Brain Teaser

[Marty_d]

14 hours ago, red750 said:

Move the spaces so they become dates - 2017 2018 2019  2020 2021 20?? 

So the two numbers are 22.

 

What two letters replace the question marks?

 

TE times T equals MESSAGE
TO times IN equals POISON
E times ?? equals LEAVE

IT

[red750]

Correct. Replace  "times" with X.

TE times T becomes TEXT, equals MESSAGE
TO times IN becomes TOXIN,  POISON
E times ?? becomes EXIT, equals LEAVE

 

 

 

 Edna’s birthday is on the 6th of April and Jen’s birthday falls on the 15th of October, therefore Amir’s birthday must be the ‘?’ of January.

[red750]

Amir’s birthday is the 24th of January. The date is the number of words at that point in the sentence, the twenty fourth word.

 

 

 

In a road with exactly 26 houses, if Em lives at number 13 and Bea lives at number 2, logically what number house does Elle live at?

[Marty_d]

12.

[red750]

Correct.

 

M (Em) is the 13th letter in the alphabet, B (Bea) is the second letter, so L (Elle) is the twelfth letter.

 

 

[Marty_d]

I get "coincidence" for 11.

There's probably a German word of 50 in there.

[red750]

The correct answer has 14 letters.

 

 

 

[red750]

Just found out there is a US version of The 1% Club, but it is not showing in Australia.

 

Not surprising that there's a US version. The host is Patton Oswalt.

 

[facthunter]

What IS the 1% club?  Nev

[red750]

53 minutes ago, facthunter said:

What IS the 1% club?  Nev

Where have you been?

 

The 1% Club is a TV game show, with UK, Australian and US versions, and possibly other countries as well.

 

An group of 100 contestants in the studio are each given an amount of $1000 in Aus, and £1000 in the UK. They face a series of quiz questions which have been checked against a test group of 1000 people, which identifies the difficulty of the question.

 

If 90% of the 1000 get it right, it is called the 90% question, and is fairly simple. If a contestant gets it wrong, they are eliminated from the game, and their $1000 goes into a prize pot. If 80% of the 1000 get it right, it becomes the 80% question. The same goes for the 75%, 70%, 60% and so on till they reach a question only 1% of the 1000 test group can answer correctly. Contestants get 30 seconds to solve the question while the host rambles on with distracting chatter.

 

Contestants are eliminated at each level and their stake is added to the prize pot. Anyone not eliminated when they reach the 1% question can take $10,000 or risk it to attempt the 1% question, where they could win (or share if more than 1 get that far) the total of the prize pot, which could have risen to $100,000.

 

The hosts, or question masters, are Jim Jeffries in Australia, Lee Mack in the UK and Patton Oswalt in the US.

[nomadpete]

12 hours ago, facthunter said:

What IS the 1% club?  Nev

That's the billionaires, that hold 90% of world wealth. You should know that, Nev.

[facthunter]

I'm GLAD I don't KNOW red's version.. Where have I Been?  DOING things. I don't even watch TV in hospital. Nev

[red750]

I tried recording a couple of questions from an old episode on 7plus streaming, but only the audio recorded, not the vision, but I have done it before. No idea why it did not work. If you log on to 7plus streaming, click on the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner and type 1% Club, you will be able to select the UK or Aussie version and a series/episode to watch. You only need to watch a couple of questions to get a feel for the show. 7plus is free.

[red750]

I went back and tried an episode of  the Aussie version with Jim Jeffries. Here is the 25% question from that episode. (25% of the 1000 test group got it right.)

 

The pass Jim refers to is when a contestant finds a question too difficult, they can use their $1000 stake to buy a pass so they can go on to further questions. They can only use the pass once, and the money goes into the prize pot. They get one chance to take their $1000 if they haven't bought a pass and leave the game.