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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Question 81 of the first quiz has you basically [[ADateWithRosiePalms giving a lightning rod a handjob]] to the point where it spurts out a white semen-like lightning.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Question 81 of the first quiz has you basically [[ADateWithRosiePalms giving a lightning rod a handjob]] to the point where it spurts out a white semen-like lightning.
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** Chris does this on game over in Impossible Quiz Book chapter 2.
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* GameBreakingBug[=/=]GuideDangIt: One of the questions makes you forces you to get your cursor from one island to another without touching the water. At the time the game was made, right clicking will bring up a drop down menu that works as a overlay, as a "bridge" to the other island. However, because of some update to flash that has come since, the dropdown no longer functions as an overlay, meaning that other exploits have to be used meaning the question is impossible to solve the normal way. [[spoiler:It is possible to solve: click your mouse buttons and drag your mouse to the other island with the mouse button still clicked in. Or using alt-tab with plenty of open stuff (at least 10 to make a bridge). [[CuttingTheKnot Or mousing around the outside of the window.]]]]
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* GameBreakingBug[=/=]GuideDangIt: One of the questions makes you forces you to get your cursor from one island to another without touching the water. At the time the game was made, right clicking right-clicking will bring up a drop down drop-down menu that works as a an overlay, as a "bridge" to the other island. However, because of some update to flash that has come since, the dropdown no longer functions as an overlay, meaning that other exploits have to be used meaning the question is impossible to solve the normal way. [[spoiler:It is possible to solve: click your mouse buttons and drag your mouse to the other island with the mouse button still clicked in. Or using alt-tab with plenty of open stuff (at least 10 to make a bridge). [[CuttingTheKnot Or mousing around the outside of the window.]]]]
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** In the second game, question 69 asks "69-67=?" Suprisingly, the answer is not "LOL", but clicking 2 on the bomb.
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** In the second game, question 69 asks "69-67=?" Suprisingly, Surprisingly, the answer is not "LOL", but clicking 2 on the bomb.
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* TrialAndErrorGameplay: This is mostly how the game is played, since the correct answers are not as obvious on the first try; they can be either puns, word play, or just something completely random.
** Most answers make sense at least in retrospect, so if you catch the author's train of thought you will answer it correctly. Except question 64 in the first quiz, which is [[WordOfGod confirmed by the author to be totally random]], and has no explanation for it's answer whatsoever.
** Most answers make sense at least in retrospect, so if you catch the author's train of thought you will answer it correctly. Except question 64 in the first quiz, which is [[WordOfGod confirmed by the author to be totally random]], and has no explanation for it's answer whatsoever.
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* TrialAndErrorGameplay: This is mostly how the game is played, since the correct answers are not as obvious on the first try; they can be either puns, word play, wordplay, or just something completely random.
** Most answers make sense at least in retrospect, so if you catch the author's train of thought you will answer it correctly. Except question 64 in the first quiz, which is [[WordOfGod confirmed by the author to be totally random]], and has no explanation forit's its answer whatsoever.
** Most answers make sense at least in retrospect, so if you catch the author's train of thought you will answer it correctly. Except question 64 in the first quiz, which is [[WordOfGod confirmed by the author to be totally random]], and has no explanation for
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* AnnoyingPopUpAd: ''Book'''s Question 94 has browser windows show up every few seconds, promoting things like Frank emotes, power-ups, and dead animal photography. None of the answers are actually correct and most of the ads are too good to be true, so you have to click on the one with supposed X-rated pics to proceed.
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* VisualPun: Several questions show a picture, and the answer has something to do with the pronunciation of it [[spoiler: (i.e: A sick bird is "illegal", a bar graph and a pie chart in a boxing match is a "graphite")]]
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* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: On Question 92 of the first quiz, if you complete the task too quickly before the bomb appears, it will kill you. Otherwise, the bomb countdown stops once you complete it.
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* UnwinnableByMistake: On Question 92 of the first quiz, if you complete the task too quickly before the bomb appears, it will kill you. Otherwise, the bomb countdown stops once you complete it.
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* TakeThat: Question 63 of The Impossible Quiz asks "What are [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Chicken McNuggets]] made of?" [[spoiler:The answer is "Tasteless white filth".]]
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* UnwinnableByDesign: [[spoiler:Using even ''one'' skip makes you unable to pass the final question]] in the first game. The second game is {{sincer|ityMode}}e in informing you that you ''are'' allowed to use your skips and still finish, but skips are disabled on the final question in order to prevent an AntiClimaxBoss situation, and using skips will lower the grade you get if you finish. Skips are also usable in the Quiz Book.
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* UnwinnableByDesign: [[spoiler:Using [[spoiler:The final question of the first game requires you to use all your skips, so if you used even ''one'' skip makes you unable to pass the final question]] in the first game. The second game is {{sincer|ityMode}}e in informing you that you ''are'' allowed becomes quite literally impossible to use your skips and still finish, but skips are disabled on the final question in order to prevent an AntiClimaxBoss situation, and using skips will lower the grade you get if you finish. Skips are also usable in the Quiz Book.beat.]]
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* CallBack: The final question of ''Quizmas'' [[spoiler:requires you to find and save up all the Skips, just like in the very first game. Although this time missing some of them will only result in a loss of 1 life instead of an outright game over, and you can still continue (albeit with an imperfect score).]]
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* CallBack: The final question of ''Quizmas'' [[spoiler:requires you to find and save up all the Skips, just like in the very first game. Although this time missing some of them will only result in a loss of 1 life instead of an outright game over, and you can still continue (albeit with an imperfect score). You will then be asked if you can "still remember" the color sequence from the first game.]]
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How to describe this game? Hrm...well, what ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' is to platformers, ''The Impossible Quiz'' is to puzzle games. Mainly composed of trick questions, with the answer occasionally not in the answer box, it's frustrated many a LetsPlay host and amused many people. The game develops a storyline as it goes on, and it's surprisingly engaging considering its roots as a silly flash game.
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How to describe this game? Hrm... well, what ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' is to platformers, the ''The Impossible Quiz'' series is to puzzle games. Mainly composed of trick questions, with the answer occasionally not in the answer box, it's frustrated many a LetsPlay host and amused many people. The game develops games develop a storyline as it goes they go on, and it's surprisingly engaging considering its roots as a silly flash game.
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* AnimationBump[=/=]ArtEvolution: In the third installment, the animation has improved considerably, and it develops a rather engaging (but still very silly) storyline about aliens and time travel.
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* AnimationBump[=/=]ArtEvolution: AnimationBump: In the third installment, the animation has improved considerably, and it develops a rather engaging (but still very silly) storyline about aliens and time travel.
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* BackForTheFinale: Quite a few old questions reappear in ''The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter Three'', with new [[BaitAndSwitch twists]].
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* TimeCrash: [[spoiler:The eventual end of Chapter 3, thanks to Chris and Norman creating time scars as they hop through different time periods. You are given a choice to fix the timeline by wiping out the entire Impossible Quiz series.]]
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* TimeTravel: Chapter 3 of ''Book'' has Chris and Norman going through various points in time in an attempt to escape the Phlovomite ship. These periods and eras include:
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** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era Nazi Germany
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** {{Prehistoria}}
** AncientEgypt
** The Ice Age
** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era Nazi Germany
** AncientRome
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* AllOfTimeAtOnce: [[spoiler:Chapter 3 of ''Book'' slowly but surely becomes this, thanks to Chris and Norman creating rips in the fabric of spacetime as they hop around different eras in time. It starts out with clashes between previous Impossible Quiz installments, and then snow from the Ice Age starts leaking into Ancient Egypt, then it devolves further and further until the last few questions become a mishmash of several different eras and time periods lumped into one.]]
* CallBack: The final question of ''Quizmas'' [[spoiler:requires you to find and save up all the Skips, just like in the very first game. Although this time missing some of them will only result in a loss of 1 life instead of an outright game over, and you can still continue (albeit with an imperfect score).]]
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* ChristmasEpisode: ''The Impossible Quizmas'', which doubles as the Impossible Quiz's 10th anniversary.
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* ChristmasEpisode: ''The Impossible Quizmas'', a short 25-question quiz which also doubles as the Impossible Quiz's 10th anniversary.
* HalloweenEpisode: {{Invoked}} with Question 12 of ''Quizmas'', which asks if the player is down for a Halloween special game next. The question itself is Halloween-themed.
** Multiple questions between the many installments references Splapp's "Badly Drawn Dawg" series (first appears in Question 31 of ''The Impossible Quiz'').
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Question 114 of ''Book'' has a very similar setup to Question 68 of the original ''Quiz'', giving you a cat to pet and stroke. The catch is since you're playing as Chris in ''Book'', touching the cat this time means you're interacting with your past self, creating a temporal paradox that causes a Game Over.
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* RuleOfThree: There are three official installments of ''The Impossible Quiz'', with the final one consisting of three chapters.
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You can play the game [[https://www.freegames66.com/the-impossible-quiz here]]. Its sequel, ''The Impossible Quiz 2'', is [[https://www.freegames66.com/the-impossible-quiz-2 here]]. The episodic ''Impossible Quiz Book'' can be found here: [[http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequizbook-chapter1.php Chapter 1]], [[http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequizbook-chapter2.php Chapter 2]], [[http://play.escapegames24.com/2012/01/impossible-quiz-book-chapter-3.html Chapter 3]]. ''The Impossible [[ChristmasSpecial Quizmas]]'' can be found [[http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequizmas.php here]]. If the finished games are too hard, try the prototype version [[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/The-Impossible-Quiz-Demo-13162727 here]].
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You can play the game [[https://www.freegames66.com/the-impossible-quiz here]]. Its sequel, ''The Impossible Quiz 2'', is [[https://www.freegames66.com/the-impossible-quiz-2 here]]. The episodic ''Impossible Quiz Book'' can be found here: [[http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequizbook-chapter1.php Chapter 1]], [[http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequizbook-chapter2.php Chapter 2]], [[http://play.escapegames24.com/2012/01/impossible-quiz-book-chapter-3.html Chapter 3]]. ''The Impossible [[ChristmasSpecial [[ChristmasEpisode Quizmas]]'' can be found [[http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequizmas.php here]]. If the finished games are too hard, try the prototype version [[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/The-Impossible-Quiz-Demo-13162727 here]].
* ChristmasEpisode: ''The Impossible Quizmas'', which doubles as the Impossible Quiz's 10th anniversary.
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** Question 21 of ''Quizmas'' is a direct reference to Splapp's short animation, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5rita8a9_E "Organ Story"]].
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** In the second ''Quiz'', [[spoiler:only the [[FinalBoss final question]] disables your Skips.]]
* NostalgiaLevel: A random question from the first quiz (e.g. the "What flavour is cardboard?" one) is reused in the second quiz, [[{{Retraux}} complete with the exact same button design]].
* NostalgiaLevel: A random question from the first quiz (e.g. the "What flavour is cardboard?" one) is reused in the second quiz, [[{{Retraux}} complete with the exact same button design]].
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]] Also, some questions in the ''Quiz Book'' disallow skips.
* NostalgiaLevel: A random question from the first quiz (e.g. the "What flavour is cardboard?" one) is reused in Question 43 of the second quiz, [[{{Retraux}} complete with the exact same button design]].
* NostalgiaLevel: A random question from the first quiz (e.g. the "What flavour is cardboard?" one) is reused in Question 43 of the second quiz, [[{{Retraux}} complete with the exact same button design]].
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** Question 80 of Quiz Book has the tip "Press R to asplode."
* TakeThatAudience: Question 92 of The Impossible Quiz 2 asks the player how many lives they have left. [[spoiler:The correct answer is "None - I'm on Question 92 of The Impossible Quiz 2 :(".]]
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* UnwinnableByDesign: [[spoiler:Using even ''one'' skip makes you unable to pass the final question]] in the first game. The second game [[spoiler:is {{sincer|ityMode}}e in informing you that you ''are'' allowed to use your skips and still finish, but skips are disabled on the final question in order to prevent an AntiClimaxBoss situation, and using skips will lower the grade you get if you finish.]]
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* YouAreNumberSix: The Phlovomites that captured and imprisoned Chris in Chapter 2 of the Quiz Book are only known as "109" and "42".
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* LIsForDyslexic: Question 83 of the first game asks what DNA stands for. One of the answers is "National Dyslexic Association."
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* CuteKitten: Chris the Cat.
* DeathByGenreSavviness: After you do some questions and understand how logic works in this game, later questions will appear to have tricks, but are supposed to be taken at complete face value.
** [[spoiler:"[[PressXToDie PRESS THIS BUTTON]] [[GameOver TO KILL YOURSELF]] BEFORE THE BOMB DOES!"]]
* DeathByGenreSavviness: After you do some questions and understand how logic works in this game, later questions will appear to have tricks, but are supposed to be taken at complete face value.
** [[spoiler:"[[PressXToDie PRESS THIS BUTTON]] [[GameOver TO KILL YOURSELF]] BEFORE THE BOMB DOES!"]]
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* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: One question gives you the prompt "elephants don't like mice!" and you have to get three elephants into a mousehole. To win it, you have to [[ExactWords move your mouse cursor off the game window]], and three elephants will walk in.
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** Pressing the tab key will instantly kill you, since it is the key used to highlight clickable objects in Flash and [[NoFairCheating the game has detected that you are trying to cheat your way through]].
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* UranusIsShowing: In Question 66 of Quiz Book Chapter 2, the name of the planet Uranus is followed by the description "Is Bleeding".
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* UranusIsShowing: In Question 66 of Quiz Book Chapter 2, the name of the planet Uranus is followed by the description [[WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}} "Is Bleeding".Bleeding"]].
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** Most answers make sense at least in retrospect, so if you catch the author's train of thought you will answer it correctly. Except question 64 in the first quiz, which is [[WordOfGod confirmed by the author to be totally random]], and has no explanation for it's answer whatsoever.
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** LOL 69 ([[spoiler:actually used as one of the possible last questions to ''The Impossible Quiz 2'']]) In Question 69 of Chapter 2 you literally click the question number 69 times.
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...But it is Christmas... So here's a Game Over gift!" ''(TIQuizmas)''
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"ZOMG!! HAXXOR DETECTED -- CALLING INTERNET POLICE..." ''(TIQ Book Chapter 2)''
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** "What is the 7th letter of the alphabet?" Answer: [[spoiler:H]]. [[ExactWords By which the game means]] [[the 7th letter of '''''the word''''' "the alphabet", and not the literal alphabet.]]
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** "What is the 7th letter of the alphabet?" Answer: [[spoiler:H]]. [[ExactWords By which the game means]] [[the [[spoiler:the 7th letter of '''''the word''''' "the alphabet", and not the literal alphabet.]]
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** Any time the [[spoiler:blue, red, blue, yellow]] puzzle appears. ''Book 3'' throws you for a loop[[spoiler:, as you have to perform the button sequence as the screen is getting swallowed in lava and general temporal destruction, with the broken-off '''REMEMBER?''' sign almost serving as a dark reminder of the chaos that has been wrought in the timeline due to your actions.]]
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* JustIgnoreIt: [[spoiler:Question 94 of the original features a bomb counting down and the words "Stop it!" and a "Detonate! button at the top above the bomb. How do you pass the question? Ignoring it. The bomb is a dud.]]
** [[spoiler:Also, question 107. It's a FissionMailed example, because the "Game Over!" screen comes up, but as long as you wait a few seconds, it will disappear and say it was a fake.]]
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* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Question 42 of the original requires you to choose the correct answer (42) in the middle of a whole screen of 42s.
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