The 1% Club - Season 1 Episode 1

90% question

Which hot air balloon photo can not be real?

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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

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

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?

Answer explanation

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

60% Question

If you turned this photo right side up, which part would be wrong?

Answer explanation

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

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

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.

Tags

CCSS.4.OA.C.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

South Carolina and North Dakota. 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.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

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

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

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 of something. What’s the word?

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

30% Question

Which picture is 23rd in this series?

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Answer explanation

B: Whale. 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

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