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Daily Mail
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The 1% Club's mind-boggling arrow question requires a keen eye - but can YOU decode it within 30 seconds?
The 1% Club's mind-boggling arrow question requires a keen eye - but can YOU decode it within 30 seconds? In an episode of the ITV show, which aired back in 2022, two players lost their place in the competition after getting it wrong. Host Lee Mack, 56, returned to our screens to present the beloved show and see if anyone could answer the 1% question. But before they got to that stage, some struggled to answer one of the questions very early on in the episode. Lee said: 'We are at the 45% stage. Let's see the question... 'If you turn this image 90 degrees clockwise, how many arrows are pointing to the right? Your 30 seconds starts now.' The contestants were then shown a selection of blue arrows that were all going in different directions. Trying to amuse the players while wracking their brains, Lee said: 'This is like when my nan used to try and do a three-point turn.' The live audience saw the funny side of the gag and burst into laughter. After the 30 seconds was completed, Lee said: 'Okay, your time is up. Let's see who got the question right!' Only two got the answer incorrect, meaning that 18 players were still in the game at that point. Lee said: 'Let's have a look at the answer. It's two! As it's a 90 degree clockwise turn, you needed to find the arrows that were pointing up that would then be pointing to the right.' He then went to some of the audience members who got it right, including Georgia Massey. She confessed: 'I used my pass, honestly I got so, so confused. 'I went to pass then I was like no I'll try again and then I panicked... I've got to be in it so...' It comes after The 1% Club players were left very confused by a challenging letters question in a previous episode of the ITV show - but can you defy the odds and solve it? Three contestants waved goodbye to host Lee Mack, 56, and the other players after being asked the 15% question. Ten players remained and Lee asked them: 'It's now time for the 15% question... 'Which two words, that contain the same five letters as each other but in a different order, mean the same as the two words below?' The words below were 'fairly silent'. Making light of the situation, Lee told them: 'And the answer isn't Silent Fairly.' After revealing that their time was up, three players were given the boot. 'We lost three people there, let's look at the answer,' Lee said. He continued: 'It's quite and quiet. 'Fairly equals quite and silent equals quiet.' Lee pointed out: 'Somebody who got it right is Jackie Eminsang. 'You have just answered the 15% question... 'Did you think you'd get this far?' 'No, not at all,' she replied. 'I'm getting less confident with each question.' Lee didn't hold back and said: 'That's weird. But I know what you mean. 'It gets more tense I guess, doesn't it? The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.
New York Times
14 hours ago
- Sport
- New York Times
The Athletic's Friday football quiz question #60
Welcome to the 60th edition of The Athletic's Friday quiz question. At the end of every week, we'll serve up a poser from our vault of football conundrums. It won't be easy (unless you're really good), but what better way to head into the weekend than by giving your soccer-loving brain some exercise? Chuck it in your group chats and see who knows their stuff. Advertisement Oh, and there's no prize, except the quiet satisfaction of a job well done. So, without any further delay… Six men played for England in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Name them? Stuck? The answers will be revealed here later today. P.S. The links to the previous 59 Friday quiz questions are below. The previous quiz questions: Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25 Question 26 Question 27 Question 28 Question 29 Question 30 Question 31 Question 32 Question 33 Question 34 Question 35 Question 36 Question 37 Question 38 Question 39 Question 40 Question 41 Question 42 Question 43 Question 44 Question 45 Question 46 Question 47 Question 48 Question 49 Question 50 Question 51 Question 52 Question 53 Question 54 Question 55 Question 56 Question 57 Question 58 Question 59 (Top image artwork: Eamonn Dalton)
The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The 1% Club baffles players with difficult arrows question – but could you get it in 30 seconds?
CONTESTANTS on The 1% Club have been left bemused by an arrow-inspired visual brain teaser. The ITV quiz saw players perplexed by the confusing arrow-heavy question - but could you get it right? 6 6 Yet again, the challenging 45% question proved too difficult for some contestants. Host Lee Mack asked the players: "If you turn this image 90 degrees clockwise, how many arrows are pointing to the right?" "This is like when my nan used to do a three-point turn," Lee joked. With just 30 seconds to work out the correct answer, two people were lost after getting it wrong. After the brain-basher, 18 people were still left in the game with the jackpot at £87,000. But can you work out how many arrows there should be? Lee confirmed the answer: "As it's a 90 degree clockwise turn, you needed to find the arrows that were pointing up that would then be turning to the right." The Not Going Out actor revealed: "The answer is 2." The ITV game show is a TV quiz favourite that doesn't rely on general knowledge, but instead tests players' logic and common sense. Round by round, the puzzles get increasingly difficult as more people are eliminated. The 1% Club players struggle on very tough letters question - can you outsmart them? It's not the first time players have struggled to get their heads round a question - and it certainly won't be the last. The popular show recently saw 16 celebs wiped out with an easy anagram question. The Soccer Aid special of the ITV game show tested 100 celebrities and athletes on their logic and common sense. The star-studded lineup included Jill Scott, Iain Stirling, Paddy McGuinness, Tommy Fury, Tony Bellew, Chris Hughes and many more. They all hoped to reach the end and win up to £100,000 prize money for the UNICEF charity. But by the 1% question there were just two contenders remaining. Could you tackle their teaser in just half a minute? The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX. 6 6 6 6
The Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The 1% Club players struggle on very tough letters question – can you outsmart them?
THREE contestants were left stumped by a tricky letter riddle that whittled down the competition in its final stages. Host Lee Mack tasked the 10 remaining players with a tough challenge for the 15% question. 3 It read: "Which two words, that contain the same five letters as each other but in a different order, mean the same as the two words below? Fairly silent." The clock began to tick and the remaining players did their best to find the answer from within the recesses of their minds. The correct answer was "quite quiet". Contestant Jackie successfully got the answer right but told Lee that she was getting "less confident with every question". Sadly for her, she fell close to the final hurdle with the 5% question proving too much. For that question, the contestants were presented with a jumbled up clock face with the minute hand pointing at six, which was in the 12 position, and the small hand close to 10, which was was where nine is usually found. They were tasked with working out the time on the clock if the hands moved 30 minutes clockwise. The answer was 10 o'clock. Jackie was the sole casualty of the question and her exit paved the way for five contestants to have the opportunity to win a potential £97,000. All five men standing decided to gamble their £10k prize for a chance of winning more money and to become a member of the 1% Club. The question was: "What new word links the capitalised words below? My SON TED ate raw FOOD and got SICK, then went to BED with me by his SIDE." The answer was 'sea' which could be placed before each word to make a series of new words. No one got the answer right. The 1% Club's Lee Mack stunned as 60% question wipes out ZERO celebrities 3 The 1% Club's Most Difficult Questions The 1% Club sees 100 contestants try and make it to the 1% question and be in with a chance to win a share of the jackpot. Here are just some of the show's most difficult teasers. Players had to compare and contrast three images of butterflies then explain which of the butterflies were exactly the same on both sides. Find the image and answer here. Players were shown groups of six symbols then asked which were in the same order whether you read them from left to right or right to left. Find the image and answer here. Players were asked how many different combinations were there of displaying four digits on one hand. Find the answer here. Peter had recently found his old diary that he'd written in secret code but he couldn't remember how to decipher what he wrote. Players were asked to crack the code and find out what the bold word was. WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72. Find the image and answer here. Players were tasked with working out how many eyes they could see in an image, which was made up of letters, symbols and emojis. Find the image and the answer here. A 1% question was based on a grid of numbers going in ascending order from 1 to 49. Starting on 25, the middle square, SEEN took you to square 27. From there, NEW took you to 20. From there, which square would SEWN take you to? Find the image and the answer here. And finally, an easy one - What common food in bold has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER If you really don't know you can find the answer here.
The Guardian
4 days ago
- General
- The Guardian
How not to be the most annoying person in a pub quiz – five things I've learned
I am always considered likely to be a quiz asset, because I'm old, and yet I'm a huge quiz deficit – not only usually wrong, but with such confident delivery that I make others in the team, who are right, lose their way, like a magnet on a compass. After another stunning defeat, in which we slipped from a mediocre seventh or eighth back to last place, having had 20 points deducted because I poked the quiz guy with a pencil, I'm ready to pass on some basic quizdom. First, don't poke the quiz guy with a pencil. Don't harangue the marking team or try to cut a deal. In fact, keep all extra-team interactions at zero. Forget the captain, forget the person with the best handwriting, choose your most emollient member and make them do the talking for all of you. Second, the easier a round sounds, the harder it will be. You'll take a look at 'condiments' and think it's a shoo-in because you know what it's called when they mix beetroot with horseradish; then you'll be asked who designed the logo for Colman's in 1814. Third, dead wood always gets a bad name in this environment, but good-hearted, neutral players who don't have much to add beyond 'yes, Manchester City sounds plausible' are much more useful than anyone with a strong view. Fourth, if you really want to help, learn one of the following and forget everything else: the entire London underground map; the county town of every British county; all the Doctor Who leads. Maybe that will make you the hero three times in your life, maybe you'll never use it, but you'll stave off cognitive decline. It's win-win. Fifth, that song title will come to you eventually; you just have to stop time and cast a sleeping spell over everyone else in the room. If, for any reason, this option isn't available to you, will you just for the love of God get over yourself? This is really just a long and very public way of saying: sorry, team; sorry, quizmaster; sorry, other teams; sorry, world of general knowledge. Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist
