ARE you in the smartest one per cent of the country?
You can find out with the brand new The 1% Club Official Quiz Book 2, from the team behind Lee Mack’s hit ITV show.
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Test out your brains with an extract from The 1% Club Official Quiz Book 2, created by the team behind Lee Mack’s hit ITV show
To get you started, try Laura Stott’s extract here.
You have 30 seconds for each question, and each question gets progressively harder.
Ninety per cent of the country would get the first question right, but only the top one per cent would solve the final teaser. See answers below.
- Extracted from The 1% Club Book 2: The Official Quiz Book published by Bantam on November 6. Available to pre-order on Amazon now.
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Answers
- Q1 (90%): ‘THE’ has three letters.
- Q2 (80%): ‘ONE’ is repeated in the sentence.
- Q3 (70%): 21. Michael turned 21 on Christmas Day 2021. Valentine’s Day was in February before Michael’s 22nd birthday.
- Q4 (60%): SUNDAY. The days of the week in alphabetical order are: Friday, Monday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
- Q5 (50%): HALF FULL. After Bill drinks half Ben’s glass and Ben throws out half of Bill’s both are a quarter full. Adding these together brings Bill’s back to half full.
- Q6 (45%): ‘ONE’, an odd number, has three letters.
- Q7 (40%): C – in 60 minutes. Finn takes pill 1 immediately, pill 2 after 20 minutes, pill 3 after 40 minutes and pill 4 after 60 minutes.
- Q8 (35%): ‘PINK’ is hidden in ‘triP IN Ken’s’.
- Q9 (30%): See eye to eye. If you say ‘C I 2 I’ out loud it sounds the same.
- Q10 (25%): 5 minutes. Al’s showers last 20 minutes, twice as long as Mal’s at 10 minutes, which are twice as long as Cal’s at 5 minutes. 20 + 10 + 5 = 35 minutes in total.
- Q11 (20%): B – 31st. If the day before yesterday was the 26th then today is the 28th. The day after tomorrow can be the 30th, or if the month is February, it could be the 2nd or the 1st if it is a leap year.
- Q12 (15%): NONSENSE.
- Q13 (10%): 5. There are two ellipses in the sentence plus the series of three in the i’s and j’s in ‘hijinks’, ‘Beijing’ and ‘Fiji’.
- Q14 (5%): 50. These are the values of UK coins in pence in ascending order. So it is 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and the next coin is 50p.
- Q15 (1%): ‘NINE’ or ‘ELEVEN’ can replace the word BLANK to make the statement true. There are eight of the letter E already.
