WHO Wants To Be A Millionaire? viewers are often told the quiz is only easy if you know the answers.
But many were left stunned on Saturday night when a player couldn’t answer the £300 question and had to use a lifeline.
Jeremy Clarkson returned to host a fresh series of Millionaire?
Player Owaiz Khan ran into trouble very early in the game
Owaiz Khan from Manchester was stumped and had to call on the audience for help on the third of Jeremy Clarkson‘s posers.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? fans were stunned, with one tweeting: “Audience for £300 You are joking.”
Another wrote: “Man just asked the audience on a £300 question. Good start.”
The engineer was asked: “Which of these professionals is most likely to perform a pirouette?”
The options were: magician, ballet dancer, stand-up comedian and sumo wrestler.
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As he sat looking at the screen without speaking, Jeremy said simply: “Uncomfortable silence.”
In the end he asked the audience, with an overwhelming 95% per cent saying it was a ballet dancer – plus one joker putting sumo wrestler.
Jeremy said: “Well I’ve never seen that before – hilariously five per cent think it’s sumo wrestling. I would love to see that.”
Owaiz said: “I’ll go with the audience” – earning himself a correct answer.
Despite the set-back, the player wound up leaving the show with a very respectable £32,000.
He got there thanks to a very lucky gamble when he was asked to name the tallest of four sculptures and chanced upon the highest – Michaelangelo’s David.
Like Helen, who won £125,000, before him Owaiz won his place on the show thanks to ITV’s new daytime quiz Fastest Finger.
The winners of that quiz bags themselves a shot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and its £1million prize.
He got a very timely helping hand from the Millionaire? audience
