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# Competitions that consist of nothing but an insultingly easy question, often designed to loophole around lottery laws by making them nominal "tests of skill", or tempt gullible people into entering?
# [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|Princesses]]?
# Custard?
 
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Web banner ads do this, too.
** There is an ad featuring [[Naruto]] that asks "What cartoon character is this?" A: Naruto. B: [[Fullmetal Alchemist]]. C: [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Ninja Turtle]]. Bonus headache points for [[Cowboy Bebop Atat His Computer]].
* A series of ads about 20 years ago promised a "beautiful gift worth $40" if you could name the tune. One was "Yankee Doodle." The next was "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," and they used the part of the chorus where Marvin Gaye sang the title lyrics. It cost $10 per minute to call.
* The back of a Honeycomb box from a few years back has a word scramble with (eg) "YCBEMOHNO is my favorite cereal".
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* Every single episode of ''The Afternoon Show'' did this. A typical question would be something like "In which country is the Eiffel Tower? A: France. B: America. C: Ireland."
* Parodied on ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'':
{{quote| Who was the first man to run the four-minute mile? Was it: A) the Battle of Crecy; B) ''[[Moonraker (Film)|Moonraker]]'', or C) the athlete and fast record-breaking fast miler Sir Roger "Four-Minute" Bannister, the famous runner?}}
* [[Have I Got News for You|Paul Merton]] likes to recount that he was once watching one of those breakfast shows and the question was, "Which comedy double act consisted of Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker? A) [[The Two Ronnies]], B)..."
* An number of interactive game shows on Australian TV did this, with questions such as "Who is the Prime Minister of Australia? A) Daffy Duck, B) Kermit the Frog or C) John Howard." This is parodied by ''[[The ChasersChaser's War Onon Everything]]'': when the above question is mentioned, Julian replies, "Which I guess leads to the question, 'Who are these shows aimed at? A) Bicycles, B) The Sydney Opera House, or C) Morons.'"
* Subverted by the Japanese quiz show ''Time Shock'', which is fond of occasionally throwing in questions like "What question number is this?" and "Including this question, how many questions are left in this round?" To the audience, these may seem like pathetically easy questions, because they can just look at the scoreboard. However, the contestants can't - the show makes a point of seating them in such a fashion that they cannot see ''any'' information on the state of the round during their turn, not even the clock or their score. (In fact, more recent revivals seat contestants ''inside'' the scoreboard facing out.) Thus the only reliable way to get these questions right is to count the questions as you answer them.
 
== [[Magazines]] ==
* The magazine ''Cube'' was a bit odd about this. On the one hand, an issue had a contest to win a ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]]'' DVD, with the question "Who plays Mary-Jane in the movie? A: Kirsten Dunst. B: [[Potty Emergency|Burstin For-Dump]]. C: [[Super Mario Bros.|Princess Peach]]". On the other hand, a contest to win a [[Game Cube]], some controllers, several games, a big-screen TV, and surround-sound speakers, the question was "What does RGB-SCART stand for?" This was in the days when [[Wikipedia]] only had a couple of thousand entries and tended not to even appear on [[Google]] searches, so in order to win, you needed access to some relatively obscure documentation.
* ''[[Two Thousand2000 AD (Comic Book)|Two Thousand AD]]'' usually [[Hangs a Lampshade]] on this, with a line like "To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is answer this brain-bustingly easy question."
* [[N GamerNGamer]] once ran a contest with the following (paraphrased) question: "Who is the the star of [[The Fast and Thethe Furious]]? A) Vin Diesel B) Jim Petrol C) Kim Oil. Send your answers to itsvindieselyouidiots@ngamer.co.uk."
 
== [[Radio]] ==
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== [[Theater]] ==
* Fictional example: In [[AAA. A. Milne]]'s play ''The Ugly Duckling'', the law of the kingdom requires a suitor for the hand of the princess to answer a riddle. The current princess is very plain, and her parents, not wanting to give anyone an excuse to turn her down, use riddles like "What is it which has four legs and barks like a dog?" This is [[Played for Laughs]] in multiple ways. Early in the play, the king and queen recall one suitor who was so desperate not to marry the princess that he somehow completely failed to answer the riddle. Later, a none-too-bright prince {{spoiler|who's an impostor anyway}} is given the answer in advance, but the riddle is changed at the last minute and he gets it wrong. Another character ({{spoiler|the real prince}}) quickly covers for him.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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