Everyone’s favourite shiny-floored quiz show returned to screens on Saturday, with Lee Mack guiding more contestants through increasingly difficult brainteasers. But this edition of The 1% Club had viewers scratching their heads at one contestant’s bizarre admission.
It was surprising enough to see the contestant get one of the easier early questions wrong, but things got even worse when he started to talk about his reasoning for the incorrect answer.
Who, what and why?
This apparently simple question outfoxed one contestant on The 1% Club. (ITV)
The second question on this week’s show asked: ‘An Engilshman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. Which one is wrong?’ A huge majority of the contestants noticed that “Engilshman” was not the correct spelling, but an unfortunate quizzer called Toby got it wrong.
“I put Scotsman because I honestly had no idea,” said Toby. Mack sympathised, saying he thought “it is actually tricky to see”, but his sympathy evaporated when Toby explained that he didn’t think “Scotsman” was even a real word.
Mack said: “Did you not think it was a real country? Like Mordor or something?”
“I thought Manchester was in Scotland until yesterday, when apparently it’s not,” Toby continued. “I’m from London. I’ve never been anywhere higher than London.”
It’s fair to say that viewers weren’t particularly forgiving of Toby’s ropey geography knowledge.
In disbelief, Mack asked if Toby was “taking the mickey” and added: “When I saw you, I thought ‘great, I can do loads of gags about the little kid who’s still at school’, but I’m starting to doubt that you’ve ever been to school.”
Mack then moved on to another contestant, who also wasn’t sure that Scotsman was a real word. So Toby wasn’t alone, even if his grasp of non-M25 places left a lot to be desired.
Toby then explained that he had intended to spend some of the winnings from the show on paying his friend back for the Taylor Swift tickets she bought. Mack then joked that, rather than be bothered by the situation, he would “shake it off”.
What else happened on The 1% Club?
The 1% Club with Lee Mack has become one of the biggest gameshows in years. (ITV)
Two of the competitors on this week’s episode made it all the way through the game to the final question, which in theory can only be answered by one percent of the population. They both had the opportunity to cash out with £5,000 or have a go at that final question, potentially winning £99,000.
This is what they were faced with…
One of the remaining contestants, Mitel, noticed that the sentence is a palindrome — it reads the same backwards as forwards — and therefore the answer is “worm”. He left the show with the £99,000 jackpot.
