THE 1% Club knocked out a whopping 30 players with a smiley face question – but could you work out the answer?
Lee Mack hosts the ITV game show testing logic and common sense.
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A whopping 30 people were knocked out[/caption]
Lee Mack hosts the popular ITV quiz[/caption]
Contestants hope to reach the end and win up to £100,000 prize money.
However, one question saw an incredible 30 people eliminated in one fell swoop.
Presenter Lee asked: “Have a look at this picture. Are there more happy faces or sad faces?”
The players were then shown 18 emoji faces arranged in three rows of six.
Once the time limit was up, Lee revealed 30 people had answered incorrectly and were therefore out.
The right answer turned out to be “happy” – as there were 10 happy faces and eight sad ones.
With his trademark quick wit, Lee quipped: “Well, there’s 30 sad ones now!”
It’s not the first time a single question on The 1% Club caught out several people.
In a different episode, a savage limerick question took out 14 contestants,
The poetic puzzle asked: “Jamil is writing a limerick but needs a word that follows these rules to complete the last line…
“Two syllables, only two different vowels, starts with an even -numbered letter and contains at least three letters from the second half of the alphabet. Which of these words would work?”
The options were: Doggie, Blades, Hotel, Prizes and Rabbit.
The remaining players faces looked puzzled as they tried to figure out the answer within the 30 seconds.
Lee then revealed the right answer was Prizes – after 14 people had been knocked out.
The episode also saw an ‘easy’ common sense riddle knock out 23 people earlier on in the show.
Hardest Quiz Show Questions
Would you know the answers to some of quizzing TV’s hardest questions
- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire – Earlier this year, fans were left outraged after what they described as the “worst” question in the show’s history. Host Jeremy Clarkson asked: “From the 2000 awards ceremony onwards, the Best Actress Oscar has never been won by a woman whose surname begins with which one of these letters?” The multiple choice answers were between G, K, M and W. In the end, and with the £32,000 safe, player Glen had to make a guess and went for G. It turned out to be correct as Nicole Kidman, Frances McDormand and Kate Winslet are among the stars who have won the Best Actress gong since 2000.
- The 1% Club – Viewers of Lee Mack’s popular ITV show were left dumbfounded by a question that also left the players perplexed. The query went as follows: “Edna’s birthday is on the 6th of April and Jen’s birthday falls on the 15th of October, therefore Amir’s birthday must be the ‘X’ of January.” It turns out the conundrum links the numbers with its position in the sentence, so 6th is the sixth word and 15th is the fifteenth word. Therefore, Amir’s birthday is January 24th, corresponding to the 24th word in the sentence.
- The Chase – The ITV daytime favourite left fans scratching their heads when it threw up one of the most bizarre questions to ever grace the programme. One of the questions asked the player: “Someone with a nightshade intolerance should avoid eating what?” The options were – sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots – with Steve selecting sweetcorn but the correct answer was potatoes.
Lee said: “John writes with his right hand and the last word he’d right if he was writing this sentence would be be.
“If Keith writes with his left hand, what would be the last word he would write in the sentence above?”
The answer was the word ‘be’, as a different writing hand would not change the last word, something which many viewers playing along got correct.
The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
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