You’re in the top 1% of people if you can answer any of these questions from top TV quiz show correctly
GETTING the ultimate question right on The 1% Club has become the new way of boasting you’re the cleverest person in your friend group.
Lee Mack’s ITV quiz has quickly become one of the nation’s favourite game shows since it launched last year.
It sees 100 contestants compete for a £100,000 prize pot by answering 15 logic-inspired questions that get progressively harder.
It kicks off with a question which 90 per cent of the population polled got right.
It then goes on to ask questions which smaller and smaller percentages of the country got right, culminating with a 1% question.
Here we bring you a selection of those tough final questions from the show.
Don’t worry – if you get them wrong, you’re in good company, as even presenter Lee hasn’t managed to get a 1% question right.
He said: “I’m not going to lie – I went through the whole first series without getting a 1%. The best I did was a 5% question.”
1% Questions
1. What are the next 2 letters in this sequence?
T N E C R E P E _ _
2. On a digital 24-hour clock that displays hours, minutes and seconds, how many times in each 24-hour period do all six digit change simultaneously?
3. Why is FACETIOUS the odd one out in this group of words?
EDUCATION TAMBOURINE FACETIOUS DISCOURAGE
4. What is the first number that when spelled out has its letters in alphabetical order?
5. What is the next letter in this sequence?
- F
- E
- I
- R
- ?
6. What is the next letter in this sequence?
SENTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
7. In sport, if being FT gets you GD and being SD gets you SR, what does being TD get you?
8. Using just two letters to fill in the blanks, what is the word below?
_L_ _V_L_ _ _
9. Why is FOQZ the odd one out in these sets of letters?
BCDEGPTV AJK FOQZ IY
10. If you list all the numbers from 1 to 100 in order, 100 would be the 100th number but what would be the 100th digit?
11. All the words in this list have something specific in common. What is it?
Into, Therefore, Evaluate, Benign
12. The following rows all represent something. What specifically does the last row of numbers represent that makes it different from the other numbers?
312831303130313130313031
312831303130313130313031
312831303130313130313031
312931303130313130313031
Answers
- NO – It’s One Percent spelt backwards.
- 3 – 09:59:59 becomes 10:00:00, 19:59:59 becomes 20:00:00, 23:59:59 becomes 00:00:00.
- They all contain all five vowels, but only FACETIOUS has them in alphabetical order.
- FORTY
- H – F is the first letter of First, E is the second letter of Second etc. and H is the fifth letter of Fifth.
- F – For Forty, as they are the initials of the numbers seventeen through to thirty-nine.
- BE – FirstT gets you GolD, SeconD gets you SilveR, ThirD gets you BronzeE.
- SLEEVELESS – S and E are the two letters needed.
- FOQ and Z don’t rhyme.
- 5 – the first digit in 55 is the 100th number
- They all end with the sound of a number – two, four, eight and nine
- A LEAP YEAR – Each 2-digit number is the number of days in a month.