VIEWERS of The Chase were left baffled when a contestant mixed up a legendary Rangers manager with a Scottish novelist.
Last night's episode saw three contestants competing against the Chaser for a shared £75,000.
And with just 26 seconds remaining in the final chase, presenter Bradley Walsh asked the team: "Which Scotsman wrote the novel The Master of Ballantrae?"
Peter, 38, from Bristol buzzed in and answered with "Walter Smith".
The answer was, in fact, Edinburgh-born author Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Smith was a legend for Rangers and led the club to win 10 top-flight titles as manager, five Scottish Cups and six League Cups. He passed away in October 2021 at the age of 73.
Meanwhile, Louis Stevenson was a Victorian writer and is famed for writing Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
People reacted to the mistake on social media, with one commenting: "Please tell me the contestant wasn't Scottish."
Another said: "Someone just tried their luck with 'Walter Smith' in response to a question about a Scottish novelist."
One jokingly confused Smith for Scottish poet Walter Scott, who wrote Ivanhoe, saying: "Did you never read 'Ivanbrox'?"
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