Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? viewers are left in shock as retired science teacher fails to answer ‘easy’ £4,000 chemistry question despite using a lifeline (but would YOU get it right?)
- Pat Lucas, from Lincoln, a retired science teacher, was asked chemistry question
- For £4, 0000, she was asked to identify a skull and crossbones warning symbol
- Viewers were left in shock when she got question wrong – despite using a lifeline
- She appeared on last night’s episode of ITV’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? viewers were left in ‘shock’ after a retired science teacher failed to identify the toxic chemical symbol.
In last night’s episode of the ITV quiz show, Pat Lucas, from Lincoln, who worked at North Kesteven Secondary School in North Hykeham, was asked by host Jeremy Clarkson: ‘A skull and crossbones is a warning symbol that specifically indicates a material is what?’
She was given the options ‘toxic, hazardous to the environment, corrosive, and flammable’.
However, viewers were quick to take to Twitter to express their outrage after the retired science teacher got the ‘easy’ chemistry question wrong and left the show with £1, 000 – despite using a 50/50 lifeline,
‘Can’t believe that science teacher got that question wrong, shocking. Such an easy question,’ wrote one, while a second penned: ‘How the hell does a science teacher get that wrong!’
In last night’s episode of the ITV quiz show, retired science teacher Pat Lucas (pictured), from Lincoln, failed to identify a toxic chemical symbol
Viewers were quick to take to Twitter to express their outrage after the retired science teacher got the ‘easy’ chemistry question wrong (pictured)
In response to the £4, 000 question, Pat was presented the following options: A) Toxic, B) Corrosive, C) Hazardous to the environment, and D) Flammable.
‘Okay… Being a science teacher I see a lot of this symbol, you’d think I would have paid more attention to it,’ she said, before asking: ‘Erm, can i use my 50:50 please?’
Following the lifeline, Pat was left with just A and C, and admitted: ‘I wish one of the others was gone, I am sure it means hazardous to the environment.
‘So I will go for hazardous to the environment, final answer.’
In response to the £4, 000 question, Pat was presented the following options: A) Toxic, B) Corrosive, C) Hazardous to the environment, and D) Flammable (pictured)
Taking to Twitter, Pat’s former student penned: ‘She taught me physics at NK – no way. As if she got the science question wrong’
Breaking the bad news the retired science teacher, Jeremy said: ‘Well you are a science teacher, so you could have got that right… But I’m afraid you didn’t.
‘You’ve just lost £1,000, I’m sorry about that I really am, I hope you had a nice minute or two in the chair.’
And those who tuned in were baffled that Pat answered incorrectly – with even her former students taking to Twitter.
‘She taught me physics at NK – no way. As if she got the science question wrong,’ wrote Melissa Poole, while Sam Wray also joked about her unfortunate blunder and penned: ‘To be fair, I got an A! Now wondering if I should have got more!’
Another viewer commented: ‘Can’t get over that retired science teacher not knowing what the toxic symbol was,’ while a further penned: ‘No wonder no kids are interested in science if the science teacher does not know what the toxic symbol is. Despised that subject yet even I knew that WITHOUT the options.’