Don't Know Much About History - Sam Cooke

And the contestants on what is my new favourite game show, "You Bet Your Ass" don't know much about ANYTHING. Geography, politics - even bloody sit-coms. The reason I like it the same reason that first year students like George W. Bush - he makes you feel smart. And not even just Leah Grimmer smart... we're talking Bob Rae meets Susan Franceschet smart.

To explain... these examples all came from one show, and since I was watching the show, not taking notes on it, they're pretty close, if not word perfect.

Category: Famous Short People
Question: What 5 foot 2 leader of North Korea compensates with nuclear weapons?
Answer Given: Confused silence... umm.... *buzzer*
Real Answer: Kim Jong-Il. If you'd read a newspaper once in the last 3 years, ever seen Team America or even listened to Dubya speak for more than 6 seconds, you'd know this. Pity.

Category: Sex and the City
Question: What hairy singer made an 'ironic' guests appearence as someone's girlfriend?
Answer Given: Samantha!
Real Answer: I have never seen Sex in the City. I have better things to do with my time, like power flossing or weaving with belly-button lint - and yet the use of "IRONIC" was a pretty big effin' tip-off. Alanis Morisette is a singer, who sang 'Ironic'. Samantha is... what? A character from the show. Yes! She's OBVIOUSLY a singer. Who made a guest appearence!

Category: (A Band I Don't Recall)
Question: From what rainy country of bad teeth does this band hail?
Answer Given: Europe.
Real Answer: Hang on. Let's look at the answer given one more time. The country... of Europe. That snapping noise you just heard? My cranial cortex finally hitting the breaking point. England? Great Britain? Hell... even Mozambique would be a better answer since at least its an actual country.

Category: I can't remember.
Question: Japanese scientists made this manimal by mixing human DNA with that of what non-chocolate hopping mammal?
Answer: Frog?
Real Answer: A) The question isn't entirely accurate. This I know. My problem was that a guy responded by saying 'Frog' to a question clearly searching for a fucking mammal. I would have accepted kangaroo, spider monkey or even dog before I accepted frog.

It is of utmost credit to the host - Stewart Francis - that he hasn't reached across and placed a dinner fork 3/8ths of an inch inside one of the 'competitor's' eyeball, since every time they speak, I swear the IQ of whoever designed the show drops a point.