THE TWELVE BLOWS OF NOON. The solution to the mysterious 12 noon strokes star should be found today as Laurent approaches a new milestone in his career as a noon master.
[Mis à jour le 16 février 2022 à 11h45] This Tuesday, Laurent had every reason to believe that he was going to discover a new mysterious star within 12 strokes of noon. Indeed, on TF1, he only had three boxes left to reveal before discovering the face of the personality he has been looking for for several weeks. Dismissing a duel challenge, he showed up at the masterstroke stage with €20,000 in potential winnings but, with three wrong answers, he pocketed nothing for the prize pool (which amounts to €158,061). These two correct answers allow him to reveal two additional squares of the midday star, which is not enough to reveal the solution to the riddle which now only holds one square! The clues that could put us on the way are the following: a giraffe, a savannah landscape, a tree leaf, a watering can, colored pencils, a flowerpot and a nugget of gold. Could it be the cartoon character Kirikou? We would put a penny on this answer… Anyway, hoping to get the prize pool of €27,017, Laurent proposed the name of Beyoncé but without success.
- The African statue: Glenn Close studied anthropology
- The Big Apple: She started her career in New York
- The crocodile: She played in the film Hook, the revenge of Captain Hook, a character whose hand was eaten by a crocodile.
- The flying saucer: She played in the movie Mars Attacks
- Airliner: Glenn Close starred in Air Force One with Harrison Ford
- The wood chisel: She played in the film Pinocchio
- The bathtub: This is a reference to the famous scene in Liaisons Fatales
- The basket: Glenn Close lent his voice in The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood
- The Swiss setting: She was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland where she discovered theater
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The ranking of the 12 noon shots was turned upside down by Bruno’s participation. Arrived in the game Jean-Luc Reichmann on January 20 November 2021, the master left him on October 5, 2021 after 252 participations with a total of €1,026,107. He thus beats Eric and his 199 entries and a total of €921,316 in winnings. Third, Christian Quesada, who had long remained the all-category champion of the game with 193 participations and €809,392 in winnings. Then comes Paul with €691,522 and 153 participations, as well as Véronique with exactly 100 participations and €447,226 in winnings. Then comes Léo with 98 participations and €410,591 in winnings and finally Timothée with 83 participations and €353,348 in all.
Christian Quesada, ex-champion of the 12 noon shots, was sentenced to three years in prison for “possession and dissemination of child pornography images” and “corruption of a minor”. Placed in pre-trial detention for a year, the former candidate of the 12 noon shots had admitted the facts of which he is accused but had refuted any physical contact and any sexual assault of the victims. As a reminder, Christian Quesada has long been the holder of the record for participation (193 wins in a row) and winnings (€809,392) for the show. He had participated from July 4, 2016 to January 14, 2017.
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Nicknamed Zette, the voice-over of the game Les 12 coups de midi is played by Isabelle Benhadj. Arrived six months after the launch of 12 noon shots in 2010, she had met Jean-Luc Reichmann in 1987 on Fun Radio where she was a host. You can hear his voice in other television programs such as Secrets d’Histoire on France 2.
Like the France 2 game Everyone wants to take its place presented by Nagui at the same time at DTT program, The 12 strokes of noon asks candidates to answer general culture questions. For his part, Jean-Luc Reichmann tries to learn more about the lives of the participants and breathes dynamism into the show.
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