Here you’ll see The 1% Club questions and answers for UK Season 4 (or Series 4) for 2025. Following UK Season 3 and the US version of the show, every episode asks contestants questions based on logic and common sense that increase in difficulty. Many of these are brain-teasers and riddles that require outside-of-the-box thinking and attention to detail. Comedian Lee Mack is once again the host for this popular game show. Here’s a list of every question and answer for the 2025 UK episodes of The 1% Club.
List of The 1% Club (UK) questions and answers for 2025
Below is a list of The 1% Club questions and answers for each episode in Season 4. They are presented in chronological order with the answers hidden (you can click on the arrows to reveal them). You can use the quick list to advance to the exact episode you want the answers for. We’ll update this guide as more episodes in Season 4 are released.
Episode 1 Questions and Answers – January 25, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Sara has almost finished this crossword and just has 7 down left to fill in. The clue is: Investigate. Which of these is the correct answer? [Image above]
- (A) EXPLORE
- (B) EXAMINE
- (C) EXPOSE
Answer to 90% Question
– (A) EXPLORE. Only A fits in the grid.
80% Question & Answer
Q: Spot the difference between these two images. [image above]
Answer to 80% Question
– The image on the right has an extra dog.
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these is incorrect? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– (C). Change the images to words to make new words. DUCKLONGING is not a word.
60% Question & Answer
Q: Although some have been rotated, which two of these flags are exactly the same? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– Flags A and C.
50% Question & Answer
Q: Eight people are in a circle, either standing up (U) or sitting down (D) as shown below. Everyone who is standing up sits down and vice versa. How many people are now standing? [image above]
Answer to 50% Question
– 5. You just needed to count how many people were sitting down, as they will end up standing.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Have a look at this bathroom floor covered in square tiles. If each square tile features eight triangles, how many square tiles were used to cover this floor? [image above]
Answer to 45% Question
– 20. [It would be a 4 by 5 grid.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: If there were no vowels at all, what would be the 13th letter of the alphabet?
Answer to 40% Question
– Q. The list goes B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P and Q.
35% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the following words is still a recognised word if you substitute the first letter for the next letter in the alphabet and the last letter for the previous letter in the alphabet?
- (A) BRINK
- (B) CROWN
- (C) CREST
Answer to 35% Question
– (C) CREST. [The instructions would turn this word into DRESS.]
30% Question & Answer
Q: Below is the recipe for a Big Mack burger. If I have nine whole buns, nine cheese slices, eight tomato slices, and ten patties, what is the maximum number of Big Mack burgers I can make? [image above]
Answer to 30% Question
– 5. Each burger has two patties so ten patties limit the number of burgers to five. [It is assumed that the buns are cut in half.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: How many pairs of anagrams are there in the following sentence?
Alice, Dan, Celia and Enid hoped to dine well on the plane from Nepal.
Answer to 25% Question
– 4. [Alice & Celia, Dan & and, Enid & dine, plane & Nepal.]
20% Question & Answer
Q: What number replaces the question mark in the sequence below?
7 8 5 5 3 4 4 ? 9 7 8 8
Answer to 20% Question
– 6. The sequence is the number of letters in the names of the months in a calendar year. The question mark represents August and there are six letters in August.
15% Question & Answer
Q: In the puzzle below, what four words replace the question mark?
Shatter the frozen water = Break the ice
You can’t access a novel by its dust jacket = You can’t judge a book by its cover
Illustrious intellects imagine identically = ?
Answer to 15% Question
– Great minds think alike.
10% Question & Answer
Q: If you change the letter at the beginning of the first word, the letter in the middle of the second word and the letter at the end of the third word, they all now have something in common. What is it?
CAT BOATS SCARE
Answer to 10% Question
– Clothes. You can change CAT to HAT, BOATS to BOOTS, and SCARE to SCARF. [This is a tricky one since there are a lot of possibilities for word changes. The main thing to focus on are what SCARE could change into, which would be SCARF, SCARS, and SCARY, as well as what BOATS could turn into, which would be BOLTS, BOOTS, and BOUTS. From there, you can make a clothing connection between BOOTS and SCARF.]
5% Question & Answer
Q: 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?
Answer to 5% Question
– TWO of SPADES.
1% Question & Answer
Q: Answer the puzzle below:
How many dots (i.e. “.”) – including any used in punctuation and letters… – are used in writing this question?
Answer to 1% Question
– 17. [“i.e.” has 2 periods, “…” has 3 dots, “?” has 1 dot, and “.” has 1 dot. And then there are 10 i’s in the question.]
Episode 2 Questions and Answers – February 1, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Four people are in a maze trying to reach the centre. Which of them is going the wrong way? [image above]
Answer to 90% Question
– B. [Person B is heading toward dead ends.]
80% Question & Answer
Q: Lee always paints a circle. Lee never paints squares. Lee always paints four triangles. Which of these is one of Lee’s paintings? [image above]
Answer to 80% Question
– A. B has squares and C has only three triangles so it must be A.
70% Question & Answer
Q: What board game is represented here? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– Scrabble. S + CRAB + BALL.
60% Question & Answer
Q: How many squares make up this pattern? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– 4.
50% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the words that follow this sentence don’t follow the word “follow” in this questions?
- (A) this
- (B) in
- (C) the
- (D) of
Answer to 50% Question
– D. [The sentence has “follow this”, “follow the”, and “‘follow’ in”.]
45% Question & Answer
Q: Alistair’s dream celebrity dinner party would be Cameron Diaz, Ella Fitzgerald and Glenn Hoddle. What is Alistair’s surname?
- (A) Green
- (B) White
- (C) Coral
- (D) Brown
Answer to 45% Question
– D. The initials of all the guests are consecutive letters, so his surname must begin with B.
40% Question & Answer
Q: What sport replaces the question mark? [image above]
Answer to 40% Question
– GOLF. [GOAL – AL + LF = GOLF]
35% Question & Answer
Q: These are all the UK coins in order of size from smallest to largest. How many stay in the same position when they are laid out in value order from lowest to highest instead? [image above]
Answer to 35% Question
– One. [Only the largest coin, the two pound coin, stays in the same place.]
30% Question & Answer
Q: What word replaces the question mark? [image credit]
Answer to 30% Question
– GREEN. The words in each box dictate the colour of the next box.
25% Question & Answer
Q: The answers to each of these clues all use the same three letters but in different orders. What are those three letters?
POSSESS
IMMEDIATELY
VICTORIOUS
Answer to 25% Question
– O, W, and N. [POSSESS = OWN, IMMEDIATELY = NOW, and VICTORIOUS = WON.]
20% Question & Answer
Q: What weather-related phrase is represented here?
Emperor Tiger. King Tabby. Queen Spaniel. Empress Labrador.
Answer to 20% Question
– Raining cats and dogs. Emperor, king, queen, and empress all ‘reign’. Tiger and tabby are cats and spaniel and labrador are dogs.
15% Question & Answer
Q: What two letters can be placed in front of the following five words to create five new common words?
__APED __INK __ONE __OWNED __OUGHT
Answer to 15% Question
– D and R. [Adding ‘DR’ to these words becomes DRAPED, DRINK, DRONE, DROWNED, and DROUGHT.
10% Question & Answer
Q: Starting at 1, the first 10 odd numbers add up to 100. What do the first 10 even numbers add up to?
Answer to 10% Question
– 110. 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.
5% Question & Answer
Q: Without reordering any letters, how many animals appear in the sequence below?
P H E A S A N T O R T O I S E A L I O N
Answer to 5% Question
– 6. PHEASANT, SEALION, ANT, SEAL, TORTOISE and LION. [Yes, ants are animals.]
1% Question & Answer
Q: The words below share a specific pattern. Why could VOTING also be part of the group?
BANDLEADER NICKELODEON SILVERBACK
Answer to 1% Question
– They all contain the names of metals. [BANDLEADER has LEAD, NICKELODEON has NICKEL, and SILVERBACK has SILVER.]
Episode 3 Questions and Answers – February 8, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these does not make a word when the letters are placed in reverse order?
- (A) STUN, (B) DUST, (C) SNUB
Answer to 90% Question
– B: DUST. [DUST reversed is TSUD, which isn’t a word.]
80% Question & Answer
Q: Shanti is bored and removes her sunglasses, keys, pen, train ticket and lipstick from her handbag, puts them in alphabetical order and takes a photo from above. Which of these is the correct photo?
Answer to 80% Question
– B. [In alphabetical order, it goes Keys, Lipstick, Pen, Sunglasses, and Train Ticket.]
70% Question & Answer
Q: Serena is about to cast a vote for her local council. She picks the candidate with a name that is an anagram of ‘electoral system’. Who does she vote for?
- (A) Caroline Genteel
- (B) Scarlett Moseley
- (C) Nicola Gollete
- (D) Phil Gobolton
- (E) Lexi Plot
Answer to 70% Question
– B: Scarlett Moseley. It’s the only name that has any Ss.
60% Question & Answer
Q: Amlan is very particular about how he lays out the apps on his home screen. Which of these completes Amlan’s layout? [image above]
- (A) PLUM
- (B) BAKE
- (C) MILK
Answer to 60% Question
– C: MILK. [The logos on the apps spell out DON’T CRY OVER SPILT… and so MILK completes the sequence.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: If even numbers are blue and odd numbers are red, what colour is red + red?
Answer to 50% Question
– A: Blue. Two odd numbers always make an even number so two red make a blue.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Without reordering any letters, what fruit appears in the sentence below?
I’D MAKE MY OWN JUICE WHILE MONEY ROLLS IN
Answer to 45% Question
– LEMON. [It’s found between WHILE and MONEY.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: What one letter replaces the asterisks to complete this sentence?
*I**A’S *AM*ERED *U**IES *OO* ON *UR*LE *A*ER
Answer to 40% Question
– P. [This creates the sentence PIPPA’S PAMPERED PUPPIES POOP ON PURPLE PAPER.]
35% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the options links the following? [image above]
Answer to 35% Question
– D: CAR. The word CAR goes in front of each of the words to make new words. [This creates the words CARPET, CARGO, and CARNATION.
30% Question & Answer
Q: If you begin at one of the corners of this square and move clockwise around the outer edge to finish in the centre, what nine-letter word can you spell?
Answer to 30% Question
– SEARCHING. [Start with the letter S and go clockwise around the board.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: Jim is 6 ft 3 inches tall and when his friend Erica stands on a stool which is one foot tall, she becomes 2 inches taller than him. How tall is Erica?
Answer to 25% Question
– 5 ft 5 inches. 6 ft 3 plus 2 inches = 6 ft 5, then take away one foot for the stool = 5 ft 5 inches.
20% Question & Answer
Q: What is the minimum number of arrows you need to turn for all the arrows to be pointing in the same direction? [image above]
Answer to 20% Question
– 10. There are more arrows pointing up than any other direction so you need to turn the others to match.
15% Question & Answer
Q: Sam’s brother was his best man and Lucy’s sister was her maid of honour. In the seating plan from their wedding, how many people are sitting next to a blood relative? [image above]
Answer to 15% Question
– 4. [The Best Man and Groom’s Mother are blood relatives. So are the Bride and Bride’s Father.]
10% Question & Answer
Q: Is saw this newspaper headline on a ski trip. Which word is the odd one out?
Skiing officials allegedly announce accidents will soon require immediate attention
Answer to 10% Question
– “require”. It’s the only word that doesn’t contain double letters.
5% Question & Answer
Q: What replaces the question marks in this sequence?
JF3128 MA3130 MJ3130 ??????
Answer to 5% Question
– 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 sequences is July August 3131.
1% Question & Answer
Q: If you remove all the underlined letters from the sentence below, what word can be spelt if you rearrange all of the remaining letters?
ANIMAL TO SHUN IN STAMPEDE
Answer to 1% Question
– ELEPHANT.
Episode 4 Questions and Answers – February 15, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: The contents of this can have been shaken up. What two-word food is in the can? (image above)
Answer to 90% Question
– TOMATO SOUP.
80% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these words links the following images? (image above)
- (A) COLD, (B) CODE, (C) CURL
Answer to 80% Question
– B: CODE. Combining CODE with the three images leads to dress CODE, Green Cross CODE, and barCODE.
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these dominos has more spots than the number of wheels on two tricycles but fewer than the legs on two zebras? (image above)
Answer to 70% Question
– B. There are six wheels on two tricycles and eight legs on two zebras so it has to be B. [It has seven dots.]
60% Question & Answer
Q: Sisters Holly, Alisha, Steph and Eliza all booked an appointment at their favourite hairdresser on the same day. Steph went after Alisha and Holly were first. If Eliza went after Steph, what order did the girls go in?
- (A) Holly, Steph, Alisha, Eliza
- (B) Holly, Eliza, Alisha, Steph
- (C) Holly, Alisha, Steph, Eliza
Answer to 60% Question
– C. [In A Steph doesn’t go after Alisha. And in B Eliza doesn’t go after Steph.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the following words includes a number in it which is NOT the same as the number of letters in the word?
- (A) WEIGHTED
- (B) HORNINESS
- (C) EXTENSION
Answer to 50% Question
– C. WEIGHTED has 8 letters. HORNINESS has 9 letters. EXTENSION does not have 10 letters.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Which single letter replaces all the question marks to make a word?
?A??OOIS?
Answer to 45% Question
– T. [This forms the word TATTOOIST.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the following words cannot have a letter removed to leave a real word that sounds exactly the same as before?
- (A) Chord, (B) Boarder, (C) Source, (D) Mourning
Answer to 40% Question
– C. [Chord can be turned into Cord, Boarder into Border, and Mourning into Morning.]
35% Question & Answer
Q: What one word do these three phrases all have in common?
Loud unpleasant noise
Tennis equipment
Fraudulent activity
Answer to 35% Question
– Racket. They are all different definitions of the rocket ‘racket’.
30% Question & Answer
Q: In a new word game, you score one point for every letter in the word. Then you take off two points if the word contains the letter E. Finally, double the points if the word contains a double letter. Which of these words would score the highest?
- (A) QUIZ
- (B) FITTING
- (C) CORRECT
- (D) QUICKSAND
Answer to 30% Question
– B. [FITTING will score 14 points. Meanwhile, QUIZ will score 4 points, CORRECT 10 points, and QUICKSAND 9 points.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: What number replaces the question mark below? (image above)
Answer to 25% Question
– 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.
20% Question & Answer
Q: The words in each square have something in common that puts them in that square. Which of these words can go into all three squares?
- (A) STOP
- (B) BRING
- (C) LEVEL
- (D) PEEP
Answer to 20% Question
– D: PEEP. The word needs to read the same backwards and forwards (first square), end with a P (second square) and have four letters (third square).
15% Question & Answer
Q: You roll three standard dice to find a three-digit number, e.g. 235. What is the highest number you can roll where all digits add up to 10?
Answer to 15% Question
– 631.
10% Question & Answer
Q: Each of the gaps below can be filled by a different three-letter sequences that goes after the first word and before the second word to make two new words. What nine-letter word is made when you put the three sequences together, in order?
HANDLE _ _ _ BELL
FORGOT _ _ _ ANT
SHRED _ _ _ BY
Answer to 10% Question
– BARTENDER. [BAR completes HANDLEBAR and BARBELL. TEN completes FORGOTTEN and TENANT. DER completes SHREDDER and DERBY.]
5% Question & Answer
Q: If you remove all the words in this sentence that contain recurring letters within them, which becomes the ninth word in this sentence?
Answer to 5% Question
– word. [‘Recurring letters’ here means letters that occur more than once in a word.]
1% Question & Answer
Q: What common four-word phrase is represented here?
SPRAINED ANKLE + “YOU ARE STUPID!”
Answer to 1% Question
– ADDING INSULT TO INJURY.
Episode 5 Questions and Answers – February 22, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these is the largest?
- (A) CIRCLE
- (B) TRIANGLE
- (C) RECTANGLE
- (D) SQUARE
Answer to 90% Question
– C: RECTANGLE. RECTANGLE is nine letters long. All the others are shorter. [Yes, the wording of the question is strange.]
80% Question & Answer
Q: Here is a photograph and floorplan of Hassan’s bungalow. In which room has he left the light on? [image above]
- (A) KITCHEN
- (B) BATHROOM
- (C) BEDROOM
- (D) LIVING ROOM
Answer to 80% Question
– C: BEDROOM.
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these structures is made up of a different set of blocks to the other two? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– C. C has a difference orange block and is missing the green bridge.
60% Question & Answer
Q: What four-letter word replaces the question mark?
SOFTENING –> SONG
RADIOACTIVE –> RAVE
WHITECOAT –> WHAT
FAVOURITE –> ?
Answer to 60% Question
– FATE. Each new word is created by using the first two and the last two letters of the original.
50% Question & Answer
Q: Adding what single letter to CONTACT makes it smaller?
Answer to 50% Question
– R. Adding an R makes it CONTRACT.
45% Question & Answer
Q: If you remove a playing card from the first word, a pet from the second word, an insect from the third word and a drink from the fourth word, what number appears?
FACE COAT AUNT TEAR
Answer to 45% Question
– FOUR. [Remove ACE from FACE, CAT from COAT, ANT from AUNT, and TEA from TEAR.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: What three-letter word has a similar meaning when read backwards and also if you move the first letter to the end becomes apt?
Answer to 40% Question
– TAP. When read backwards, TAP becomes PAT and if you move the first letter to the end, TAP becomes APT.
35% Question & Answer
Q: What single word goes in the gaps below to make new words?
QUICK_____
THOU_____
_____STONE
Answer to 35% Question
– SAND. [This makes QUICKSAND, THOUSAND, and SANDSTONE.
30% Question & Answer
Q: What common phrase does this picture represent? [image above]
Answer to 30% Question
– TWO PEAS IN A POD.
25% Question & Answer
Q: Which three different whole numbers – all lower than 10 – give you the same total whether you add them together or multiply them together?
Answer to 25% Question
– 1, 2, and 3. 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6.
20% Question & Answer
Q: There is only one number missing from this pattern? [image above]
Answer to 20% Question
– 4. There’s one 1, two 2s, three 3s and five 5s but only three 4s.
15% Question & Answer
Q: If my old brown woolly jumper contains two holes for every o in this sentence, how many holes are there?
Answer to 15% Question
– 22. The letter o appears 11 times. 11 x 2 = 22.
10% Question & Answer
Q: There are four letters written on the circle. The other letters are all outside the circle. You need to turn the circle clockwise until a colour is spelt out. How many 90 degree turns do you need to make? [image above]
Answer to 10% Question
– 2. After two turns, the p turns to d so the word red appears.
5% Question & Answer
Q: Today, the three witches in Macbeth are discussing when the three should meet again. Witch 1 is available every fourth day, Witch 2 is available every fifth day, and Witch 3 is available every sixth day. How many days from today will they be able to meet again?
Answer to 5% Question
– 60 days. 60 is the first number that is divisible by four, five and six.
1% Question & Answer
Q: 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
Answer to 1% Question
– FLORIST. Where he could, he replaced a letter with a digit that starts with that letter. [An alternate method is figuring out that the 1 is an O from GR1W (GROW) and the 2 is a T from WA92 (WANT). That makes the last word _LORI_T, and from there it shouldn’t be too hard to work out the missing letters to form an occupation.
Episode 6 Questions and Answers – March 8, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Which member of Take That links these words?
QUESTION BOOK TRADE
- (A) GARY
- (B) MARK
- (C) JASON
Answer to 90% Question
– B: MARK. [Adding MARK to the three words results in QUESTION MARK, BOOKMARK, and TRADEMARK.]
80% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these is the odd one out? [image above]
Answer to 80% Question
– C. The words correspond to the shape except for C which should say SQUARE.
70% Question & Answer
Q: Nicole is trying to think of a new password for her email account. She is going to use her middle name, an animal and a colour in a random order. Which of the following passwords must be hers?
- (A) Sarah SharkStick
- (B) Olivia OrangeOlga
- (C) Purple ParrotPaula
Answer to 70% Question
– C: Purple ParrotPaula. A doesn’t have a colour and B has no animal.
60% Question & Answer
Q: Aisha is writing out the names of numbers in matchstick form using one matchstick per stroke like this. Which of the options below uses fewer matchsticks than the number itself? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– B: 10. [TEN requires 9 strokes or matchsticks, NINE takes 11, and ELEVEN takes 19.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: This arrow is pointing up. Logically, which of these words could also go into the arrow. [image above]
- (A) KITTEN
- (B) PUPPY
- (C) CALF
Answer to 50% Question
– B: PUPPY. All the words in the arrow have the word UP in them.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Three people are singing ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’. Tom does the four actions to match the lyrics. Dick always does the four actions in the reverse order to how they appear in the title. Harry does the four actions in alphabetical order. How many people touch their knees at the same time?
Answer to 45% Question
– 2. Tom goes Head, Shoulders, Knees, Toes. Dick goes Toes, Knees, Shoulders, Head. Harry goes Head, Knees, Shoulders, Toes.
40% Question & Answer
Q: How many different combinations are there of displaying four digits on one hand?
Answer to 40% Question
– 5. [Each digit in your hand can be closed so that four fingers are displayed, so there are five combinations.]
35% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these words would logically come next in this sequence?
ABUZZ BREEZY COMPLEX
- (A) DETOX
- (B) DIARY
- (C) DRAW
Answer to 35% Question
– C: DRAW. The start of every word goes forward one letter alphabetically and the end of every word goes back one letter.
30% Question & Answer
Q: If image A is Downtime, what is image B? [image above]
Answer to 30% Question
– Bigwig. TOWN is written down = Downtown, WIG is big = Bigwig.
25% Question & Answer
Q: Maddie’s step counter watch starts at zero at the bottom of a staircase. She climbs 35 stairs but drops her watch to the very bottom and runs down to pick it up. When she gets to the top of the stairs, her watch says she has climbed 100 steps. How many steps long is the staircase?
Answer to 25% Question
– 65 steps. 100 steps minus the 35 she originally climbed means the staircase is 65 steps high. The steps on the way back down weren’t counted because she has dropped the watch.
20% Question & Answer
Q: Which prominent UK person is this rhyming code for? [image above]
Answer to 20% Question
– Keir Starmer. Kier Starmer rhymes with Deer Llama.
15% Question & Answer
Q: A spy has given us their name but has coded it by moving each letter one letter backwards in the alphabet. What is their real name?
ODMDKNOD
Answer to 15% Question
– PENELOPE.
10% Question & Answer
Q: Answer this question: What word do you get if you take the third letter of the alphabet and and and the twenty-fifth letter of the twenty-fifth letter of the alphabet?
Answer to 10% Question
– CANDY. C and AND and Y.
5% Question & Answer
Q: [Skipped as there was only one contestant left.]
Answer to 5% Question
– [Skipped.]
1% Question & Answer
Q: What connects all the following words? [Contestant skipped, took £11,000 in prize money.]
HERO SHEET WEST YOUTH
Answer to 1% Question
–
Episode 7 Questions and Answers – March 22, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the following emojis replaces the question mark in this sequence? (image above)
Answer to 90% Question
– C. The bottom row of emojis are upset and C is the only option that follows that pattern.
80% Question & Answer
Q: What word is represented here?
LEM
ADE
Answer to 80% Question
– LEMONADE. LEM is on ADE.
70% Question & Answer
Q: The rules of this puzzle are that the triangle can fit inside both the circle and the square. However, the circle can only fit inside the square. Which of these is the only one which follows the rules? (image above)
Answer to 70% Question
– C. C is the only option in which the circle fits inside the square.
60% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these butterflies is exactly the same on both sides?
Answer to 60% Question
– B. [A is missing a left antennae while C has different dot placements between the lower left and lower right wings.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: What three-word scientific phrase is represented below? (image above)
Answer to 50% Question
– Fight or flight.
45% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these words can have two of its letters swapped over and still result in a valid word?
- (A) CONVERSATION
- (B) DIALOGUE
- (C) CHAT
Answer to 45% Question
– A. [The V and S in CONVERSATION can be swapped to form the word CONSERVATION.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: Barbra is about to perform in the opening night of a West End show and is looking out for her partner, James. She knows he is sitting in row B, seat 8. Where does he appear from her view on stage? (image above)
Answer to 40% Question
– B. [It would be the second row but going from seats 9 to 1 from left to right.]
35% Question & Answer
Q: The word BACKFIELD contains 9 of the 13 letters from the first half of the alphabet. Which 4 letters from the first half of the alphabet are not used in this word?
Answer to 35% Question
– G, H, J, and M.
30% Question & Answer
Q: These are the top halves of three different capital letters that are all the same size. What three letters are they? (image above)
Answer to 30% Question
– B, P, and R.
25% Question & Answer
Q: This figure (picture of a man) starts in square number 1. It makes each time in the direction in which it points. What number square does it end up in? (image above)
Answer to 25% Question
– 19.
20% Question & Answer
Q: These two leaves in Kate’s garden always attract ladybirds. The left leaf always has ladybirds with four spots on and the right leaf always has ladybirds with six spots on. How many spots would there be in total if one more ladybird lands on each leaf?
Answer to 20% Question
– 44. The left leaf has five ladybirds for 20 spots. The right leaf has four landbirds for 24 spots. This results in a total of 44 dots.
15% Question & Answer
Q: If you remove the word ‘BRA’ from each of these lines of letters, how many lines will end with a vowel? (image above)
Answer to 15% Question
– 5. Because every BRA is preceded by an A, exactly the same number of lines will end with a vowel.
10% Question & Answer
Q: In this puzzle, which one of these words doesn’t belong? (image above)
Answer to 10% Question
– HUNG. All the other wards can be paired to make the names of countries (GERMANY, DENMARK, NORWAY, ICELAND, and SPAIN). You would need ARY to make HUNG+ARY.
5% Question & Answer
Q: How many different words are there in the tongue twister below?
SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEASHORE. THE SHELLS SHE SELLS ARE SURELY SEA SHELLS. SO IF SHE SELLS SHELLS ON THE SEASHORE, I AM SURE SHE SELLS SEASHORE SHELLS.
Answer to 5% Question
– 15. [The words are SHE, SELLS, SEA, SHELLS, BY, THE, SEASHORE, ARE, SURELY, SO, IF, ON, I, AM, and SURE.]
1% Question & Answer
Q: What is the lowest number to have the same value as ten times the number of letters in its name?
Answer to 1% Question
– FIFTY.
Episode 8 Questions and Answers – March 29, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: Kemi’s favourite hat doesn’t have feathers and isn’t next a hat with features. Which is Kemi’s favourite hat? [image above]
Answer to 90% Question
– A. It is the only one that isn’t next to a hat with feathers.
80% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these is the word ABRACADABRA backwards?
- (A) ARBRACADRBA
- (B) ARBACADABRA
- (C) ARBADACARBA
Answer to 80% Question
– C.
70% Question & Answer
Q: This is Lee’s shopping list. By placing the paper with holes over the list, his fifth items will be revealed. What is his secret item? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– CAKE.
60% Question & Answer
Q: In this puzzle, which of these replaces the question mark to make the name of a fish? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– A. A represents ADD. [HADDOCK is a type of fish.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these words is the only one without an identical match? [image above]
Answer to 50% Question
– DING
45% Question & Answer
Q: What word can go after each of these images to make three well-known things? [image above]
Answer to 45% Question
– ROLL. Sausage ROLL, drum ROLL, and spring ROLL.
40% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these images can never produce a correct compass image, no matter how many times you rotate it or flip it? [image above]
Answer to 40% Question
– In B, when the Nand the S come into the right positions, the E and the W are back to front and in the wrong positions.
35% Question & Answer
Q: Andy, Brian and Chris go to a tapas restaurant where every dish on the menu is the same price. They agree to split the bill equally. Andy orders twice as many dishes as Brian and Brian orders twice as many dishes as Chris. The total bill comes to £60 exactly. How much does Chris pay?
Answer to 35% Question
– £20. The question states they agree to split the bill equally so they will pay £20 each.
30% Question & Answer
Q: Which word is the odd one out when everything is paired up? [image above]
Answer to 30% Question
– KALE. BEEF, LAMG and PORK are meats. KALE is a vegetable.
25% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these images below completes the sequence? [image above]
Answer to 25% Question
– C. The dice rotates to the left each time.
20% Question & Answer
Q: Give this question a whirl. What is the answer? [image above]
Answer to 20% Question
– TWELVE. Start at the W in the top left and wind around the box to reveal the question “WHAT IS THE TEN PLUS TWO?”
15% Question & Answer
Q: Which popular game is represented here? [image above]
Answer to 15% Question
– BINGO.
10% Question & Answer
Q: What job do you get by following these dates?
1st FEBRUARY
2nd MARCH
3rd APRIL
1st MAY
4th JUNE
9th SEPTEMBER
Answer to 10% Question
– FARMER. The date corresponds to the position of the letter in the name of the month so 1st FEBRUARY is F, 2nd MARCH is A and so on.
5% Question & Answer
Q: Look at this shape. The top two rows contain four triangles of the same size. Including the top two rows, how many of those triangles are needed in total to fill this shape? [image above]
Answer to 5% Question
– 25. Each row increases by two triangles so the next rows will have 5, 7, and 9 triangles. 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 = 25.
1% Question & Answer
Q: Yolande takes one tablet on every day of the week that has three vowels in it. She starts this pack on 2nd March. What date will she need to start a new pack? [image above]
Answer to 1% Question
– 26th March. There are 10 tablets and she has to take one every Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Episode 9 Questions and Answers – April 5, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: What movie is represented below? [image above]
Answer to 90% Question
– Batman.
80% Question & Answer
Q: Which statement below is correct?
- (A) Two words in this sentence have two letters.
- (B) Three words in this sentence have three letters.
- (C) Four words in this sentence have four letters.
Answer to 80% Question
– C. [The four words with four letters in them are “Four,” “this,” “have,” and “four.”]
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these options replaces the question mark in this set of diagrams? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– C. There are three different shapes in each row, overlaid by three different line symbols. The missing shape is a heart and the missing line symbol is an arrow.
60% Question & Answer
Q: Nick has mixed up his pie charts by mistake. He remembers that PURPLE is larger than GREEN, but not GRAY. GREEN is the smallest of all. GREY is smaller than RED. Which pie chart does he need? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– C. [In A, GRAY is bigger than RED so that’s not it. And in B, GREEN is not the smallest slice.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: Look at this medal table. Who came third first, second second, and first third? [image above]
- (A) SALLY
- (B) RAJ
- (C) MIKE
Answer to 50% Question
– C. Mike was chronologically the first person to come third, the second person to come second, and the third person to come first.
45% Question & Answer
Q: What single letter of the alphabet can fit into the three spaces to complete these four words? [image above]
Answer to 45% Question
– Y. [This forms the words COSY, CRYPT, YEAR, and TINY.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the options replaces the question mark to complete the sequence? [image above]
Answer to 40% Question
– C. The images represent the four card suits – SPADES, DIAMONDS, HEARTS, and the CLUBS.
35% Question & Answer
Q: Which symbol replaces the question mark to complete this sequence?
Answer to 35% Question
– D. The center of each image represents the letters of the alphabet, specifically, V, W, X, Y, and, Z, with lines added at their points to create symbols.
30% Question & Answer
Q: Which one word could mean the same as all these three words?
FINAL
ENDURE
PREVIOUS
Answer to 30% Question
– LAST. [This is a synonym for all three of the words above.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: How many times is the word CLUB written in the box below? [image above]
Answer to 25% Question
– 6. [One of the best ways to identify the word CLUB is to concentrate on the column of Us and seeing where there is an L instead.]
20% Question & Answer
Q: What word replaces the question mark in this Venn diagram? [image above]
Answer to 20% Question
– SEAT. The left circle contains synonyms for chair. The right circle contains words that are anagrams of each other. The only word that fits both is SEAT.
15% Question & Answer
Q: What word can go after each of these images to make three new things? [image above]
Answer to 15% Question
– FLY. [This forms the words butterFLY, dragonFLY, and fruit FLY.]
10% Question & Answer
Q: A family of five are doing the Hokey Cokey. Grandma always gets it wrong and puts an arm in when everyone else puts a leg in and a leg in when everyone else puts an arm in. When the song says “you put your left leg in”, how many legs in total are not ‘in’?
Answer to 10% Question
– 6. Four people are doing it correctly so have one leg in and one leg out but grandma has her arm in and both legs out. 4 + 2 = 6.
5% Question & Answer
Q: What well-known phrase can you see here? [image above]
Answer to 5% Question
– WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN. [The word WHAT goes from bottom to up. And then MUST COME are written up to down.]
1% Question & Answer
Q: What two letters replace the question marks?
TE times T equals MESSAGE
TO times IN equals POISON
E times ?? equals LEAVE
Answer to 1% Question
– IT. If you replace ‘times’ with ‘X’, you form words with the same meaning as the words on the right. [TEXT equals MESSAGE, TOXIN equals POISON, EXIT equals LEAVE.]
