Hardest quiz EVER challenges players to answer tricky maths & history questions (2024)

Hardest quiz EVER challenges players to answer tricky maths & history questions (1)

BRAIN GAME

NOT trying to boast or anything - but since we went into lockdown, we've become pretty damn good at quizzes.

Well, at least that's what we thought until we gave this tricky test a try. (Try saying that 10 times over.)

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Over the course of the past 10 weeks, Sky has created the National General Knowledge Test which consists of "100 essential quiz questions everyone should be able to answer."

But if that didn't sound hard enough, players have now voted for 10 trickiest questions - so will YOU be able to answer them correctly?

The questions are designed to put your history, geography and science knowledge to the ultimate test.

So the next time you're asked to come up a general knowledge round for a Zoom quiz, you know what to do...

10 'hardest' General Knowledge Questions

The questions are ranked in order of what Brits said they most likely to answer incorrectly.

  1. What is the world’s smallest country?
  2. What are the first three books of The Old Testament?
  3. How many sides does a dodecahedron have?
  4. What were the names of Henry VIII’s six wives?
  5. Banksy is most associated with which city?
  6. What nationality was Charlie Chaplin?
  7. What are the names of the five oceans?
  8. What are Africa’s BIG FIVE animals?
  9. Which chess piece can’t move in a straight line?
  10. Which planet is closest to the Sun?

Sky Documentaries, Sky Nature and Sky HISTORY are available now, free for Sky customers. Play the National General Knowledge Test here.


Answers

How well did YOU do? Here are the percentage of Brits who said they'd get these questions wrong and the correct answers.

  1. What is the world’s smallest country? (76 per cent) Vatican City
  2. What are the first three books of The Old Testament? (74 per cent)Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus
  3. How many sides does a dodecahedron have? (73 per cent)12
  4. What were the names of Henry VIII’s six wives? (71 per cent)Catherine Parr, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon
  5. Banksy is most associated with which city? (64 per cent)Bristol
  6. What nationality was Charlie Chaplin? (60 per cent)British
  7. What are the names of the five oceans? (58 per cent) Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern
  8. What are Africa’s BIG FIVE animals? (56 per cent) Lion, Leopard, Rhino, Elephant and Cape Buffalo
  9. Which chess piece can’t move in a straight line? (55 per cent) Knights
  10. Which planet is closest to the Sun? (54 per cent) Mercury

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