Ready to test your little grey cells? Imperial’s best minds set the ultimate puzzle challenge.

All puzzles set by the Imperial Quiz Society.

Hard

Give the sequence that joins:

A deceptive clupeid; the Merry Monarch’s favoured accompaniment to eggs; Sir Gawain’s first adversary.

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The answer to this puzzle is:

Traffic lights (red herring, ambergris, the Green Knight).

Very hard

What do Wi-Fi, SOS and Marcel Duchamp’s LHOOQ have in common?

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The answer to this puzzle is:

Nothing. These abbreviations are not intended to have any meaning.

Fiendish

Only Connect wall. Re-arrange the wall into rows, each row has a unique common link that must also be identified.

Sinbad the Sailor

Night on Bald Mountain

Scheherazade

Morgiana 

Monsieur Zaccone

Abbé Busoni 

Ali Baba 

Alice in Wonderland 

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Dance of the Hours 

Lord Wilmore 

The Nutcracker

Aladdin 

Rite of Spring

Prince of Persia

Robin Hood

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The answer to this puzzle is:

Sinbad the Sailor

Monsieur Zaccone

Lord Wilmore

Abbé Busoni

Aliases of Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo

Aladdin

 Scheherazade

Ali Baba 

Morgiana

Characters from the Thousand and One Nights

Rite of Spring 

Dance of the Hours

Night on Bald Mountain

The Nutcracker

Classical pieces used in the film Fantasia

Alice in Wonderland  

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Prince of Persia 

Robin Hood 

Films released in 2010