{"id":131,"date":"2026-09-16T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/impossible-quiz-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:12:36","slug":"impossible-quiz-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/impossible-quiz-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Quiz Questions \u2014 and Why They Are Unfair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These are the questions that get called impossible. Most are not – they are simply obscure, which is a different thing. A genuinely good hard question is one that a few people in the room can reason their way to; these mostly cannot be reasoned to at all, which is exactly what makes them a poor choice for a round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obscure but answerable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. What is the only letter that does not appear in any US state name?<\/strong> \u2014 Q<\/li>\n\n
  2. What is the dot over a lowercase i called?<\/strong> \u2014 A tittle<\/li>\n\n
  3. What is the fear of long words called?<\/strong> \u2014 Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia<\/li>\n\n
  4. How many hearts does an earthworm have?<\/strong> \u2014 Five aortic arches, often counted as hearts<\/li>\n\n
  5. What is a group of flamingos called?<\/strong> \u2014 A flamboyance<\/li>\n\n
  6. Which country has a dragon on its flag?<\/strong> \u2014 Bhutan, and Wales on its national flag<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Genuinely hard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. What is the capital of Burkina Faso?<\/strong> \u2014 Ouagadougou<\/li>\n\n
    2. Which element has the symbol W?<\/strong> \u2014 Tungsten<\/li>\n\n
    3. What is the world’s smallest bird?<\/strong> \u2014 The bee hummingbird<\/li>\n\n
    4. How many bones does a shark have?<\/strong> \u2014 None – its skeleton is cartilage<\/li>\n\n
    5. What is the longest-running scientific experiment still going?<\/strong> \u2014 The pitch drop experiment<\/li>\n\n
    6. Which sea creature has the largest eye?<\/strong> \u2014 The colossal squid<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Nearly unfair<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. What is the second-largest country by area?<\/strong> \u2014 Canada<\/li>\n\n
      2. How many time zones does France have, counting territories?<\/strong> \u2014 Twelve<\/li>\n\n
      3. What is the only mammal capable of true flight?<\/strong> \u2014 The bat<\/li>\n\n
      4. Which country has the most official languages?<\/strong> \u2014 Bolivia, with 37<\/li>\n\n
      5. What is the deepest lake in the world?<\/strong> \u2014 Lake Baikal<\/li>\n\n
      6. How many keys does a standard accordion have?<\/strong> \u2014 It varies – typically 41 on the treble side<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        Play on the Millionaire Trivia app<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        Use no more than two of these in an entire quiz, and never as a tie-breaker. A round of them produces silence, and silence is how a quiz night dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Eighteen notoriously hard questions with answers, and why they make a bad round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}