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INTRODUCTION
Thanks for buying the book!
We’re delighted to be bringing you the SECOND quiz book of games for you to play at home with your friends and family. You probably know how it works by now: the questions don’t test what you know but are about how your brain actually works. They test logic and common sense so everyone has an equal chance at getting them right. And just like on the TV show, every question in this book has been tested on a big survey of the country to see what percentage it is — so you get a chance to win bragging rights over all your friends and family!
We are Dean and Andy, the creators of the show, and one of the many things that we’ve loved over the last few years is watching other versions of The 1% Club spring up all around the world. It's funny to think that there are now so many people in so many different countries all trying to get into The 1% Club. Fifteen versions have been made so far — so we thought it would be fun to translate some of the questions they’ve done and have put a few of them in the games in this book.
There are also some bonus Christmas questions as we found that with the first book people seemed to love playing the games with their friends and families around the Christmas table. What could go wrong?! So we’ve put some special Christmas-themed games together for you to play as well as the normal games. Play nicely!
The 1% Club is now in its fifth series in the UK and we absolutely LOVE that so many of you watch it on TV. Thank you.
Right, time for some questions . . . So, get competitive, get thinking and see if you can join The 1% Club.
Good luck!
Dean and Andy x
HOW TO PLAY
Each game has 15 questions that get progressively harder, starting with a question that 90% of the country can answer, down to a question that only 1% of the country can answer. Just like in the TV show, we sent all the questions within the book to be surveyed by a large cross-section of Britain. So you can rest assured that if you are able to answer the 1% questions within the book, you are officially a member of The 1% Club!
Whether you are playing by yourself or with friends and family, get your timer ready so that you can set a 30-second time limit for each question. When they are tested in our surveys, people get 30 seconds to answer – so that’s the best way to play them.
There are 15 questions per game, the first one 90% of the country can answer, the second 80% of the country can answer, and so on, down to the final question which only 1% of the country can answer. Obviously don’t look until you’ve tried the question, but all answers and explanations are given at the end of each game – so you can check and see how you did.
It’s pretty easy to play if you want to do it like the TV show. If you are playing in a group, then you can choose one person per game to be the quiz host to read out each question, then hold up the book to show the page to the players for them to look at the clues, set the timer for 30 seconds and away you go. If you want to play it really seriously, then we recommend each player writes their answers down. The quiz host can ask each player to give their answer and verify these against the answers given at the end of each game. If players get it wrong, they’re out of the game. The person left in at the end of each game, whether they make it to the 1% question or not, is the winner. And by getting the furthest they get the bragging rights and the chance to answer The 1% Club question.
There are 30 games in this book, plus two Christmas games, so there are loads of chances to test yourself however you prefer to play – whether it’s like the TV show or whether it’s by yourself having a go at each question.
Have fun!
60 THE GAMES
GAME 1
Q1
Q2 If Blaine likes to go out in the and if Honey likes to go out when itʼs then when does Chloe like to go out?
Otis sees a sticker on a bathroom wall and thinks it spells a word. What word can Otis see? When itʼs windy
U B V E C E L E
E R I S H M H U
L I E R I O A G
U O N S C R V A
O N N O A N A R
E A A D G M N P
S H A S O G A L
A B S Y D N E Y
PARIS ROME LONDON BARCELONA
Q4
Which of these cities CANNOT be found in this 8x8 grid? This is Oliviaʼs family tree. She is the only child of Ken and Mel. What relation is Dave to her?
30 60%
Bart builds a small house out of slices of toast for his pet mouse. He builds room A with 4 slices and room B with 3 more. What is the smallest number of slices he needs to build two more adjoining square rooms, identical to the others?
Which set of directions will keep people from bumping into each other when they go up and down the stairs?
If each person at the table swaps their plate with the person sitting directly opposite them, and then passes the new plate to the person sitting on their left, what dish does Sarah end up eating?
Solve the equation. P = 2 E = 3 R = 5 C = 4 N = 1 T = 4
Asparagus
Eggs Pasta
Fish
Pizza Chicken
Which of these formations is not played by any 11-a-side football team?
1-4-4-1-1 with a false nine
1-5-3-2 with attacking defenders
with a holding midfielder
Q10
What blocks will fill in this wall and make it a rectangle?
Q11 30 15% Q12 It might help to think negatively to answer this question. Which of these words is DISSIMILAR to the others?
What word is spelled with the symbols below?
Over the next 24 hours, how many times will the big hand pass an ʻXʼ on this clock with Roman numerals?
Q14
Cyber security expert Elron has left this Post-it note on his computer screen to help him remember the 8-letter word he uses to access his computer. What is that word?
Which number should replace the question mark?
ANSWERS TO GAME 1 ON PAGE 14
ANSWERS
GAME X
GAME 1
Q1 90% B - When it’s snowy
They like to go out in weather that rhymes with their names. Blaine – rain, Honey – sunny and Chloe likes to go out when its snowy.
Q2 80% PUZZLE
The top halves and bottom halves of the alternating letters are obscured.
Q3 70% D – BARCELONA
The grid is 8x8 and Barcelona has 9 letters so it is impossible for it to be in the grid.
Q4 60% D – Great-grandfather
Olivia’s father is Ken, and Frank is one of her grandfathers. Therefore, Dave is her great-grandfather.
Q5 50% 5
Q6 45% B
By staying right going up and staying right going down, you will be on different sides of the stairs and therefore will avoid bumping into people.
Q7 40% Fish
Job swaps his fish to Nat and then Nat passes it to Sarah who is on her left, so Sarah ends up with the fish.
Q8 35% 22
You have to add all of the digits, including E twice – for 22 total.
Q9 30% C – 1-4-1-3-1-2 with a holding midfielder
You don’t need to know anything about football formations: C is the only option with one too many players.
Q10 25% C
Q11 20% D – RESPECT
They are all commonly made into negatives with the prefix UN - UNavoidable, UNnecessary, UNpopular – except RESPECT which becomes DISrespect.
Q12 15% WEALTH
The symbols are the interior spaces of different letters of the alphabet and spell out the word WEALTH.
Q13 10% 96
In 24 hours, the minute hand passes each number 24 times. There are four numbers with an X in it so the answer is: 4 x 24 = 96.
Q14 5% PASSWORD
The arrows remind Elron which direction to move the letters in the alphabet to create his password.
Q15 1% 1614
The first number is the position from the left. The second number is the position from the top. The third number is the position from the bottom. And the fourth is the position from the right.
GAME 2
Q2 Fill in the missing word:
Where ? Genes What word should not be in in this sentence?
Which is the only square that has not been filled in? If we turn Jordanʼs photo 180°, so his head is pointing down, what will his left hand be pointing at?
Q6 What shape comes next in the sequence?
Mathematically, which option best belongs in this group of symbols?
word replaces the question
What letter of the alphabet is missing from this eye chart?
What two-word phrase is represented by the puzzle below?
Q10
What number fills in the blank in the sentence below to make it make sense?
____ is the number of letters in the first word of this sentence, two in the second, three in the third, six in the fourth . . . etc.
Follow the logic of the arrows to work out which number should replace the question mark?
Q12 If every stinking third word appearing in this stinking question gets stinking ignored, what stinking word is stinking repeated most?
Thereʼs a puppy in one box. Only one of the statements under the boxes is true. Which box has the puppy? Read each word in the headline from beginning to end. Which word doesnʼt match the pattern of the others?
Q15
What is the next number in this sequence?
1234, 2612, 1262, 21212, ?
ANSWERS TO GAME 2 ON PAGE 24
ANSWERS
GAME X
GAME 2
Q1 90% in
The word ‘in’ appears twice.
Q2 80% B – Blew
If you read it out loud it sounds like the sentence ‘I wear blue jeans’.
Q3 70% B
The only square that is not filled in anywhere in the main image is the bottom left square in option B.
Q4 60% A – APPLE
When upright, Jordan’s left hand is pointing at the banana, so upside-down he will be pointing at the apple.
Q5 50% C
The shapes have an increasing number of surfaces: Sphere – 1, Cone – 2, Cylinder – 3, Triangle-based pyramid – 4.
Q6 45% A
All the circles have mathematical operations in them (+, ÷, x), so the circle with the minus sign in it is needed to complete the group.
Q7 40% B – COMPLEX
The last letter of each word goes backwards in alphabetical order: feZ, jurY, compleX, bungaloW, satnaV, flU.
Q8 35% P
The letter P is missing from the eye chart.
Q9 30% Opposites attract
The words that are opposites of each other (COLD–HOT, TOP–BOTTOM, EAST–WEST, NEAR–FAR, EMPTY–FULL) are close together, and the words that are similar HAPPY–CHEERFUL, STRANGE–WEIRD, FAST-QUICK are apart.
Q10 25% Four
Four has the same number of letters as its value. So the sentence reads: Four is the number of letters in the first word of this sentence, two in the second, three in the third, six in the fourth . . . etc.
Q11 20% 1
Each up arrow means PLUS 1. Each down arrow means MINUS 1. So 3 up arrows and 2 down arrows = 1.
Q12 15% B – Word
Ignoring every third word gives you ‘word’ as the most frequent word: If every third WORD in this question gets ignored, what WORD is repeated most?
Q13 10% Box 1
The puppy has to be in Box 1 as this makes only the third statement true.
Q14 5% Valuable
Every word here ends with the same letter that it starts with, except for ‘valuable’.
Q15 1% 2222
Get the number by multiplying each pair of consecutive digits in the previous number together. So 1234 is 1 x 2, 2 x 3 and 3 x 4 = 2612 and so on. 21212 is 2 x 1 = 2, 1 x 2 = 2, 2 x 1 = 2, 1 x 2 = 2, making 2222 the answer.
GAME 3
Four art students were asked to draw a flower with six petals, heart-shaped leaves and a long stem. Which student completed the task?
Q2
If you ignore the symbols and just read the letters, what three-word phrase is written below?
