Thursday, October 15, 2026
The five questions everyone played that day, in the order they were asked, with the correct answers and why they are right.
Too few players took part this day for results to be shown.
Order these from heaviest to lightest.
Correct order
- An adult African elephant
- A family car
- A grand piano
- A bicycle
An adult African elephant weighs about 6 tonnes, a family car about 1.4 tonnes, a grand piano roughly 300–500 kg and a bicycle around 10 kg.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Which capital letter looks the same in a mirror held beside it?
A is symmetric about a vertical line; B, C and E are symmetric about a horizontal line.
You roll two fair dice. Which is more likely?
- Rolling a double✓ Correct answer
- Rolling a total of 8
6 of the 36 outcomes are doubles; only 5 add up to 8 (2+6, 3+5, 4+4, 5+3, 6+2).
You flip a fair coin three times. What is the chance of three heads?
- 1 in 8✓ Correct answer
- 1 in 6
- 1 in 4
- 1 in 3
Each flip is heads with chance ½, and independent chances multiply: ½ × ½ × ½ = 1/8. Of the 8 equally likely sequences, only HHH is all heads.
Shown for 4 seconds, then hidden:
Z7 · Q2 · M5 · B9
Which letter was paired with 5?
The pairs were Z7, Q2, M5, B9, so M went with 5. Saying pairs as single words (“zed-seven, queue-two…”) helps bind them together.