The phrase "got the answer wrong" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when indicating that someone has made an error in their response or solution to a question.
Example: "After reviewing the test results, I realized I got the answer wrong on question five."
Alternatives: "missed the answer" or "provided the incorrect answer."
Corbyn got the answer wrong.
In any event, Dad, intending no harm, instantly grasped his mistake: What if the teacher got the answer wrong?
There was the time that Billy Craig wanted to know which team had won all four titles, for instance (and the time that everyone pointed out that we'd got the answer wrong).
A contestant on "Wheel of Fortune" Monday had every letter of the puzzle revealed ― and still got the answer wrong.
At my prep school we were taught French by the simple expedient of hitting boys who got the answers wrong; unfortunately, fear did not improve my results.
And, finally, a hard one: does the earth orbit the sun or the sun orbit the earth, and how long does it take?If you got the answers wrong, you're not alone.
The History Channel regularly runs its "Great American History Quiz" program (although it's strictly for intellectual, rather than financial, enrichment), and one channel, the Game Show Network, devotes itself 24 hours a day to original quiz shows, as well as rebroadcasts of old favorites (in case you got the answers wrong the first time around).
If you answer a card correctly, you put it into a section that you will revisit less frequently in the future, whereas if you get the answer wrong, you move the card into a section scheduled for frequent visits.
It's an institution where the unelected and the barely accountable have always called the shots – and electorates are routinely made to vote again if they get the answer wrong in a referendum.
As Taylor sees it, economists have gotten the answer wrong.
