THE 1% Club lost 15 players over a ‘tricky’ common phrase question – but could you have spotted it in time?
The ITV show has become a huge hit since its launch in 2022, thanks to a combination of host Lee Mack’s jokes and the fact viewers can play along at home.
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The show tests 100 contestants on their logic, reasoning skills and common sense, rather than their general knowledge.
Each player has a £1,000 stake in the game, and if they make it to the final 1% question, they have a chance of winning a share of the jackpot.
However, many are knocked out by questions that are supposedly easier to answer, and in one episode from the first series, 15 players went out on the 70% question.
It was: “What well known phrase do you get from cracking this code?”
The players were then shown the code “BOTMESSAGETLE” and had 30 seconds to work it out.
After the time was up and Lee revealed 15 people had got it wrong, he then shared the correct answer.
It was “Message in a bottle”.
When Lee spoke to one of the ousted players, he revealed he was half way there to the right answer.
He said: “I put message because I knew the word message was in the middle but I didn’t realise I had to put Message in a bottle.”
Lee joked: “It’s like talking to Sting when he’s drunk.”
However, that result wasn’t as bad as the question that left 37 players baffled.
A whopping 20 were taken out of the game and 17 players used their passes in a question that 45 percent of the public would get right in a different episode.
Lee asked the question: “Which of these are NOT the correct translation of the following: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight.
He then showed them a multiple choice option of A, B and C which was written in a different language from English.
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.
After the time was up, he revealed the answer to be C and explained: “You don’t need to be able to speak any of the languages.
“But you do need to spot that there are only seven numbers not eight.”
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The 1% Club airs Saturdays on ITV1 and is available on ITVX.