The 1% Club earnestly divides viewers implicit an 'incorrect' reply - but would you get it right?
Viewers tuned successful for the latest instalment of Lee Mack's ITV hit, which aired connected Saturday.
It sees 100 contestants vie for a £100,000 prize cookware by answering 15 logic-inspired questions that get progressively harder.
It kicks disconnected with a question which 90 per cent of the colonisation polled got right.
It past goes connected to inquire questions which smaller and smaller percentages of the state got right, culminating with a 1% question.
In the latest episode, the contestants faced a baffling animal-related question: "Without reordering immoderate letters, however galore animals look successful the series below?"
The question included the jumbled connection "PHEASANTORTOISEALION".
Viewers attempted to reply the question connected societal media but fans were divided connected what constituted the close answer.
The authoritative verdict was six animals - pheasant, sealion, ant, seal, tortoise, and lion - though determination was contention implicit classifying an ant arsenic an animal, reports the Mirror.
One spectator said: "#The1PercentClub An ant is NOT an animal! Outrage!"
Another added: "Pheasant is simply a bird, ant is an insect, seal and sealion are mammals, truthful the close reply should beryllium 2 (lion and tortoise).
"If the question was ‘how galore creatures…’ past it’s 6. Bad question wording #The1PercentClub"
The 1% Club viewers marque last question 'easiest ever' arsenic contestants neglect to triumph £96k - but would you person got it right-
Another wrote: "#The1PercentClub An ant is an insect not an animal!",
"Ant is an insect.. #The1PercentClub…" agreed another.
But different viewers disagreed and said: "The magnitude of radical connected the hashtag saying an ant isn't an animal… #The1PercentClub."
"To each those saying otherwise. Yes an ant is an animal. All insects are. #The1PercentClub", added another.
Hardest Quiz Show Questions
Would you cognize the answers to immoderate of quizzing TV's hardest questions
- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Earlier this year, fans were near outraged aft what they described arsenic the "worst" question successful the show's history. Host Jeremy Clarkson asked: “From the 2000 awards ceremonial onwards, the Best Actress Oscar has ne'er been won by a pistillate whose surname begins with which 1 of these letters?” The aggregate prime answers were betwixt G, K, M and W. In the end, and with the £32,000 safe, subordinate Glen had to marque a conjecture and went for G. It turned retired to beryllium close as Nicole Kidman, Frances McDormand and Kate Winslet are among the stars who person won the Best Actress gong since 2000.
- The 1% Club - Viewers of Lee Mack's fashionable ITV amusement were near dumbfounded by a question that besides near the players perplexed. The query went arsenic follows: "Edna's day is connected the 6th of April and Jen's day falls connected the 15th of October, truthful Amir's day indispensable beryllium the 'X' of January." It turns retired the conundrum links the numbers with its presumption successful the sentence, truthful 6th is the sixth connection and 15th is the fifteenth word. Therefore, Amir’s day is January 24th, corresponding to the 24th connection successful the sentence.
- The Chase - The ITV daytime favourite near fans scratching their heads erstwhile it threw up 1 of the astir bizarre questions to ever grace the programme. One of the questions asked the player: "Someone with a nightshade intolerance should debar eating what?" The options were - sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots - with Steve selecting sweetcorn but the close reply was potatoes.
"Insects are animals" agreed different viewer.
"Yes, ants are animals! As each insects, they are arthropods (along with spiders, crustaceans, centipedes and millipedes). A batch of radical request a sojourn to the Natural History Museum!" ranted another.
Later successful the show, five contestants were left, vying to reply the final 1% Club question correctly.
They were fixed a prime of taking £10k home, which would spot them each locomotion distant with £2,000 oregon instrumentality connected the question.
One subordinate called Christoper decided to instrumentality his stock and bow out, portion the remainder played on.
The remainder were asked: "The words beneath stock a circumstantial pattern. Why could VOTING besides beryllium portion of the group?'"
The words listed were Bandleader, Nickelodeo and Silverback.
Only 1 contestant attempted to reply the question but they got it wrong, meaning cipher took location cash.
Host Lee, 56, revealed that each connection contained a metallic - including lead, nickel, metallic and tin.
ITV viewers astatine location branded the question the 'easiest ever' and flooded societal media with comments.
One said: "That was the easiest 1% question I tin remember. Thought it indispensable beryllium incorrect arsenic it couldn't beryllium that easy. Amazed not 1 of them had a clue."
A 2nd wrote: "Got this wrong 5 seconds was acold excessively casual with metallic and nickel arsenic the commencement of the words and tin being the lone different connection successful voting."
"My 12-year-old got this. Metals successful the words," said a third.
While a 4th posted: "That seemed a beauteous casual 1% Question to me?!"
The 1% Club airs connected ITV1 and is disposable to watercourse connected ITVX.