Mother-daughter game show team become Internet celebrities for not knowing a thesaurus isn’t a dinosaur

WATCH ABOVE: A thesaurus? Wait a minute…what?

TORONTO – A mother and daughter duo from Australia have become Internet sensations after getting stumped on what many believe should have been an easy question about dinosaurs.

Christina Harding, 60, and her 36-year-old daughter, Tania, were stumped on the set of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire when they were asked ‘Which one of these is not a type of dinosaur?’ and weren’t sure if a thesaurus was a dinosaur or not. The confusion caused their elimination while the audience sat in shock.

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A clip of the broadcast was posted Tuesday on YouTube and has already been watched over 160,000 times as of this writing.

Harding has run Christina’s Restaurant in Perth for 21 years, along with her daughter. The pair are featured in the Channel 9 cooking show The Hotplate where restaurants go head-to-head to determine who has the best fare in the country. The winner will collect a $100,000 prize.