In Edward Lear's famous verse, the jumblies went to sea in which container?
⬥ A: Sink
⬥ B: Sieve
⬥ C: Saucepan
⬥ D: Saucer
£32,000 (10 of 15) - Not Timed Safety Net Question
Which pop act had a huge international hit in 1996 with 'Macarena'?
⬥ A: Los Lobos
⬥ B: Baccara
⬥ C: Los Del Rio
⬥ D: Renee and Renato
£64,000 (11 of 15) - Not Timed
Which word describes a sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet?
⬥ A: Tangram
⬥ B: Epigram
⬥ C: Pangram
⬥ D: Lipogram
Tony was sure he had heard C: Pangram before, stating he was 80% confident. He decided to lock in C, and won £64,000.
£125,000 (12 of 15) - Not Timed
Who was the father of the legendary King Arthur?
⬥ A: Sir Lancelot
⬥ B: Beowulf
⬥ C: Uther Pendragon
⬥ D: Sir Gawain
Before the options came up, Tony nodded to Chris, very confident that the answer was Uther Pendragon. As the option came up, he felt obligated to lock in C: Uther Pendragon, which won him £125,000.
A confident Tony is on a roll, winning £250,000.
And Maureen cannot contain her excitement!
£250,000 (13 of 15) - Not Timed
'The Misfits', released in 1961, was the last film of which Hollywood legend?
⬥ A: Humphrey Bogart
⬥ B: Gary Cooper
⬥ C: Errol Flynn
⬥ D: Clark Gable
Once again, Tony nodded as the options came up, immediately confident the answer was D: Clark Gable. He also knew that 'The Misfits' was the last film to feature Marilyn Monroe, even though she was not one of the options. After listing what he would do with £250,000, he decided to lock in D: Clark Gable.
£500,000 (14 of 15) - Not Timed
What was the middle name of the artist L.S. Lowry? 'Phone-A-Friend' and '50:50' lifelines used
⬥ A: Sidney
⬥ B: Stephen
⬥ C: Stanley
⬥ D: Samuel
After a streak of answers he felt confident on, Tony was stumped. He initially thought the answer was C: Stanley, but wasn't confident, so he decided to phone Steve. Agonisingly, the last word Steve uttered was "Possibly..." before the time ran out. Although he felt it wouldn't sway him to play, Tony decided to use the 50:50, which left B: Stephen and C: Stanley, which he had said was his instinct. Although he was very close to playing, having exhausted all his lifelines, he ultimately decided to walk away. The correct answer was B: Stephen.
Trivia[]
In an interview for The Mirror, Tony admitted that the questions he knew were from the Quizword puzzle - one example of which was his £125,000 question about King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon. He said that he knew the answer because: "...it must have featured in the Quizword at least three times in the last five years."
One of Tony's possible Phone-a-Friends, his niece Storme - whose specialist subject was the pop band S Club 7 - knew the right answer to his £500,000 question as she was doing a project on L.S. Lowry at school.
According to Tony's Facebook account, since 2008, he has been a technician at BBC Monitoring, which according to their website, "...reports and analyses news from media around the world".
