Mensa Quiz
The following questions are provided by the folks at American Mensa, the High IQ Society.
Can you provide the answers? By Dr. Abbie F. Salny
For the answers, visit our Puzzle and Quiz Answers page.
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2. The following 17 letters can be
rearranged into a five-word comment that Ernest Hemingway or Gertrude Stein
might have made while in New York.
Can you figure it out?
A A B D E E H I I I N P R R R S T
3. Two bakers can bake two cakes
in an hour and ahalf. At the same rate, how long will it take one baker to bake
six cakes?
4. What two words, formed from
different arrangements of the same five letters, can be used to complete the
sentences below? The unhappy tourist woke to discover
that the hotel plumbing wasn’t working. “Oh dear,” he said. “The _____ is
stopped up, and I feel this is the _____ of my trip.”
5. Unscramble the letters in each
word below, then unscramble the order of the words to create a Tom Swifty
sentence.
TJUS MSOE PLLDSIE I DIAS MOT
ELTMUNCSNIEIWLGONLGY NTIAP
6. The names of four world
capitals have been interweaved below. Figure out the pattern and find the names.
M A D D U B L O N O T T R I D L I N
D O N A W A
7. To the square root of 25, add
the number of King Cole’s fiddlers, and multiply by the number of digits in a
standard zip code (without the plus-four)
.8. The following 14 letters can
be anagrammed into a four-word phrase meaning “feeling really depressed.”
D D E H I M N N O P S T U W
9. What one three-letter word can
be added in each of the blanks below to make a new word in each case?
St ___Br___Bl___El___Comm___Gr___
Bonus Question: In the measurement of horses, how long is a “hand” in
inches?
American Mensa Limited, known as the High IQ Society, is
an organization for individuals who have one common trait: a
score in the top two percent on any supervised standardized
intelligence test. For more information about American Mensa
or to take the Mensa Home Test, visit www.us.mensa.org/americanway
or call (800) 66-MENSA.
Dr. Abbie F. Salny was the supervisory psychologist for
American Mensa and Mensa International for more than 25
years. She is a coauthor of the Mensa Think Smart Book. Quiz ©
2008 by Dr. Abbie F. Salny and American Mensa Limited from
the Mensa Page-A-Day Calendar (Workman Publishing). The
2008 edition of the calendar is on sale now.