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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:
Opera featuring golden calf; Austen work consisting of letters from Laura; 2009 Iñárritu film starring Bardem; album featuring “Care of Cell 44”?
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The answer to this puzzle is:
They are all misspelt - Moses und Aron (Schoenberg misspelt it due to his fear of the number 13), Love and Freindship, Biutiful, Odessey and Oracle.
Very hard
What links:
Speech production area; film formed by oxidation; Yorubaland king title; monster buried under Etna; portraitist of The White Cloud; most recent Metroid game?
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The answer to this puzzle is:
They are all anagrams of snakes - BROCA’s area = COBRA, PATINA = TAIPAN, OBA = BOA, TYPHON = PYTHON, George CATLIN = CANTIL, Metroid DREAD = ADDER.
Fiendish
What number has been replaced by a question mark in the following sequence:
1887, –, 1800, –, 1801, ?, 1900, 1912.
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The answer to this puzzle is:
1895 - These are the years of discovery of the sections of the electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to cosmic rays, excluding visible light and microwaves. The ? represents X-Rays which were discovered in 1895.