1% Club question stumps everyone in the studio and meant no one won any money

The final question on the latest episode of The 1% Club had everyone competing for it absolutely stumped and resulted in nobody walking away with the prize pot.

That ITV quiz show we all know and love, where the clue for the answer is so often buried in the question, returned for another episode last night (3 May) and a whopping five contestants made it into the final round.

You know how the format goes, there's 100 contestants answering progressively harder questions and for each one knocked out £1,000 is added to the prize pot, with options to throw your money into the pot to skip a question or to take your £1,000 and leave also becoming available.

Get through to the final round and you can collect your share of £10,000, which would have meant winning £2,000 each since there were five contestants, or bet it all on the hardest question of the night for a chance to win the pot.

All of the final five elected to play until the end and gamble on the one percent question, check it out:

If you want to try and play along give yourself 30 seconds to try and figure it out to see if you'd have won The 1% Club's latest challenge.

Frankly, my dear reader, I didn't get this one last night when I was playing along at home and watching the show.

I'd have needed to use my pass to get through a previous question anyway but on this final question I was left absolutely stumped, and it seems that the episode's contestants shared my confusion as they all got it wrong.

30 seconds to solve it, can you work it out? (ITV)

Some of them didn't put anything, others managed to scribble something down but were told by host Lee Mack that they were incorrect.

It turns out that the answer was 'sea', as it could be put in front of all of the capitalised words on there to make other words.

If you got it correct then award yourself a pat on the back, but let's be honest, that's a tricky one to get with the time pressure bearing down on you.

With the clock ticking down, you just don't have time to consider all of the possibilities and if you haven't landed on the correct answer in time you're looking at walking away without any money.

It seems so obvious when you put it like that (ITV)

Difficult questions are rather the point of the show, as there was another recent one percent question which went unanswered in the episode with the entire prize pot of £100,000 up for grabs.

As if that's not enough for a brainteaser, there's also the question which caused 46 players to use their pass.

See if you can get that one right.

The hardest 1% Club questions ever

If you figured those out then you might enjoy tackling some of the hardest ever questions contestants on The 1% Club have faced:

What is the first number that when spelled out has its letters in alphabetical order? Answer here.

If January equals 717, March equals 5315 and June equals 4624, then what does August equal? Answer here.

Lee was driving when he noticed his milometer read 16961 and was the same backwards and forwards. What will the next mileage be that also reads the same backwards and forwards? Answer here.

Into, Therefore, Evaluate, Benign. All of the words have something in common. Can you work out what it is? Answer here.

A bat and a ball cost £1.10 in total. The bat costs £1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Answer here.