A DIFFICULT sports question on The 1% Club eliminated 15 players – but could you get it right in 30 seconds?
The ITV quiz regularly stumps contestants with its logic and common sense-based puzzles.
In one episode, a tough sports question ended 15 people’s chances of winning up to £100,000.
This was the 45% question — approximately half way into the game.
Host Lee Mack asked: “Miranda and Oliver are playing a game of table tennis. They change serve after every 2 points.
“If Oliver served first, and the score is now 6-5, who will be serving the next point?”
The players had just 30 seconds to try and work out what the correct answer was.
Once time was up – and it was revealed 15 were out – Lee revealed the right answer was Miranda.
The full solution was: “They played 11 points, so the next point will be the 12th point.
“Oliver serves on points: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10 and Miranda serves on points 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 and 12.”
However, Lee simply joked: “Miranda – and there’s the explanation.”
In another episode, a whopping 25 contestants were wiped out on an “easy” picture question.
Not only that, it was an 80% question – which are posed very early in the show.
Lee asked the quiz hopefuls: “What two-word phrase does this code represent?”
Contestants were then shown side-by-side photos of a clock and some flies.
Once the 30 second time limit expired, it was shown 25 people had answered incorrectly.
Lee remarked: “I was not expecting that”, as he discovered the outcome.
The right answer was revealed as the common phrase “time flies”.
Speaking to eliminated contestants afterwards, Lee discovered at least two had answered “clock flies”.
The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.