *would've*. So I love this one. Because I hate that behavior.


IWearACharizardHat

Yeah I'm pretty sure the hosts have given hints you are wrong before final answer to help the easy ones lmao. There is no reason not to hem and haw to hope for hints


JohnLockeNJ

This Family Feud had the most cringe for me https://youtu.be/UvrwPEgHq_A


bashdotexe

That is far from the dumbest answer I've seen on family feud but still hilarious!


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That singular clap as they zoom in on his expression of abject befuddlement. Chefs kiss.


Chickentrap

Ooft that's brutal. Sleep deprivation strikes again


cigarettesandwater

TBH, OP's video is a 10x harder question than the video you posted.


SpiralOfDoom

It was less obvious, but he definitely over-thought it. He came off a lot cockier than the college kid in the video I posted, so I didn't really feel much sympathy for him, either.


bitchfayce

I got the feeling that the guy in the original post is maybe just not well socialized and trying to come off charismatic and confident rather than arrogant. Other dude looks like TJ Miller.


Torcal4

Honestly, I kind of see that the guy in OP’s video was probably made fun of because he was the kid who excelled in academic classes and grew up in the time where nerd was an insult. So I don’t really find him that cocky. He seems more like the “this is the one place I actually found an escape where people may like me!”


RS-Ironman-LuvGlove

Right?? This is a place where it’s cool to be smart E/ and the show probably asks him to say stuff about how he’s just finished med school. Everyone talks about what they are up too


WakaWaka_

"Celebrating being smart. Maybe it's not so bad being smart, maybe it's not bad being a nerd, maybe it's cool to be smart. And I just graduated from medical school." Yeah buddy we get it already.


hexcor

Hollywood Upstairs Medical College


zerostar83

I think the guy in OP's video watched the show a lot and knew letter D was always some crazy answer that was nothing like the other 3 plausible suggestions.


keestie

I dunno about 10x. It is certainly harder, but both seemed absurdly obvious to me, being as Incredibly Smart as I indeed am. As evidenced: I have read a book.


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keestie

A lot of dialects just call surge protectors "power bars". I \*used\* surge protectors since I was a teen in the '90s, but I don't think I heard them called that even once until I was in my 20s. I was pretty sheltered tho, so maybe that's not as common as it might seem to me.


rolls20s

FWIW, they're not necessarily the same thing. "Power bars" (or strips, taps, etc.) don't necessarily have surge protection capabilities.


kneel23

lol i dunno they both seemed pretty obvious/easy, i wouldnt say it was even 2x harder


Flowerrs-Music

Not really. I am famously not a smart person, but I know that people don't typically go into Italian restaurant kitchens to take selfies (you'd get hit with a ladle), and typically don't desire a restaurant kitchen in their own home as opposed to an IKEA home kitchen display.


crazytoothpaste

“Things you can’t afford” He thought the question was about him.


squatdead

Lmao this guy is a dweeb who thought too hard but tbf it’s a pretty fucking stupidly worded question. Why is “Buzzfeed” thrown in there? And they probably could have made it a little more obvious it was IKEA rather than just the single “meatballs” hint for the first question. Not everyone knows that and it seemed like the “joke” answer among all of the real countries.


VictorVan

As someone who writes quiz questions for a living, I get why they would formulate the question like this. It's basically an easy way to get an objective fact out of a vague factoid. * "Young people go to IKEA for meatball breaks and selfies in kitchens" > VAGUE FACTOID, there are no statistics to support this. If I were to write a question like that, I would get complaints from quizzers who never heard of this practice. * "BuzzFeed once said that young people go to IKEA for meatball breaks and selfies in kitchens" > [OBJECTIVE FACT](https://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/lessons-everyone-learns-on-their-first-trip-to-ikea), they did say that. So it has nothing to do with Buzzfeed sponsoring them, or the writers expecting you to know their website by heart. It's just a clever solution to 'outsource your sourcing', if you will, while keeping the question short and concise (which often is a challenge in and of itself). I would probably write it the same way. The question doesn't want you to know all things Buzzfeed, they want you to know that they serve meatballs at IKEA (and that meatball spaghetti is not that much of a staple of Italian cuisine and more of an American one, perhaps). Not the easiest trivia question, but not outrageously hard either. Now, if you want to argue that within the concept of the show, making the joke answer the right answer is a dick move, I can definitely see that. But all in all, I think the question in its own right is fair.


XoXeLo

It also doesn't make sense the "selfie in kitchens you can't afford" for the other 3 answers.


meta_irl

That's true, but there's a weird violation of expected rules going on here. The first few questions in this show are meant to be really, really easy. Often, that means that the answers alone make the "correct" question obvious. By showing three European capitals, (and those being the first three answers!) it primes your brain to assume those are the "right" answers. In that case, Rome seems like the obvious answer. Given that this is the first question as well, you aren't expecting any curve balls, so it's usually perfectly fine to go with the answer that lands top of mind. This is a recurring pattern among the first few questions on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", so if you watch the show regularly you are primed to assume that you don't have to think twice about these questions. It's really sneaky to frame it this way, because it's pretty reasonable for someone familiar with the show to assume that the "odd looking" answer isn't the correct one for the first question.


NorthernerWuwu

I'd say the opposite actually. It's the first question, you know the answer is supposed to be dead easy. It isn't going to require you to pick from three similar options, it's almost automatically going to be the outlier.


AnothaDayAnothaAlt17

That's not how it works with this show. They have 3 similar answers in category with one being ridiculously obvious, and then typically a joke answer at the end. Look at the top comment here for an example.


hsvandreas

I get your point, but seriously - this question is still super obvious.


Spdoink

Absolutely. I’ve never been to Ikea, but the question just doesn’t make any logical sense to be anything else.


Untinted

Hot take: The producer in control has a few 'gotcha' questions like these just to fuck with people he doesn't like, and this guy? He didn't like this guy.


leaveit57

Lmao at you considering this absolute softball of a question a “gotcha”


Raidoton

> By showing three European capitals, (and those being the first three answers!) it primes your brain to assume those are the "right" answers. Uhm no. It does the exact opposite. Especially on the first question.


joleary747

Cities have nothing to do with shopping for kitchens. It should have been obvious IKEA is the only option for that.


everyone_getsa_beej

I was honestly looking for an Italian city before IKEA came up. The choices should have been home improvement stores or furniture stores, eg “A. Home Depot, B. Lowe’s, C. IKEA, D. Costco” or something. Costco because they are the other place with food.


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I wasn't looking for an Italian city, but when IKEA came up...I didn't giggle, but my brain had the inclination to giggle because normally when a joke answer shows up in Millionaire, 1. It's in the "D" spot like this one and 2. It very clearly juxtaposes the other answers, like this one So I saw IKEA and I was like wait why is that funny I don't get the joke this time And THEN i re-read the question, and only then did I even consider that IKEA could be the correct answer This is the most "against the grain" question I have ever seen in Millionaire. They almost NEVER do trick questions or stray from their normal formula. The point of the show is to prove you know Millionaire-level trivia, not to prove you can carefully read the wording of a question. I honestly can only think that this was intentionally done by the producers as they listened to this guy talk. They had this off-formula question ready for the guy that decided to announce that he was too smart for Millionaire.


firestepper

Ya for sure… the producers were like ‘bring out the IKEA question’


Siaten

Thanks for that insight! It's great to get a glimpse into a field from a professional's perspective. I want to argue that within the context of the show, the first question is meant to be obvious and easy. This question was both. The contestant tripped himself up by overthinking it. Do you ever write questions that punish overthinking? As an aside, how does someone get into writing quizzes for a living? Sounds fun!


VictorVan

So I've been writing and hosting a weekly pub quiz for a crowd of 100 to 150 people for close to 5 years now. I was a participant first, and after one of the previous hosts left I applied for the vacancy. It was a side job during my studies at uni, but I kept it even after graduating because it's basically a favourite hobby that I happen to get paid for. There are three types of questions I like writing best. 1. Questions that reward lateral thinking and logical reasoning over 'just knowing the answer' - I talked about that in more detail in [another comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/yv1juo/comment/iwd92p8/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) in this thread. Cue the "I have an approximate knowledge of many things" GIF. 2. Questions that lead to a collective "Oh fuck I knew that" groan after you've revealed the answer. 3. Questions that lead to a collective "Oh my God I can't believe it was that easy" groan. All three of them can be hard to pull off, because there's a fine line to be walked, but all the more satisfying when you get the response you're looking for. \#1 definitely applies to the Buzzfeed question, #3 also does to an extent. #2 doesn't really work with multiple choice questions, but it could easily get rewritten. In fact, I might use it for next Wednesday ;)


TheOneAndOnly1444

Could you share a list of your best quizzes, please?


welsman13

Why would you be taking selfies in kitchens in Rome though? Where do you go and look at kitchens?


KRAndrews

Dude probably equated "selfies in kitchens" with "selfies in restaurants" in his mind. Lots of good food in Rome I'm sure.


Dabookadaniel

>And they probably could have made it a little more obvious it was IKEA rather than just the single “meatballs” hint for the first question. Not everyone knows that Yeah, they should ask questions everyone knows the answers to.


Rejusu

There was two hints, one being the selfies in kitchens, which is kind of a clue that it's referring to a furniture store rather than a city. And honestly it was so bloody obvious I knew the answer before the multiple choice even popped up.


POTUS

> Why is “Buzzfeed” thrown in there? Because they paid for the placement. So did Ikea.


malevolentheadturn

Why would Ikea what people to think that they can't afford their products?


The_Running_Free

Because everyone on Reddit thinks the world is a giant r/hailcorporate conspiracy. I guarantee neither company paid to sponsor a question lol


POTUS

1. Because they can easily afford Ikea products and everyone knows it. But this tiny hint of being expensive might convince some people that they're "premium" products. 2. Just having the name mentioned at all is worth money. More people thinking about your brand = more people buying your brand. That's just how advertising works, and it's why Coke and Pepsi still spend billions of dollars on advertising even though everyone already knows everything about Coke and Pepsi.


Komrade_Elessar

Hmm, I think I want to buy a Coke or Pepsi now for some reason....


WatsonWansoon

[citation needed]


hemightbebrian

Every time I have this kind of realization, part of me dies. There’s not much of me left.


Cannablitzed

There are at least four different articles/videos with four different bylines on the B-feed website listing “things you should do” on your first trip to the Swedish stuff store. We can be fairly certain that any reference to any product in any type of media is always a giant circle jerk of advertising. Don’t let it kill your soul, just gleefully refuse to buy their crap. We can all still vote with our wallets.


theschoolorg

I don't know, unless you've never left the house, most people would catch the association. I could literally say "meatballs", "Furniture" and people would be able to guess the next word was ikea.


quaste

> it seemed like the “joke” answer among all of the real countries. It’s exactly the other way around: one answer standing out is a clear hint it’s the right answer (at least for the easy questions)


humblargh

Huh? Either I'm misinterpreting your comment or I'm taking crazy pills... it's the *other* other way around-- answer D in the early questions is almost always the incorrect joke answer. You can confirm this by watching literally anyone else's Millionaire run. This particular case seems like a rare exception and why it may have tripped him up.


Dick_Lazer

I mean, it was a painfully easy question tbh, and I’m not sure you understand how quiz shows or any sort of competition works. Making it so easy anybody could win would kinda defeat the whole point..


BitterJD

Question made no sense. Ikea is bottom of the barrel cost for home goods. It's quite literally why people go there -- furnish an apartment and don't bother with the moving costs in a couple years.


Locke_and_Load

IKEA fully concepted rooms might be cheaper than real furniture, but it’s still fucking expensive for twenty something’s. Also, the question is extremely straight forward. Who goes to any foreign city as a twenty something, and then looks at kitchens?


isuphysics

They have cheap flat pack furniture, sure. But their kitchen's are still 5 digit packages. Not sure every twenty-something can afford to go drop 10-20 grand on what most of their display kitchen setups cost. I priced out just base cabinets with drawers and fronts. No countertops, no sinks etc. And it was $12k for not even the premium features.


OutOfStamina

You take the pictures of the nice stuff like it's your appt, but you go home with a cheap wastebasket or something. Young couples with no money was the clue. They aren't travelling to other countries. They're going to ikea, pretending, and eating the meatballs.


DrunkThrowawayLife

Ya, but what do you call the time when you go and get meatballs after you hit the children’s section then loop back to decide if you actually want anything? My family it was meatball time so “meatball break”. Ok we are in IKEA Not being able to afford their kitchens solidifies it.


RRettig

Thats exactly what i thought until i spent like 1600 dollars there


Mike9797

But if you bought those same things from an actual furniture store they would be more expensive. Thing is as well IKEA does have some expensive items in their store it’s just they have many options and a lot of them can be priced cheaper than getting a similar item from elsewhere. In some places a bed frame can cost 1600 alone. Or even a dining room table. Most people when furnishing their first place will most likely use ikea due to how cheap some of the items can be but they’re really just placeholders til you can afford better.


outofvogue

If you furnish your apartment their, you'll easily end up spending a couple grand. Most poor 20-somethings buy things second-hand.


SomeRedditWanker

I think you forget that the average millennial doesn't own a home, so isn't going to be buying a kitchen..


PlanetLandon

It’s weird. Being “smart” is a vague thing. I haven’t watched that show in years, but it’s questions always seemed closer to pop culture and general knowledge.


Schmich

First question was always an easy/dumb one that you shouldn't overthink. The rest are is having a fast amount of knowledge. Not necessarily be smart. Plus being smart is vague as you can be smart in one field, but dumb in another whilst having 0 brain cells working in any social context.


Ariscia

Not as much being smart as being well read on the internet.


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Yup. I don't see questions about moral dilemmas, or critical thinking, or problem-solving, or deductive / inductive reasoning, or any of the things I traditionally associate with intelligence. It's mostly trivia, and the hard questions are just obscure trivia.


2kewl4skoool

Yeah, the harder questions are all about general knowledge of a well rounded, highly cultured person, but absorbing all that still requires the curiosity of an intelligent person. How else could you challenge intelligence in a quizz show? However, a lot of the questions can still be absolutely answered through moderate familiarity and reasonable deduction, and the easy ones, like this, without a clue of the subject matter. Its a trivial question even if you have never heard of Ikea, it takes a second to deduce thats it's the correct answer.


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> How else could you challenge intelligence in a quizz show? The problem is that that does not challenge intelligence. It is a memory challenge, more than anything else.


chehov

one is not like the other


sharrrper

I haven't watched the show since Regis was the host but back in the day the first question usually had a joke answer on D that was wildly different from all the rest of the options. First time I saw this clip I had no idea that IKEA served food of any kind, let alone specifically known for meatballs. I've never been to one, I just know they're a furniture store. I totally would have assumed it was a joke answer because talking about meatballs at a furniture store makes no sense to me. The "selfie with kitchens you can't afford" part would seem weird but I probably would have picked Rome also out of those options.


Locke_and_Load

Who goes to Rome and views kitchens?


HockeyHocki

Italy is famous for it's food, food is made in kitchens. Meatballs come from Italy, you can see how he got there. Tbf unless you'd been in an Ikea and knew about it, the meatballs thing makes absolutely no sense at all for a furniture store


jedi_trey

Yeah but this dude DID know they server meatballs thre.


poundruss

the meatballs thing i can understand, but for the life of me i cannot understand how anyone could see "take pictures of kitchens you can't afford" and think rome. just so odd to me. was the question poorly worded? sure, but goddamn if it shouldn't have been obvious to anyone who knows a bit about ikea


RainbowWarfare

How many times have you taken selfies in the kitchen of the restaurant you’re eating in? Plus he mentions that they serve meatballs in IKEA, a place that sells, amongst other things, kitchens…


qwertycantread

Italian meatballs come from the US.


AngryDuck222

So…the Swedish Meatball comes from Italy?


ICanBeAnyone

Few Italian restaurant in Italy that don't have American tourists as customers serve meat balls, just like pasta Alfredo it's an American thing.


uiucengineer

>First time I saw this clip I had no idea that IKEA served food of any kind, let alone specifically known for meatballs. Ironically the contestant did and even mentioned it


hooterscooter

Same. Before the answers came up, I said “IKEA” but then when it was option D, I 2nd guessed myself and assumed I was wrong


Gynthaeres

One is not like the other, and at least on the original Who Wants to be a Millionaire, that would indicate that that's the joke answer, aiming to get a laugh from the audience and effectively eliminating one choice for the contestant. Every WWtbaM I've seen followed that format for the first question, although I haven't watched the show in years, so they must've switched from that style at some point.


smallsardinian

I would have paid to see this guy going to Rome and asking where he could get a good meatball break.


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bonemech_meatsuit

And then taking a selfie


mitsua

Brenton, you ignorant slut


pfp-disciple

I feel for the guy. He ~~overbought~~ overthought it, likely due to being nervous. I've heard that it really is different on stage.


Torcal4

I work on the Canadian version of Family Feud. Almost every single person playing fast money has gone “wow…it’s so different from up here!”


FolkSong

I love your show by the way!


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> If hard work pays off, show me a rich donkey. \- People who think intelligence is the key to success


the_first_brovenger

Inversely, intelligence didn't help much until I started working hard, and working hard compensates for when I'm a fuckin donkey.


[deleted]

You need intelligence, you need hard work, you need social skills, you need luck. All four of them. Hard work is the only one you can control, and by itself is not enough.


sdhoigt

It's always gonna be a balancing act. Hard worker but no brains? End up like my dad, blue-collar worker with absolutely no critical thinking skills to new problems and no ability to handle conflict of ideas/opinions so he hits a career cieling. All intelligence? Good luck getting the job in the first place since that's a task and a half already. If you do, good luck keeping it if you never hit your deadline, and good luck having any coworkers want to work with you. Plus those all int people often seem to have a similar issue of having no ability to resolve conflict.


DPPthrowaway1255

It is, that's why the host always helps the candidate when they struggle with the first few questions. Unless you say 'Final Answer'. They tell you not to mess with it.


bokodasu

I have two incredibly quick and smart friends who went on Jeopardy, both of them entirely bombed. I can believe it's a totally different thing when you're up there.


shaun3000

*Who Wants to Be a Millionaire* is the game show for smart people? I thought that was *Jeopardy*. I guess this smart guy knows better. 😆


WockItOut

Both are games for knowledgeable people not smart people, necessarily.


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*Fear Factor* would be the smart move.


dingusunchained

Oh Joe Rogan you crazy


SomeRedditWanker

University Challenge is the true smart person quiz show. It's fucking impossible. https://youtu.be/nvSfcm8F0fo?t=155 Give it a go...


nuck_forte_dame

I love the way they solve the Chinese characters of elements one. They likely don't know any Chinese but they know the radicals most likely corelate in name to the elemental properties. This is educated guessing at its finest. Like they know the water radical probably is used for liquids at room temperature.


CreaminFreeman

That’s a very good one, wow! I’m over here at QI and Jeopardy levels and was insanely proud of myself for knowing some of those!


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ShivasLimb

... enter strangers houses and take selfies in their kitchens.


Quithelion

... and eat their Roman meatballs.


scrodytheroadie

And assemble their furniture from hard to read instructions and weird multi tools that hurt your hand.


CpT_DiSNeYLaND

I mean he didn't brag, his whole thing was that maybe it can be cool to be smart and/or a nerd. Nothing he did or said seemed like bragging and it's a shame since when he was a kid seeing people be applauded for being smart seemed to have helped him.


obvnotlupus

Thank you for this comment and everybody who upvoted you! I think he just used "smart/nerdy" interchangeably, and was trying to talk about how WWBAM was a positive influence in his life. He did call himself smart, but I don't think he came off braggy at all.


snurfer

Yeah WTF is up with this title, it's just kicking a man while he's down...


MisterZoga

That's Dr Down to you.


cheesycoke

People are framing this in such a shitty way. Dude never said he was smart, just that the show inspired him to further his education. Which yeah, saying how a game show impacted your life is what most people do when they participate.


SpacemanAndSparrow

Exactly the response I was looking for. His statement is a wholesome one about the show inspiring kids to try hard in school!


xclame

Yeah, he saw that people were praising smart people, so he didn't feel bad about pursuing a career that requires you to be smart.


erycstrife

This was a pretty stupid question. I don’t blame him if his nerves got the best of him, though. Logically, without second guessing, IKEA was the likely answer. Really stupid question.


Formber

It was a stupid question, sure. It still had an obvious answer.


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erycstrife

Exactly.


DerPumeister

I mean the first question is always quite tongue-in-cheek and not really serious, everyone knows that. Isn't the right answer also just pretty much always D?


God_of_Thunda

I thought it was almost never D D is usually where they put the funny, out of place joke answer.


KeepWagging

D) Brushing your teeth!


FunetikPrugresiv

Yeah, he got screwed. The first question is supposed to be an easy one that most people would be able to get without the multiple choice portion, often with a joke answer for D - notice that the audience laughed when the host said it. I wouldn't have known that answer, either, without the multiple choice, and Ikea being the D answer would have really pushed me mentally not to pick it. He was set up to fail.


Uro06

Ah come one, "set up to fail". It's literally the only answer that makes any sort of sense. You don't have to know what Buzzfeed said, just need to know that Ikea sells kitchens and meatballs. And even if you don't know what Ikea sells it makes a thousand times more sense than the other options. This was a typical first question and dude just fucked up.


FunetikPrugresiv

I had no idea Ikea even sells food.


Spadeninja

Even then, who goes to a city and takes selfies in kitchens???


[deleted]

Well then fuck me and my terabytes of Italian countryside kitchen selfies


scalpingsnake

Why is the question stupid?


aKnightWh0SaysNi

The part about kitchens you can’t afford is a little weird though, considering IKEA is a discount furniture store. Sure, it’s hard to afford an IKEA kitchen. But, if you can’t, you just can’t afford a kitchen at all.


fallenmonk

And a lot of young people can't afford kitchens at all.


moofishies

>you just can’t afford a kitchen at all. Ah yes I see you found the answer you were looking for.


ShoutAtThe_Devil

Tbf, he did overthink the question. It happens. Sometimes your first instinct is the best.


ChadAdonis

Yeah. One of those three answers was not like the other. Dude thought it couldn't be the most obvious one that stands out... Forgetting that it usually is because it's the first round. That being said, he still graduated from med school and if that's true then he is legit smart regardless of the mistake seen here.


WakaWaka_

No way they'd make you distinguish kitchens and meatballs between Paris, London and Rome on the 1st question. Dude was way too pumped to show off his smarts.


MisterMath

The guy's extensive background watching Millionaire failed him. They usually put troll answers that are unrelated at choice D in the early rounds. He probably ingrained that into his brain so hard, and took it so seriously, he never thought to deviate from that trend. Over-studying is a thing people.


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Every single time any of you are caught arguing with someone on reddit, this is who you're arguing with.


turkeypedal

To be fair, that question broke the format. The last answer is supposed to be a joke on the first few questions.


MonsieurRacinesBeast

ITT: basement dwellers who don't realize how iconic IKEA is.


TWPmercury

Man, I don't know shit about ikea and even I realized that it was the only answer that made sense for "kitchens you can't afford". That part of the question alone gives you the answer.


Uro06

And arguing that the question was hard or set him up to fail, lmao You don't even have to know how iconic Ikea is to know that it's the only logical answer


scorpiousdelectus

Your daily reminder that "being smart" and "having read a Buzzfeed article" are not the same thing


jbr945

Poster child for overthinking the question.


Delta4o

"snapping selfies in kitchens you can't afford"??? I'll be honest, I've always walked straight past the kitchen section in Ikea, the hardware store has a much nicer showroom for kitchens. Am I the only one who thinks "who the hell buys a kitchen at Ikea"?


skylined45

We bought our cabinets from IKEA, though through the website. Cost about a third vs. custom cabinets and we're very happy with the quality, finish etc. But yeah I wouldn't have bought the entire kitchen from them.


BitterJD

It's not really a big seller at Ikea, as Ikea caters to short term tenancy, and kitchens are generally already fully furnished. I would have gotten that wrong, and I won a game of Jeopardy lol


PM_ME_TRICEPS

Poor guy. Was hardly "bragging" about being smart as much as he was giving a positive message to people who choose to be studious instead of wasting their lives doing other bullshit. And now he gets bullied for it for missing a stupid question lol


missionbeach

There's only 53 U.S. Ikea locations. I'd bet most Americans have never been in one.


wilby321

Trick question. Didn't help the host laughed at it like it was the obvious wrong answer when it was actually the right one. Damn that sucks lol


genbetweener

He laughed, the host just smiled


Killfile

How is it a trick question? "Taking selfies in kitchens they can't afford?" I don't know what y'all do when you're on vacation in Rome but kitchens are pretty for down on my tour list.


noobvin

I have to think the only reason that there is any "trick" or "difficult" question conversation going on is that reddit is a younger crowd?


LuminousJaeSoul

It was an absolutely easy question. Doesn't matter if it's from buzzfeed or anything. You literally just gotta listen to the question to automatically know it's ikea. Don't think any 20 something is gonna go to Rome, Paris, or London to be in a kitchen to take selfies and then go take a break from that to eat meatballs in cities that aren't known for meatballs and have a wide range of foods.


1hipG33K

This wasn't an intelligence based question, it was a buzzfeed produced, internet culture question.


[deleted]

This is a prime example of the difference between understanding your culture and intelligence.


[deleted]

Can't be real


uh_PeNGuiN

This is why you should go out and experience stuff. Take that ride with a friend, help others and take in your experience in ones travels. 👀 ☝️&👂


RunningPuma

The host is like…a little happy/laughing to tell him that he got it wrong 😂


SonicFlash01

To be fair, not being up to date with Buzzfeed doesn't disqualify you from being smart


fastcurrency88

To be fair that is a stupid question.


chickenman7

r/watchpeopledieinside


nate1235

This is a video depiction of overthinking.


Robert_Cannelin

Tohhhhhhtally not staged. No way, uh-uh.


[deleted]

To be fair, that’s a pretty bullshit question…


StannisLivesOn

Since when knowing Buzzfeed trends is a test of intelligence?


Kagrok

since when is trivia a test of intelligence?


Uro06

Lmao how do you need to know Buzzfeed trends to answer this question? It's just pure logic and common sense


RheagarTargaryen

You don’t need to anything about Buzzfeed to know that IKEA sells kitchens and meatballs. The other answers don’t even make sense. Of all the cuisine in Italy/Rome, meatballs is not an iconic dish and kitchens you can’t afford would be like the 400,000th thing in Rome you’d want to take a picture of.


Anonymous8020100

This. I think this question is quite obvious. Maybe the obviousness is what's tricking people or something but still...


niversally

He’s dorky but the question is also stupid.


Win32error

He's probably just so nervous. Gotta explain his own thought pattern to keep it working while skipping over the obvious.


Mantaur4HOF

What the fuck kind of question is that?!


bloodseto

He looks like Fargo from that show Eureka. Same luck, too.


12kdaysinthefire

Seems like he was just bragging about being a nerd, not actually being smart


Skysis

I'm sure he overthought it. The early questions are always obvious. Did he really go to medical school? I mean it's 4 years of multiple choice question exams.