If you like quiz questions that feel easy at first glance and then quietly trip you up, this one’s for you.
Every day on Quizified we ask 10 questions across 10 categories. In October 2025 that added up to exactly 310 questions. Some were straightforward. Others turned out to be far tougher than expected.
This post brings together the 20 hardest questions from October 2025, based on how real players actually performed. Each question here was answered correctly by fewer than a third of players, often much less.
The data comes from over 5,000 attempts in total. Nothing theoretical. Just what people really clicked.
Try the questions first before scrolling. The answers are hidden at the bottom so you can play it properly.
Where in London was the first McDonald’s opened in the UK?
A) Oxford Street
B) Piccadilly Circus
C) Woolwich
D) Leicester Square
Correct answer rate: 13%
In Irish Gaelic, what does slán mean?
A) Welcome
B) Goodbye
C) Thank you
D) Please
Correct answer rate: 16%
Which of these inventions came first?
A) The telephone
B) The light bulb
C) The bicycle
D) The steam engine
Correct answer rate: 27%
What is the chemical symbol for fluorine?
A) Fl
B) Fr
C) F
D) Fu
Correct answer rate: 27%
Which US college was unhappy with its name being used in the third series of The White Lotus?
A) Yale
B) Stanford
C) Duke
D) Harvard
Correct answer rate: 17%
What George Clooney film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2025?
A) The Midnight Sky
B) Up in the Air
C) The Boys in the Boat
D) Suburbicon
Correct answer rate: 18%
Which resource, alongside wheat, is used to upgrade a settlement into a city in Settlers of Catan?
A) Brick
B) Ore
C) Wood
D) Sheep
Correct answer rate: 23%
Which British runner finished second in the 1500m at the 2025 World Championships, having won it in 2022?
A) Josh Kerr
B) Jake Wightman
C) Neil Gourley
D) Ben Pattison
Correct answer rate: 29%
Who wrote The Damnation of Faust?
A) Hector Berlioz
B) Charles Gounod
C) Franz Liszt
D) Richard Wagner
Correct answer rate: 22%
Which UK group had a hit in 1987 with Mary’s Prayer?
A) Spandau Ballet
B) Danny Wilson
C) Wet Wet Wet
D) Simply Red
Correct answer rate: 34%
In which city can you see Van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night?
A) Amsterdam
B) Paris
C) New York
D) London
Correct answer rate: 15%
What was Agatha Christie’s first novel?
A) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
B) The Mysterious Affair at Styles
C) And Then There Were None
D) Death on the Nile
Correct answer rate: 22%
In September 2025, Wirral Council announced they would be scrapping a bylaw that banned which of the following?
A) Ball games
B) Cycling on pavements
C) Dogs on beaches
D) Ice cream vans
Correct answer rate: 10%
Which Caribbean island has benefited significantly from the rise of artificial intelligence?
A) Barbados
B) Jamaica
C) Puerto Rico
D) Anguilla
Correct answer rate: 26%
Korea used to be known as what, a name North Korea still uses today?
A) Joseon
B) Goryeo
C) Silla
D) Baekje
Correct answer rate: 22%
How many countries in the world are double landlocked?
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
Correct answer rate: 29%
Who was the first Romanov Tsar?
A) Ivan the Terrible
B) Peter the Great
C) Michael I
D) Alexei I
Correct answer rate: 10%
Who was the first British person to walk in space?
A) Helen Sharman
B) Tim Peake
C) Michael Foale
D) Piers Sellers
Correct answer rate: 20%
P. G. Wodehouse was born on this day in 1881. His character Bertie Wooster was a member of which gentleman’s club?
A) The Athenaeum
B) The Drones Club
C) White’s
D) Brooks’s
Correct answer rate: 21%
On this day in 1853, the Crimean War began when which nation declared war on Russia?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Turkey
D) Austria
Correct answer rate: 31%
What score should you expect?
Based on how players actually performed across all 20 questions, the expected score is around 4 to 5 out of 20.
If you reached double figures, you comfortably beat the average. A perfect score would be extremely rare.
Answers
Woolwich
Goodbye
The bicycle
F
Duke
The Boys in the Boat
Ore
Josh Kerr
Hector Berlioz
Danny Wilson
New York
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Ball games
Anguilla
Joseon
2
Michael I
Tim Peake
The Drones Club
Turkey
If you enjoyed this
This quiz represents the hardest 20 questions from a full month of daily quizzes. On Quizified, most days are far more forgiving, and you get instant feedback on how you compare to everyone else.
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If you want to keep going, the next post in this series is The Monthly Quiz Most Players Fail: November 2025, or you can go back to September 2025 to compare how tough the questions were month to month.
