These may just be the 14 stupidest things anyone’s ever said

You may not be able to get every answer right on University Challenge, or even on Tipping Point, but it’s unlikely that your bulb is as dim as that of the people who made these astonishing comments. They were thoroughly grassed up by their other halves, so we can assume they’ve had plenty of piss-taking for it already.

1. That’s not how hair works

2. What’s the Spanish for ‘idiot’?

3. Designer belly buttons

4. Not exactly Professor Brian Cox

5. That tricky Latin

6. When you don’t understand models

7. Technology moves quickly