Tipping Point contestant makes major Abraham Lincoln blunder in viral clip

An ITV quiz show contestant made a major Abraham Lincoln blunder.Source: Tipping Point, ITV

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00:00At the Malta Summit in 1989, which US president declared the end of the Cold War?

00:07I should know this because I did A-level history. I think I'm going to play.

00:11You're going to play? OK, great.

00:13I'm debating between two.

00:15JF Kennedy.

00:17Abraham Lincoln.

00:22I'm going to go with JF Kennedy.

00:25JF Kennedy? Yeah. OK.

00:27So, Bally, if Hanifa had passed this over to you,

00:30what might you have said?

00:32US president in 1989.

00:34Not sure? No, not sure.

00:36Didn't have to answer it because Hanifa, she's all over this.

00:39Let's see if you've got the right one. We really need this.

00:42Was it JF Kennedy?

00:46George H W Bush was the president in 1989.

00:50Kennedy was president in the 60s.

00:53Of course, Abraham Lincoln was the 1860s.

00:56No, the century before.

00:58Oswald.