A QUESTION on The 1% Club wiped out players from the get-go – despite being deemed as easy.
The popular quiz show, fronted by Lee Mack, is known for leaving players with their minds boggling thanks to its tough questions as the game goes on.
However for most of the 100 players, they manage to sail through the first few round which are deemed easy thanks to most of the general public being able to correctly answer them.
But for one episode of the Saturday night quiz favourite, seven people fell at the very first hurdle.
They all failed to correctly identify the answer to the opening 90% question – which was all about letters.
Reading the question aloud, Lee said: “Which of the following words still makes a valid word if you change the first letter to the next letter in the alphabet?”
Lee then told the players of the three choices they had to pick from, which were – Page, Rage and Wage.
With 30 seconds on the clock, the 100 players did their best to attempt to answer the question.
However, for seven of them, they could not get to the right answer.
Lee then confirmed that the answer was in fact, Rage.
By switching the ‘R’ to an ‘S’ – the following letter in the alphabet – players were left with the word, Sage.
Page would have produced “oage”, whilst Wage would have read “xage”.
One player who got it wrong admitted it was his “biggest fear” to go out on the 90% question.
He told Lee that he panicked and failed to read the question properly before selecting the answer as “wage”.
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.
