Along with Exeter University's 15 points in the 2009 series of University Challenge, Chase Simpson first question failure in the US version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and various Liverpudlian 'unintentional geniuses' on BBC Radio Merseyside's Hold Your Plums, Mr Thuraaisingham represents how Everyman might do on the show.
All are preserved for posterity, on YouTube and elsewhere, and are doomed to be remembered for their disastrous brushes with fame.
We laugh on the one hand at the quiz players' ineptitude; but realise, were we under the same spotlight, we may crumble with stage fright and achieve even lower scores. 'Rather them than me', we say to ourselves, while congratulating ourselves that we are not as stupid as they are.
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