The very first question on the hit game show ‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?’ is always a freebie—that is, a mind-numbingly simple question that usually contains the answer within its very wording.

In other words, no one should ever get it wrong.

However, if you’re an overconfident college student, your overblown ego can and will get in the way of simple logic and ultimately come smacking you right in the face on national television.

How do you not know that a surge protector is for electricity?!

Wait, he’s from Tennessee? Ah, that explains it then.