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.
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Sinbad the Sailor |
Night on Bald Mountain |
Scheherazade |
Morgiana |
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Monsieur Zaccone |
Abbé Busoni |
Ali Baba |
Alice in Wonderland |
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice |
Dance of the Hours |
Lord Wilmore |
The Nutcracker |
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Aladdin |
Rite of Spring |
Prince of Persia |
Robin Hood |
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The answer to this puzzle is:
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Sinbad the Sailor |
Monsieur Zaccone |
Lord Wilmore |
Abbé Busoni |
Aliases of Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo |
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Aladdin |
Scheherazade |
Ali Baba |
Morgiana |
Characters from the Thousand and One Nights |
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Rite of Spring |
Dance of the Hours |
Night on Bald Mountain |
The Nutcracker |
Classical pieces used in the film Fantasia |
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Alice in Wonderland |
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice |
Prince of Persia |
Robin Hood |
Films released in 2010 |