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7	->''"'''''''WRONG!''''' ''-1 LIFE"''
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9	How to describe this game? Hrm... well, what ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' is to platformers, the ''The Impossible Quiz'' series, made by old-timer Platform/{{Newgrounds}} creator [[https://splapp-me-do.newgrounds.com Splapp-Me-Do,]] is to puzzle games. Mainly composed of trick questions, with the answer occasionally not in the answer box, it has frustrated many LetsPlay hosts and amused many people. The games develop a storyline as they go on, and it's surprisingly engaging considering its roots as a silly flash game.
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11	You can play the [[https://www.freegames66.com/the-impossible-quiz first game here.]] Its sequel, ''The Impossible Quiz 2'', is [[https://www.freegames66.com/the-impossible-quiz-2 here.]] The {{episodic\|Game}} ''The 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 [[ChristmasEpisode Quizmas]]'' can be found [[http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequizmas.php here.]] If the finished games are too hard, try [[https://flashga.me/impossible-quiz-demo.html the prototype version here.]] Note that the games require Adobe Flash to run.
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13	!!How many holes in a trope?:
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18	* TheAllegedCar: Question 84 of ''Book'' Chapter 2 has one as part of the question.
19	* 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.]]
20	* 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.
21	* AnnoyingPopUpAd: ''Book'''s Question 94 has browser windows show up every few seconds, promoting things like Frank emotes, power-ups, and dead animal photography. [[spoiler: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.]]
22	* AprilFoolsDay:
23	** ''[[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/The-Impossible-Quack-81602025 The Impossible Quiz 3.]]'' Try updating your Flash player.
24	** ''[[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/Impossible-Quiz-Book-2-Trailer-159104499 The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter Two]]'' trailer. Hope you know how to work a UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum.
25	* {{Antepiece}}: The sequel's Question 5, the first "Frank Says" question, showcases that you'll have to use the keyboard for some questions, unlike the original. It's also the first question that has variations, showing that questions may be different in subsequent attempts.
26	* ArcNumber: 69, as in the RunningGag phrase "LOL69".
27	* ArcWords: More like Arc Answer, but [[spoiler:"Blue, Red, Blue, Yellow"]]. Appears twice in TIQ, once in [=TIQ2=], as the antepenultimate question [[spoiler:in a severely destroyed state]] in ''Book'' Chapter 3, and as the final question in ''Quizmas''.
28	-->''"Can you ''still'' remember?"''
29	* AscendedExtra: Chris, who was a nameless cat in [=TIQ1=] used for a single question, gained star status in the sequels.
30	* BackForTheFinale[=/=]BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Quite a few old questions reappear in ''The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter Three'', with new [[BaitAndSwitch twists]].
31	* BilingualBonus:
32	** Some of the questions (along with the answers) in ''Book'' Chapter 3 are written in ''hieroglyphs'' (because they are set in Ancient Egypt).
33	** Question 145, also from ''Book'' Chapter 3, is written in German.
34	* BoomHeadshot: Choosing the wrong answer will just shoot you by losing one life, complete with gun firing sound effect.
35	** Question 91 of second quiz has Amy Rose attempting to [[DriventoSuicide kill herself]] with her gun.
36	* {{Bowdlerise}}: The music-less version of [=TIQ2=] changed a couple of answers:
37	** Question 15 ("What is God?") changes the option "A Backwards Dog" to "Dog Backwards", possibly to avoid any religious offense.
38	** Question 61 ("Why did the chicken cross the road?) changes the option "Because he's a big gay" to "Because he's a big idiot".
39	* ButThouMust: One of the questions from the first quiz is "Can you get this question wrong?", to which the answers are "No", "Nope", "Not really", and "Of course not", any of which lets you pass on to the next question.
40	* ButtonMashing: Some questions require you to do this (for example, the "CHARGE UR LAZER" question in [=TIQ1=]).
41	* 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.]]
42	* CartoonBomb: Some questions in all of the games have these, acting as timers. If they explode, the game ends immediately, regardless of how many lives you have left.
43	* CausedTheBigBang: Question 108 in ''VideoGame/TheImpossibleQuiz Book Chapter 3'' requires ''the player'' to start the Big Bang and create the universe, [[spoiler:by typing "B-A-N-G" on the keyboard]].
44	* CheckPointStarvation: There are ''no'' check points in any of the games, and one of the questions from the second mocks the player for wanting one.
45	** Averted in the iOS version, where [[EasyModeMockery "Moron Marks"]] do appear.
46	* ChekhovsGun: The gimmick behind the Impossible Quiz Book Chapter Two trailer above figures into the actual chapter. If you don't know how to solve it, you won't be able to continue the quiz.
47	** [[spoiler:Your skips, in the original. If you don't keep them all until the end, you can't win.]] Which is why that (as stated in the instructions from the sequel) they are actually useless.
48	** [[spoiler:Also in the original, question 50 tells you: "Remember: blue, red, blue, yellow" and "108 = 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42". The first part comes back as the answer of question 56, [[ChekhovsBoomerang and again]] for question 98. The second part is the answer to question 108.]]
49	* ChristmasEpisode: ''The Impossible Quizmas'', a short 25-question quiz which also doubles as the Impossible Quiz's 10th anniversary.
50	* CommonHTTPStatusCode: In ''Book'' Chapter 3, after [[spoiler:wiping the Impossible Quiz from history and ending the game]], you're shown the message "Error 404 [[spoiler:"The Impossible Quiz.swf"]] could not be found".
51	* ContinuityCavalcade: The ending of ''TIQB Chapter 3''.
52	* CueOClock: Question 18 has a clock with some of the numbers replaced with pictures of a bucket, a banana, a house and a hammer.
53	%%* CuteKitten: Chris the Cat, albeit in a more UglyCute manner than most.
54	* 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!"]]
55	* DerangedAnimation: Question 42 of [=TIQ2=], which contains a nonsensical and utterly inane combination of random flashing of different text and images accompanied by random sounds.
56	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Question 81 of the first quiz has you basically giving a lightning rod a handjob to the point where it spurts out white semen-like lightning.
57	* 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.
58	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Subverted. They're near-impossible, but seem to be completely so until you master them.
59	* ExcusePlot: The Impossible Quiz Book has a plot that involves the abduction of Chris and his Impossible Quiz Book.
60	* FacePalm:
61	** Frank does this on question 49 in the second quiz if you type a letter that Frank says while the "Frank Says..." prompt is not on the screen.
62	** Chris does this on the game over in The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter 2.
63	* FissionMailed:
64	** [[spoiler:Question 107 of the first quiz has a fake game over. You have to actually wait it out before moving on to the next question -- clicking "Try again?" will take you back to Question 1 again, and the game will chastise you for it.]]
65	** Also a variation for [[spoiler:Question 79 of Book's Chapter 2; after choosing the "epic sword" you think needed to defeat Yoglett Salmon, the game will be "glitched", giving you a fake UsefulNotes/BlueScreenOfDeath. To pass this question you have to find a pixelated key which can be found in any two groups of zeros.]]
66	* FlatWhat: One of the answers to Question 50 (the one that tells you to remember a sequence of colors and numbers).
67	* FunWithHomophones: When asked to "choose food", you have to pick a set of teeth, the option that ''chews'' food.
68	* GainaxEnding[=/=]TheEndingChangesEverything: The ending of Quiz Book Chapter 3. Lampshaded/parodied when [[spoiler:the game cuts to a (potentially fake) error screen due to the Impossible Quiz being erased from history.]]
69	* 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 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.]]]]
70	* GameplayGrading: When [[NintendoHard and if]] you reach the end of ''The Impossible Quiz 2'', the game ranks you on how many Fusestoppers and Skips you found, how many of each you used, and how many lives you lost. A perfect run--that is, all Fusestoppers and Skips found, none of them used, and [[NoDamageRun no misses]]--nets you an A* rank.
71	* GameplayRoulette: Among the more traditional-style questions, you are frequently thrown into minigames where you have to click on things, navigate a maze, etc.
72	* GiantEnemyCrab: One appears (even called [[TitleDrop Giant Enemy Crab]]) in question 88 of the Quiz Book. It is bothering a city and spitting out water.
73	* GrandFinale: ''The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter 3: Spatula Future''
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76	[[folder:H-Z]]
77	* HalloweenEpisode: {{Invoked\|Trope}} with Question 12 of ''Quizmas'', which asks if the player is down for a Halloween special game next. The question itself is Halloween-themed.
78	* HostileShowTakeover: Chris, having gotten beaten up during an earlier question in The Impossible Quiz 2, marches in after Question 100 and conducts the final 20, several of which are specifically about him.
79	* HurricaneOfPuns: Some of the correct answers in the quizzes are puns.
80	* IdiosyncraticMenuLabels: The second installment has "GO GO GO!" as the button for starting the game.
81	* InsaneTrollLogic: The whole point of the game. There are even a few questions that, by Splapp's own admission, are based on ''[[LuckBasedMission no logic at all]]''.
82	* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: At some points, the questions are in either faux-Japanese Engrish or faux-German Engrish.
83	* 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.]]
84	** [[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.]]
85	* LateArrivalSpoiler: ''The Impossible Quiz 2'' spoils the fact that, in its predecessor, [[spoiler:you can't use skips before the final question or else the game becomes UnwinnableByDesign]].
86	* LIsForDyslexia: Question 83 of the first game asks what DNA stands for. One of the answers is "National Dyslexic Association."
87	* LOL69: The {{Trope Namer\|s}}.
88	** In the first game, question 69 asks "Are you enjoying the quiz?" The correct answer is "LOL, 69".
89	** In the second game, question 69 asks "69-67=?" Surprisingly, the answer is not "LOL", but clicking 2 on the bomb.
90	** In the second game, the final question [[spoiler:is a grid of numbers from 1 to 100. The exact question is randomly chosen, one of which is simply "LOL". The answer is, of course, 69.]]
91	** In Chapter 2 of Book, question 69 simply says "LOL 69" with an arrow pointing to the question number to signify this even further. The question number must be pressed 69 times to proceed.
92	* LuckBasedMission[=/=]FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler:The last question on Impossible Quiz 2 calls back to one of the first 100 questions in the quiz (a random question each time), and the answer is the number of the question which is being referred to.]]
93	* MindScrew: The game frequently switches between three main methods of answering: Yes, Baaah, and [[LargeHam Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!]] It also has a few other settings that come up all of once.
94	* MoonLogicPuzzle: When given enough thought, most of the answers in the game make a good amount of sense. The problem is, the answers are so obtuse that they require some sort of abstract thought process to understand them, whether it be a LiteralMetaphor, a VisualPun, or FunWithHomophones.
95	* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: Norman Mapping, from ''Book Chapter 2''.
96	* MythologyGag: Many bits and bolts in the Quizzes are originally from Splapp's previous comics and Flash movies:
97	** The recurring character Mars debuts in ''[[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/SPACE-SERIOUS-BUSINESS-41026541 Space: Serious Business]]'' singing "What is the Light?" by Music/FlamingLips, just like in Question 92 of The Impossible Quiz.
98	** The minigames where you help [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] break Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog's leg (in the first quiz) and help [[ClingyJealousGirl Amy Rose]] commit suicide (in the second) come from the Flash movie ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/297089 Sonic Breaks his Neck]]''.
99	** Multiple questions between the many installments references Splapp's "Badly Drawn Dawg" series (first appears in Question 31 of ''The Impossible Quiz'').
100	** The two rivaling alien races Phlovomites and Spatulons first appear [[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/Hmmmm-18697118 in]] [[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/Phlovomites-VS-Spatulons-18910073 these]] [[http://splapp-me-do.deviantart.com/art/Spatulons-vs-Phlovomites-157500042 drawings.]]
101	** Question 9 of ''The Impossible Quiz 2'' is a reference to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrPSP1xqVB8 this]] old animation made by Splapp.
102	** Question 21 of ''Quizmas'' is a direct reference to Splapp's short animation, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5rita8a9_E "Organ Story."]]
103	* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Question 42 of the original requires you to choose the correct answer (42) in the middle of a whole screen of 42s. [[spoiler:It's the 42nd one.]]
104	* 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.
105	* NinjaProp: The first quiz has a question where your cursor must reach a goal, except both your cursor and the goal are stuck on spots of white surrounded by pink, which you're not supposed to touch. [[spoiler:You have to right-click and use the context menu as a bridge to get to the goal.]]
106	* NintendoHard: '''WRONG!''' -1 LIFE
107	* NoFairCheating: Press Tab[[note]]which highlights a clickable object in a Flash file[[/note]] in any of the games after the prototype, and you will receive an instant game over. Every game after TIQ 2 throws in a message taking the piss out of you for it, as well:
108	-->"'''CHEATER!''' Tabbing is for TWATS!" ''(TIQ 2)'' \
109	"NO TABBING YOU CHEATING BASTARD!" ''(TIQ Book Chapters 1 and 3)'' \
110	"ZOMG!! HAXXOR DETECTED -- CALLING INTERNET POLICE..." ''(TIQ Book Chapter 2)'' \
111	"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE TRYING TO CHEAT [[SubvertedTrope ...But it is Christmas... So here's a Game Over gift!"]] ''(TI Quizmas)''
112	* NoItemUseForYou:
113	** The original ''Quiz'' disables your Skips on some questions. [[spoiler:Not that it matters, because you need all seven Skips for the final question.]]
114	** In the second ''Quiz'', [[spoiler:only the [[FinalBoss final question]] disables your Skips.]] Also, some questions in the ''Quiz Book'' disallow skips.
115	* 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]].
116	** Then, on question 117, it reproduces a question from the Impossible Quiz ''prototype'', again with the same graphic design. Considering that at the time few people even knew of the prototype's existence, this threw a lot of people for a loop.
117	** The Impossible Quiz Book: Chapter 1 features a question from one of the previous quizzes, and one of the possible answers is "Wait a minute... this question is familiar...". [[spoiler:It's so wrong, isn't it?]]
118	** 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.]]
119	* ObviousRulePatch: In early releases of the first quiz, people would cheat their way through [[ThatOneLevel question 106]] by right-clicking and then waiting until it got to the end. Later versions patched it so that now [[NoFairCheating right-clicking on that question kills you]].
120	* OneHitKill: Bomb questions will bypass the lives system and end the game if you run out of time.
121	* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Quite a few questions require some lateral thinking skills. For example, one question is a simple math question, but none of the choices given are the correct answer. [[spoiler:However, the question number itself is.]]
122	** [[BaitAndSwitch Subverted]] a few times in TIQB where an outside the box option is available as an answer, but the correct answer is instead one of the given choices.
123	* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: [[spoiler:In Question 121 of ''The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter 3'', one of the questions requires you to open a time portal in the "It's the End of the World!!!!!" question ([[CallBack previously seen]] in ''The Impossible Quiz 1'') to send a meteor through to the dinosaur age and wipe them out.]]
124	* PressXToDie:
125	** 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're trying to cheat your way through]].
126	** "If you press this button, it's game over," from Question 35 of the first quiz.
127	** Question 94 of the first quiz has a bomb with a "Detonate" button.
128	** "Press 'Yes' to Exit" from [[spoiler:Question 74 of the second quiz]], "Please don't press this" from [[spoiler:Question 26 of TIQB]], and "Shut Down" from [[spoiler:Question 94 of TIQB]]. [[spoiler:Choosing these answers will restart the Flash player.]]
129	** Question 80 of Quiz Book has the tip "Press R to asplode."
130	* PressXToNotDie: Press Tab 50 times! [[spoiler:Actually, [[JustIgnoreIt don't bother]]. [[PressXToDie You'll DIE!]]]]
131	** This game has a bad habit of disguising PressXToDie as PressXToNotDie, or vice versa.
132	* {{Pun}}: ''The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter 3'' has the subtitle "Spatula Future."[[note]]''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''[[/note]] [[LampshadeHanging The game calls it]] "an awesome pun!"
133	* PunnyName: The name of Norman Mapping (the Spatulon) is a pun on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping normal mapping.]]
134	* RedHerring:
135	** [[spoiler:The skips. You need ''every single one of them'' to complete the game. The fact that you're given the option to use them for their supposed purpose is just meant to throw you off.]]
136	** [[spoiler:The ''Sorry, No Skipping!'' sign that occasionally blocks the skips. Again, you cannot use the skips at any point in order to complete the game. The sign is just there to reinforce the idea that the skips won't be necessary.]]
137	* {{Retraux}}: Questions 61-70 of The Impossible Quiz Book are loaded and styled like a Platform/ZXSpectrum program.
138	* RevengeOfTheSequel: One of several ''unofficial'' {{Fan Sequel}}s: Save the [[Franchise/StarWars Death Star]] from [[DoomedByCanon premature destruction]] in the [[http://superslinger2007.jimdo.com/revenge Revenge Against the Impossible Quiz.]] Set in 2007 [[NarniaTime and during the events of]] the 2007 ''Literature/DeathStar'' novel, but before ''Film/ANewHope''.
139	%%* RuleOfThree: There are three official installments of ''The Impossible Quiz'', with the final one consisting of three chapters. [note: commented out because Quizmas has now been a thing for 3 years]
140	* RunningGag:
141	** [[spoiler:Blue, red, blue, yellow.]] Can you remember it?
142	** LOL69. [[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.
143	** Lemurs (They were even mentioned 5 times in "The Impossible Quiz 2").
144	** The color brown.
145	* SchmuckBait:
146	** One question in ''The Impossible Quiz Book'' has an answer labeled "Please don't press this." [[spoiler:You'd better not, since doing so resets the game!]]
147	** From the original: "IF YOU PRESS THIS BUTTON, IT'S GAME OVER..." [[spoiler:"Alternatively, Click This Button to carry on"]]
148	* SelfDeprecation:
149	** In ''The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter 1'':
150	--->'''Q25:''' Why is the sand wet?\
151	'''A:''' Seaweed\
152	'''Q26:''' So... the sand is wet because the sea weed on it?!\
153	'''A:''' Yes\
154	'''Q27:''' How is that even possible? I mean, the sea is just a huge mass of water, how could it urinate on a beach?\
155	'''A:''' Wow. The Impossible Quiz has sure gone downhill!
156	** In ''The Impossible Quiz Book Chapter 3'':
157	--->'''Q109:''' What does T.A.R.D.I.S. stand for?\
158	'''A:''' [[FunWithAcronyms Titting Arsing Retarded Dicking Impossible Shit-Quiz]]
159	* SeriesMascot: Chris the Cat.
160	* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/TheImpossibleQuiz Has its own page.]]
161	%%* SurrealHumour:
162	* TakeThat:
163	** Question 63 of The Impossible Quiz asks "What are [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Chicken McNuggets]] made of?" [[spoiler:The answer is "Tasteless white filth".]]
164	** One of the first Quiz' questions asks how many times Music/MichaelJackson had a nose job. [[spoiler:The correct answer was "nonce"--a British slang term for a child molester--referencing his allegations of inappropriate conduct with minors in the early 2000s.]]
165	* 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 :(".]]
166	* 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.]]
167	* TimedMission: Bomb questions; run out of time and it's an immediate GameOver regardless of how many lives you have.
168	* 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:
169	** {{Prehistoria}}
170	** AncientEgypt
171	** The Ice Age
172	** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era Nazi Germany
173	** AncientRome
174	** A {{Steampunk}} rendition of Industrial-age UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain
175	* 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, wordplay, or just something completely random.
176	** Most answers make sense at least in retrospect, so if you catch the author's train of thought you will answer it correctly. Though there are exceptions like question 64 in the first quiz, which is [[WordOfGod confirmed by the author to be totally random]], and has no explanation for its answer whatsoever.
177	* 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.
178	* UnPerson: The Lifebuoy in ''Book'' chapter 3. It appeared in chapter 2 and was originally planned to return in chapter 3, but when chapter 3 released the lifebuoy was not only replaced with a Fusestopper, but their slots were entirely removed from the HUD and their page in the instructions was ripped out. WordOfGod is that it was left out due to bugs regarding them in chapter 2 (one where it would fail to work when you have only one life left, and one where it is automatically given to you upon restarting from a Game Over), as well as it being deemed to be not that useful compared to skips and Fusestoppers.
179	* UnwinnableByDesign: The final question of the first game [[spoiler:requires you to use all your skips, so if you used even ''one'', the game becomes quite literally impossible to beat]].
180	* UranusIsShowing: In Question 66 of Quiz Book Chapter 2, the name of the planet Uranus is followed by the description [[WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}} "Is Bleeding"]].
181	* VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The last 10 questions of the first quiz and the last 20 of the second have different music and presentation than the questions that preceded them. They are more difficult and [[TimedMission all timed]].
182	* ViolationOfCommonSense: Several questions require you to disregard common sense to pass, such as [[spoiler:a question that reads "Press this button to kill you before the bomb does." It was referring to the words "this button" in the question. [[PressXToDie If you click "this button", YOU DIE.]] The actual correct answer is to push the threatening-looking button.]]
183	** "What is the 7th letter of the alphabet?" Answer: [[spoiler:H]]. [[ExactWords By which the game means]] [[spoiler:the 7th letter of '''''the word''''' "the alphabet", and not the literal alphabet.]]
184	* VisualPun: Several questions show a picture, and the answer has something to do with the pronunciation of it [[spoiler:(e.g., A sick bird is "illegal", a bar graph and a pie chart in a boxing match is a "graphite")]].
185	* WaitingPuzzle:
186	** In level 35 of the original game, the player must [[spoiler:wait five seconds for the game-over button to change]].
187	** In level 94 of the original game, the player must [[spoiler:allow the timer on the bomb to expire. It turns out to be a dud]].
188	* WallOfText: The first two quizzes each have one question with this. Don't bother reading it, though... [[spoiler:because a bomb will suddenly appear out of nowhere to kill you.]]
189	* WeatherDissonance: The first sign that something is going wrong in ''Book Chapter 3'' is snow from the Ice Age starts falling over Ancient Egypt in Question 126.
190	* WhamLine: One on the very final question of the original ''TIQ'':
191	-->[[spoiler:"USE YOUR SKIPS!"]]
192	* WhatDoesThisButtonDo: Leads to many correct answers in the early game, and then it gets [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]].
193	* AWinnerIsYou: If you somehow managed to answer all of the questions in the first game, you are awarded with... an image of a trophy with the words "UR WINNAR" on it. ''That's it.'' Averted in the sequels though, where the GameplayGrading system is introduced.
194	* 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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197	->'''''GAME OVER''''' [====] [[VideoGame/TheImpossibleQuiz Try again?]] [=---=] [[HomePage I Give Up]]

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