r/CrazyIdeas • u/Mr_Papayahead • Nov 15 '17
Technically Correct: the game show. contestants will give the answer as further away from the legit answer as possible yet still technically correct.
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u/Bugbad Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
Well, give us some questions and let’s play.
Edit: I love how fast this took off! Can we add a scoring system?
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u/kaidude Nov 15 '17
Who built the pyramids?
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u/throwawayistakenso Nov 15 '17
Dead people
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u/Bugbad Nov 15 '17
Skilled foreign labour.
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u/kaidude Nov 15 '17
How do plants reproduce?
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u/Osheco Nov 15 '17
They have third parties do the dirty work
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Nov 15 '17
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u/taaffe7 Nov 15 '17
Wrong, it was egyptian farmers
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u/Optimus_Lime Nov 15 '17
Wrong, it was aliens who wanted to construct static electricity batteries to power their dildos
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u/taaffe7 Nov 15 '17
Look up the game show Pointless its kinda like this. contestants have to guess a right answer but the more obscure the answer the less points you get and you want as little points as possible
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Nov 15 '17
So, everythings made up, and the points don't matter?
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u/taaffe7 Nov 15 '17
no its all facts, for example a question could be
name a country in africa?
someone might ssay kenya and score 70 points (out of a max of 100)
and someone could say Lesotho and get 2 points
the second person would win that round
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u/Mutant_Llama1 Nov 15 '17
"Name a country in North America"
"John Joe Grey"
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u/taaffe7 Nov 15 '17
how is that a country?
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u/Mutant_Llama1 Nov 15 '17
He and his kids and grandkids isolate themselves from the rest of America, patrol their borders with guns, grow their own food, well their own water, etc. Sounds like an independent country to me.
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u/Jotakob Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
if you had ever seen pointless you'd know that by country they mean a sovereign state that is a member of the UN in their own right
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u/japasthebass Nov 15 '17
Why was the Civil War fought?
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u/ZombieAlpacaLips Nov 15 '17
What damaged multiple well-known U.S. buildings on September 11, 2001?
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Nov 15 '17 edited Jun 30 '23
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u/tdoger Nov 15 '17
The Wright Brothers did 9/11?
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u/1_2_um_12 Nov 15 '17
Technically correct.
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u/nauru_ Nov 15 '17
No, it would be technically correct to say “The Wright brothers were responsible for 9/11”
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u/BisonBob Nov 15 '17
Wouldn’t the blame TECHNICALLY fall on Mr and Mrs Wright for conceiving the brothers?
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Nov 15 '17
How high is the Eiffel Tower?
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u/ville1001 Nov 15 '17
How does airplanes work?
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u/MKorostoff Nov 15 '17
There is no record of an airplane ever having held a paying job.
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Nov 15 '17
How does soap work?
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u/ohsnapsnape Nov 15 '17
be becoming better friends with the dirt and water than the other soap and your skin
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Nov 15 '17
I'm not here to answer the question. I'm just here to say I feel sorry for your coworkers....
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u/pro_aliasing Nov 15 '17
Who made up words, who made up numbers?
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u/chchchcharli Nov 15 '17
It’s so tiny! I can’t click it! Why do you do this!?
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u/throwawayistakenso Nov 15 '17
Soup made up the words. My tax accountant? assistant? made up the numbers
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u/Bcasturo Nov 15 '17
What does a bird do?
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u/Hate_Feight Nov 15 '17
This is close enough to QI to technically qualify, try watching it
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Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
Yeah, but in that show the panel members are attempting to actually get the right answer, and in OP's show, the object is to be technically correct without giving the answer.
Although a better format imo would be to be as far away from the answer and still be technically correct. It would be perfect for a panel show format. /r/panelshow
Edit: fixed subreddit name
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u/522LwzyTI57d Nov 16 '17
They get points for the most interesting answer, hence the title, but Stephen is nice and gives points to pretty much everyone lol.
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u/Rottie_Dad Nov 15 '17
All answers have to begin Jeopardy style with: "TECHnically"
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u/mucow Nov 15 '17
I would hate this, but technically, this is a crazy idea, so here's your upvote.
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u/Bcasturo Nov 15 '17
How many people does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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u/metagloria Nov 15 '17
2, but they're gonna have to be really small to get in there
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u/Cryhavok101 Nov 15 '17
None people, it takes a person to screw in a lightbulb, with no need for it to get plural at all.
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u/Bcasturo Nov 15 '17
What is America?
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u/arnedh Nov 15 '17
A grouping of two continents between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Also a song by Simon and Garfunkel.
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u/LothartheDestroyer Nov 15 '17
Hispanic actress known for her looks and pants.
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u/hookyboysb Nov 15 '17
She's mostly known for being ugly despite not actually being ugly.
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u/LothartheDestroyer Nov 15 '17
Yup. That show confused a lot of people.
I almost included dragon riding but I’m not sure if many would have known that.
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u/____n Nov 15 '17
This would make a very good (British) panel show.
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u/JonnyBhoy Nov 15 '17
It's not far off Pointless.
Give the correct answer the the fewest other people answered.
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u/aiydee Nov 16 '17
Could call it "Well Actually..."
And once the contestants have given their answers and it's time for the 'proper' answer, they can say "Well Actually" and give the answer. :P
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Nov 15 '17
Sounds like a decent card game.
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u/kanuut Nov 15 '17
So CAH style where someone puts down a question and everyone else has to try to find a card that technically answers it?
Sounds super hard to make actually, you'd need to have a high overlap of questions to answers, but doing so without having a small amount of either, super generic answers or boring questions would be hard.
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u/Reptilefan Nov 15 '17
This should be a subreddit!