Below you’ll find The 1% Club questions and answers for UK Season 5 (or Series 5) for late 2025. The popular quiz show has returned for its anticipated fifth season following the successful run of UK Season 4 (which wrapped up in the summer) and the US Season 2 with new host Joel McHale. As usual, the game show asks 100 contestants to answer brainteasers and riddles that grow more difficult as the episode progresses. Most rely on common sense with a few of them requiring some quick math. Comedian Lee Mack has come back as the host and presenter of the show once more. Here’s a list of every question and answer for the UK Season 5 episodes of The 1% Club.
List of The 1% Club (UK) questions and answers for Season 5 (2025)
Here is a list of The 1% Club questions and answers for each episode in Season 5. They are presented in chronological order with the answers hidden (you can click on the arrows to reveal them). We’ve provided some handy links as well, so you can skip to the episode you want to know the answers for.
Episode 1 Questions & Answers – October 11, 2025
90% Question & Answer
Q: What four letters are shared by these two pictures? [image above]
Answer to 90% Question
– TEAR.
80% Question & Answer
Q: What sport is depicted here? [image above]
Answer to 80% Question
– RUGBY. [RUG + BEE]
70% Question & Answer
Q: Which two of these animals join together to form a word which is not an animal? [image above]
Answer to 70% Question
– SEALANT. [SEAL + ANT]
60% Question & Answer
Q: At the local supermarket, a meal deal consists of a drink, sandwich and snack. Sam brought the items shown on the right for some friends. How many complete meal deals did Sam qualify for? [image above]
Answer to 60% Question
– 4. The leftover items (two sandwiches and a drink) do not qualify for the meal deal. [There are 4 drinks in the image.]
50% Question & Answer
Q: Gloria is playing a game where she tells you two truths and one lie about herself. Which of these statements is the lie?
A) I was born when my parents’ ages both contained the numbers 2 and 3
B) When I turned 18, my mother was 50 years old and father was 41
C) My parents were both born on 29th February, 11 years apart
Answer to 50% Question
– C. C can never be true as 29th February only happens every 4 years and 11 is not a multiple of 4.
45% Question & Answer
Q: What single letter replaces the question marks to create three words?
? A Y A ?
? I O S ?
? N O C ?
Answer to 45% Question
– K. [This forms the words KAYAK, KIOSK, and KNOCK.]
40% Question & Answer
Q: Which of these replaces the question mark to make the name of a country? [image above]
Answer to 40% Question
– C. [The image is a STAR, which when put in where the question mark is, the word becomes COSTARICA, or COSTA RICA. It’s a bit tricky because of the space between the two words.]
35% Question & Answer
Q: If you put all five shapes into the grid without rotating them, what is the letter and number combination of the only square that won’t be used? [image above]
Answer to 35% Question
– C2. [The fourth shape narrows the answer down to two options, making it easier to figure out.]
30% Question & Answer
Q: Which of the names listed below when inserted somewhere into the word PARENT makes it into an ew word with a new definition? [image above]
A) TOM
B) BILL
C) LIAM
D) SAM
E) TED
Answer to 30% Question
– C: LIAM. [Inserting LIAM into the word PARENT turns it into PARLIAMENT.]
25% Question & Answer
Q: Which two digits do you need to swap to make the solution to this maths problem correct?
Answer to 25% Question
– 9 & 2. [The easiest way to figure this out is seeing that the singles digit of the first two numbers need to add up to a 10 since the sum ends in a 0.]
20% Question & Answer
Q: In week 1, Harry is at number 1 in the charts and Justin is at number 10. If, each week, Harry moves down to places and Justin moves up two places, in which week will Justin overtake Harry?
Answer to 20% Question
– Fourth week. [At Week 4, Harry will be 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 7 and Harry will be at 10 – 2 – 2 – 2 = 4.]
15% Question & Answer
Q: There is one single letter that you can use to replace a letter in each of the words below so the first one becomes a different food, the second one becomes a different body part and the third one becomes a different animal. What is the letter?
Answer to 15% Question
– R. [This will turn PEAS into PEAR, WAIST into WRIST, and CAT into RAT.
10% Question & Answer
Q: Going from Image A to Image B, how many emojis have not been rotated 90 degrees clockwise? [image above]
Answer to 10% Question
– 1. [The second emoji down in the last column has been rotated 180 degrees.]
5% Question & Answer
Q: There are two commonly used two-letter words that share the same letters. If you take the opposites of those two words, you should now have two three-letter words. What are those new words?
Answer to 5% Question
– YES and OFF. The 2 two-letter words are NO and ON and their opposites are YES and OFF.
1% Question & Answer
Q: Look at the image below. Beginning at the START each time, LLL = A, and RRR = H. What word is represented by the following? [image above]
Answer to 1% Question
– BADGE. L and R represent Left and Right and dictate where you go at each junction.
