"Why are you intent on causing as much pain to the people who play your game as possible? What do you stand to gain, Deet?" ― WisestMiner555
The Impossible Qatar '22 is a game in The Impossible Qatar series, ostensibly centered around the 2022 World Cup. It has 122 questions (100 plus 22). Development started c. October 19, 2018 before a hiatus; work started again in January 2022. It featured many 2018 memes that were be dead by release. Why are they now dead? Because it was released in June 2022. (It was originally planned to be released in November 2022 to coincide with the Qatar 2022 World Cup.) The quiz features more advanced gameplay and is the only one that was playtested before release. It is also the final entry in the series (not counting The Impossible Qatar 96, which is an April Fool's joke).
Gameplay[]
The quiz has 122 questions, some of which have variations of themselves that change each playthrough. There are also a few bonus questions available after beating the game. Many questions have a time limit in the form of a bomb, which gives an instant Game Over when exploding. The game has four powerups: the Skip, the Fusestopper, the 1Up, and the Super Skip, which skips two questions. This is the first and only game where the Super Skip is a normal, usable powerup. Some questions are unskippable, though. As usual, you must make it to the end with 5 lives and no checkpoints.
This screen appears before starting the quiz, asking what type of device you're using.
The start screen for the quiz, including the "Instructions" button.
A few questions normally require a keyboard to answer. However, this quiz has an option for playing in a mobile mode designed for devices without keyboards; instead of needing a keyboard, certain questions will use a different mechanic for answering the question or be replaced entirely. Other additions introduced for the first time in this quiz include multiple background tracks, minigame questions, and red bombs (which last for two questions). Returning from previous quizzes are grades and a working instructions button. The task questions are generally more varied and difficult, and the transitions and cutscenes are generally smoother, than in previous quizzes. There is also some semblance of a plot, especially in questions 51-60, 99-100, and 119.
To restart the quiz properly, it is required to click the green flag twice instead of once. For some reason, a lot of game scripts won't reset if the flag is only clicked once. The Game Over screen attempts to make it very clear to players that it must be clicked twice.
Answers[]
Answers written in red indicate that the question features a bomb. The bold red text next to it indicates the timer of the bomb. If the number is "in quotes", then the bomb won't cause a game over upon time running out; if the number has an ellipsis (...) before it, the bomb will appear if you take too long. Italicized answers indicate unskippable questions. Questions with [WATCH OUT] mean you'll have to pay close attention since whatever you have to do will happen very fast. Any powerups and eastereggs are listed below the answer to the question. "⊙" indicates that a bomb cannot be defused with a fusestopper.
0. Start
The Game Over screen, referencing the 2022 and 2026 World Cups.
1. The Impossible Murica '22 (the bottom left box)
2. Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more (song lyrics)
3. Buy my merch
- SKIP: Click "Communism is good"
4. Kowalski, analysis
5. 🅱️EspAcYEETo (combination of the most 2018 memes)
6. Click the word “me” in the question
7. 4
8. London (10) (the capital of the U.K., which in colonial times ruled Palestine)
9. Chad and the Virgin Islands ("Virgin vs. Chad" meme)
10. Right here
11. Click Serbia and Montenegro, Bolivia, the Netherlands, Côte d’Ivoire, and Western Sahara (their flag patterns are: blue-white-red, green-yellow-red, red-white-blue, orange-white-green, and black-white-green with a red triangle)
12. Wait until Germanyball kicks away the question number, which looks like a soccer ball (alternatively, type "12")
13. Because Scratch 3.0 brutally murdered the old one
14. T (the end of the world as we know it)
15. Chungi
16. 11
17. ...it's... united? (referring to the Taliban takeover in 2021)
18. Polish remover (polish vs. Polish)
19. Shampoo ("sham poo")
20. Move your mouse through the maze to the green dot, avoiding the purple (alternatively, right-click and cheat)
- EASTEREGG: Touch the red dot. This will give you the achievement "Missing The Point," but will also reveal the number code 7542, which recurs throughout the series.
21. To have no goals in life
22. Click the question number (it's the flag of Qatar) (10)
23. 1200 (twelve o'clock)
24. Click Mexico (the United Mexican States)
- EASTEREGG: Click on Russia (referencing the United States of Russia in the Hearts of Iron IV mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe)
25. Hard work? Values? Lunch?! (referencing this Scratch project)
26. Not that kind of football! (The quiz focuses on association football/soccer, not American football)
27. Mash the keyboard (PC) or tap the screen (mobile), but don't press any of the home row keys (ASDFGHJKL), or you'll lose a life. (12) on PC, (8) on mobile
28. 100 trillion (refers to exaggerated claims of communist death tolls)
29. 108 billion (number of humans who have ever lived; refers to exaggerated claims of capitalist death tolls)
30. True
31. Slaves
32. Scratch almost murdered this font, too
33. Handegg! (10)
34. Click/tap on the goalie so that his arm sticks out; then, press the right arrow key (PC) or tap Soccer Bloke (mobile)
- FUSESTOPPER: Click it, it's in the audience
35. Vitamin B1 (across your entire life, you only need about 1 ounce (28 grams) of it)
36. 12
37. Violin ("vile inn")
38. Click the flag of Oman, it's the top-right one ("Creeper, Oman" -> "Creeper, aw man," lyrics from the song Revenge) (10)
39. Drag away the question number and click “Yep!” hidden beneath it
- SKIP: Drag away the word “Search!,” it’s hidden beneath it
40. A Bahraini
41. ATP
42. Type “42” 42 times (PC) or tap the question number 42 times (mobile) (15)
43. Click the Wild Card (it turns into a red card, like from soccer)
44. The whole nine yards (27 rulers = 27 feet = 9 yards)
45. Click the cell until it fully divides in two (8)
46. Framerules (an important mechanic in speedruns of Super Mario Bros.) (10)
47. Click the vent in the back of the electrical room; an impostor will pop out (question references Among Us)
48. Croatia (they didn't actually win, but got much farther than expected, to 2nd place)
49. The SCIENCE!
50. Click the question number (after all, you're at Question 50)
51. Press space (PC) or tap the rocket (mobile)
52. A miasma of incandescent plasma
53. 64 if you relax (the classic "Uranus" -> "your anus" joke)
- EASTEREGG: Click "63"
54. Click on SWEEPS-04/SWEEPS-11, it's a small yellow dot above Saturn (these are the farthest known exoplanets) (10), only on PC
55. Click the bomb (10)
56. Click "Moon #2," located near the right edge of the screen (representing Mars's moon Deimos)
- FUSESTOPPER: Hidden in the top right of Mars, to the right of the Acne Area
57. Put It On Your Bill (i.e., Bill Kerman, from Kerbal Space Program)
58. Click “infer, is” in the question, it will turn into “inf, ERIS” (Eris is the dwarf planet in the background)
59. 46 (the question is in base-12) (12)
60. Muskow (Moscow + [Elon] Musk)
61. Fiber (sounds like "fibber") (15)
62. Move your mouse through the maze to the green dot, avoiding the teal (alternatively, right-click and cheat)
63. Click the "6" in the question number (the extra point doesn't count)
64. PRC (the People's Republic of China has embraced a market economy to some extent now) (5)
65. Tuesday ("Twosday" for 2/22/22)
66. Saipan
67. There are two possible questions depending on whether the game is on PC or mobile.
- PC: Type what Bob tells you to type (possible options: “FONG,” “LETH,” “AOGUZ,” or “POGGERS”) (5)
- Mobile: Pneu (it’s the only one that doesn’t express an opinion)
68. Samoa ("some more")
69. The smiling/grimacing face (10)
70. [WATCH OUT] Click the next question sign only once the crosswalk light shows the white stick figure
- EASTEREGG: Clicking on the man will make him say "Just 52 more to go...", referencing the number of questions.
71. Click the word "true" in the question (8)
72. There are two possible questions depending on whether the game is on PC or mobile.
- PC: Use the arrow keys to navigate the platformer and collect the white coins. Be careful to avoid the lava.
- SUPER SKIP: Touch the flashing green dot in the fifth level
- Mobile: Anguish (the original name of the unreleased platformer)
- SUPER SKIP: Tap the small gray arrow in the top left corner
73. Wat.
74. Wait until the message “...except that one.” appears, then click any of the answer boxes except for “Every option” (if you don’t wait for the message, they’re ALL wrong!)
75. [WATCH OUT] Watch the moving cups, then click the one that has the soccer ball underneath it
76. Question 100
77. Click the "Me" in "Mechanical Hands" (referencing the Tally Hall song Ruler of Everything) (10)
78. The Bite of '83 (an event in Five Night's at Freddy's lore, but also refers to the 1983 video game crash)
79. 20k upvotes (10)
80. I'd boycott it (refers to the diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics)
81. Laser Pointers (not mentioned in Weird Al's song Hardware Store)
- +Free 1UP
82. Grafield (10)
83. Shoot all the UN soldiers, either using arrows keys + space bar or using the on-screen buttons
84. Click the question number ("1984," like George Orwell's novel) (8)
85. [WATCH OUT] Click on the box that says "RIGHT" (it's in a different position each time) (1)
⊙: The bomb takes a moment to appear, and it's just too big to be defused.
86. Vibes (the name of the character)
87. Drag away the second "it" in the question, then click the arrow beneath it
- RED BOMB: 88-89 (15)
88. Click the pickaxe ("pick X" -> "pickaxe")
89. Click the word "roll," the "t" moves to form "troll"
90. Monaco (Monaco in Polandball is usually depicted with sunglasses)
91. Do nothing. Don't click the "Submit" button. The bomb is a dud. (..."10")
⊙: It's a dud and can't be defused.
92. 484 (including unique questions on the iOS and HTML5 ports)
93. Zimbabwean coal mines of exploitation (10)
94. Click the numbers, including the question number, in descending order. From left to right: #3, #7, the question number, #5, #1, #6, #4, #2 (15)
95. Voler-le (in French, it means both “fly it” and “steal it”)
- RED BOMB: 96-97 (15)
96. Macedonia ("mass"-edonia, higher mass -> higher gravity)
97. There are two possible questions depending on whether the game is on PC or mobile.
- PC: Type “O” on your keyboard (one O in “every corner,” two Os in “every room”)
- Mobile: Dead body (the funniest answer)
98. 6,501 (the number of islands in Åland) (10)
99. There are two big, red, circular buttons. Press the one on the right. (10)
⊙: They can’t defuse a computer timer; it counts down to a nuclear strike!
100. return NULL;
The Impeccable 22[]
101. Touch 15 dots while avoiding the squares (15)
102. USA and everyone else (TIQatar question, refers to the debate over the term "football") (8)
103. Drag away all the layers from the center of the screen, then click the "Go!" arrow (8)
104. A dream (referring to the cancelled game The Impossible Dream) (10)
105. Click the answer that corresponds to the number of times the subject in the question appeared or was mentioned. (12 or 15)
- Ex. 1: How many questions were about capital cities? (4)
- Ex. 2: How many times did Among Us appear in the quiz? (3)
- Ex. 3: How many times were socialism/communism mentioned in the quiz? (4)
- Ex. 4: How many red bombs were in the quiz? (2)
- Ex. 5: How many times did this quiz mention 69? (4)
- Ex. 6: How many times did Trollface appear in the quiz? (4)
- Ex. 7: How many questions did countryballs appear in? (6)
106. [WATCH OUT] Click the square in the fourth column and fourth row, it's the only one that flashed purple
107. Lemon (the other options make the “correct” ding sound, but you lose a life; clicking Lemon will cause a “wrong” explosion sound, but lets you move on)
108. There are two possible questions depending on whether the game is on PC or mobile.
- PC: Type "Central African Republic," including the spaces (it's often abbreviated as "CAR") (8)
- Mobile: 1958 (the year the Central African Republic was created) (15)
109. Get the first item on your list (it's what the "car" function in Lisp does) (8)
110. Move your mouse through the maze to the green dot, avoiding the red. Be wary of the moving blocks in the middle. (Alternatively, right-click and cheat.)
111. Answer all 10 questions of "Teh Improsibl Quetz":
- 0. Start
- 1. That’s how mafia works
- 2. 3 (the number of holes in the letters of “a straw”)
- 3. Youre mom!
- 4. 2008 (referring to the April Fool’s prank “The Impossible Quack”)
- 5. Maldives (“Mald”-ives, “mald” → male balding)
- 6. Willy Fnafton (corruption of “William Afton”)
- 7. Yes, for damage compensation (Sudan? → "Sue Dan?")
- 8. Russia
- 9. Yes (after all, this is the original TIQatar ‘22)
- 10. Mentally scarred
112. Five (number of unique letters in "a letter"
113. Click on the words "the answer" in the question (12)
114. This question will randomly present one of four questions from The Impossible Quiz Beta that never became questions in the full Quizzes.
- Ex. 1: Hover, click, hover, hover, click, click. (In left-to-right order, click the second, fifth, and sixth buttons on the panel.)
- Ex. 2: Which axolotl is distressed? (Click the bottom right one, it’s clearly stressed)
- Ex. 3: Terry has dandruff. But where does he go shopping? (Click the “as da” in “has dandruff,” it turns into “Asda,” a British supermarket)
- Ex. 4: Which object appeared twice? (Pen; several objects flash on screen before the question appears and the pen is the only one that appeared twice)
115. It's only good on paper (the question is literally drawn on paper) (10)
116. Avoid the dragon until you reach a score of 10.
117. 四 (pronounced “shi,” as in “that’s what she said”) (15)
118. Banned by the ST (the normal answer is "elephino," which sounds like "hell if I know," but the Scratch Team [ST] doesn't like swearing on its site) (10)
119. ...and yet so far away (10)
120. No! (The quiz isn’t actually impossible! Clicking “Yes!” causes a meme to cover the screen, which stops the entire game and makes continuing impossible)
121. Click on the words "the game's code" until they break (10)
122. Enter the code 7542 (10)
Bonus Questions[]
1A. 7 (number of vowels in "the English language")
2A. 15% (the percentage of the phrase "the typical human being" that shares the letters of "pee")
3A. Lvov (first governor of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917)
4A. Lunch
5A. Audacity (ends in "city")
6A. October ("fall" as in the season)
7A. Seoul (the capital of South Korea, Seoul -> soul)
8A. Baby, don't hurt me (song lyrics; "That's amore" -> amore = love -> love = "Baby, don't hurt me...")
9A. 13.8 billion years ago (referring to the cosmic inflation right after the Big Bang)
10A. The Game (by mentioning it, you're forced to think about it, so you've lost it)
Piks[]
Piks ("Skip" backwards) is a test project for The Impossible Qatar '22, released in September 2022. Its purpose is as a prototype for the "backwards skip," a joke powerup that would send a user back one question. It isn't a real quiz; the description also calls it "The Impossible Non-Quiz".
There are 2 "easy" questions, which are handwritten (as are the question numbers). Their answers are:
1. 4
- +1 Backwards Skip
2. Chartreuse (the color of the words "the sky" in the question)
There are no lives in this question. Getting a question wrong just causes a text box saying "Lol, wrong!" to appear for a bit.
After those questions, there is another handwritten message from the creator:
That's it, that's the end.
This isn't a real quiz. I just thought a backwards skip was too funny not to make.
The Impossible Qatar '22 is already out, play it?
Despite the fact that it isn't a real quiz, it still has more questions (and power-ups) than The Easiest Impossible Qatar Ever.