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Question 9:

AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Kevin

[Pace]

Section 3

Question 17
If "boffing" is understood to mean "shot" then the following sentence is correct: "The young freshman from Kentucky took a desperate boffing, but he was unable to boffing over the star defender."

"The young freshman from Kentucky took a desperate shot, but he was unable to shot over the star defender." - False.

Question 18
The sum of all numbers from 8 to 18 is an even number

All the even numbers will add up to an even number, so we can ignore them. There are 5 odd numbers (9,11,13,15,17) which will add up to an odd number, giving odd overall. - False.

Question 19
A group of 5 people must contain either 3 mutual friends or 3 mutual strangers

Take ABCDE as the 5 people. If we split it into lines to show strangers we could have:
AB
CD
E - that's 3 strangers, so we need to put it onto 2 lines. Any way we do this we'll have to have 3 friends on a line, or more. - True.

Question 20
Fold your hands, starting with your left thumb over your right thumb. If you start counting your digits at your thumbs, your sixth digit will be your right hand's middle finger

Left Thumb, Right Thumb (2)
Left Index, Right Index (4)
Left Middle, Right Middle (6) - True.

Question 21
By removing two letters from the word "planets", a word that is the opposite of "uproot" can be formed

Remove 'e' and 's' to get Plant. - True.

Question 22
The number 8336749476338 is the same number whether it is read forwards or backwards

Remove 2 at a time to check.
8336749476338 (83-38)
367494763 (36-63)
74947 (74-47)
9 (9) - True.

Question 23
Walter's grandmother's daughter could be Walter's son's grandmother

Walter's grandmother's daughter can either be Walter's mum or aunt. If it's his mum, then she is his sons grandmother. - True.

Question 24
If the second day of the month is a Friday, then the twelfth day of the month is a Tuesday

2nd Friday, 3rd Saturday, 4th Sunday, 5th Monday, 6th Tuesday, 7th Wednesday, 8th Thursday,
9th Friday, 10th Saturday, 11th Sunday, 12th Monday.
As you can see, just start from the 9th and your count would be easier - False.

[Pace]

Section 4

Question 25
By removing seven letters from the word "strengthen", the word "rent" can be formed

There are only 10 letters in strengthen, so taking 7 off would only leave 3. - False.

Question 26
If you break a twenty dollar bill into fourteen dollars worth of quarters and the rest into dimes, you will have more quarters than dimes. (Dollar = 100 cents; quarter = 25 cents; dime = 10 cents)

$14 of quarters = 14 * 4 = 56.
$6 of dimes = 6 * 10 = 60. - False.

Question 27
If Borbs are better than Fribs, and Luns are worse than Jirts, Luns must be better than Fribs if Luns are better than Borbs

Bold is the required info, italics is the statement.
So, Luns > Borbs > Fribs. So Luns > Fribs. - True.

Question 28
Using six toothpicks you can create four equilateral triangles (where each triangle's side is the length of a toothpick).

A funny one this, but as it didn't say identical sized toothpicks, then this works:<pre> /\
/ \
/\¯¯/\
/__\/__\</pre>Take 3 large toothpicks and make one big equilateral triangle, then 3 smaller ones to split that into 4 equilateral triangles. You've actually got 5 eq tri's, including the outside triangle. - True.

Question 29
For a sentence with such Fine phrasing, there are Five instances oF the sixth letter From the alphabet here

5. - True.

Question 30
The sixth to last letter in the alphabet makes just one appearance in this short but active sentence

UVWXYZ, 'U' - 2 found. - False.

Question 31
A new millennium began on January 1, 2001, but the 21st century began on January 1, 2000

So the first millennium began in 0001AD, the first century was surely 0001AD as well, not 0000AD. - False.

Question 32
If the color red was created by combining purple and yellow, and the color blue was created by combining green and purple, then orange could be created by combining yellow and green

I took this as being the inverse of the primary colours, so Red and Blue are both created from their secondary colours, so - False.

However, the link does make a full circle shown below, so - True.

Green (Blue) Purple (Red) Yellow (Orange) Green

Opinions?

P.

[Maggi]

nice work there, Pace ...

my opinion on a colorwheel looks like this though:

red
> yellow
green
> cyan
blue
> magenta
red
...

[Pace]

Where have I messed up? I ran through the test in 10 seconds with those answers and only got a pattern recognition score of 88. (that's twice through, using both True and False for Q32)

I got 100 before!

Edit: Found it! 6 F's - I'd answered that true before, d'oh!

Edit2: Thanks GNEP as well

[GNEP]

Q29: you didn't see an f in "of" - the brain often misses these off.

Q23: I thought there might be incest involved somewhere...

EDIT: you've Found it now No probs

[Pace]

Yeah Maggi, but if you ignore the actual names of the colours, then it is a feasible colour wheel:

A (B) C (D) E (F) A, so True...

[Gurm]

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Question 19
A group of 5 people must contain either 3 mutual friends or 3 mutual strangers
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Take ABCDE as the 5 people. If we split it into lines to show strangers we could have:
AB
CD
E - that's 3 strangers, so we need to put it onto 2 lines. Any way we do this we'll have to have 3 friends on a line, or more. - True.

This question is another trick. It assumes that people are either friends or strangers. What if everyone in the room is an acquaintance that dislikes the other people? It's not hard to imagine. Just think of the last big family reunion. *shrug* Nobody is a stranger, and nobody likes anybody else... so there are certainly no "friends".

Next!

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Question 28
Using six toothpicks you can create four equilateral triangles (where each triangle's side is the length of a toothpick).
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A funny one this, but as it didn't say identical sized toothpicks, then this works:
/\
/ \
/\¯¯/\
/__\/__\
Take 3 large toothpicks and make one big equilateral triangle, then 3 smaller ones to split that into 4 equilateral triangles. You've actually got 5 eq tri's, including the outside triangle. - True.

No, I would argue that they are talking about equal sized toothpicks. The length of the side of any triangle must, in fact, be the same as the length of the side of any other triangle. Toothpicks are, after all, fairly uniform the world over. No breaking toothpicks in half here.

Next!

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Question 31
A new millennium began on January 1, 2001, but the 21st century began on January 1, 2000
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So the first millennium began in 0001AD, the first century was surely 0001AD as well, not 0000AD. - False.

Although there are millions of people the world over who disagree... I personally agree with your statement. However, many people would say that the year 1900 was part of the 20th century... that in fact when the clock ticked over from 1899 to 1900 it was the "turn of the century". This one was true - or should be.

Next!

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Question 32
If the color red was created by combining purple and yellow, and the color blue was created by combining green and purple, then orange could be created by combining yellow and green
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I took this as being the inverse of the primary colours, so Red and Blue are both created from their secondary colours, so - False.

However, the link does make a full circle shown below, so - True.

Green (Blue) Purple (Red) Yellow (Orange) Green

The real trick here is that they're talking about three primaries and three secondaries. Which colors they choose as each is purely arbitrary... the answer is true.

Of course, it's a STUPID question, since the colors ARE arbitrary, and light don't work like that. Anyone who thinks that it does deserves a ZERO on the IQ test, along with the people who wrote it for coming up with this brain-meltingly-stupid question (and test overall).

- Gurm

[Pace]

Finally! A score above 170

Congratulations! Your general IQ score is 172.
A person whose IQ score falls in the range of 161 and above is considered to be a "genius".

For example, in the IQ test you just took,
your pattern recognition score is 100.

Any other IQ quizzes? I'm enjoying this, hehe

(though I don't plan on making up full answers again!).

Anyone enjoy reading the answers? I like Maths questions, and I could almost sit and work out puzzles all day. I've got a Maths exam next Friday, so I wonder if any of these will come up.