National Awkward Moments Day

0:03 Callarogashark media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is National Awkward Moment's Day. Embarrassing Blunders, bloopers and famous fails. Question one. During the twenty seventeen Academy Awards, presenters announced the wrong winner for Best Picture before the mistake was corrected on stage. Which film was mistakenly named as the winner? Question two? NASA's one hundred and twenty five million dollars Mars Climate orbiter was lost in nineteen ninety nine because two teams used different measurement systems for navigation data. Which two systems were mismatched? Question three. In the nineteen forty eight US presidential election, a newspaper prematurely ran the headline Dewey defeats Truman, a classic publishing blunder. Which newspaper printed that infamous front page? Question four? While waiting in the lobby for a job interview in two thousand and six, an unsuspecting man was mistakenly ushered into a BBC News studio and interviewed live as a tech expert. Who was he?

1:21 Question five. At a nineteen ninety eight technology demo, a Windows ninety eight computer famously crashed when a USB scanner was plugged in on stage next to Bill Gates. What error screen appeared? We'll be right back with these answers after this break, Welcome back. Question one, Which movie was wrongly announced as Best Picture at the twenty seventeen Oscars? Answer? La La Land? Presenters Warren Batty and Faye Dunaway were given the wrong envelope and announced Lalla Land, but Moonlight was the actual winner. The live direction became one of the most memorable moments in oscar history. Question two, which measurement systems doomed the Mars Climate orbiter? Answer? Metric SI and US customary units. Lockheed Martin supplied Thruster data in pound four seconds, while the NASA team expected newton seconds.

2:17 The mismatch sent the orbiter too low into Mars's atmosphere, causing it to disintegrate. Question three, which paper ran the mistake in Dewey defeat's Truman headline? Answer? Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune rushed to print based on early reports, but Harry S. Truman won. A photo of a grinning Truman holding the erroneous headline became an iconic image in media history. Question four, who was the job applicant accidentally interviewed live on BBC News in two thousand and six, answer guy Goma. Guy Goma was misidentified as an IT expert due to a name mix up, and gamely answered questions about technology on live TV. The clip went viral, turning an awkward moment into an Internet classic. Question five. What error screen appeared during the Windows ninety eight live demo? Answer the Blue Screen of Death? The demo at Comdex in Chicago produced the dreaded Blue Screen of Death BSoD, an iconic tech blooper. It highlighted driver's stability issues as plug and play hardware was rolled out. That concludes Today's five Daily Trivia Questions. I'm Mark Allison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you Tomorrow.