Test your brain power

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

All puzzles set by Adam from the Imperial Quiz Society.

Hard

What links:

What connects a manor house in the Cotswolds, a village in South Somerset, a rock formation off the coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and a small village in Huntingdonshire?

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The answer to this puzzle is:

They are locations which name the four sections of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding.  

Very hard

What links:

What six-letter location is one of the longest words that can be formed by tracing a path across a keyboard? Letter repeats are allowed, although using the same letter twice in a row isn’t.

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The answer to this puzzle is:

Desert. 

Fiendish

What nine-letter country name is the longest country name that can be formed using only element symbols from the periodic table?

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The answer to this puzzle is:

Argentina: Ar Ge N Ti Na, Argon Germanium Nitrogen Titanium Sodium.