The 1% Club eliminates 11 players on tricky bird question – could you have worked it out in 30 seconds?

The Sun

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THE 1% Club wiped out 11 contestants on a tricky bird question - but could you have got it right?
The popular ITV quiz hosted by Lee Mack is the "ultimate leveller" - testing logic and common sense rather than general knowledge.
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100 players begin the game, but are eliminated round-by-round with increasingly hard questions.
In one episode, a puzzling bird question left several participants stumped.
11 players failed to answer the 60% question - which combined sport and birds.
Lee asked the remaining contestants: "Which of these sporting events would you most associate with a magnificent bird?"
The available options were, in lower-case: a) fa cup, b) super bowl or c) olympic games.
The hopefuls had just 30 seconds to input their answer, in the hope they'd answered correctly.
Once time was up, it turned out the correct answer was b) super bowl.
By combining the two words, you get "Superb Owl" - associated with "magnificent bird".
In a different episode, seven players were wiped out instantly on an "easy" 90% question.
The 90% is the very first question to be asked - and is generally the most straightforward.
The 1% Club knocks out 8 players with 'easy' picture question
Reading the question aloud, Lee said: "Which of the following words still makes a valid word if you change the first letter to the next letter in the alphabet?"
Continuing, Lee then told the players of the three choices they had to pick from, which were - Page, Rage and Wage.
With 30 seconds on the clock, the 100 players did their best to attempt to answer the question.
However, for seven of them, they could not get to the right answer.
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.
Lee then confirmed that the answer was in fact, Rage.
By switching the 'R' to an 'S' - the following letter in the alphabet - players were left with the word, Sage.
Page would have produced "oage", whilst Wage would have read "xage".
The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
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