MENSA Test

[Gregjazz]

This is an interesting intelligence test:

http://www.mensa-test.com/

I got 16/33 and now I'm really stuck... That's about as much as I can think of. But I'd be curious to know the rest.

Try the test first, before reading the ones I've figured out so far:

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1. 26 letters of the alphabet
2. 7 days of the week
4. 12 signs of the zodiac
5. 66 books of the Bible
6. 52 cards in a pack (without jokers)
7. 13 stripes in the United States flag
9. 39 books of the Old Testament
16. 100 cents in a dollar
18. 12 months in a year
19. 13 is unlucky for some
21. 29 days in February in a leap year
22. 27 books in the New Testament
23. 365 days in a year
25. 52 weeks in a year
27. 60 minutes in an hour
32. 1000 years in a millennium

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[esper]

I see

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7 wonders of the world...

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Other than that,I got everything you did except (W J)... Even though I got 52 C in a P...

[Fizzii]

I remember doing this a few years ago... but I've forgotten a lot.

Some more:

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8. 18 holes on a golf course
10. 5 toes on a foot
12. 3 blind mice (see how they run)
24. 13 loaves in a bakers dozen
26. 9 lives of a cat
30. 9 provinces in south africa

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[Haddas]

So if you're not fluent in english culture and languague this test will label you a moron?

[Gilbert]

I think I'm a moron then.
So far I got only 9 lines correct.
Some of the others I think I know what they want but couldn't find the correct exact words yet (like that mentioned 52 C... for example).

Edit:13 lines so far:
1, 2, 4, 9, 16, 18, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
And it miscoutned my scores as 17 using Opera, switching to IE seems okay, this test sure is dumb.

[DoorKnobHandle]

I found this one additionally:

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32 IS THE TEMPERATURE IN DEGREES FAHRENHEIT AT WHICH WATER FREEZES

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[TheYak]

Yay! I got 20, tempted to grab a 21st with the 3BM (SHTR) answer, but there's no way in hell I would've gotten that if I hadn't just read the spoilers.

I am confused, however, as to why

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it's not 1000 Years in a Millennium

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. Ah, nevermind ... wrong spelling. 21!

Can't thing of anything at all for 23 P of C in the H B after guessing Parables of Christ in the Holy Bible..  damned religious brainwashing.  Despite that, I didn't get 66 B of the B.  Only ones lacking, at a glance, from the above listings that I got was #20

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8 Tentacles on an Octopus

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and #15

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3 wheels on a Tricycle

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and #11

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90 Degrees in a Right Angle

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[esper]

This is totally why I don't like MENSA... Mentally Elitist Nerds for a Stupid America.... They are really a bunch of complete morons, according to Albert Eintein:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

All those losers have is a bunch of minds like a steel trap: they can remember whatever they want to from a book of facts, like how many tablespoons are in a deciliter, and exactly which cities in the United States declare it illegal to pour pickle juice on trolley tracks (Cranston, Rhode Island is one such city) and the names of all the states and capitals spelled backwards... But, like Einstein said, these people are a bunch of worthless minds that are destined to do nothing but be sycophants for the entirety of their lives. What is really important, Einstein continued, was "to never stop questioning." The way to limit yourself, to make sure you never accomplish anything great, and to ensure yourself a good standing in the MENSA Hall of Mediocrity is to be like them; but the way to make something of yourself... the way to come up with great new things... the way to change the world... lies not in trying to experience the dreams of others, but to dream for yourself.

"Too low they build, who build below the skies..." -Edward Young

......of course, this is only my excuse as to why I didn't get a perfect score myself. You know Einstein couldn't spell his own name, right?

[TheYak]

I don't tend to like elitist organizations - "We're smart and we can prove it! You could question our measures of intelligence but we know better than you how to measure it."  Like the Masons or other elitist clubs, you measure up to their criteria and you get to learn the secret hand-shake.   

I very much enjoy reading Einstein though - particularly the non-mathematical bits.  He had a knack for explaining things in simple terms from theoretical physics to why wars happen, and fully admitted that it was just his own biased take on things.   There aren't many famous dead guys I'd rather meet...  maybe . . .  *distracted by wondering whether Esper's incorrect spelling of Einstein in the beginning of the post is a reference to Einstein's inability*

[esper]

No, just the inability of my "s" key

I am not a big fan of sycophantium (yes, I know I made that word up) myself, but I would rejoice extensively if I could meet Einstein. He's my hero. Who else could explain his extremely complex theory of relativity by saying “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.”

[Bartimaeus]

I know its cheating but me and my brother worked through this together once and managed to get them all.


So there 

[white dragon]

yeah im his brother, and im teh cleveresteest and i own, so i think bart is silly, and i did it. so im clever

[Derwo]

I managed to find 17/33, but even though i'm German I still got to be a moron, because I didn't find the answer to "26 L of the A".  Please, no LOLs on this!

At least I figured out something none of you mentioned yet:
#17

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11 players in a football (soccer) team

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[esper]

Aha...

23

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pairs of chromosomes in the human body

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64

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squares on a chess board

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15

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men on a dead man's chest

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[PhoenixFire]

I got them all too... lol I got to about 25 before I gave in and looked up the cheats .. i owe the last few to some very helpful people in the #AGS chatroom on Mirc so if you want any just ask!
Phoenix

P.S: HillBilly completed it the same time I did so credit to him as well!

[esper]

I had to cheat for the last ones, too... Apparently, I'm a full-on genious in America, but not so in other countries, because the only ones I missed were the culturally biased ones (except 9 p in s a)... I don't even watch American sports, so there's no way I'm going to know how many players on a team in British sports!

It's also rather odd that the first person to launch a diatribe against MENSA also happened to be one of the people who expended the most time and energy trying to complete their friggin' test.

What can I say: I'm a hypocrite!

[PaulSC]

Fun test, but I've got to agree with esper and Yakspit that the self-satisfied smugness of these things is obnoxious. It always seems to be more about people trying to prove themselves as objectively smarter then most other people then in anything higher.

[mozza]

I got about 25 or so on my own and the rest by looking at the spoilers. Nice test, but discriminatory against people with different thinking patterns.

[Kinoko]

I did this a couple of years ago so I just got all of them

But in all seriousness, when I did it back then, I got almost all of them in a couple of hours. I cn distinctly remember the ones I didn't get, and two I had good excuses for not getting because it wasn't any sort of knowledge I had in my brain to begin with.

[voh]

I've already been invited to Mensa based on a test I did a while back. Didn't send in the application though. I'm not that proud of being part of their clique