How smart are you

Joseph

Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important that we keep mentally alert. The saying: "If you don't use it, you will lose it" also applies to the brain.

Below is a very private way to gage your loss or non-loss of intelligence. So take the following test presented here and determine if you are losing it or are still a MENSA candidate. OK, relax, clear your mind and ... begin.

1. What do you put in a toaster?

The answer is bread. If you said "toast", then give up now and go do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, "bread", go to question 2.

2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk". What do cows drink?

Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk", please do not attempt the next question. Your brain is obviously overstressed and may even overheat. It may be that you need to content yourself with reading something more appropriate such as "Children's World". If you said, "water" then proceed to question three.

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?

Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks", what the heck are you still doing here reading these questions? If you said "glass", then go on to question four.

4. Twenty years ago, a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany. If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany. Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he has time and the plane crashes smack in the middle of "no man's land" between East Germany and West Germany. Where would you bury the survivors - East Germany or West Germany or in "no man's land"?

Answer: You don't, of course, bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to rescue anyone from a plane crash. Your efforts would not be appreciated. If you said, "Don't bury the survivors" then proceed to the next question.

5. If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute then how many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour?

Answer: One degree. If you said "360 degrees" or anything other than "one degree", you are to be congratulated on getting this far, but you are obviously out of your league. Turn your pencil in and exit the room. Everyone else proceed to the final question.

6. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver?

Answer: Oh, for heaven sake! It was YOU, Read the first line!!!

garthv

hah,good un

Joseph

Thanks :d

jared almasy

excellent, i got to the end but my parents got caught out at no.4

Joseph

lol

Optikus

nice, like the last question

Bottle_of_Smoke

number 2 got me hehe

OY

Yeah number two was a tricky one.

Or i am a dumbass!

Whatever!

radiospan

LOL those are good alright. Could do with spoiler tags though
I got 2 and 6 wrong

Hagar

Deaddude wrote:

5. If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute then how many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour?

Answer: One degree. If you said "360 degrees" or anything other than "one degree", you are to be congratulated on getting this far, but you are obviously out of your league.

Very strange clock nevertheless.

A normal hour hand goes round the circle of a clockface once every 12 hours therefore it will cover 1/12th of 360 degrees which is 30 degrees in one hour. The clock in the puzzle would have to be working on a 720 hour day !

The fact that it is specified as clock rather than any other mechanism implies it should work in a "clock like" manner.

I know its only a puzzle but that's a bit mad Ted.

Praetorian

Hagar wrote:

Very strange clock nevertheless.

A normal hour hand goes round the circle of a clockface once every 12 hours therefore it will cover 1/12th of 360 degrees which is 30 degrees in one hour. The clock in the puzzle would have to be working on a 720 hour day !

The fact that it is specified as clock rather than any other mechanism implies it should work in a "clock like" manner.

I know its only a puzzle but that's a bit mad Ted.

If you assume anything in these tests then your in trouble.

YCHGTBOY

Here are other tests...for fun...google will supply the answers when you give up.....:D

1
http://intelligence-test.net/part1/

2
http://intelligence-test.net/part2/

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