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    For more information contact

    Jim Blackmore, APR, (817) 607-0060, ext. 136


    jimb@americanmensa.org
    Catherine Barney, (817) 607-0060, ext. 139
    catherineb@americanmensa.org

    MENSA MINI-QUIZ
    The following questions are similar to those administered on the Mensa Admission Test.
    Take the challenge and find out if you are Mensa material. (Answers on separate page.)

    1. Bill climbs a two-mile hill at an uphill speed of two miles per hour, spends no time at the top,
    and immediately walks down at six miles per hour.

    What is his average speed for the up and down trips?

    2. What is the number that is two more than one-tenth of one-fifth of one-tenth of 1,000?

    3. Can you think of an American tree whose name contains all five vowels?

    4. Pat likes books but not magazines, she likes going to shows but not the ballet, and she likes
    movies but not pictures. By the same rules, will she like videos or tapes?

    5. Six smart people can read 12 books in six hours. How many books can three of these smart
    people read in nine hours?

    6. Begin with the number of legs on a spider, add the number of stars in the U.S. flag in 1935,
    divide by two and add the number of leaves that enables you to distinguish poison ivy. What
    do you have?

    7. If seven chocolate bars and one bag of jelly beans cost $0.36 and 10 bags of jelly beans and
    one chocolate bar cost $0.15, how much is a chocolate bar?

    8. Of the words listed below, one is the “odd man out.” This difference has nothing to do with
    letters, vowels, consonants or syllables. Can you find the word?

    Grate Mitts Blame

    9. In a county fair pie-eating contest, Joe ate three pies in 20 minutes. At the same speed, how
    long did it take to win the contest by eating twenty-one pies?

    10. What is the 11-letter word that all smart people spell incorrectly?

    ###

    © Dr. Abbie F. Salny


    Media: If you publish or broadcast this quiz, please give proper credit to Dr. Abbie F. Salny.

    The High IQ Society


    For more information contact
    Jim Blackmore, APR, (817) 607-0060, ext. 136
    jimb@americanmensa.org
    Catherine Barney, (817) 607-0060, ext. 139
    catherineb@americanmensa.org

    HOW TO SCORE
    YOUR MINI-QUIZ

    Answers
    1. Three miles per hour (one hour up, 20 minutes down = 80 minutes for four miles; 20 minutes
    per mile, three miles per hour)

    2. Four (1000 divided by 10 = 100 divided by 5 = 20 divided by 10 = 2+2=4)

    3. Sequoia

    4. Videos. She likes words with “O.”

    5. Nine. Each one reads a book in three hours.

    6. 31 (8+48=56 divided by 2+3 [“Leaflets 3, let it be.”] = 31

    7. $0.05 (Jelly beans are $0.01 per bag, chocolate bars are $0.05)

    8. Mitts. The others can be scrambled into the names of girls. Greta, and Mabel or Melba.

    9. 2 hours and 20 minutes (seven times as long), 140 minutes.

    10. Incorrectly.

    Scoring: Count the number of correct answers.

    9-10 Mensa Material! Try to join.

    7-8 Good chance you qualify for Mensa.

    5-6 Not bad, you might make Mensa.

    Below 5 You must have had a bad day. Try again.

    The High IQ Society

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