{"id":628591,"date":"2026-06-09T03:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628591\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T03:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T03:57:17","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-thrown-by-millionaire-question-involving-lake-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628591\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson thrown by Millionaire question involving Lake District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Data analyst Natalie Waldegrave had been flying through the ITV quiz, correctly answering the first eight questions and telling viewers she hoped to use any winnings to get on the property ladder.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She used her first lifeline on a question about metal, with the audience helping her progress up the next prize rung.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Natalie then had to use her &#8217;50\/50&#8242; lifeline to climb further before facing a dilemma on the \u00a364,000 question.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Host Clarkson asked: \u201cWhich of these popular tourist lakes is the largest by area?\u201d with the possible answers being Lake Windermere, Lake Garda, Lake Tahoe and Lake Titicaca.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Data analyst Natalie Waldegrave (Image: ITV)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Natalie, who had already admitted geography was not her strongest subject, chose to use her Ask the Host lifeline, turning to Clarkson for help.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, the presenter quickly confessed he was \u201cliterally useless\u201d as he apologised for the \u201cnightmare\u201d question, admitting he didn&#8217;t think anyone in the room \u2013 or even in the world \u2013 would get the right answer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Still unsure, Natalie used her final Phone a Friend lifeline to call her brother Daniel, but he was also unable to point her towards the right lake.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Faced with the prospect of dropping down the money ladder, she opted to walk away with \u00a332,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Before she left the hot seat, Clarkson asked which option she would have chosen if she had been forced to play on.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Natalie said she would have gone for Lake Titicaca, and Clarkson then revealed that would in fact have been the correct answer, meaning she would have set her safety net at \u00a364,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Windermere, which sits in the heart of Cumbria, is England\u2019s largest natural lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data analyst Natalie Waldegrave had been flying through the ITV quiz, correctly answering the first eight questions and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}