EVER dreamed of appearing on a quiz show but feared your general knowledge just wasn’t up to it?
Well, there’s no need to be a walking Wikipedia to win Lee Mack’s tantalising new ITV contest The 1% Club.
Instead, common sense and logic rule in this show, which builds up to a £100,000 question that only one per cent of the public have managed to get right.
Each of the 100 contestants starts with £1,000 in prize money and are asked a series of questions that a smaller and smaller percentage of the public knew the answers to.
Get one wrong and they are eliminated — and their money is put into a pool that’s later split between the one per cent who get the ultimate question right.
Get all 12 questions correct and you could bag up to £100,000.
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Presenter Lee believes it’s perfect for people like him who get frustrated by their lack of general knowledge and love yelling at the telly.
He said: “Great contestants, loads of cash to win, and guaranteed ‘I can’t believe you couldn’t work that one out Dad!’ moments to cause family disputes — I love it.”
He continued: “I like quizzes that are tough. I watch University Challenge knowing that if I’m lucky I’ll get a couple of questions right, and I’m more than happy with that because when you get it right, you feel great.
“That’s what I really like about The 1% Club. Producers shared some questions with me and if I’d been able to get them all right, I probably wouldn’t have done the show. But I quickly realised if someone gets these right, they’re a proper brainbox.
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“Most quizzes use traditional questions, general knowledge style.
“You either know them or you don’t straight away. But what’s good about The 1% Club is the questions are about logic. If you don’t know straight away and your brain is quick enough, you can try to work it out in the 30 seconds you have to answer.
“Intelligence and knowledge can be quite different things — people who aren’t academic can have high IQs and this is more logic-based than just remembering facts. I’m not going to lie, I went through the whole series without getting a 1%. The best I did was a 5% question.
“One of the funniest moments we had during filming was a chap who was desperate for us to get going as he was dying for the loo and kept asking us to do it quicker.
“I also found it a lot more tense than I thought I would. The decision to go for the big prize or not...the tension in the studio was electric and as you’ve spent all evening getting to know the players, you really want them to do well.
“£100k is an awful lot of money to win and it’s heartbreaking if it doesn’t happen.”
So can you spot the difference between two near-identical pictures? Are you a whizz who can instantly work out how many vowels there are in numbers when they’re spelled out?
If so, The 1% Club could be for you. Try our quiz to see if you’re a natural — or just one of the 99 per cent.
- The 1% Club is on ITV at 8.30pm tonight.
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ANSWERS... NO PEEKING
90%: It should be a red light, not a green light, at the top.
80%: D. EW – the rest are girls’ names when read aloud. LC reads as Elsie, KT is Katie, IV is Ivy and EW is just Ew.
70%: 0 – it never appears.
60%: One player is left-handed, one is right-handed.
50%: A – Green kite. The other items rhyme with the colour of their background: Red and bed, blue and glue, and brown and crown.
40%: B – it is the only candle that is alight.
35%: 0 – there is a 0 on a keypad and as soon as you multiply anything by 0, the answer will always be 0.
30%: Left – the image in front of the mirror is just reflected, not reversed or switched left to right. So the watch looks like it is on his left wrist and it is on his left wrist.
20%: T – most people assume it is E because it is the most common letter. Surprisingly only 20 per cent get this right, even though it is just a case of counting which letter is used the most.
15%: A – all the rest are left hands, and A is the only right hand.
5%: S and E – if you put S and E in the gaps, it spells out “She sells sea shells on the the sea shore”.
1%: 40 – F-O-R-T-Y.
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