Errors and Losses Trivia

Oops, I seem to have made a mistake - I've got the questions and the answers in the wrong places. Can you help me out here? See if you can match up each answer to its correct question.

Success, says author Stephen Pile, is overrated. Below are examples of things which failed, misfired, or just didn't get the point of the exercise. The questions are taken from Pile's "The Book of Heroic Failures" and "The Return of Heroic Failures".

The TV or radio quiz show gives the general public a chance to show they're smart. But, under the pressure of broadcasting live to the nation things can go wrong. So, in a perverse homage to "Jeopardy" can you work out where these contestants went awry?

The Comedy Of Errors team is proud to bring you a look at some of life's less than fine moments.

"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive" (Robert Louis Stevenson). Come with the Comedy of Errors as they explore that theme.

Ten questions about wacky or just plain dumb excuses or alibis given by people to explain away their wrongdoings. However, remember sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. Thank you Terry for the challenge and the very interesting title. Enjoy!

A look at some of the mistakes that have been made when desire comes before rationality.

All the questions in this quiz have the theme of 'trouble'. It wasn't too much trouble for me to write it, so could I trouble you to take it?

It's more likely you will remember the 'winners', the 'firsts', and the 'chosens'. In this quiz however, you need to find the 'also rans', the 'seconds', the 'losers'.

"Baby better come back maybe next week, 'Cause you see I'm on losing streak" Here are a few people who could identify with Mick Jagger's luckless protagonist. Some of the greatest losing streaks in sports and entertainment history.

Lots of smart people have set out to solve a particular problem and come up with a great invention. This is a quiz to celebrate all those inventions that have just happened by mistake. Have fun.

This is a No Worries! team quiz based on theme of predictions and beliefs that weren't true, no need to worry about them at all. Enjoy! No Worries!

Not to rub it in, but we all make mistakes, right? Right?