Pick the Wrong One Trivia Quiz

Answer: 144

The pattern here is the sequence of squares of odd numbers. As 144 is the square of 12, it will not appear in the series.

Answer: 256

The pattern is a series of the cubes of natural numbers. The number 256 is not a cube of any number, so it doesn't fit here - 512 is the cube of 8, 1000 is the cube of 10 and 216 is the cube of 6.

Answer: 15

This pattern is a series of prime numbers - 15 is not a prime number as it is divisible by 3 and 5 in addition to 1 and 15 itself.

Answer: Yes

The given pattern is the Fibonacci series. Each term in this series is the sum of two previous terms. The number after 13 should be 13 + 8 (that is 21) and next term will be 34. So 33 will not appear in the series.

Answer: 119

The given pattern follows the rule (n*n)-1. Or we can say each number is one less than the square of a natural number. While 80 is one less than the square of 9, 255 is one less than square of 16 and 99 is one less than the square of 10, the number 119 will never appear in the given pattern.

Answer: 102

A binary number consists of only the two digits 0 and 1. So, 101, 111 and 100 are binary numbers. The inclusion of a '2' means that 102 is not a binary number and hence cannot be a part of any binary number series.

Answer: 38

The pattern is an arithmetic series where the difference between two consecutive numbers is increasing by one each time. The difference between 2 and 1 is 1, 4 and 2 is 2, 7 and 4 is 3 and so on. If we add 6 to 16 we get 22, then if we add 7 to it we get 29 and if we add 8 on to that we will get 37. So 38 is not in the pattern.

Answer: 91

The pattern is that the difference between two consecutive terms is a square number. The difference between 2 and 1 is 1, which is the square of 1, the difference between 31 and 15 is 16, which the square of 4. The next number in the pattern will be 31 + 25, which is equal to 56. The next number will be 56 + 36, which is equal to 92. Hence 91 is not a part of this series.

Answer: No

The pattern here is the series of the squares of prime numbers. The number 225 is the square of 15, which is not a prime number, and therefore 225 is not a part of this pattern.

Answer: 1010

The given pattern is the series of natural numbers in binary form. It is starting from 0 and the 10th term will be 1001, which is equivalent to the decimal number 9. The binary number 1010 is equivalent to 10 and is the 11th term of the pattern.