The 1% Club knocked out a whopping 10 players with the game’s supposedly ‘easiest’ question.
Hosted by Lee Mack, the ITV show welcomes 100 contestants who all attempt to win a huge cash prize.
The programme’s questions are put to the public before the episode, with the percentage who get it right determining the difficulty of each round.
Aptly, the final quiz question is one that just one per cent of the public answered correctly.
But a recent episode saw one of the supposedly simplest questions, the one 90 per cent of the public got right, trip up some players.
The contestants seemed to find 30 seconds just not enough to get to the answer in time.
The 1% Club knocked out whopping 10 players with its ‘easiest’ question – can you get the answer in 30 seconds? (pictured: host Lee Mack)
A recent episode saw one of the supposedly simplest questions, the one 90 per cent of the public got right, trip up some players
Lee read out the question: ‘Logically, which of these children’s characters could be included in this sequence?’
The sequence went: ‘Humpty Dumpty, Tinky Winky, Andy Pandy.’
The 100 contestants were then given two options to choose from as the next item in the list: ‘Postman Pat’ or ‘Incy Wincy’.
While the contestants were thinking hard, Lee cheekily quipped: ‘Actually, these are all nicknames I use for my, um… actually, forget that.’
For some, the pattern might seem obvious – each of the character’s names is made up of two words, which rhyme, making ‘Incy Wincy’ the answer Lee was looking for.
He said: ‘The right answer is Incy Wincy because the sequence is made up of characters whose names rhyme so Incy Wincy is the only correct option.’
But a huge ten per cent of the players seem to have been distracted by giggling at Lee’s joke as they did not spot the pattern.
Ten of the 100 contestants answered ‘Postman Pat’ instead – getting themselves eliminated in the very first round.
It comes after another 90 per cent question got an enormous 25 players wiped out – a quarter of all the episode’s contestants – in a different recent instalment of the quiz show
Lee asked one contestant, called Amanda (pictured), what answer she went for
It comes after another 90 per cent question got an enormous 25 players wiped out – a quarter of all the episode’s contestants – in a different recent instalment of the quiz show.
The question read: ‘Which of the following words contain the most vowels?’
The options were ‘vowel’, ‘consonant’ and ‘letter’.
Lee joked: ‘And if you don’t know what a vowel is here’s a little tip… perhaps spend more time reading and less time on Instagram.’
The correct answer was ‘consonant’ but the question proved too tricky for 25 players, who were all knocked out of the game.
Lee asked one of them, called Amanda, what answer she went for.
Amanda revealed she selected ‘vowel’ and Lee asked: ‘What was your reasoning?’
She replied: ‘Because I’m an idiot. I overthought it’, to which Lee said: ‘It’s easily done.’
The 1% Club is available to watch on ITV and to stream on ITV.
The 1% Club knocked out a whopping 10 players with the game’s supposedly ‘easiest’ question.
Hosted by Lee Mack, the ITV show welcomes 100 contestants who all attempt to win a huge cash prize.
The programme’s questions are put to the public before the episode, with the percentage who get it right determining the difficulty of each round.
Aptly, the final quiz question is one that just one per cent of the public answered correctly.
But a recent episode saw one of the supposedly simplest questions, the one 90 per cent of the public got right, trip up some players.
The contestants seemed to find 30 seconds just not enough to get to the answer in time.
The 1% Club knocked out whopping 10 players with its ‘easiest’ question – can you get the answer in 30 seconds? (pictured: host Lee Mack)
A recent episode saw one of the supposedly simplest questions, the one 90 per cent of the public got right, trip up some players
Lee read out the question: ‘Logically, which of these children’s characters could be included in this sequence?’
The sequence went: ‘Humpty Dumpty, Tinky Winky, Andy Pandy.’
The 100 contestants were then given two options to choose from as the next item in the list: ‘Postman Pat’ or ‘Incy Wincy’.
While the contestants were thinking hard, Lee cheekily quipped: ‘Actually, these are all nicknames I use for my, um… actually, forget that.’
For some, the pattern might seem obvious – each of the character’s names is made up of two words, which rhyme, making ‘Incy Wincy’ the answer Lee was looking for.
He said: ‘The right answer is Incy Wincy because the sequence is made up of characters whose names rhyme so Incy Wincy is the only correct option.’
But a huge ten per cent of the players seem to have been distracted by giggling at Lee’s joke as they did not spot the pattern.
Ten of the 100 contestants answered ‘Postman Pat’ instead – getting themselves eliminated in the very first round.
It comes after another 90 per cent question got an enormous 25 players wiped out – a quarter of all the episode’s contestants – in a different recent instalment of the quiz show
Lee asked one contestant, called Amanda (pictured), what answer she went for
It comes after another 90 per cent question got an enormous 25 players wiped out – a quarter of all the episode’s contestants – in a different recent instalment of the quiz show.
The question read: ‘Which of the following words contain the most vowels?’
The options were ‘vowel’, ‘consonant’ and ‘letter’.
Lee joked: ‘And if you don’t know what a vowel is here’s a little tip… perhaps spend more time reading and less time on Instagram.’
The correct answer was ‘consonant’ but the question proved too tricky for 25 players, who were all knocked out of the game.
Lee asked one of them, called Amanda, what answer she went for.
Amanda revealed she selected ‘vowel’ and Lee asked: ‘What was your reasoning?’
She replied: ‘Because I’m an idiot. I overthought it’, to which Lee said: ‘It’s easily done.’
The 1% Club is available to watch on ITV and to stream on ITV.
