Test your skills with questions created by the Imperial Quiz Society to put University Challenge 2025–26 hopefuls through their paces. Good luck!
Question 1
What short noun links all of the following: a quote by Alexander Pope that names E.M. Forster’s first novel; iron pyrite; and an allegory about a ship in Plato’s The Republic?
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The answer to this puzzle is:
Fool (Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread, fool’s gold, ship of fools)
Question 2
Found in blood plasma, which family of non-glycosylated proteins help maintain osmotic pressure and transport substances? Clue: the name comes from the Latin for “egg white".
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The answer to this puzzle is:
Albumin
Question 3
Prussian blue is formed when an iron (II) ion is complexed to six of what anion? It is composed of a carbon atom triple bonded to a nitrogen atom.
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The answer to this puzzle is:
Cyanide