27-07-2025
10 Hardest quiz questions from The 1% Club to Celebrity Catchphrase – how many can you get right?
VIEWERS regularly tune into quiz shows, seeing if they would be brainy enough to take home life-changing cash prizes.
But it's fair to say some questions are from easy - and left players scratching their heads.
Whether The 1% Club, Only Connect, The Chase or Celebrity Catchphrase, here are some of the toughest TV quiz questions.
1. What letter replaces the question mark in this sequence? YYHLY?YTRRRR - The 1% Club
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Can you spot the pattern in this letters sequence?
2. What connects these famous people: Julian Clary, Dick Van Dyke, Anne Hathaway and George Elliot? - Only Connect
Do you spot the link between comedian Julian Clary - with Hollywood stars Anne Hathaway and Dick Van Dyke?
3. What connects these English counties? 3 in Cambridgeshire, 2 in Staffordshire, 1 in Hertfordshire, 0 in Dorset. - Only Connect
What is the common thread between these UK counties?
4. What's the solution to this tricky riddle that stumped Mark Chapman? - Celebrity Catchphrase
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Mark Chapman struggled with this riddle under time pressure - but can you "say what you see"?
5. And how about this difficult puzzle that left Nadine Coyle confused? - Celebrity Catchphrase
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Girls' Aloud star Nadine Coyle struggled with this one - but can you work it out?
6. Which of these would it be impossible to do? A) Marry your cousin's cousin, B) Marry your brother's widow or C) Marry your widow's sister - The 1% Club
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The 1% Club has become renowned for its brain-bending questions, can you spot the answer here?
BBC star left flummoxed by tricky Celebrity Catchphrase puzzle - but could you solve it?bbc star
7. Actress Joyce Frankenberg is better known by what name? - The Chase
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This actress goes by a much different name now - but do you know it?
8. Mrs Wilberforce is the old lady in what Ealing comedy film? - The Chase
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Do film fans know the stuff on this one?
9. Could you crack this puzzle that left Richard Madeley flummoxed?
This Morning legend Richard was left scratching his head - could you have better luck?
10. Miranda and Oliver are playing a game of table tennis. They change serve after every 2 points. If Oliver served first, and the score is now 6-5, who will be serving the next point?
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This question has a lot to unpack - do you have a cool head and could solve it fast?
Answers
E - the sequence is the last letter of the months of the year
They share first names with main characters in Enid Blyton's The Famous Five
The English counties by the number of cities. Cambridge, Ely, and Peterborough are in Cambridgeshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield are in Staffordshire and St Albans is in Hertfordshire. While there are no cities in Dorset.
It's full to the brim
He's beating the traffic
C) Marry your widow's sister - as you would already be dead
Jane Seymour
The Ladykillers
Eye test
Miranda - They played 11 points, so the next point will be the 12th point. Oliver serves on points: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10 and Miranda serves on points 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 and 12