EastEnders star out of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire after using lifeline on tough question – would you have got it?
AN actress was wiped out on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire thanks to a tricky Shakespeare question – but would you have got it?
Jeremy Clarkson welcomed Nina Wadia to the ITV quiz’s famous hotseat.
The former EastEnders star exhausted three lifelines before facing the £64,000 question.
It posed: “The origin of the modern phrase ‘there’s a method in my madness’ can be traced back to which Shakespeare tragedy?”
Nina’s available options were A) King Lear, B) Macbeth, C) Othello or D) Hamlet.
Having been asked by Jeremy, the star admitted she “loves Shakespeare” but was struggling to work out the correct answer.
She believed either B) Macbeth or D) Hamlet was right, although wasn’t fully certain on either.
Nina therefore opted to use her last lifeline – Ask the Audience – to help out.
The results showed 43% believed the answer was Macbeth while Hamlet placed second with 32%.
Nina selected Macbeth, but the correct answer turned out to be Hamlet.
She still walked away with £32,000 for her charity – having set her safety net at that amount – in the episode first aired last year.
Meanwhile, viewers recently saw a player use two lifelines on the £1m question – only to answer incorrectly.
University Challenge alum Nicholas Bennett got through several round with relative ease.
His £1m puzzler asked: “Which of these words, each coined by a famous writer, was derived from the tale of of a fairytale about three princes?”
He could have chosen between A) Pandemonium, B) Serendipity, C) Utopia and D) Yahoo.
Uncertain, he asked Jeremy and then used Phone A Friend – with neither possessing the correct answer.
He opted for his initial thought, Yahoo – only to soon learn it was incorrect.
In the end, the right answer ultimately turned out to be B) Serendipity.
Nicholas didn’t let much disappointment show, as he optimistically said: “Still get £125,000.”
Speaking afterwards, Jeremy estimated: “We’ve just seen a contestant lose what we think is the biggest amount of money in Millionaire history.”
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire airs on ITV1 and ITVX.
