THE 1% Club left 13 players stumped with a tricky picture question – but would you have got it right?
Hosted by Lee Mack, the ITV quiz tests logic and common sense rather than general knowledge.
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One episode saw a whopping 13 players eliminated after a difficult picture question.
This was the 80% question – meaning 80% of the public would be expected to answer correctly.
Contestants were shown three seemingly identical photos of people dressed as a gorilla, clown and horse respectively.
A) was right side up, B) was upside down and C) was tilted to the right.
Lee asked the players: “Which of these is not the same photo as the other two?”
As usual, contestants had just 30 seconds to suss out the challenging puzzle.
The correct answer turned out to be B), as “In A and C, the gorilla is on the left and the horse on the right but they have swapped in B.”
It’s not the first time a large number of players has been left stumped on The 1% Club.
The popular show previously saw 23 people eliminated on an “easy” question.
For the 70% round, Lee asked: “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.
Elsewhere, viewers were left scratching their heads when a “simple” Coronation Street question proved tricky for many contestants.
It challenged players to spot the difference between two photos of Corrie’s pub The Rovers Return.
Hardest Quiz Show Questions
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- 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.
As the contestants locked in their answers, Lee joked: “That’s easy this… one’s on the left and one’s on the right.”
After the 30 seconds was up, Lee revealed that three people hadn’t spotted the difference.
He explained that the name on the pub had changed, saying: “The image on the right shows Ravers instead of Rovers.”
The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
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