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The Irish Sun
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
The 1% Club wipes out 14 players with tricky limerick question – but could you get the right answer in 30 seconds?
THE 1% Club left viewers gobsmacked after a savage limerick question wiped out 14 contestants in one brutal swoop. The brain-bending ITV quiz show, hosted by Advertisement 5 Many viewers were stumped on the word question Credit: ITV 5 14 players were eliminated from The 1% Club in a shocking round Credit: ITV Instead of testing players on their general knowledge, 100 contestants try their luck at solving riddles within 30 seconds. On The 1% Club, they are whittled down round by round as they are tasked with using their logic, reasoning skills, and common sense. With every player that gets eliminated, £1,000 gets added to the prize pot as the players try to answer questions that certain percentages of the public would get right. The players that remain at the end will fight to win a potentially huge jackpot prize and a chance at joining the prestigious one percent club. Advertisement more the 1% club But the the 30% question saw a whopping 14 players get eliminated. Lee asked: "Jamil is writing a limerick but needs a word that follows these rules to complete the last line... "Two syllables, only two different vowels, starts with an even -numbered letter and contains at least three letters from the second half of the alphabet. Which of these words would work?" The options were: Doggie, Blades, Hotel, Prizes and Rabbit. Advertisement Most read in TV Exclusive The remaining players faces looked puzzled as they tried to figure out the answer within the 30 seconds. Lee then revealed the right answer was Prizes - after a massive 14 people were knocked out. The 1% Club players stumped by 'easy' question that knocks out 23 people - would you have got it- The episode also saw an 'easy' common sense riddle When Lee moved onto the 70% question, he asked the remaining players to solve a question. Advertisement Lee said: "John writes with his right hand and the last word he'd right if he was writing this sentence would be be. "If Keith writes with his left hand, what would be the last word he would write in the sentence above?" Hardest Quiz Show Questions Would you know the answers to some of quizzing TV's hardest questions Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Earlier this year, The 1% Club - Viewers of Lee Mack's popular ITV show were left The Chase - The ITV daytime favourite left fans scratching their heads when it threw up Of course the answer was the word 'be', as a different writing hand would not change the last word, something which many viewers playing along got correct. However, a whopping 23 players in the studio answered the riddle incorrectly and they were eliminated from the game. Advertisement Viewers took to social media in droves as they couldn't believe so many players left the game after such an 'easy' question One wrote: "How t* have 23 gone out?? Being left handed doesn't mean you write words in the wrong order." Another added: "Too many people thinking too hard on that one #The1PercentClub." A third penned: "TWENTY THREE out on THAT?!?!" Advertisement The 1% Club is available to watch on ITV1 and stream on ITVX. 5 Many viewers said the question was 'easy' - but would you have got it right? Credit: itv 5 The different hands would not have effected the structure of the sentence Credit: ITV 5 23 players were eliminated from The 1% Club in a shocking round Credit: ITV Advertisement
Irish Examiner
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Podcast Corner: Jameela Jamil aims to be uninspiring on Wrong Turns
Jameela Jamil, an actress best known for The Good Place, a sitcom with a good idea that faded once it stretched past its first season, hosted the I Weigh podcast for four years. It ran from a month into lockdown in 2020 to the end of 2024, expanding from, as the title suggests, ideas of body shaming to talk of activism in local politics, disinformation, and dismantling gender violence. Perhaps she grew tired of the often heavy content, or maybe she just listened to a lot of How to Fail with Elizabeth Day and felt inspired, but either way, she's back with a new podcast called Wrong Turns - 'for anyone who feels like their life is one disaster after another'. Jamil explains at the outset of the first episode: 'This is a podcast that celebrates shame and indignity. I'm just fucking sick of all of the inspiration we're supposed to draw from all of the terrible moments in life, and I feel like we're overdosing on it online, and I just want somewhere where I can chill and just own my clusterfucks without it needing to have a silver fucking lining. And I wanted to bring my friends on to commiserate with me. We are anti-inspiration, pro-commiseration.' She's got a lot of celebrity pals to draw on - the first episode is with Mae Martin, a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and recording artist; and Bob the Drag Queen, a winner of Ru Paul's Drag Race. The second features We're Here to Help hosts Jake Johnson and Gareth Reynolds, and Eric Edelstein ( Parks and Recreation, Twin Peaks). 'Do you feel like disaster is drawn onto you?' Jamil asks them. Cue some very giddy banter as they throw themselves into the topic. It escalates so quickly that, not eight minutes in, Bob is telling a story about a vicious dressing down he gave to a pimply kid who was making fun of him when they were in seventh grade together. 'And then next year he's in a wheelchair. Because it wasn't a pimple. It was a brain tumour. He's dead. Fully dead to this day.' It's a stark story but it's played to Jamil and Martin laughing hysterically (and nervously?). A really weird moment. Whether you want to continue with the podcast after that is up to you. Finding Lucinda: Last autumn, The Road to Joni podcast traversed the US on the way to the Hollywood Bowl for a pair of rarely spotted Joni Mitchell shows, talking to various fans and followers along the way. Finding Lucinda is in the same vein as young singer-songwriter ISMAY goes on a road trip of self-discovery to trace the roots of their musical hero, Lucinda Williams, talking to collaborators and archivists along the way.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Some Afghans temporarily protected after escaping Taliban now face deportation back to Afghanistan
A new phase in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is underway. The Temporary Protected Status for evacuees who escaped Taliban rule expired May 20, 2025. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) notice said those who have not obtained refugee status or asylum protections must go back to Afghanistan by July 14, 2025, or face deportation. 'I don't think anybody following what's happening in Afghanistan can say, with a straight face, that Afghanistan is safe for anyone to return to,' Javeria Jamil told Channel 2's Courtney Francisco. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Jamil is the Legal Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Georgia. She said since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, immigration courts and attorneys have been overloaded with cases, and less than four years is not enough time to process them all. 'It's not for a lack of trying,' Jamil said. Dr. Hogai Nassery, MD, helped hundreds resettle in metro Atlanta through the non profit called Afghan-American Alliance. She estimates more than 2,000 people found safety in Georgia after the Taliban took over. TRENDING STORIES: Fight outside McDonald's in DeKalb County ends in shootout, police say We now have 4 candidates running to be Georgia's next governor Man found dead on top of tank at Cartersville manufacturing plant 'We are betraying them,' Nassery said. 'They served with our troops, with American troops, and our allies in Afghanistan in very dangerous situations.' The new DHS notice said their protected status here was designed to be temporary. According to the DHS document, Afghanistan's economy is stabilizing and security has improved based on armed conflict, humanitarian, kidnapping, and tourism data. Regardless, attorneys in Atlanta argue, evacuees will return to Taliban rule as traitors. 'The people who had fled to the United States are at risk of being tortured, persecuted, and or killed,' Jamil said. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Rudaw Net
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Rudaw Net
Iraqi electoral body to open candidate registration May 25
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi electoral commission will begin accepting candidate registrations for the upcoming legislative elections on May 25, according to a decree by the body. The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced on Wednesday that candidate registration for the upcoming elections will begin on May 25 and continue through June 24. Imad Jamil, the head of the IHEC media team, told Rudaw on Thursday that this period, in addition to the lists of candidates from parties and alliances, independent candidates will also be accepted. For the third time, the IHEC has extended the registration deadline for parties, alliances, and independent lists, with the final day for registration being May 20. Jamil explained that after the nomination period ends, the screening process will be completed within 15 days. This process will be conducted by the ministries of interior, education, higher education, and the integrity, accountability, and judicial commissions.
Rudaw Net
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Rudaw Net
12 new coalitions register for Iraq's parliamentary elections
Also in Iraq Yazidis call for pressure on Syria to find missing ISIS victims Lion fatally attacks owner in southern Iraq Thousands of trucks stuck at Mosul Dam checkpoint amid processing delays Iraq kicks off compensation program for Yazidi survivors of ISIS A+ A- ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Twelve new coalitions and 104 political parties have registered to run in Iraq's upcoming parliamentary elections, the electoral commission said on Saturday. 'The number of registration applications from new coalitions that have expressed a desire to participate in the upcoming elections has reached 12 coalitions, while the number of parties wishing to participate is 104,' Imad Jamil, head of media for Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), told Rudaw. The registration period began April 15 and will continue through May 23. The vote is scheduled for November 11. Jamil said 66 alliances had been registered across the previous three election cycles - in 2018, 2021, and 2023 - and that many of those coalitions remain in place either due to prior registration or internal restructuring. He confirmed that 12 new alliances have so far submitted applications. IHEC announced in late April that 70 of Iraq's 314 registered political parties had expressed their intent to take part in the upcoming vote. On Saturday, Jamil said 33 parties are now formally registered, while 63 others are completing the process. The vote will be held without any amendments to the Sainte-Lague election method, which is expected to disadvantage smaller parties and independents, instead favoring better-funded, more established parties. Approximately 29 million citizens in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region will have the right to vote by the end of the year, but only those with biometric voting cards will be able to cast a ballot. Mushtaq Ramadan contributed to this report.
