Overview
- Clarke Carlisle became the first participant to nail the final 1% question on the Soccer Aid special, securing the £100,000 prize for UNICEF.
- Host Lee Mack guided contestants through 15 timed questions that assess logic, pattern recognition and common sense rather than general knowledge.
- A May 2022 episode question asking for the next letter in the sequence SENTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT left viewers divided until the answer F for Forty was revealed.
- An emoji face puzzle featuring 18 icons knocked out 30 contestants who failed to spot that 10 happy faces outnumbered eight sad ones.
- Since its 2022 debut, The1% Club has won two National Television Awards and distinguishes itself by pre-rating questions through public surveys to calibrate difficulty levels.