1% Club

Question 1 (Easy - 90% should get this right):

• Question: What comes next in the sequence: 2, 4, 6, 8, ___?

Tags

CCSS.2.NBT.A.2

Question 2 (Moderate - 80% should get this right):

• Question: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

Question 3 (Moderate - 70% should get this right):

• Question: If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Question 4 (Challenging - 60% should get this right):

• Question: A man is looking at a picture of someone. His friend asks, "Who is it you are looking at?" The man replies, "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son." Who is in the picture?

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Question 5 (Challenging - 50% should get this right):

• Question: There are three doors. Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door. The host, who knows what’s behind each door, opens one of the other doors, revealing a goat. He then asks if you want to switch your choice to the remaining unopened door. Should you switch?

Question 6 (Difficult - 40% should get this right):

• Question: I am always hungry, I must always be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

Question 7 (Difficult - 30% should get this right):

• Question: The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?

Tags

CCSS.3.MD.A.1

Question 8 (Very Difficult - 20% should get this right):

• Question: A man was born in 1995 and died in 1953. How is this possible?

Question 9 (Very Difficult - 10% should get this right):

• Question: You see a boat filled with people, but there isn't a single person on board. How is that possible?

Question 10 (The 1% Question - Extremely Difficult):

• Question: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?