The 1% Club contestant scores £98k as the one quizzer capable of reply closing query – however can YOU beat the percentages and remedy it in 30 seconds?

Viewers of The 1% Club were floored by Saturday’s episode of the popular quiz show when a clever contestant was the only person able to answer the final question.

Contestant Joshua O’Brien was left covering his mouth in shock when Lee Mack told him that he had managed to beat the odds and get the correct answer – winning himself a whopping £98,000. 

For those unfamiliar with its premise, The 1% Club is a quiz show centred around increasingly difficult questions.

Those who reach the final rounds are in the top 1% and their intelligence is put to the ultimate test as they try their luck to win up to £100,000.

The final question read: ‘What is the lowest number to have the same value as ten times the number of letters in its name?’

While four contestants attempted to answer the final question correctly and win a share of the jackpot, only one of them was able to answer the tricky maths problem in just 30 seconds. 

Contestant Joshua O’Brien was left covering his mouth in shock when Lee Mack told him that he had managed to beat the odds and get the correct answer to the final question The 1% Club

Viewers were floored by Saturday’s episode of the popular quiz show when a clever contestant was the ONLY person able to even answer the final question and win £98,000

While four contestants attempted to answer the final question correctly and win a share of the jackpot, only one of them was able to answer the tricky maths problem in just 30 seconds

Were you able to work out the correct answer?

It was 50, with Lee Mack explaining that the number has five letters in its name and when multiplied by ten, it equates to its own value. 

Viewers of the show have been full of praise for its challenging, but exciting format as they play along at home.

They wrote on X: ‘The 1% Club is one of the very few terrestrial TV shows I watch at the minute it’s so good [sic].’;

#The1PercentClub where do they get some of these contestants from. Every time this is on there’s some right oddballs but it does make good viewing.’;

‘As if my 8 year old granddaughter got that right and I didn’t #embarrassing #1percentclub.’;

‘My family are going absolutely ballistic that I’m casually getting all the #1PercentClub questions correct whilst I’m just sat in a blanket and surfing the net and they’re all taking it so seriously.’;

‘Lee Mack is very, very funny #1percentclub.’

The correct answer was 50, with host Lee Mack explaining that the number has five letters in its name and when multiplied by ten, it equates to its own value

Viewers of the show have been full of praise for its challenging, but exciting format as they play along at home, writing: ‘The 1% club is one of the very few terrestrial TV shows I watch at the minute it’s so good [sic]’

Lee Mack opened up about the show’s popularity at the National Television Awards when The 1% Club won Best Quiz Game Show.

He said: ‘It’s very nice. For me, because we did the pilot before Covid, it’s been around forever, but it’s new on telly.

‘People love a quiz show.’

The comedian joked ahead of the 2025 season: ‘Let’s be honest, the fact that I haven’t accidentally given a hundred grand to the wrong person or read out the answer instead of the question is as much a surprise to me as it is to everyone else.

‘I’m really delighted that ITV is risking me steering this ship once again. I can’t wait to discover more of the nation’s brainboxes.’

The 1% Club airs on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.