A contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? suffered an eye-watering loss after a tricky nature question this week.
Sunday’s instalment of the ITV show saw Jeremy Clarkson welcome Amy, from Stroud, who attempted to win some cash.
The tourism officer eventually set a safety net at £32,000 and worked her way through to the £125,000 question.
It read: ‘Which of these species of trees lives the longest? A: Yew, B: Oak, C: Sweet chestnut, D: Beech.’
‘I kill a lot of my plants so trees are not my strong suit,’ Amy commented.
‘I know an Oak tree is very old, but I don’t know if that’s just old tales and hearing that, and it’s a very English tree to grow.’
Sunday’s instalment of the ITV show saw Jeremy Clarkson welcome Amy, pictured, from Stroud, who attempted to win some cash
The tourism officer eventually set a safety net at £32,000 and worked her way through to the £125,000 question
It read: ‘Which of these species of trees lives the longest? A: Yew, B: Oak, C: Sweet chestnut, D: Beech.’ ‘I kill a lot of my plants so trees are not my strong suit,’ Amy commented
She added: ‘I don’t know a Sweet chestnut and I’ve seen a Yew tree and a Beech tree, but they’ve never told me how old they are.’
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Amy considered ‘taking a chance’ at the question but Jeremy interjected: ‘Let me just explain the current situation, if you did take a chance and got it right, that would be great, you’d win £125,000.’
He added: ‘If you get it wrong, you lose £32,000 but you still go home with £32,000.’
After some thought, Amy said: ‘I think I might as well go for it, no point in not doing it, right?’
‘I’m going to go for Oak, final answer,’ Amy said.
Jeremy called her ‘unbelievably brave’ but revealed she had answered incorrectly.
The correct answer was in fact Yew.
‘Oh I am sorry Amy, but I just love your atтιтude and you are leaving her with £32,000 which is pretty good,’ Jeremy said.
Amy considered ‘taking a chance’ at the question but Jeremy interjected: ‘Let me just explain the current situation, if you did take a chance and got it right, that would be great, you’d win £125,000.’
‘I’m going to go for Oak, final answer,’ Amy said. Jeremy called her ‘unbelievably brave’ but revealed she had answered incorrectly
It comes after contestant Paul Sharpe took to the H๏τ seat on a previous episode and had been sailing through the prizes when he got to a US-based question.
‘I can’t remember ever having a contestant like you,’ host Jeremy said of Paul’s courage throughout the game – which saw him take multiple risks.
He had been slowly climbing the cash ladder and at one point was sitting on £64,000 with a safety net amount of £32,000.
Paul then made it to a whopping £125,000 question – which would have seen him bag an extra £93,000.
But it was a question about US state capitals that tripped him up.
‘Which of these is not the name of a US state capital?’ Jeremy asked, before Paul was given the options of A) Lincoln, B) Richmond, C) Cambridge or D) Dover.
‘I’m pretty sure that Cambridge is the state capital of Mᴀssachusetts,’ Paul said, after being left struck by the question. ‘I think Dover is in the Mid West somewhere, so my gut feeling says Richmond.
Having already used two of his lifelines, Paul opted to ring his dad Dennis for help.
A player on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire lost an eye-watering £93,000 after getting stumped by a brutal question
Dennis ᴀssured his son that he thought Dover was the answer, before adding: ‘Pretty sure.’
Jeremy praised Dennis’s confidence, as he said: ‘That’s the kind of person you want on the other end of the phone – clear, decisive, possibly wrong but who knows.’
Paul revealed most of his answers up until that point had been guesses as he locked in Dover.
Gutted Paul was then told the answer was Cambridge and he had lost £32,000 – but would be taking home his safety net.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? will return to ITV1 later this year and is available to stream on ITVX.
