Gaffes, Bloopers and Blunders Trivia Quiz

Answer: Bill Buckner

Mookie Wilson was the batter on that play. Ray Knight scored the winning run in Game 6 and the Mets went on to win Game 7 and the series. "The Curse of the Bambino" is a Red Sox superstition that the team was hexed for trading away Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1918. The curse was finally lifted when the Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.

Answer: Chicago Daily Tribune

The very conservative Tribune was not fond of Truman, so he seemed to take particular satisfaction from this gaffe. Truman was on his way to his hometown of Independence when he made his famous stop in St. Louis.

Answer: Justin Timberlake

Eminem parodied the episode in the D12 video "My Band." CBS was fined a record $550,000 for the incident. Timberlake was singing "I bet I'll have you naked by the end of this song" from his song "Rock Your Body" as he pulled on Jackson's top. For what it's worth, the Patriots beat the Panthers 32-29.

Answer: Aaron Burr

While most accounts seem to indicate Hamilton fired at Burr first, missing intentionally, the shot was evidently near enough to Burr that he aimed to kill.

Answer: He gave her an impromptu back rub.

While Merkel appeared to smile as Bush walked away, she was clearly shocked by the incident at first. To many commentators, the most salient fact was the power of the internet to spread the incident worldwide thus amplifying the effect. However, many critics (Boston Globe for one) were highly critical.

Answer: It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

It must be the world's most famous blue dress. The big whopper: "there is not a sexual relationship ..." leading to the famous "it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is." Clinton was eventually cleared of all charges, it must not hurt being a Rhodes Scholar.

Answer: Donald Rumsfeld

While addressing troops in Iraq. This was in response to a question from Spec. Thomas Wilson of the Tennessee National Guard: "Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe -- it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment. I can assure you that General Schoomaker and the leadership in the Army and certainly General Whitcomb are sensitive to the fact that not every vehicle has the degree of armor that would be desirable for it to have, but that they're working at it at a good clip."

Answer: People thought they were selling mashed up babies.

Due to high illiteracy rates, it is customary to place pictures of the product on the labels. A small white baby didn't seem to be a very pleasant thing to feed your children.

Answer: Software was developed using US standards and hardware using metric standards

The on board computer overestimated thrust by a factor of almost 4.5, sending the orbiter far too close to the Martian surface. It's mission was primarily to study the Martian weather patterns such as dust, temperature, water vapor and surface erosion. The cost of this was roughly 3.25 million dollars.

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

In interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, Palin made points about being surrounded by foreign nations (Canada and Russia.) She implied that Premier Putin was invading US air space over Alaska in her Katie Couric interview. However, the distance that a human eye can see to the horizon in approximately 3 km.

The distance from the Alaskan mainland across the Bering Strait to Russia is 55 km. Technically though it can be seen. In the middle of the Bering Strait there are two tiny islands, one belonging to Russia and the other belonging to the US. On a clear day, and only on a clear day can you see the other island.