The hardest 1% Club questions you should try to beat

Do you watch The 1% Club and think, “I could win”? Well, don’t get ahead of yourself: see if you can answer the show’s hardest questions first.

Unlike other general knowledge quiz shows, The 1% Club requires you to be a lateral thinker. Sometimes, there’s a simple answer… and you just can’t see it, because you’ve got yourself stuck on one way of solving it.

It’s similar (but arguably a little easier) to Only Connect. Still, if you’re getting 1% questions correct regularly, you definitely have the right to brag.

So, if you’re settling in to outsmart the contestants in the Christmas special (or just fry your brain), here are the hardest questions ever seen on The 1% Club. Answers are at the bottom — no peeking.

Can you answer these 1% Club questions?

35. You have a pack of 52 playing cards in your hand and decide to sort them into alphabetical order. The ACE of CLUBS, ACE of DIAMONDS, ACE of HEARTS and ACE of SPADES are the first four cards you place on the table. If you carried on this sequence, what would be the LAST card you would place down?

34. How many dots (i.e. “.”) – including any used in punctuation and letters… – are used in writing this question?

33. Starting at 1, the first 10 odd numbers add up to 100. What do the first 10 even numbers add up to?

32. The words below share a specific pattern. Why could VOTING also be part of the group?

BANDLEADER NICKELODEON SILVERBACK

31. What replaces the question marks in this sequence?

JF3128 MA3130 MJ3130 ??????

30. Manchester has a reputation for being rainy, but if it is dry at 12:01am on Monday, what are the chances of it being sunny 72 hours later, on Thursday?

A. 100%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D. 0%

29. What replaces the question mark in this sequence?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
3 3 5 4 4 3 ?

28. Which two countries should be swapped so that they are all in the correct order?

China
Oman
Russia
Thailand
Ethiopia
Croatia
Rwanda

27. Lily is Pippa’s niece but she isn’t Nicola’s niece even though Nicola is Pippa’s sister and Pippa has no children. How is that possible?

26. Answer this question:

Look and read carefully, as lots and lots of words and letters are written here, but what is the first letter of the last word which begins with the letter at the beginning of this long sentence?

25. A day lasts approximately 10 hours on Jupiter. If you teleport to Jupiter from the UK on Monday at 9am, and stay there for 8 Jupiter days, what day of the week would it be in the UK when you teleport back to Earth?

24. When the number 777,777 is written out in words, how many times does the letter ‘e’ appear?

23. If you write the words HIGHER and LOWER with alternating letters, what do you get?

22. What word replaces the question mark in this sequence?

one = three
three = five
five = four
six = ?

21. In this sequence what number would logically come next?

2 4 8 4 6 5 9 4 ?

20. What number comes next in this sequence?

1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 1 2 2 1
3 1 2 2 1 1

19. What two letters replace the question marks?

TE times T equals MESSAGE
TO times IN equals POISON
E times ?? equals LEAVE

18. There is one word which all the words below have in common. What is it?

DARK
EXTINGUISH
HEAVY

17. In a room of 100 people, 99% are left-handed. How many left-handed people have to leave the room to bring that percentage down to 98%?

16. If you had eight fingers on your left hand, six fingers on your right hand, the same number of toes on your right foot as your left hand and three toes on your left foot, how many fingers and toes would you have on total?

15. What number do you get if you multiply all the numbers on a telephone keypad together?

14. A line of ducklings is swimming home. There are two ducklings ahead of a duckling, two ducklings behind a duckling, and one duckling in the middle. What is the smallest number of ducklings there could be?

13. Edna’s birthday is on the 6th of April and Jen’s birthday falls on the 15th of October, therefore Amir’s birthday must be the ‘?’ of January.

12. In a road with exactly 26 houses, if Em lives at number 13 and Bea lives at number 2, logically what number house does Elle live at?

11. What are the next two numbers in this sequence?

201 720 182 019 202 020 212 0??

10. What is the next letter in this sequence?

1. f
2. e
3. i
4. r
5. ?

9. Charlie, Dylan, Talia and Hope play tennis doubles every Saturday. They swap pairings each week and once they have played with each of the others, they start the cycle again. What is the maximum number of times in a month that Charlie and Dylan are on the same team?

8. Your mum calls you in for dinner on a Monday at 8pm. For the rest of the week she calls you in half an hour earlier each day. On Saturday night the clocks go back an hour. What time does she call you in for dinner on Sunday?

7. Which number replaces the question mark below?

100 – 2

71 + 5

54 x 1

31 + 1

2 x ?

6. Look at the code below. What different fruit do grapes turn into?

G+8 R+0 A+0 P-2 E+2 S-14

5. Answer this question. A travel agent receives:

54 bookings for Lanzarote
22 for Bali
34 for Jamaica
43 for Florida

How many bookings do they take for Ibiza?

4. Given that:

0 + 100 = 100

1 + 99 = 100

2 + 98 = 100

What is the sum of all the whole numbers between zero and 100?

3. What number should replace the question mark?

JAMAICA + JAPAN = 124

ARGENTINA + ARMENIA = 1245

FRANCE + BRAZIL = 23

ENGLAND + GERMANY = ?

2. Yolande takes one tablet every day of the week that has three vowels in total in it. She starts a pack with 10 tablets on March 2. What date will she need a new pack?

1. If January = 717, March = 5315, and June = 4624, then what does August equal?

Bonus questions:

Answers

35. TWO of SPADES

34. 17

33. 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 18 + 20 = 110 OR you could just add 10 to 100 as each even number is 1 higher than the previous odd number.

32. They all contain the names of metals

VOTING, BANDLEADER, NICKELODEON, SILVERBACK

31. JA3131

The sequence consists of the initial letters of the months of the year followed by the number of days in those months. The next in the sequence is July August 3131.

30. 0%

12:01am is one minute after midnight so whether it is dry or raining, the one thing it won’t be is sunny.

29. 5

The row on the bottom shows the number of letters in the names of the numbers above.

28. Thailand and Rwanda

China
Oman
Russia
Rwanda
Ethiopia
Croatia
Thailand

27. If Nicola and Pippa are sisters and Lily isn’t Nicola’s niece, she must be her daughter.

26. L

All the question is really asking is what is the first letter of the first word in the sentence.

25. Thursday

8 Jupiter days last 80 hours. On Earth, 80 hours is 3 days and 8 hours. So you would arrive back in the UK on Thursday at 5pm.

24. 14

Seven hundred and seventy-seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven.

23. HLIOGWHEERR

22. Three

The word after the equals sign is the number of letters in the number – three letters in ‘one’, five in ‘three’, four in ‘five’ and then three in ‘six’.”

21. 4

The number sequence relates to the number of letters in the words in the question. Next has four letters.

20. 13112221

Count aloud what you see – so one one, then two ones, then one two and one one and so on.

19. IT

If you replace ‘times’ with ‘X’, you form words with the same meaning as the words on the right.

18. All the words are opposites of the word ‘light’.

17. 50

If 50 left-handed people leave, of the 50 people that now remain 49 are left-handed – which equals 98%

16. 25

8 fingers plus 6 fingers plus 8 toes plus 3 toes = 25.

15. 0

If you multiply any number by zero, the answer is zero, and there’s a zero on the keypad.

14. 3

One at the back with two ahead of it, one at the front with two behind, and one in the middle.

13. 24

6th is the 6th word in the sentence. 15th is the 15th, and 24th is the 24th word in the sentence.

12. 12

The 26 houses represent the 26 letters in the alphabet. Bea is B and therefore lives at number 2. Em is M and therefore lives at number 13. That means that Elle who is L lives at number 12.

11. 22

If you remove the gaps, the numbers become years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.

10. h

f is the first letter in FIRST, e is the second letter in SECOND, i is the third letter in THIRD, r is the fourth letter in FOURTH, and h is the fifth letter in FIFTH.

9. 2

Each person has the same doubles partner once every four weeks. The maximum number of Saturdays in a month is five, so it is impossible to have the same pairings more than twice in a month.

8. 5pm

It makes no difference that the clocks go back an hour. So, 6 days x 30 minutes = 3 hours.

7. 5

The sums work out as: 98, 76, 54, 32, so the next one must work out as 10 to complete a sequence of 9876543210.

6. ORANGE

If you add 8 letters to G, it becomes O, R and A stay the same, P minus 2 letters is N etc, until the word ORANGE is spelt.

5. FLORIST

Where he could, he replaced a letter with a digit that starts with that letter.

4. 23

The number of bookings relates to the number of consonants followed by the number of vowels in the name of each destination.

3. 56

The numbers are the positions of any shared letters… e.g. Argentina and Armenia share the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th letters. So England and Germany is 56, for the A and the N.

2. March 26

There are 10 tablets and she has to take one every Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

1. 6848

They are letters in the month’s name, month’s position in calendar, and then those two digits multiplied. August has 6 letters, it is the 8th month. and 6 x 8 = 48.

Bonus question answers:

10. Seven of hearts

The seven of hearts should be a red card, not black.

9. COW

Adding the animals to the letters below creates the words CATTLE, DOGGED and BATHING. The only animal that can go before ARD to create a word is COW – COWARD.

8. TWO

7. 21

You can see all the numbers 1 to 6 once and they add up to 21. The opposite faces of the dice will add up to the same number.

6. A4

5. 12

The number on the left is the total number of lines in the number on the left. More lines have been added to the ones and sevens as you go down the list.

4. 20

The letters are the directions on a compass, so SEWN stands for South, East, West, and North.

3. 2, 6, 9

The 2 is obviously upside down and the other two must be the 6 and 9 – which look like each other when upside down.

2. 12

If you add the numbers inside the houses together and take away the number on the roof, you get the number on the door.

1. C

“[” is distinct from “]”.

Read more: The hardest questions from Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel

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