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The 1% Club viewers left baffled after 'easy' question eliminates 12 contestants

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Published 11:00 11 May 2025 GMT+1

The 1% Club viewers left baffled after 'easy' question eliminates 12 contestants

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Brenna Cooper

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For those who prefer to spend their evenings indoors and nestled in front of the TV, Saturday night means only one thing... shouting at the screen when gameshow contestants get supposedly simple questions wrong.

And last night (10 May) was no different, after an 'easy' question on The 1% Club saw 12 people eliminated from the game.

Hosted by Lee Mack, the ITV quiz show shuns general knowledge in favour of asking questions which favour logic and reasoning.

Which means swotting up on pop culture and the week's main news stories won't help you here.

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The 1% Club questions also have a clever knack of catching contestants out while all of us at home are left shaking our heads and saying, 'Isn't it obvious?'

The game's 30 percent question presented contestants with the image of a calculator and asked the following: "What's the largest four-digit number you can type using just the number keys on the bottom two rows of this calculator without using the same number key twice?"

Take a look at the question and image presented to contestants below and make a note of your answer before finding out if you would've been kicked from the quiz or had a shot at winning your share of the prize pot.

Have you got it? (ITV)
Have you got it? (ITV)

Unfortunately for yesterday's hopefuls, the pressure of being in the studio proved to be too much as the relatively straightforward question eliminated 12 contestants from the game.

After booting the unlucky 12 from the running Mack then revealed the answer was '3210', with the four numbers being the only ones available amongst the symbols on the bottom row of the calculator.

It seems very obvious when you hear the explanation.

Viewers at home were, of course, unimpressed to see so many people get the question wrong and wasted no time in sharing their reactions on social media.

"How did 12 go out???? It’s 3210," penned one competitive viewer on X, while a second added: "#The1PercentClub The calculator question seems suspiciously easy."

A third wrote: "12 people? I'm amazed they managed to apply! #The1PercentClub."

Fortunately for the unlucky quizzers, they didn't face the embarrassment of struggling to get past the 90 percent question, which managed to catch out another 12 people, take a look at it below:

The pressure of being on a gameshow gets the best of all us (ITV)
The pressure of being on a gameshow gets the best of all us (ITV)

The answer to this fruity-based question is of course mango, using the letters M-A-N-G-O and ignoring F, P and H.

The hardest 1% Club questions ever

If you figured those out then you might enjoy having a go at some of the hardest ever questions contestants on The 1% Club have faced:

What is the first number that when spelled out has its letters in alphabetical order? Answer here.

If January equals 717, March equals 5315 and June equals 4624, then what does August equal? Answer here.

Lee was driving when he noticed his milometer read 16961 and was the same backwards and forwards. What will the next mileage be that also reads the same backwards and forwards? Answer here.

Into, Therefore, Evaluate, Benign. All of the words have something in common. Can you work out what it is? Answer here.

A bat and a ball cost £1.10 in total. The bat costs £1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Answer here.

Featured Image Credit: ITV

Topics: TV, The 1% Club, ITV

Brenna Cooper
Brenna Cooper

Brenna Cooper is a journalist at LADbible. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in History, followed by an NCTJ accredited masters in Journalism. She began her career as a freelance writer for Digital Spy, where she wrote about all things TV, film and showbiz. Her favourite topics to cover are music, travel and any bizarre pop culture.

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