Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? viewers have lashed out at the series and become unhappy with the questions after two contestants walked away with a staggering fortune in one episode.
Host Jeremy Clarkson welcomed contestants Michael Smith and Pete Hallifax onto the show and was eager to see how far they were willing to go to have the chance of becoming a millionaires.
Throughout their rounds, both Smith and Hallifax ended with a staggering amount of money, with the former taking home £250,000 whilst the latter walked away with £125,000.
However, whilst being happy for the contestants, some viewers at home weren’t impressed with how easy they thought the questions were and felt the pair had their win handed to them on a platter.
Smith was playing for £32,000 when some viewers thought his question was too simple as Jeremy asked: “The villains in which Roald Dahl book are the dim-witted farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean?”
The possible answers were A: Danny, Champion of the World, B: The Witches, C: George’s Marvellous Medicine, or D: Fantastic Mr Fox, leaving Smith to answer: “Well, I have two young children who demand to be read to at bedtime and this is one of their favourite books, hurrah.”
“It is The Fantastic Mr Fox, final answer,” leaving Clarkson to reveal: “Of course, the correct answer. You’ve made it to £32,000.”
However, viewers weren’t surprised that Smith had gotten the answer so easily as one commented on X: “That was far too easy a question for £32k – far too guessable.”
“Is it just me or are the questions getting easier and easier?” someone else commented before another added: “The show was much more watchable when contestants were challenged just to get to £16k rather than easily strolling to £250k.”
A fourth added: “Some of these questions tonight have been appalling… they may have well just handed the money to them as they sat down!”
“What a load of rubbish! HARDER QUESTIONS NEEDED!” someone else quipped before a sixth stated: “Had enough of this show now, used to be impossible to get that but now, every week!”
Smith sailed through his questions and went on to easily take home £250,000, tapping out against the question: “Which military leader was the oldest at the battle they are paired with?”
Taking a guess, Smith answered Bonnie Prince Charlie at the Battle of Culloden, but the correct answer was James II of England at the Battle of the Boyne.
Touching on his time on the show, Clarkson exclaimed: “Well, if you’d said that, you’d be leaving here with £32,000, so it’s a good job you didn’t. But it’s of no consequence to you because you’re leaving her with a quarter of a million pounds.”
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Hallifax was second to sit opposite Clarkson and ended up winning £125,000 after deciding to take the money on the table and revealing he would be using it as part of his upcoming wedding – rather than gambling to get to the million-pound question.
The contestant had the chance to take a guess at what would have been his next question, leaving Clarkson to ask: “Which of these poems each read by its author as a US presidential election was read by Amanda Gorman at the 2021 ceremony?”
The possible answers were A: The Hill We Climb, B: One Today, C: On the Pulse of Morning and D: The Gift Outright, with Clarkson having to reveal that Hallifax guessed correctly, answering with option A, which meant he missed out on taking home a whopping £250,000.
