The hardest 1% Club questions you should try to beat

Will you join The 1% Club… or are you not smart enough?

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.

Do you have what it takes to join the 1% Club? (Credit: ITV)

Can you answer these 1% Club questions?

15. Listen up! What is the only letter of the alphabet logically missing from this list?

B C D E G P T Z

14. What three-digit number comes next in this sequence?

1, 8, 11, 69, 88, 96, 101

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. What replaces the question mark in this sequence?

Hot Hard Small Cold Easy ?

A. Big

B. Fast

C. Slow

11. I wanted to spell with my spoonful of alphabet soup. What’s the longest word I could create using the letters in the spoon as many times as I want?

10. What is the next letter in this sequence?

1. f
2. e
3. i
4. r
5. ?

9. I keep forgetting my four-digit PIN number. I know each digit is higher than the previous digit but I need this diagram to remember it. What is my four-digit pin number?

E O N E P C I T
F S M I X K H L
O E F G X G P F
U J O H I V F K
R N H T N I N E

8. Using all six letters missing from this alphabet just once each, what Christmassy object can you spell?

A C D F G B H J M K O P Q U V R Y W X Z

7. Which number replaces the question mark below?

100 – 2

71 + 5

54 x 1

31 + 1

2 x ?

6. What letter replaces the question mark in this sequence?

YYHLY?YTRRRR

5. Peter has recently found his old diary that he’d written in secret code but he can’t remember how to decipher what he wrote. Can you check the code to find out what the underlined word is?

WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72

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 question:

Can you spot the mistakes? (Credit: ITV)

Answers

15. V

If you listen to the sounds of those letters, they all rhyme with each other. The only missing letter that rhymes is V.

14. 111

All the numbers in this sequence remain the same when rotated 180 degrees. 111 is the next number for which this is true.

13. 24

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

12. Big

The words all have an opposite within the sequence. Hot/Cold and Hard/Easy. Big replaces the question mark as the opposite of Small.

11. INCONVENIENCED

These letters can spell many words, but the longest is 14 letters, INCONVENIENCED.

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. 1489

You can find ONE, FOUR, EIGHT, and NINE in the word search.

8. TINSEL 

In order, E, I, L, N, S, and T are missing from the letters.

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. E

The sequence features the last letters of each month of the year.

5. FLORIST

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

4. 5050

There are 50 pairs that total 100 (0 & 100, 1 & 99, 2 & 98 etc). That makes 5000, but there is also the number 50 in the middle, that is not in a pair but also needs to be counted, giving a total of 5050.

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.