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Watch the moment The Hit List star wins £10k jackpot for first time in show history with tricky music question

Watch the moment The Hit List star wins £10k jackpot for first time in show history with tricky music question

The Sun6 days ago
A CONTESTANT on The Hit List made show history by winning the £10,000 jackpot for the first time.
Hosted by Marvin and Rochelle Humes, the BBC music-based quiz launched in 2019.
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Since then, more than 250 contestant duos have hoped to win the show's top prize -only to fall short.
Father and son duo Paul and Tom, from Liverpool, walked away with the full £10,000 - achieving what had seemed impossible.
The high-pressure Final Chart Rundown sees contestants try and name 10 songs and artists.
After five seconds of each song has played, the money in the prize pot starts to drop.
This means that players make less money the longer time they take.
However, dream Paul and Tom answered every one correctly in less than five seconds, therefore keeping every penny.
Events and marketing coordinator Tom, 26, and catering business owner Paul 61, share a love of music.
They credited their success to complementary music taste -Paul's love of 60s,70s,80s and Tom's knowledge of 90's and 00's.
Meanwhile, the final song that secured them the money was the final song that won them the money was Queen, A Kind of Magic.
Reacting to the incredible achievement, Tom said: "We've been watching The Hit List for years, this was our third time applying to be on the show, and it was third time lucky.
HIT LIST WIN
"We always knew that we'd go on together, as you need knowledge of music spanning all decades.
"The two teams we were competing with were incredible, I couldn't believe when we go through to the final round, the adrenaline was immense and obviously over the moon with the result.'
Paul said: "Tom inherited his love of music from me, we are big quizzers, and music is always our speciality subject.
"To get through to the final round was a big achievement as it was competitive game play throughout.
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Earlier this year, fans were left outraged after what they described as the "worst" question in the show's history. Host Jeremy Clarkson asked: 'From the 2000 awards ceremony onwards, the Best Actress Oscar has never been won by a woman whose surname begins with which one of these letters?' The multiple choice answers were between G, K, M and W. In the end, and with the £32,000 safe, player Glen had to make a guess and went for G. It turned out to be correct as Nicole Kidman, Frances McDormand and Kate Winslet are among the stars who have won the Best Actress gong since 2000.
The 1% Club - Viewers of Lee Mack's popular ITV show were left dumbfounded by a question that also left the players perplexed. The query went as follows: "Edna's birthday is on the 6th of April and Jen's birthday falls on the 15th of October, therefore Amir's birthday must be the 'X' of January." It turns out the conundrum links the numbers with its position in the sentence, so 6th is the sixth word and 15th is the fifteenth word. Therefore, Amir's birthday is January 24th, corresponding to the 24th word in the sentence.
The Chase - The ITV daytime favourite left fans scratching their heads when it threw up one of the most bizarre questions to ever grace the programme. One of the questions asked the player: "Someone with a nightshade intolerance should avoid eating what?" The options were - sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots - with Steve selecting sweetcorn but the correct answer was potatoes.
"I would have been happy with £1,000 and a day out with my son.
"We weren't aware that no-one had won the jackpot before and as we got to song seven in the final round the tension in the studio was palpable.
"I was very proud of Tom for getting the song names in about three seconds."
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