MENSA mini Quiz 1. What is the number that is 10 more than one-fourth of one-tenth of one-fifth of 800? 2. Lee, Joe, Sue, Janet and Charles took a math exam. Charles was not last, Janet was not first or last. Charles scored higher than Joe, Janet scored higher than Sue, Lee scored lower than Joe but higher than Janet. Who had the highest score? 3. Start with the number of wheels on a unicycle, multiply by the number of sides of a pentagon, then multiply by the number of cards in a bridge deck. What=s the answer? 4. What one word can mean Ato run a motor at slow speed,@ Aunemployed@ or Anot busy@? 5. What best completes the following series? Andorra, Luxembourg, Sweden, ________, Denmark? a) Mexico b) Canada c) Morocco d) Belgium 6. While on vacation, Tom visited his mother=s mother-in-law=s only son=s only daughter. What is she to Tom? 7. As far as we can tell, there is only one other word that can be made from all the letters in the word WORDINESS. Can you figure out what it is? 8. A boat is moored with three ladder rungs, one foot apart, starting one foot down, out of the water. The tide rises four feet. How many rungs are now out of the water? 9. In a tree-clearing project, six lumberjacks can chop down 18 non-endangered trees in 12 hours. How many lumberjacks will it take to cut down nine trees in 4 hours? 10. Reduce the high-flown language to a common saying: A member of the feathered species which is contained within the digital extremity has a valuation double that of the same species located in a rather large plant species. 11. What is the eleven-letter word that all smart people spell incorrectly?
MENSA mini Quiz 1. What is the number that is 10 more than one-fourth of one-tenth of one-fifth of 800? 2. Lee, Joe, Sue, Janet and Charles took a math exam. Charles was not last, Janet was not first or last. Charles scored higher than Joe, Janet scored higher than Sue, Lee scored lower than Joe but higher than Janet. Who had the highest score? 3. Start with the number of wheels on a unicycle, multiply by the number of sides of a pentagon, then multiply by the number of cards in a bridge deck. What=s the answer? 4. What one word can mean Ato run a motor at slow speed,@ Aunemployed@ or Anot busy@? 5. What best completes the following series? Andorra, Luxembourg, Sweden, ________, Denmark? a) Mexico b) Canada c) Morocco d) Belgium 6. While on vacation, Tom visited his mother=s mother-in-law=s only son=s only daughter. What is she to Tom? 7. As far as we can tell, there is only one other word that can be made from all the letters in the word WORDINESS. Can you figure out what it is? 8. A boat is moored with three ladder rungs, one foot apart, starting one foot down, out of the water. The tide rises four feet. How many rungs are now out of the water? 9. In a tree-clearing project, six lumberjacks can chop down 18 non-endangered trees in 12 hours. How many lumberjacks will it take to cut down nine trees in 4 hours? 10. Reduce the high-flown language to a common saying: A member of the feathered species which is contained within the digital extremity has a valuation double that of the same species located in a rather large plant species. 11. What is the eleven-letter word that all smart people spell incorrectly?
MENSA mini Quiz 1. What is the number that is 10 more than one-fourth of one-tenth of one-fifth of 800? 2. Lee, Joe, Sue, Janet and Charles took a math exam. Charles was not last, Janet was not first or last. Charles scored higher than Joe, Janet scored higher than Sue, Lee scored lower than Joe but higher than Janet. Who had the highest score? 3. Start with the number of wheels on a unicycle, multiply by the number of sides of a pentagon, then multiply by the number of cards in a bridge deck. What=s the answer? 4. What one word can mean Ato run a motor at slow speed,@ Aunemployed@ or Anot busy@? 5. What best completes the following series? Andorra, Luxembourg, Sweden, ________, Denmark? a) Mexico b) Canada c) Morocco d) Belgium 6. While on vacation, Tom visited his mother=s mother-in-law=s only son=s only daughter. What is she to Tom? 7. As far as we can tell, there is only one other word that can be made from all the letters in the word WORDINESS. Can you figure out what it is? 8. A boat is moored with three ladder rungs, one foot apart, starting one foot down, out of the water. The tide rises four feet. How many rungs are now out of the water? 9. In a tree-clearing project, six lumberjacks can chop down 18 non-endangered trees in 12 hours. How many lumberjacks will it take to cut down nine trees in 4 hours? 10. Reduce the high-flown language to a common saying: A member of the feathered species which is contained within the digital extremity has a valuation double that of the same species located in a rather large plant species. 11. What is the eleven-letter word that all smart people spell incorrectly?
Answers: 1. 14. 2. Charles (then Joe, Lee Janet, Sue) 3. 260 4. Idle 5. Belgium (They are all counties in Europe) 6. Tom=s sister 7. ROWDINESS 8. 3 9. Nine 10. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 11. Incorrectly