The 1% Club finalist misses out on £96k jackpot after swerving tough calendar query – however can YOU defy the percentages and remedy it?

A contestant on Saturday’s episode of The 1% Club missed out on a whopping £96,000 jackpot after swerving a VERY tricky calendar question – but could you have got it right?

As the show’s name suggests, it attempts to find the top 1% of 100 players by asking them a series of increasingly difficult quiz questions, which builds up the total prize pot for the 1% to as much as £100,000.  

The difficult question read: ‘On their first date Noah and Evie discovered they were both born in the same year, 2001, and in the same month May.

‘Evie asked Noah on what date in May he was born and their conversation is shown below. What is Evie’s date of birth?’

The conversation began with Noah saying: ‘If you add the two digits in the date together you get 11.’

In response, Evie replies: ‘In that case I am exactly four weeks older than you.’

A contestant on Saturday’s episode of The 1% Club missed out on a whopping £96,000 jackpot after fumbling a VERY tricky calendar question – but could you have got it right?

On Saturday, just one player was still in the running for the final question, Rebecca, but would she be brave enough to risk her guaranteed prize of £10,000 to scoop the show’s jackpot…

The show’s host Lee Mack said: ‘Rebecca because you have done so well and made it to our final question, you win £10,000. But now you face a dilemma, you can leave the show now and take the £10,000 or you can risk it all by attempting the 1% question’

On Saturday, just one player was still in the running for the final question, Rebecca, but would she be brave enough to risk her guaranteed prize of £10,000 to scoop the show’s jackpot?

The show’s host Lee Mack said: ‘Rebecca because you have done so well and made it to our final question, you win £10,000.

‘But now you face a dilemma, you can leave the show now and take the £10,000 or you can risk it all by attempting the 1% question.

‘If you get it right you will win everything in the prize pot which stands at £96,000. So, what’s going on in your head right now?’

She said: ‘I kind of thought that if there was more than one person here, I would probably carry on.

‘But £10,000 is a lot of money.’

Rebecca then opted to take the £10,000, admitting that when she plays along at home, she typically only gets the 1% question right ‘about’ fifty percent of the time – so it would have been too big a risk to take.

Lee proceeded to ask the contestant what her answer would have been if she was feeling brave enough to attempt the tricky question for a whopping £96,000. 

Lee went on to reveal that Rebecca’s instinct was correct and the correct answer was, in fact, May 1 – exactly 29 days earlier than her guess

Reacting to her answer, Lee said: ‘Well done, Rebecca, you did the right thing’

Viewers of the show were quick to congratulate Rebecca for making the right call on social media

Rebecca said: ‘I was going to say the 30th but I don’t think that’s right.’

Lee went on to reveal that Rebecca’s instinct was correct and the correct answer was, in fact, May 1 – exactly 29 days earlier than her guess.  

Needless to say, Rebecca looked visibly overcome with relief that she hadn’t decided to risk the £10,000 and all the progress she has made in the game.  

Reacting to her answer, Lee said: ‘Well done, Rebecca, you did the right thing.’ 

Viewers of the show were quick to congratulate Rebecca for making the right call on social media.

They wrote on Twitter/X: ‘Well played Rebecca. You made the correct decision. Enjoy. #The1PercentClub.’  

‘Woop! Well done Rebecca. #The1PercentClub.’ 

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