Off Topic How often are questions on quizzes wrong?

According to the question setters on Celebrity Mastermind tonight, in 2013 we changed our name from Hull City AFC to Hull City Tigers.

Now given we're a Premier League football club and it wasn't exactly a quiet affair that is spectacularly ignorant, with it being wrong on so many levels.

1) We haven't changed our name so the whole question is wrong.
2) The application was made in very late 2013, but the change would have taken effect in 2014 so the date is wrong.
3) The application was to change the name to Hull Tigers, so the suggested new name is also wrong.

It got me thinking though, Mastermind is quite highbrow as far as quizzes go, even if it's dumbed down a bit on the Celebrity version. You certainly don't expect basic factual errors like that to crop up in broadcast questions. Even on less high brow quizzes it's not often a question is wrong. When Who Wants to be a Millionaire got one wrong (about the minimum number of times a tennis player needed to hit the ball to win a set) it was quite big news and they went and either gave the person the money they would have won or got them back on to continue where they left off.

So, can anyone think of other questions on quizzes that have been wrong and have been broadcast?

 

I remember watching Mastermind a few months ago when they made a real howler by their standards, asking a question about a young actor who died in 2003. I was totally flummoxed - as was the contestant - until Humphrys told her afterwards that the answer was River Phoenix.

Who died in 1993. Ten years earlier.

 

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Pointless-clanger-easy-mistake-make/story-19892359-detail/story.html

Pointless screwed up on Beverley Minster.

 

How did they screw it up? Did they claim it was 24 when in fact it's 12?

 

Surely 4 aces and 20 double faults would do it (ie 4?)

Edit: actually in a tie break you'd only need 1 ace so is the answer 1?

 

You have to serve at least three games in a complete set.

 

Where's the Friday night "doh!" Smiley?

 

I remember watching The Weakest Link a few years ago and Anne Robinson asked something to do with the first ferris wheel. Anyway, the bloke answered "ferris wheel". Anne Robinson then retorted "no, a ferris wheel". The bloke was dumbstruck, as were myself and my brother watching at home. I didn't know if it was deliberate or a genuine accident, but it was hilarious and two rounds later the guy got voted off, despite getting most of his questions right

 

Yeah, they did the count based on returning serves to break the opponent rather than them double faulting all their service points.

 

Er, comedy?