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Unfortunately, when shows do this to people from another country it tends to encourage bouts of [[Misplaced Nationalism]], as it feeds the egos of those who believe people from the given country really ''are'' that stupid.
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* ''[[Private Eye]]'' has a regular feature called "Dumb Britain", which lists wrong answers given to supposedly simple questions by quiz show contestants.
** Often criticised in the letters pages. One 'dumb answer' was to the question 'Where do Panama hats come from" which was answered with 'Luton'. A letter pointed out that this was a perfectly reasonable response since the answer was obviously not 'Panama'.
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* ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]'', their American correspondent roamed the streets of New York asking people the date of the 9/11 attacks. Not the year, but the date. Some people got it wrong!
* The book ''Non Campus Mentis'' features hundreds of amusingly flawed statements on world history, supposedly taken (out of context) from actual essays written by college students.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q566ys0sqVQ The Brits seem to like this], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY8u54jFubM a] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuKMtLOKG8k lot].
** Those guys are Australian, as reported in the next entry.
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* Australian satirical news show ''CNNNN'' (made by the same guys who would later make ''The Chaser's War on Everything'') had their roving reporter in America ask passers-by which country America should invade next by placing flags on a map. A lot of people put their flags on Australia, which had been mislabelled as "Iran", "France" and "North Korea". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuKMtLOKG8k Watch it here].
** Julian did this with general knowledge questions in most episodes. A particularly memorable one was a man who was asked "Who was the first man on the moon?" His answer: "You know, some people don't think that happened, they think it was [[Malaproper|reincarnated]] in Arizona somewhere." [[Flat What|What.]]
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** Perhaps people should try a different name next time? "Hydroxic acid" has a nice ring to it. (For the pedants: water is a perfectly good proton donor, therefore by definition a pretty good acid. That it's also a perfectly good alkali makes no difference.)
*** Since it's also a proton acceptor and thus a base, "Hydrogen hydroxide" is another fine name.
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* Documentaries about the past (''[[The Atomic Cafe|The Atomic Café]]'', for instance) often try to show how (supposedly) ignorant or naive people in, say, the [[The Fifties]] were by showing stock footage of people doing or saying [[Values Dissonance|now-ridiculous things]]. The fact that the same handful of clips seem to be used in multiple documentaries demonstrates the weakness of this position.
* Played with in the introduction to ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here'':
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