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Watch: York student gives stupendously wrong answer on Pointless – to the internet’s delight

Tue 3 Jan

Sarah and Mariam on Pointless. Photograph: Screen grab / BBC

Tue 3 Jan 2017  @ 9:53pm
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This is Sarah, with her friend Mariam. She is a first year student in York studying history. She is also fast becoming an internet superstar.

Why? Because she had a very entertaining brain freeze on cult BBC quiz show Pointless – much to her partner’s visible dismay.

You can see the whole thing unfold here…

The question posed by quizmaster Alexander Armstrong was: Name a country that ends in two consonants.

Not easy – there are only 18, including England, Ireland, Egypt and Denmark.

Sarah’s answer? Paris. Only two problems: it isn’t a country, and doesn’t end in two consonants.

In response to this epic fail, Mariam, an English literature student at the University of Leeds, gave a killer eye roll.

To be fair Sarah, a Geek Soc member at the university, stopped doing geography at A level… Needless to say, the pair went out in the first round.

The exchange caused much enjoyment on social media, as you might expect…

Sarah @TVsPointless terrible advert 4 @UniOfYork (Paris NOT a country & doesn't end in 2 consonants!) #ohdear

— Jodie Smith (@jodes_ward) January 2, 2017

Dear followers, get off to a good start to 2017 and watch the end of a friendship. Thank you #pointless. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/V87JicODIA

— Tartantrums (@Tartantrums) January 2, 2017

Her mate is FUMING! #pointless pic.twitter.com/eyj7WIcwYM

— Rusty (@rusty103) January 2, 2017

Saw this on #bbc #pointless earlier…. She did A-Level Geography and said Paris is a country…. The Schools are failing! #education #fail pic.twitter.com/ELp844pcaW

— Adam Blazza (@81Blazza) January 2, 2017

This terrible, potentially 'friendship-ending' #Pointless answer is going super viral: https://t.co/q4JfHa4iuO pic.twitter.com/iqcrwSfafb

— DailyEdge (@dailyedge) January 3, 2017

That moment when you have to name a country ending in two consonants and your friend (now ex-friend) says PARIS #pointless pic.twitter.com/BuSPANsZ4j

— Scarlett Elizabeth (@scarlettpannell) January 2, 2017

#pointless Mariam and Sarah are now off to record an episode on Jeremy Kyle re broken friendships

— Carolyn (@famousfour4) January 2, 2017

Some of the worst answers ever on #pointless and this look, that could certainly kill! ? #Paris #Lapland pic.twitter.com/HEDZh2XX4p

— Craig Yates (@CraigYates) January 2, 2017

And Mariam and Sarah will never speak again. #pointless

— Debbie M (@heavenstobetsie) January 2, 2017


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