Each channel has a terribly complicated quiz show that forces contestants to think outside the box.
The BBC has the ever-challenging Only Connect, Channel 4 once had Fifteen to One and even Channel 5 had the delightfully challenging Puzzling. But for ITV, their most recent hit game show came in the form of The 1% Club.
The premise of the show revolves around being the last player standing in the studio, as contestants have to use their brains to figure some challenging questions. Very few people have been able to come out with the full jackpot, which would stand at an eye-watering £100k.
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So, as the show is set to finish for another series this weekend, Daily Star takes a look at some of the most challenging 1% Club questions ever.
Letters and numbers
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For the final question, which is supposed to be only answerable by 1% of the public, contestants were asked to draw on their letter and number skills. They were shown a series of countries and corresponding numbers.
For example, one given set of nations was: Jamaica + Japan = 124. Similarly, Argentina and Armenia were paired together, with a number equalling = 1245.
The three remaining players were then given just 30 seconds to work out what the number would be between England and Germany. All three, were not able to work out the number was 56, as the fifth and sixth letters in one word were the same as the other – each taking home a respectable £3,333 each.
To work out the other examples, both Jamaica and Japan share the first, second and fourth letters, giving the number 124. Argentina and Armenia shared the same, as well as the fifth letter, giving a score of 1245.
Birthday riddles
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In a previous series of the show, the 10% question – which is supposedly able to be answered correctly by 10% of the UK public – revolved around birthdays. The question read: “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 ‘?’ of January.”
The question had many of the contestants still in the game stumped, and many passed on the question. However, presenter Lee Mack was on hand to explain the answer to the puzzle.
The answer was revealed to be the number 24. The reasoning for this was that the number for each birthday corresponded to the position of the word in the sentence.
Explaining this, Edna’s birthday was the 6th of April, as ‘sixth’ was the sixth word in the sentence. Similarly, with Jen’s birth date being the 15th word of the sentence, her birthday was due to be the 15th of October – as the months do not matter to the answer.
‘Impossible’ to answer
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The show might be challenging to us here in Blighty, but in the Australian version of the show, the questions are even tougher. One man who managed to outsmart his way to the final came in to try and win a share of $100,000 Australian dollars.
Aussie host Jim Jeffries asked contestant Michael the following question. “If January equals 717, March equals 5315 and June equals 4624, then what does August equal?” before giving Michael thirty seconds to answer.
Whilst many fans had absolutely no clue on the answer, Michael was frantically changing his answer, before settling on ‘6848’. Jeffries beamed with joy to tell him he was correct and that he had won the jackpot.
Explaining the answer, host Jim said that the first number corresponded to the number of letters in the name of the month. The second number was worked out to be where the month fell in the sequence of months, before the final two digits were the result of multiplying the first two numbers together.
Fans of the show were left gobsmacked at the rationale behind the brain teaser, as one fan bemoaned it was “impossible”. A second user said: “I could never do this under pressure in 30 seconds.”
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