The top 25 hardest 1% Club questions ever aired
Do you have what it takes to join The 1% Club?
The 1% Club is one of the toughest quiz shows on TV – and these are its hardest questions so far.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ultimately comes down to whether or not you have the knowledge. The same could be said about The Chase and even University Challenge.
The 1% Club is different. You need know-how: the ability to think laterally and not literally. If you find Only Connect’s hardest questions easy, then it’s definitely the show for you.
So, if you’re up to the task, we’ve rounded up the most difficult questions in The 1% Club history. You can find the answers at the bottom of the article – but no cheating!
These are the most difficult 1% Club questions
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. 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?
I E D C N O V
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 questions:
Answers
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. 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.
Bonus question answers:
1. 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.
2. 20
The letters are the directions on a compass, so SEWN stands for South, East, West, and North.
3. 2
As it’s a 90-degree clockwise turn, you needed to find the arrows that were pointing up that would then be pointing to the right.
4. 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.
5. C
“[” is distinct from “]”.
Read more: The top 10 hardest questions ever aired on Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
