This quiz question is sure to leave you scratching your head.
Ever found yourself yelling the answer at the TV during a quiz show, only to find out you were wrong? Quizzes love to throw in trick questions to make you second-guess your knowledge and think outside the box.
In a TikTok video, Darragh Ennis – known as The Menace on ITV’s The Chase – shared one such deceptive question. He described the question as “easy sounding” but pointed out that “almost everyone” gets it wrong.
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Can you solve it without falling into the common pitfall?
In the video, posted on his @bonesgiles account, he posed: “Do you want to know a really easy sounding quiz question that almost everybody will get wrong? Seriously, about 95% of people will get this wrong, and it sounds so simple.”
So, what’s the question? Actually, it’s more of a task. All you have to do is this – name a berry.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it?
Many of us consume berries daily, so surely we can name one off the top of our heads in a few seconds. Go on, name the first berry that comes to mind.
If you said something like strawberry or raspberry, you’ve just fallen into the trap and joined the 95% of people who get this question wrong. Despite having ‘berry’ in their names, they’re not technically berries.
Darragh explained: “If you said strawberry, blackberry, or raspberry, you’re wrong. They are not actually technically berries. Berries are a very specific type of fruit. They have to come from a single ovary of a single flower and have no stones for seeds. So if you said peach, plum, or cherry, they’re not berries either.”
“But what are berries, and this is the bit that is absolutely bonkers, are things like bananas, aubergines, and watermelons. There are some things that are called berries that are actually berries though too, things like cranberries and blueberries are also berries.”
The video left viewers gobsmacked, with loads chiming in, “every day is a school day”. Others pitched in with more examples Darragh missed out, like tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumbers, courgettes, gooseberries, and kiwis.
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