Drop A Pin stumps Barstool staff on where Normandy is

The setup was 1 photo and 1 question. A guy in a Patriots cap walked around the office with a picture of soldiers wading ashore from a landing craft and asked people to name the country.

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@CaptainCons

This is alarmingly bad

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@DropAPinShow

What country did this take place in?

For the record: the Normandy invasion began on June 6, 1944, when U.S., British and Canadian forces landed on 5 beaches in Normandy, France. It's about as famous as a day in the 20th century gets. The office managed to put it in Germany, which is the country the whole operation was aimed at, and in Japan, which is on the other side of the planet and in a whole other theater of the war.

Germany and Poland were at least wrong in the right part of the world. Vietnam and the U.S. weren't. The clip works because every guess comes with total confidence, and the guy in the Patriots cap just keeps moving down the hall to the next person.

It's not all wrong answers. 1 guest says their grandfather landed at Utah Beach, one of the 2 American beaches that morning. That's the moment where the bit stops being a joke, and it's a good reminder of why the question deserved a better answer than Belgium.

The bloggers did not take it well. Barstool WSD was the loudest about it.

"Never been so enraged in my entire life" is a big claim from a guy who has watched a lot of White Sox baseball. Still, he has a point. Drop A Pin is Barstool's travel show, where The Wonton Don and Uncle Chaps pick a spot on the globe every week and learn everything about it. Normandy might be the easiest pin they could have dropped, and the office still couldn't find it. If the show keeps doing these hallway quizzes, there's plenty more history out there for the building to get wrong.