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.

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.

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.

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.