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youtube.com — Guy loses French "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" on easy question. The question is "What rotates around the Earth?" The audience votes for The Sun

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  • SEGA4life, on 07/01/2008, -10/+286 why the hell are they clapping at the end???

    "yay we are idiots...woohoo"
    • andrewellison, on 07/01/2008, -12/+5Could it possibly the big stage lights that read "applaudimètre"?
      • AchaIemoipas, on 07/01/2008, -1/+19Why would people clap at the word applause meter?
      • SEGA4life, on 07/01/2008, -1/+10way to take the "funny" out of a joke.
      • zjbird, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1way to point out why a joke isn't funny.
    • RoflcopterFUEL, on 07/02/2008, -9/+74I'd guess they knew the answer, just wanted to toy around with him.
      • bryxal, on 07/02/2008, -1/+65on a question like that... that's what i'd do
      • adidos, on 07/02/2008, -2/+29How did 50% of them coordinate going with The Sun though? What about Mars or Venus?
      • redfox2600, on 07/02/2008, -1/+13Life has taught me never to give the benefit of the doubt to anyone.
      • mrASSMAN, on 07/02/2008, -5/+61*****. I've seen this video many times before (yes it is old), and that's always the general response. "they just did it for fun!" Is there any indication of that? No smiles in the audience, no laughs, no gasps when he couldn't answer the question. No, most of them were as flabbergasted as him. Imagine if this were the American "Millionaire" show on youtube, and the same question and result occurred. You think we'd get the same benefit of the doubt? "Oh, the Americans were just fooling around, they knew the answer!"

        Yeah right, we'd be called dumb fat pigs and every insult imaginable and it would be expected. This is a problem of mine, because I have been to Europe and I constantly read the comments that people from other nationalities make. Here's a little secret: The public around the world are as stupid as we are! They don't want to believe that, to them Americans are the stupid fat ***** of the world and everything is just dandy wherever they live! I'd almost like to believe that, because it would give me hope for mankind that higher intelligence exists outside my country. But it is *****! Even the Asian nations where we typically perceive the population as being more highly educated and sensible. I used to think that about South Korea, oh they're so smart over there, I would say. Then I realized I was ***** dreaming! There is a fear existing in that nation of anything and everything it seems like! Superstitions of every sort.. just recently it was the mad cow scare. A cow got a species-specific disease and now there's this mass furor that if one were to eat American beef, you'll get ***** Ebola and rupture into a pool of blood which your family will drown in which will spell the end of Korea. Right, and how about the English, who have taken over the arrogant title from the US and are so deluded with that "over there" chain of perception that they don't seem to realize that their own ***** nation is rapidly catching up with America on the obese-fat-***** scale. And what about Japan (OK, Japan is awesome, but still).. there in the rockstar-scientists state, turn on a TV. What the ***** is that *****? Their entertainment is even more dumbed down than any American TV could ever manage. So to cut this rant short, what I'm saying is that I'm tired of the generalization we have bought into.. the truth is that if we could slice off a few maniacal ***** regions of the US, we'd have a mighty competent nation.

        And that French contestant along with that French audience really was that oblivious, it's not an illusion. Stupidity exists in many different forms, but it also exists in every crevice of our world, no single place has a monopoly on it.
      • HerbSolo, on 07/02/2008, -8/+2Well, MrAssmann, you're partially right.

        100% ack: Many Europeans think they're intellectually superior to Americans. (Ironically, the more stupid they are, the more likely they are gonna think that)
        And while Americans are pretty stupid (hey - you reelected Bush after all) the truth is: Europeans are just as stupid, in fact, stupidity is equally distributed on this planet. - So you got that one absolutely right.

        Still: I don't think 56% of the french believe, that the sun moves round the earth, maybe 25%, but the rest were just ***** with this guy for the fun of it.

        Edit: I'm European btw, so not all Europeans think they're some ***** kind of Master-Race or something.
      • afidler, on 07/02/2008, -0/+9"but the rest were just ***** with this guy for the fun of it."

        Again, you have NO indication of that. You are being presumptuous, just to defend the audience. There is no way half that crowd could have collectively decided to turn on the guy, especially on the same answer.
      • shakin, on 07/02/2008, -0/+10"I don't think 56% of the french believe, that the sun moves round the earth"

        Maybe 56% of people who show up to watch quiz shows believe that the sun revolves around the earth.
      • Codwhy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Well done mr.assman.

        Herbsolo, Were you in the audience or did you know anyone there that day?

        Didn't think so.

      • notanidiot, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1I don't think we can make judgements of the French by this one instance. I'm sure they ask much more difficult questions on that show and get correct responses from lots of people.

        I know its fun to think that the French are that stupid, but ease up your hate, folks, you're just embarrassing yourself.
      • mrASSMAN, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1That was so not my point 'notanidiot'. I was talking about the double-standard that exists, I wasn't making a judgment about the French. I don't really have an opinion about their intellectual abilities versus anyone else's.
      • HerbSolo, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2"Again, you have NO indication of that."

        Well - actually - I have. Many science teachers may send their pupils to sleep with their speeches on thermodynamics, kinetics or whatever, BUT:

        Geocentric Model vs. Heliocentric Model, Galileo Galilei being imprisoned by the roman catholic church, „Eppur si muove“ ("...and yet it moves") - that's the favorite story of every science teacher. It is the story about science vs. superstition, and if you've attended any school in Europe, you've heard it. Believing, that the sun moves round the earth is synonymous for being an idiot, so I'm pretty sure that at least 95% of the world's population know, the earth is moving around the sun.

        Now a TV-audience may not be a perfect sample, but 75% still seems a pretty pessimistic estimate, especially if you take into account that the audience answers most questions correctly. And yes, someone not instantly knowing the answer to this question makes deliberately pressing the wrong button a lot more tempting (after all, the video was quite funny, wasn't it?) - The snickering people in the audience are another point.

        But hey, if there's enough European Idiots claiming ALL the Americans are practically retarded, why shouldn't there be enough people on digg who claim the same about the Frenchmen. - After all, it just proves my theory, that idiocy is equally distributed.
    • newstart, on 07/02/2008, -10/+5If this program was recorded before Galileo then answer B would have been correct
    • paradexes, on 07/02/2008, -9/+8What. The. *****!?? Are there civilized people still that stupid? I mean seriously!? If you live in a place where there are no books and illiteracy is the norm and all, that and schooling ends at 3rd grade (if that) then I understand....But in the first world countries this should not even be a second thought....WHAT. THE. *****!!!?? WOW....

      And they are French (or are they French-Canadiens?)....Astronomy is not something they should EVER be arrogant and snide about (as they are often known to be), especially after this video.
      • crossmr, on 07/02/2008, -3/+3I can understand them so they're likely not French Canadian. French Canadians can't be understood by anyone..
      • Alexcarrier, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Actually, most people understand us. It's the same as australian / british / american english differences. Meh who cares right? It's french canadian bashing so it's funneh!!!!11!
      • Zincyams, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Yeah they're definitely French from France. And to Alexcarrier, I've lived in Montreal my whole life and I still can't understand half of the francos.
      • ostracize, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2French-Canadians would not win 1500 Euros
    • SevaSnake, on 07/02/2008, -2/+9they're clapping because he's leaving
      • themastersb, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1158% of the audience should leave as well. Especially the 2% that voted venus/mars.
      • dlite922, on 07/02/2008, -4/+2I think Mars would STILL been a better answer than the Sun.

        the earth is "inside" mar's loop.

        then again, I don't think this guy knows where mars is.
    • cawpin, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5http://digg.com/comedy/The_Majority_of_French_Peop ...

      http://digg.com/comedy/French_Who_Wants_to_Be_a_Mi ...

      Technically, nothing "rotates" around the earth. The moon REVOLVES around the earth.
      • Zincyams, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5"Gravite" in french means gravitate.

        "Which of the following gravitates around the earth?"
  • dougvfr750, on 07/01/2008, -24/+430Who says the American School System is the worst....
    • crapmatic, on 07/02/2008, -1/+41Well said, my friend... and I'm not talking about this dude; I'm talking about the audience.
    • blackinthmiddle, on 07/02/2008, -4/+18I was thinking the exact same thing. He should dump his girl and shack up with Miss South Carolina!
      • siobhankeogh, on 07/02/2008, -1/+6I think we need to help countries like the sun... and the Iraq and South Africa, such as... and the Iraq rotates around the earth because there are no maps...
      • carnage, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2i feel like we should punish him. making him sex up miss south carolina is a reward.
    • rz8472, on 07/02/2008, -9/+7Looks like fundamentalism is alive and well in France. Then again they could just be dumbasses.
    • chillypacman, on 07/02/2008, -9/+15I think they purpously gave the wrong answer, how dumb can a guy be?
    • bitcloud, on 07/02/2008, -14/+7Maybe it's an American TV shows that get moron contestents in order to appeal to a moron audience base?
    • thisissami, on 07/02/2008, -21/+12have you ever considered that audience just might be a tad bit smarter than the contestant and fooled him on purpose?? it's funny what they did... shows him how stupid he is... in maybe 1 or 2% of the 52% that voted for that actually believed what they said... in america, you'd get 15 or 20% voting for "sun" and about 90% of them would actually believe it... i think the fact that there's all these people on digg think that the crowd believe it speaks to america's school system...
      • geniusj, on 07/02/2008, -2/+15And you base this on? Nothing. Right. Of course a conspiracy among over half the audience is much more likely than what we are to believe by the video. So you sit here and pull numbers out of your ass like "1 or 2% of the 52%", and we are foolish for not believing your conspiracy theory and believing the actual numbers presented. OK.
      • chillypacman, on 07/02/2008, -6/+3@geniusj

        If I were in that crowd I'd definitely have voted for the sun.
      • aliengoods, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8No, and here's the reason why. There were no answers for mars. If they were trying to ***** with him, surely someone would have chosen that.
      • attackpanda, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3I think the fact that you can add 15-20% and 90% to get 100% says a lot about your education. But I'm no mathemagician.
    • Seidoger, on 07/02/2008, -5/+3Maybe only idiot people go attend that show, doesn't reflect the education system of that country.
      But wow.. Lol.. haha, idiots still.

      That or mighty brilliant and wanting that guy to fail because he was a stupid.
      • illegalcortex, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3So what you're saying is that French people are really smart, as long as you don't count the idiots.

        That's almost as brilliant as this clip.
      • Seidoger, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1What? Uh no.
        All i said is that people attend that show in the audience might not represent the smartness of a WHOLE country. OR they voted wrong on purpose.

        There.
    • Corrosionx, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3Government schools suck anywhere.
    • notanidiot, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Noone says that.
  • PoliticalMan922, on 07/01/2008, -3/+61Wow...
    • Necrid21, on 07/02/2008, -9/+0it was probably just strangely worded, french sentence structure is tricky.
      he took it as "what does earth revolve around" rather than "what revolves around earth"
      either that or indeed the French are idiots.
      • RusskiGuy, on 07/02/2008, -1/+11Yes, let's pretend that he doesn't understand his native language to give him a pass in being stupid about other things!
      • scottsutherland, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7If the majority of French adults cannot distinguish between "what does earth revolve around" and "what revolves around the earth", how can any of them made any progress in school??
      • smartah, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2Eh. "What does the earth revolve around" would be "Autour de quoi est-ce que la Terre gravite?" or something... it certainly wouldn't be constructed "Qu'est-ce qui gravite autour de la Terre?"
      • Light11, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2obviously not. i barely speak french and i know its "what is it that obrits around the earth".

        orbit in the meaning of revolve
    • KMartSheriff, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7If this was the American version, there'd be comments everywhere saying how stupid Americans are. But no, this is Europe! The audience was "just messing with him". *rolls eyes*
    • ladon86, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I like the way they all puzzled it out together - that's the power of crowdsourcing!
  • greenroom628, on 07/01/2008, -14/+311ah, the french...who apparently still think in pre-copernican astronomy...
    • EricaBZ, on 07/01/2008, -11/+2LOL!
    • jamdogg, on 07/01/2008, -1/+7"Charge them lads, for the Frenchman is a coward and will soon run away!" - now who said that? A million diggs for the first correct answer.
    • dinostabOMG, on 07/02/2008, -8/+98Based on my experience of the French, it's more likely that they were trying to screw this guy for being an idiot.
    • Fordi, on 07/02/2008, -1/+14Eh. I'll bet in any country you'll get the same kind of spread. It's not exactly the intellectual elite that attends an episode of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'

      Hell, I doubt many of them watch that ***** on the TV.
      • utahnkid, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3Well I hope knowing whether or not the sun rotates around the earth isn't considered knowledge for the intellectual elite in ANY developed country.. I'd love to know what classification you put Algebra in..
      • Fordi, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I'm trying to be nice, and not call half the audience decidedly retarded.
    • StevesJobs, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Mmm yes pre-copernican
    • Hangly, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Clearly pre-relativistic astronomy (Newtonian astronomy) is the only true astronomy.

      Ignore anything discovered in the 20th century, it will only confuse you.
      • GT35R, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4lets trade with France. Will take their pre-copernican morons and give them our Creationist, fair deal?
      • Hangly, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3All of them? Where are they going to put a hundred million Southerners?
    • MrMax99, on 07/02/2008, -0/+458% are you kidding me?
    • comradeTJH, on 07/02/2008, -3/+7Trick question. Every Frenchman knows; everything revolves around France.
  • alapoet, on 07/01/2008, -13/+4They could really use Astronomy 101!
  • motafett, on 07/01/2008, -17/+31Reminds me of
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNNjAJZk9i0
    • Funpolice2050, on 07/02/2008, -0/+13The answer is ALWAYS the moon.
    • kubedawg, on 07/02/2008, -0/+24but that was fake. snopes.com
    • jumboshrimp11, on 07/02/2008, -1/+50Was the video really necessary?
      • itsthebrod, on 07/02/2008, -0/+9In the future, all image files have been replaced with 10-second long Youtube videos.
    • coolmuffin121, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2She has a chance of being larger than the moon.
  • DrunkAdmin, on 07/01/2008, -12/+14They're living in the pre-Copernicus era. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#C ...
    • Hangly, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Pre-Copernican.

      You know, since this thread is all about correcting people.
    • SonicRift, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Pre-Copernicusan. I know this because I am a Pre-Copernicusanite.
    • cheeseplease, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1Actually, there is no objective system for coordinates in space (read Einstein), so even though it seems obvious that the moon rotates aroun the earth, technically it can't be proven.
    • ninomojo, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1That's what's great about America: You're bashing a French guy for not knowing the answer to a dead simple question, and for doing so you make a reference to Copernicus.

      Then you feel the need to include a link to explain who the hell was Copernicus. Ironical.
  • ichigolive, on 07/01/2008, -36/+54ROFL! 52% people said that it's The SUN! LOL!
    • secaedelcielo, on 07/02/2008, -6/+45you can't read.
      it's 56%... they may be stupid, but for someone to misread what's both printed in subtitles AND on the background on the actual program...
      wow.
    • Gndoab, on 07/02/2008, -19/+3This proves the French are the most idiot people on the planet. Ever. They apparently dwarf American's in stupidity.

      Congradulations France!
      • sagegoku666, on 07/02/2008, -3/+8fail
      • giveer, on 07/02/2008, -1/+13Tell me that brutal spelling error in the midst of your insulting other's intelligence is on purpose... Seriously.. I mean, you're kidding, right?

        (I still think the audience was messing with the guy on purpose, -There's no way I'd vote in the right answer - as if someone should win 1,500 EUROS (3 grand) for being that dumb? I mean come on...)
      • mecharabbit, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3échouer!
      • paradexes, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Huked un Fonicks workt 4 mee!!
      • Monkeydew06, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Congradulations ! ! !
        You have completed
        A great FAIL.

        And prooved the justice
        of our culture.

        Now go and rest our
        Heroes !
    • sysop073, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4I was at a loss trying to figure out what was funny about that video, but I see now, it's that he answered the sun
    • Froderick, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Odds are most people in the audience knew the answer and voted for an incorrect response on purpose to ***** with the guy, since it;s so bloody easy.

      That's what I'd do anyway.
      • illegalcortex, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1For that theory to hold up, it would be much more likely that people would have voted Mars or Venus. Yes, he had already ruled them out, but if they were just ***** with him I'm sure more would have said one of those answers.
      • Genrre, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1I thought there was some benefit to answering correctly when in the audience.
    • nyx210, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2The game host was trying soo hard not to laugh...
    • smpx, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Like evolution, Copernicusim is polluting our youth with the theory of space. The sun has always rotated around the Earth, scientists are still debating the legitimacy of it.
    • Nanobe, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Actually, it depends on the exact wording. The moon is the only one of the four which *orbits* around the Earth, but in terms of just circular *motion*, that's relative to the observer. From the point of view of the Earth, yes, the sun moves in a circular path around the Earth. Motion and force are two separate things, and motion is all relative to your point of reference.

      Also, the translation was arguably incorrect, since "rotating" is different from "revolving". The Earth rotates (spins) on its axis, but revolves (travels) around the Sun. Just being picky here.
  • MelvinSchlubman, on 07/01/2008, -7/+235Next question:
    The earth is:
    A: round
    B: flat
    C: a cube
    D: shaped like your dumbass head (includes "hollow")
    • ErikHarrison, on 07/01/2008, -3/+22I choose
      E.) All of the above.
    • ChaosProfessor, on 07/02/2008, -5/+14profit?
    • FatLoser, on 07/02/2008, -2/+106The Moon is like Earth's companion cube.
      • kingfoot, on 07/02/2008, -1/+43that... was beautiful :')
      • nc60659, on 07/02/2008, -0/+16... We're going to have to euthanize the Moon to get to Mars?
      • noin, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1I wouldn't be surprised if that turns out to be an accurate prediction
      • Monkeydew06, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4We need the carve a massive heart into the bright side of the moon and color it pink immediately.
      • Monkeydew06, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Wow.... Hancock read my mind O_O
    • baldboy7, on 07/02/2008, -0/+12E. french
    • Seidoger, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Held by the 4 giant elephants
  • AchaIemoipas, on 07/01/2008, -16/+4The question wasn't "what rotates around the earth?"

    It was "what orbits around the earth?"

    But yeah, still very stupid.
    • jamdogg, on 07/01/2008, -15/+3There are quite a few correct answers to that. The Moon. The ISS. Various communication and observation satellites. Hubble. Space shuttle when they can actually get one up there. Dust.

      Anybody? No? Dussssst. Anybody? No? Dusssst.
      (sorry couldn't resist the Little Britain reference)

      Oh yeah but he had multi choice.
    • ryan83189, on 07/02/2008, -3/+2It could be lost in translation.
    • KhanneaNL, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Technically, mars too.
  • michaelwong38, on 07/01/2008, -18/+203French woman are attractive
  • Schmich, on 07/01/2008, -6/+36I wouldn't mind the guy answering the sun on his own as you find idiots everywhere. But that over half of those who voted said the sun is unbelievable. Also don't forget that you mainly vote only if you "know" so, most of those 52% were persuaded that it was the sun (as oppose to maybe thinking).

    I bet the average age in the audience was very high...
    • YoWhatDaFuxUp, on 07/01/2008, -4/+50i bet the audience was very high
    • secaedelcielo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4ditto to what i said to ichigolive on your capability to read numbers and reciprocate them while typing...
      o_0;;
    • dinostabOMG, on 07/02/2008, -6/+23I bet they were messing with him.
      • KMartSheriff, on 07/02/2008, -4/+6Yes, 56% of them coordinated that with the 5 seconds they were given to provide an answer. /sarcasm

        If this was the American version, your comment would look more like "stupid American pigs blah blah blah".
      • dinostabOMG, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Maybe. To their credit, American people are less vicious than the French in that respect. So that would make your impression of me more likely correct, in that case.

        But I don't think it's implausible that many of them had the same idea. They're vicious like that.
    • chillypacman, on 07/02/2008, -1/+15Notice how there's laughter in the audience when he chooses b? I'm pretty sure they wre playing with him.
    • Vohu, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2I'd have voted for the Sun too, but only because this guy was clearly too stupid to be a contestant on this show to need help on such a simple question.
  • colonelbuckshot, on 07/01/2008, -7/+329If I know the French, the audience probably did it on purpose. You can hear some of them laughing when he makes his final choice
    • Daiken, on 07/02/2008, -5/+10I might agree with you but the fact that over 50% voted for the sun, indicates most of them really thought the answer WAS the sun. If they wanted to screw with the guy, then you'd see more votes for C and D. The people laughing were just those who voted A) The Moon.
      • RunnyBabbit, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3I actually watch the French version sometimes. They do this often.
      • Codwhy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5how are you being buried? this is the best explanation of the laughter that i have seen.

        there is no way that 56% of the audience decided to all pick "the sun" to mess with him.

        face the facts, there are idiots everywhere, not just America
      • zimmbear, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2The laughter is from the people who voted A. Dumbass
    • reyoo30309, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1Do what on purpose? Answer incorrectly and laugh at the consequences?
  • AnotherDiggGuy, on 07/01/2008, -10/+21I don't normally point out old internet fads but man this is old. Like 2002 old! I've seen it make quite a few rounds on the internet over the years. At least 3x on Digg :-p
    • ep53, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1The title has been used twice. Look at the 2 in the URL
    • Chairboy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2You can tell by the pixels?
  • uptwolait, on 07/01/2008, -8/+141Here is Earth, just chillin. That is a sweet Earth, you might say. FIRE ZE MISSILES!
  • erockappel, on 07/01/2008, -4/+9Would have been entertaining if I didn't know what the ending was going to be. Instead, it was just WAY too long.
  • RoboCafaz, on 07/02/2008, -11/+27French people think they're the center of the universe. Duh.
  • secaedelcielo, on 07/02/2008, -17/+159it'd be "l'idiot"... not "le idiot"...
    js. don't care if you guys bury me for correcting poor grammar...
    • drakia, on 07/02/2008, -32/+9It's French, nobody ***** cares if it has correct grammar.
    • Funpolice2050, on 07/02/2008, -8/+27le idiot makes more sense if you don't know french, which would be the large majority of people on digg.
      • Hangly, on 07/02/2008, -4/+15This just in: errors make sense to the ignorant.
      • bitcloud, on 07/02/2008, -3/+2and "le sun" makes more sense if you don't know *anything*... which would be the large majority of "who wants to be a millionaire" audience...
    • Synyk, on 07/02/2008, -3/+54it's done on purpose. as in, "but I am le tired".
    • Shenanigans, on 07/02/2008, -4/+9People shouldn't use bad grammar just so unintelligent people will understand. It would also be fine to say Les Idiots, because it was the whole audience on this one.
    • yoris, on 07/02/2008, -1/+16Actually, you can use "Le idiot" in french if you're really trying to emphasize the fact that this is not just an idiot, but really the worst idiot in the world. In internet capspeak, you'd translate "l'idot" as "the idiot", and "Le idiot" as "THE idiot".

      As in, "celui-la, c'est vraiment LE idiot du groupe".
    • TheBrain21, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1Maladroit works well in place of idiot.
    • reyoo30309, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1You guys might not be too bright but at least you have good grammar.
  • Swallowell, on 07/02/2008, -3/+13And they plan on a revolution in space? Good luck!

    http://digg.com/space/France_plans_revolution_in_s ...
    • soccerman90, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1they are going to have some real trouble navigating
  • computerusr, on 07/02/2008, -19/+3Fake.
  • Revolutionista, on 07/02/2008, -5/+15C'est la vie.
  • richmomz, on 07/02/2008, -11/+9The real kicker is when he asks the audience for help and they were clueless as well.
    • Fordi, on 07/02/2008, -4/+2Agreed. Title should have been "Les idiots".
  • Bebel, on 07/02/2008, -2/+6How do these people get on these shows? Isn't there some kind of pre-screening to not waste the studio's time like this? Do they do this for fun?

    PS- Sophie, if you married this guy-sorry.
    • RMSzero, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0It's probably like the same screening they use for American Idol. You let in telegenic smart people, you let in a few telegenic morons, and anyone who is ugly or comes across awkwardly on camera you keep out.
    • Gizza, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I'm sure there is screening to make sure they get people that won't take too much money off them.
    • sysop073, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Are you kidding? Yes, they pre-screen for the smartest people they can find in hopes of maximizing the amount of money they need to pay out, because anyone else is just slowing down their quest to give away as much money as possible
    • yoris, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1From my (limited) experience working for a television station a while ago: telescreening for these shows is indeed done, but not to get the smartest people. They need the people who will make for the most interesting television, which is not the guy getting every question right. They ask something like 20 questions, then take their pick from the people who answered between 13 and 17 correctly. If you've got more then 17 correct, no invite for you. In fact, you can consider the fact that this thing is making the rounds online as the ultimate proof that this was a great candidate to put on that show...

      Btw, I wouldn't even be surprised if the showrunners are contractually obliged not to take the smartest people - the insurance companies take a close look into stuff like that (yes, these shows are all insured against people winning the big bet).
  • rubaaan, on 07/02/2008, -1/+27lmao i think the wife was more embarrassed.

    and wtf @ that audience...
    • wibambau, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4Everyone in that audience that voted for the sun should have had the ground open up beneath them.
      • KMartSheriff, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3I laughed at that harder than I should have.
  • Charmape, on 07/02/2008, -6/+2Isn't this video like super old? :/
    Still brings some laughter though everytime I watch it though.
  • DeathJux, on 07/02/2008, -4/+92ELEPHANTS.

    Bigger than the moon.
  • perhapsimcrazy, on 07/02/2008, -7/+2dupe
  • GoGoPoCoSo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+34never use the 50/50 after you've publicly narrowed it down to 2 possible answers.
    • YoWhatDaFuxUp, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2650/50s are rigged
    • Gizza, on 07/02/2008, -1/+17I love how the host always says it's random, but it ALWAYS takes the 2 that they already have eliminated.
    • omoshiroi, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Regis has even admitted to the producers being the random computer. He continued to say it was a computer during his tenure.
    • Genrre, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I thought I was the only one who got that. They always use 50/50 after they say the two that they know are wrong.
    • SpeedyG, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Regis' version: they weren't random, but they were chosen before the taping. Which usually meant the producers and the contestant came up with the same logical wrong answer.

      The current version airing in daytime: it is indeed two random wrong answers being taken away.
  • InfernoX, on 07/02/2008, -11/+5The chick that thinks an Elephant is larger than the moon is better. I mean that doesn't make any sense while someone who had been living under a rock for the last few decades could deduce that the sun moves across the sky during the day then disappears for night while the moon only shows up at night and does not move. Logically that would mean that the sun revolves around the Earth.

    • footodors, on 07/02/2008, -1/+9Dam you an idiot too. of course moon moves across sky.
      • InfernoX, on 07/02/2008, -3/+0Yes of course it does. However at nighttime everyone is supposedly sleeping and therefore it doesn't happen because no one sees it.

    • MaskedSlacker, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Last few decades? Try the last few centuries.

      Besides, your logic is specious. What if the chick had been living under a rock for the last few decades and had never heard of or seen the moon? Logically she should choose the elephant because it is the largest thing she knows of on the list. Or maybe you're full of it.
    • BrianOl, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Sounds like someone doesn't spend too much time outside at night. Wow.
    • LeRenard, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Relativistically, she is correct. In the proper frame of reference. The moon is what, 1800 arc seconds in the night sky? And we normally don't view elephants from very far away, so they take up a larger portion of our vision. I'm fairly certain that's what she was thinking (apparent size) but I'll give you that its still a pretty strange way to compare.
    • skinrock, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1you is le idiot
    • KMartSheriff, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2I hope you get mauled by tigers for your stupidity.
    • 032483, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Please don't bring "logic" into this.
  • annihilator675, on 07/02/2008, -13/+11Jesus also found this to be funny when he saw it originally on youtube. So funny that he fell off his dinosaur.
  • douggmc, on 07/02/2008, -8/+2Shouldn't the title be "Le Idiots"?
    • xcecatalina, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7No. It would be l'idiot or les idiots.
      • douggmc, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2Pedantic anyone? So I don't know correct plural grammar in French .... you got my point.

        By the way .. you're hot. Wanna go on a date?
      • Hangly, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4She probably prefers to date people with better grammar.
  • blackrage, on 07/02/2008, -10/+159To be fair...The French are known assholes.
    If I were on that show, and some moron used a lifeline on some easy ***** like that, I would vote wrong just to ***** him.
    But I too...am an *****.
    • crabbypants, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7http://www.stickdeath.com/millrl.htm
    • JellyFish62, on 07/02/2008, -9/+4What do you know about french people? We're not all assholes and you are definitely a bigger one according to your stupid comment.
      • itsthebrod, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4Pssst, I'd rather have my people known as assholes rather than complete and utter morons (as is evidence from this clip). Go with the flow!
    • AngryAngryBrian, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4I find the results a little unlikely. The audience had a around 15 seconds to react after he decided to use his lifeline. If they where just messing with him we would have seen a bigger percentage in Mars and Venus. Unless over 50% of French population is telepathic, I would have to guess it was just good old fashion ignorance.
    • hotpuck6, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1i agree with your comment... except they are usually only like that towards people who they consider obnoxious or worthless. To a fellow countrymen, you would think they would help them, and that would just mean that 50% of the audience was brought to the show drooling on themselves on the short bus.
    • Codwhy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I'm an ***** too, and i would have voted for Venus or some ridiculous ***** like that.

      they honestly thought it was the sun dude.
  • akamurph, on 07/02/2008, -3/+41Is this fake? 56% of the audience said the sun? I hope they were just f'ing with him for being stupid to ask the audience for that answer.
    • Johnny1337h4x0r, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2Seriously Digg, think about it for a minute. You're sitting in the audience and all of a sudden a retard doesn't know wtf revolves around Earth. You really gonna give him the right answer? That's a Heilz Naw.
      • Codwhy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Seriously Johnny1337h4x0r,

        your sitting in an audience and all of a sudden a retard doesnt know wtf revolves around the Earth, so you "decide" not to give him the right answer.

        so 56% of the audience picks the same wrong answer.

        nah..
  • InsideRide, on 07/02/2008, -2/+29Le Old
    • had3l, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Next thing you know they will be posting Rick Roll as a "Hilarious 80s Music Video, MUST WATCH!"
  • STPZ, on 07/02/2008, -3/+11Galactic Fail
  • IWDA4, on 07/02/2008, -5/+3Heliocentric theory didn't reach France yet?
  • Thrilltone, on 07/02/2008, -4/+25If this had been any older, he would have been judged correct.
  • gambit2121, on 07/02/2008, -3/+9maybe the audience was just ***** with him for being so stupid in the first place...
  • Emachine, on 07/02/2008, -4/+27LoL, a moron, and an audience with a sense of humor.
  • Owwmykneecap, on 07/02/2008, -6/+5Added: September 03, 2007..

    the answer may have changed since...

    also the Gallic belle is chaud.
  • rnelsonee, on 07/02/2008, -8/+8Wow, what a helpful audience.

    Also, I don't like these questions. Looking down on the solar system, then yes, only the moon revolves around the Earth. But, if you use the Earth as the reference - as the central point - then the Sun does move around it along with the moon . Even the planets move 'around' the Earth in this sense, although with erratic orbits due to the different speeds and radii from the Sun.

    Obviously the Sun moves the Earth more than the Earth moves the Sun (the Earth does move the Sun a tiny, tiny, tiny, bit), but they are two orbiting bodies that pull on one another. It just happens that the center of rotation is within the Sun's body, so by convention we say one revolves around another, but they're both just revolving around a central point. This is one reason against Pluto being a planet - the center of rotation between it an its moon was outside Pluto and in between the two spheres.
    • MilesyMiles, on 07/02/2008, -3/+3And of course, by that he means he'd totally hit his daughter.
    • kleezy, on 07/02/2008, -0/+10It depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
    • LBobRife, on 07/02/2008, -0/+19When the center of rotation between two bodies is inside one of the bodies, I think it's safe to say that one revolves around the other.
    • sysop073, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6This has come up before, on these shows they're supposed to choose the best answer, i think you'd be hard-pressed to find people who say the sun revolving around the earth is a better answer than the moon revolving around the earth. Unless you're asking that audience, anyway
    • ethamajin, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2The key word was gravitate.
    • nyx210, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3You're thinking too much. You don't need a degree in astrophysics to answer a question like this.
    • Auxon, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1It's not convention! The mass of the Sun is much greater than the Earth and warps spacetime. Objects that are of less mass warp spacetime much less. The Sun is so much more massive than the Earth that the curvature caused by the Earth does not effect the Sun, but the Sun's effects the Earth. It's not like a binary star or something, the Earth is tiny compared to the Sun.
    • Auxon, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I want to expand on my comment: The common analogy is a bowling ball (the Sun) on a rubber sheet vs. a ping pong ball (the Earth) on the same rubber sheet (spacetime). The warping caused by the bowling ball causes the ping pong ball to fall towards the bowling ball, but if you add some force perpedicular to the direction the ping pong ball falls (straight to the bowling ball), the ping pong ball will revolve around the bowling ball, until it's orbit decays. The same cannot be said for the bowling ball. The curvature of the ping pong ball is within the bounds of the curvature of the bowling ball, so the bowling ball most certainly will NOT fall towards the ping pong ball, so therefore the Sun does NOT revolve around the Earth.
  • Gndoab, on 07/02/2008, -15/+2Aha, finally a chance to turn the tables!

    Supid french. This video shows that 100% of french people still believe the earth revolves around the sun.
    Ugh, is anyone else tired of the french trying to force there tv shows and culture on us?
    Oh of course, racist france...of course both people are white.
    so on and so forth.
  • keatonkeaton998, on 07/02/2008, -7/+1This has to be fake. Why would one of the hard questions, where they are playing the dramatic music, be this question? Either everyone in that country is retarded, or there is definitely something not real here.
    • Codwhy, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1they always play that dramatic music.

      56% of France is retarded
      • keatonkeaton998, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1no they don't play the dramatic music on the first questions
  • Dan11023, on 07/02/2008, -6/+1well, you learn something new everyday....

    .... I just did
  • Aurabolt, on 07/02/2008, -7/+1I couldn't even watch it all the way till the end
  • WakasakiRocky, on 07/02/2008, -5/+11It's all relative, actually.

    There is also a debate to be had regarding the translation of the question. One could argue that either translation of 'To revolve around', or 'to gravitate around' the earth could both yield acceptable answers of any of the choices given.

    • Pusod, on 07/02/2008, -6/+1ok, yeah sure! are u french?
      • Hangly, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1By "relative" he means the theory of relativity.

        It's just as accurate to say the Earth is stationary and the universe revolves around it as it is to say that the Earth rotates.
      • Auxon, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1No it's just as accurate to say they are in relative MOTION. Revolution (Gravitation specifically) is an entirely different concept explained quite well by Relativity. See my comment above or below for more information.
    • MaskedSlacker, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1One can argue a lot of things. Doesn't make you smart if you fall for it.
    • maffiou, on 07/02/2008, -3/+4Agree with you...
      There are 2 right answers to the question... The fact that these self righteous people on digg are so quick to dismiss it is telling a lot about them...
      Law of gravitation is reciprocal: you observe comparable effect on both sides...
      • Auxon, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Saying there are comparable effects is like saying there are comparable effects when a tank drives over my Civic.
      • isomorf, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1No, there would be two right answers if we were talking about a binary star system and which of the two stars rotates around the other, but when the two bodies have such disparate masses as the Earth and the sun, there is only one right answer.

        The center of gravity is INSIDE the sun. Therefore, you cannot say that the sun revolves around the Earth. You could say that the sun revolves around the point inside the sun that corresponds to the center of gravity of the combined system, but that wasn't one of the options.
    • myelasticeye, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2Nobody in that room was thinking this complicated I think
    • Suneet67, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Even if you over complicate the question to include the law of gravitational reciprocity, you have to conclude that the Earth revolves around the sun for the purpose of the game show question... context of the question is more important
    • Auxon, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2See my comment above ... this is totally wrong .. especially if you invoke Relativity rather than Newtonian physics which would mislead you into believing the /effects/ of gravity between the two bodies are equal just because the force between them is equal. Ah hell, I will copy and paste it:

      The common analogy is a bowling ball on a rubber sheet (the Sun) vs. a ping pong ball on the same rubber sheet. The warping caused by the bowling ball causes the ping pong ball to fall towards the bowling ball, but if you add some force perpedicular to the direction the ping pong ball falls (straight to the bowling ball), the ping pong ball will revolve around the bowling ball, until it's orbit decays. The same cannot be said for the bowling ball. The curvature of the ping pong ball is within the bounds of the curvature of the bowling ball, so the bowling ball most certainly will NOT fall towards the ping pong ball, so therefore the Sun does not revolve around the Earth.
  • jerbaker, on 07/02/2008, -4/+7Nothing "rotates" around the Earth, things rotate about an axis. Perhaps the translator meant "revolve"? If I were asked the question, "What rotates around the Earth," and I was presented with those options, I would be confused as the correct answer is "none of the above."
    • ff4marvel, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4The literal translation of the verb "graviter" is "to revolve."
      • nedzeve, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1So, then the guy who translated this did a poor job.
    • valarking, on 07/02/2008, -1/+0Well neither does the moon revolve around the Earth. They both revolve around a point that's very close to the Earth's center if we're gonna be picky.
    • LeRenard, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I think it would have been translated more accurately as "what orbits the earth".
    • oxygen728, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2If the term correctly translates to revolve or rotate, then the correct course of action is to ask the judges for clarification. Technically, all of the solar system objects rotate around the earth. Each object is rotating in their respective positions, and each of them is around the earth.

      However, if the correct translation is to orbit, then there is only one answer.

      Either way, unless the term orbit was used, clarification from the judges was required.
      • jerbaker, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1"Technically, all of the solar system objects rotate around the earth."

        No they do not. They rotate around their axis, which happens to be a line from the north pole to the south pole through the center.

        "Each object is rotating in their respective positions, and each of them is around the earth. "

        There is no object which is "around the earth," nor is there a position in space which is "around the earth."

        "Rotate" and "revolve" have two distinct meanings. They are not synonyms.
    • Fleagleman, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0And the audience would've pelted you with baguettes for being such an *****.

      Thank you, Carl Sagan, but I think we all know what the question was driving at. Is it just too much for you to simply say, "the moon"?
  • evilelf2407, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5almost feel bad for the guy. u can see the look in his eye where you almost feel as if he knows he should know the answer and hes angry at himself for being so utterly stupid.
  • banido, on 07/02/2008, -5/+32But I'm le tired...
  • NightRiderkami, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Really? REALLY? I'm scared for the fate of the human species.
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