Whitney Beseler

Whitney Beseler is a female physical education teacher from Australia who gained worldwide viral notoriety after appearing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hot Seat and incorrectly answering a $100 question that she knew the answer to simply because she read the question improperly, and in the process also promoted the "dumb blonde" stereotype, since she also happened to have blonde hair.

Trivia

 * Many of the news articles that criticize Beseler also seem to have improperly read the question. The question was, "Which of these is NOT a piece of jewellery commonly worn to symbolise a relationship between two people?". Beseler may have thought that the answer was B: Anniversary ring because they are relatively rarer compared to engagement rings and wedding rings, and because she also initially thought that D: Burger ring was a joke answer; on both the U.S. and UK versions, for the very first (£/$100) question, answer D tends to be a joke answer that is always incorrect.