R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T. question, he was waiting for Whittock to cough when "googol" was mentioned; which occurred as he had predicted. Following this, Tarrant was called to the stand and he stated that he hadn't noticed anything amiss during the filming and hadn't heard any coughing. Tarrant said that the Ingrams had been behaving following the win "as normal as people who had just won £1m would be in that situation." He also stated that he would not have signed the cheque if he had had suspicions of Charles cheating and was "shocked" when he heard about the allegations. The floor manager stated
Rhetorical question your hand?" These responses may be taken as asserting that "the problem of Maria" cannot be solved; and furthermore the choice of "cloud", "wave" and "moonbeam" as metaphors for Maria give insight into her character and the nature of the problem. In the vernacular, this form of rhetorical question is most often seen as "rhetorical affirmation", where the certainty or obviousness of the answer to a question is expressed by asking another, often humorous, question for which the answer is equally obvious; popular examples include "Does a bear shit in the woods?", "Is the sky blue?" and "Is the Pope