Last night’s episode of The Chase saw four new contestants take on the Chaser to be in with a chance of winning the show’s prize money. But viewers were left a little disappointed with Chaser Mark Labbett’s explanation of one of the show’s questions.
The confusion happened when the show asked a question about a language-learning app to which the answer came from the Game Of Thrones universe – but, despite the Chaser’s usual smarts, he didn’t seem to explain the answer correctly.
The question on the show asked: ‘Language teaching app Duolingo added what fictional language in 2017?’ to which the answer was the fictional Game Of Thrones language High Valyrian.
When one of the show’s contestants, Sophie, got the question wrong, Mark explained that the language involved words such as: ‘Dracarys literally means flame’.
But viewers quickly pointed out that Mark’s explanation wasn’t correct, pointing out that Dracarys name means something slightly different – dragon fire.
One viewer tweeted: ‘Dracarys literally means flame for the dragon.’
Another added: ‘Erm hate to break it to you Mark but it doesn’t. It actually means dragonfire. #TheChase.’
Oops – better luck next time Mark.
It’s not the first time the show has been criticised for its answers either.
Earlier this year, host Bradley Walsh was accused of costing a team thousands of pounds in prize money by refusing to accept a correct answer during a pivotal moment on the show.
Some viewers accused the question – which asked how many Americans were in the iconic 1960s troupe The Monkees – of being misleading. The correct answer was three as one of The Monkees’ members, singer Davy Jones, was originally from the UK.
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