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Everything in This Quiz is Just Plain "Wrong"

No, the answers in this quiz aren't wrong, i.e., incorrect. Each of these questions are about a phrase that contains the word "wrong." The right answers and the wrong answers all contain that word, you just need to find the "wrong" answer that is right!

A multiple-choice quiz by daveguth. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
daveguth

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
418,463

Updated
Dec 03 24

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

Plays
337

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Question 1 of 10

1. Let's say you lost something important and it's now in the possession of an unfriendly outside party. What's the correct phrase to describe this important thing you no longer have? Hint

It was a matter of right time, wrong place

It took a wrong turn

It has fallen into the wrong hands

Everything is just going wrong

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Question 2 of 10

2. Let's say you suspect something, but it turns out that you picked the wrong thing to suspect. What are you doing? Hint

You're climbing the wrong tree

You're howling at the wrong tree

You're cutting down the wrong tree

You're barking up the wrong tree

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Question 3 of 10

3. Let's say you're feeling grumpy and have felt that way all day long. What might one of your friends say to you? Hint

It's wrong of you to act like this

This is the wrong day to hang out with you

You got up on the wrong side of the bed

You must have eaten the wrong thing for breakfast

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Question 4 of 10

4. Let's say something someone does bothers you. Which of these is a common phrase you might say? Hint

What they're doing is just plain wrong

Wrong time for me to be here

I'm right and they're wrong

That rubs me the wrong way

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Question 5 of 10

5. Let's say you're calling a friend on the phone, but someone you don't know answers. You apparently dialed incorrectly. Which of these phrases are you most likely to say? Hint

You're wrong--please put my friend on the line

Sorry, wrong number

Seems like everything I do is wrong

That's just wrong of you to answer this phone number

6. Let's say you're a bit bigoted and you're making a judgement about someone who lives in a neighborhood segregated from yours. They may be person of color, a member of the working class, or living in poverty. You might think that person is therefore more dangerous. What's a phrase you might use to refer to them? Hint

He picked the wrong day to come into our neighborhood

He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks

He has the wrong kind of DNA

He was born in the wrong neighborhood

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Question 7 of 10

7. Let's say you think some person or group is behind the times, i.e., they still believe in policy or ideas that are old-fashioned and pretty much disproven. Which of these phrases are you likely to say about this person or group? Hint

They're on the wrong side of the issue

Those folks couldn't be more wrong

Their history is all wrong

They're on the wrong side of history

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Question 8 of 10

8. Let's say your friend was very unlucky and something bad happened to them. Ninety-nine out of 100 times that bad thing wouldn't normally happen, but your friend just happened to be in a certain place at a certain time where the bad thing occurred. What's the phrase you would probably use. Hint

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time

His watch must be off--he picked exactly the wrong time

He picked the wrong day to do that!

He was in the wrong location at the wrong moment in history

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Question 9 of 10

9. Let's say you are very patriotic--enough so that you get disgusted by those who protest against wrongs their country has done. What phrase might you use to state your philosophy on this matter? Hint

Anyone who doesn't support this country is just plain wrong

Those complainers are on the wrong side of reality

Those protestors are living in the wrong country

I support my country, right or wrong

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Question 10 of 10

10. Let's say you're in a room with people different from you--maybe they just have some different beliefs that you. You say something about something you don't like, but you realize you might offend someone in the room. Which of these phrases might you say immediately after your little faux pas? Hint

Oops, wrong place to bring that up!

Not that there's anything wrong with it!

Well, this is the wrong crowd for a comment like that!

You know what they say--sometimes it's wrong to be right.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Let's say you lost something important and it's now in the possession of an unfriendly outside party. What's the correct phrase to describe this important thing you no longer have?

Answer: It has fallen into the wrong hands

Think of a old fashioned spy movie. When a secret file, microfilm, or documents are in the possession of the bad guys, "It has fallen into the wrong hands."

2. Let's say you suspect something, but it turns out that you picked the wrong thing to suspect. What are you doing?

Answer: You're barking up the wrong tree

The phrase originated in 19th century America, when hunters used packs of dogs to find prey. If the pack made a mistake and were barking up a tree where no prey was hiding, they "were barking up the wrong tree."

3. Let's say you're feeling grumpy and have felt that way all day long. What might one of your friends say to you?

Answer: You got up on the wrong side of the bed

All the way back in ancient Rome, folks thought it was good luck to get out of bed on the "right" side. Exiting the bed with their left leg forward was considered unlucky, or "the wrong side of the bed."

4. Let's say something someone does bothers you. Which of these is a common phrase you might say?

Answer: That rubs me the wrong way

This phrase came in to being when folks noticed that cats weren't happy about being petted against the fur, i.e., from back to front. If you weren't stroking them from front to back, you were "rubbing them the wrong way."

5. Let's say you're calling a friend on the phone, but someone you don't know answers. You apparently dialed incorrectly. Which of these phrases are you most likely to say?

Answer: Sorry, wrong number

Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster star in a 1948 thriller where a bedridden woman overhears a murder plot while on the phone. The problem, actually, was that their telephone lines got crossed, a much bigger problem back in the early days of phone service. I won't give away the plot of the movie, but rest assured the film's last line is "Sorry, wrong number."

Answer: He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks

A reality in a lot of towns where railroad tracks divide a town into distinct neighborhoods is that those neighborhoods tend to be more or less "desirable." And, yeah, it's definitely true that being born and/or raised in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood is a tough start to life.

However, some in the elite neighborhoods may unfairly believe that folks from the "wrong side of the tracks" are dangerous and should be avoided.

Answer: They're on the wrong side of history

Folks who use this phrase think future historians will judge their adversaries as just being wrong. And in fact, there's enough information available now that would suggest that their policies and beliefs are already "on the wrong side of history."

Answer: He was in the wrong place at the wrong time

No one quite knows the origin of this phrase, but it's clearly about bad luck. It's bad enough to be in the wrong place or do something at the wrong time, but it's a whole lot worse to be doing something "in the wrong place at the wrong time"!

Answer: I support my country, right or wrong

Whether the US. or most any country, patriotism, or in many cases, nationalism, means unequivocal support for the government and its leaders. Even if patriots/nationalists are aware of some mistakes their nation has made, they will announce that they "support their country, right or wrong."

Answer: Not that there's anything wrong with it!

You "Seinfeld" fans might remember the episode when Jerry and George were being interviewed by a college student who thought they were gay. They denied it, but quickly added "Not that there's anything wrong with it!" As far you folks who aren't "Seinfeld" fans, I can't imagine anyone missing all that fun, "not that there's anything wrong with it."

Source: Author daveguth

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