The 1% Percent Club

90% Question: Which hot air balloon photo cannot be real?

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Answer explanation

• You can tell B is altered because the hot air balloon doesn't match its reflection.

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

80% Question: Logically, which one can you count on to come next in the sentence below?

I AM THE ONLY _______

• CROCODILE

• WOMAN

• MECHANIC

Answer explanation

Each word in the sentence has one more letter than the previous one, so the next word must have 5 letters.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

70% Question: Wednesday, Will and Wanda went out to lunch. At the end of the meal, one of them paid the bill, but it wasn't Will or Wanda. Who paid for lunch?

Type your answer below.

Answer explanation

In the paragraph above, Wednesday is the name of a person, not a day of the week.

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CCSS.L.4.1G

CCSS.L.K.4A

60% Question: If you turned this photo right side up, which part would be wrong?

Answer explanation

The mouth is upside down when the photo is right side up.

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

50% Question: In the classic game, if you say "He loves me" while plucking a flower's first petal, which flower would end with "He loves me not"?

• One with 5 petals

• One with 50 petals

• One with 555 petals

Answer explanation

"He loves me not" is said when plucking even- numbered petals, and the only even-numbered flower has 50 petals.

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

45% Question: You can rearrange the letters of the two states below to create two other states' names.

What are the new states?

North Carolina

South Dakota

Answer explanation

If you simply swap NORTH and SOUTH, it creates the names of two new states:

South Carolina and North Dakota.

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CCSS.L.4.2D

CCSS.L.5.2E

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

40% Question: In this grid where the same letter never appears in consecutive squares, reading horizontally and vertically only, how many times does the word "TREE" appear?

Answer explanation

If the same letter can't appear next to itself, it is impossible to spell the word TREE which has consecutive E's.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

35% Question: Emphasize the first syllable of this six-letter word, and it's a dry place. Emphasize the second syllable of the same word, and it means to abandon someone or something.

What's the word?

Answer explanation

The word "desert" fits both those definitions, depending on what syllable is emphasized.

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CCSS.L.5.5C

30% Question: Which picture is 23rd in this series?

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Answer explanation

A is for apple, B is for ball, and since there are 26 letters of the alphabet, #23 is W for whale

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CCSS.4.OA.C.5

25% Question: Logically, what comes next in the sequence below?

EINN, ENT, EEELNV, EELTVW,

• EEHINRTT

• EEFNORTU

• EEFFINT

Answer explanation

The words NINE, TEN, ELEVEN and TWELVE, have had the letters rearranged in alphabetical order. Next would be a rearranged version of THIRTEEN.