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.
1. First unscramble the letters in each word below, and then unscramble the order of the words to create a Tom Swifty sentence.
DSIA MOT YM SI OOT OINYS HCUM
LYDSIDULRGNTE GIP MARF
2. What number is one-tenth of one-half of one-fourth of one-half of 4,000?
3. A faulty change machine returned $10 in coins with twice as many quarters as half-dollars. How many of each coin were there?
4. What three words, formed from different arrangements of the same five letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?
When the very young honeymooners arrive at their hotel,
they _____ at the _____ posted, and the bride breaks into
_____ because she knows they don’t have enough money.
5. What one three-letter word can be added in the blanks below to make a word in each case?
___ ion
___ able
___ ice
___ ed
6. Find the five-digit number in which the first digit is two more than the second, the third and fourth form the sum of the first and second, and the last digit is one more than the fourth and two more than the third. The sum of all of the digits is 18.
7. To the best of our knowledge, only one word can be made from all of these letters. Can you figure out what the word is?
AEGHOOPRRTUV
8. A statement is coiled in the grid below. In order to spell it out, begin with one letter and then move to an adjacent letter in any direction. (Hint: Start with an “I.”)
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9. There is one common English word that almost all Americans spell wrong. Can you figure out what it is?
Bonus Question: Where is the Upper Palatinate located?
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 available for sale now.