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Your IQ Is 140

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Genius

Ok, so I cheated on the last question, so my "IQ" is "really" 135 - but even though I got all of the logic questions correct (I checked) my Logical Intelligence is still below average. I find that amusing. Here-in follow my answers, so if you don't want to know, stop reading.


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1. Mary is two times as old as Nancy. Nancy is 1/3 Lucy's age. Who is the oldest?
* Mary
* Lucy
* Nancy

Well, Duh, clearly Lucy's the oldest, since she's three times as old as Nancy, while Mary is only twice.

2. What is worth more a trunk full of nickels or a half trunk full of dimes?
* They are worth the same
* The half trunk full of dimes
* The trunk full of nickels

I like this one. Assume that a trunk holds 1,000 nickels. 1/2 a trunk holds 500 nickels. Now, 500 dimes would be worth the same as 1,000 nickels, but since dimes are smaller than nickels, you can fit more than 500 dimes in half a trunk, ergo the half trunk full of dimes is worth more.

3. "If Jody doesn't pay her ticket, she will go to jail." Which other statement must be true?
* If Jody pays her ticket, she won't go to jail.
* If Jody goes to jail, she didn't pay her ticket.
* If Jody doesn't go to jail, she paid her ticket.

Basic contrapositive. the third statement must be true.

4. Dave is offered a raise if he can increase his weekly productivity by 24%. If Dave works a six day week, how much does he need to increase his productivity each day?
* 6%
* 4%
* 24%

24%. Let's say he currently does 100 things a day. then in six days he does 600 things. If he increases his productivity by 24%, then he'll be doing 600*1.24 things, or 744 things. Divide that by 6, and you get 124, which is a 24% increase over 100.

5. Which word means "maze"?
* Labyrinth
* Larceny
* Placebo
* Pundit

Labyrinth.

6. Word is to Language as:
* Poetry is to Rhythm
* Paint is to Portrait
* Note is to Music
* Tale is to Story

unit of expression. Note to music.

7. "Give me my chair back, you _______"
* Utilitarian
* Iconoclast
* Usurper
* Reactionary

Usurper.

8. The opposite of gregarious is:
* Taciturn
* Ingenuous
* Loquacious
* Convivial

Taciturn

9. If 2x = 3, what does 6x equal?
* 8
* 6
* 9
* 12

6x is three times as big as 2x, so 9.

10. Every Sunday Julie bikes 2 miles. For the rest of the week, she bikes 1 mile more than the previous day. How many miles does Julie bike in 2 weeks?
* 56
* 70
* 86
* 35

2 on Sunday, then 3,4,5,6,7,8 then 2 on sunday,3,4,5,6,7,8.
Notice that 2+8,3+7, and 4+6 all equal 10, so you have 3 10's and a 5
which is 35 times 2 is 70.
sum(2,3,4,5,6,7,8,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)=70

11. What number comes next? 2, 3, 5, 9, ?
* 15
* 14
* 17
* 18

2+1=3,3+2=5,5+4=9,9+8=17. so, 17.

12. Which of the following is not a prime number?
* 73
* 83
* 79
* 87

87

13. Which of these US presidents did not serve in the 20th century?
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Theodore Roosevelt
* George W. Bush
* John F. Kennedy

Duh, W.

14. How many miles are in a kilometer?
* 0.6
* .06
* 1.6
* 6

.621 would be slightly more precise, but still not exact, so I guess .6 is ok.

15. Which of the following countries was not part of the Allies in World War II?
* France
* Italy
* China
* Russia

Italy was part of the Axis.

16. Of the four languages below, which is the least widely spoken?
* English
* Arabic
* Hindi
* Chinese

This one I had to look up; according to the test, the answer is Hindi, but according to the Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999)
which lists the following as the top languages by population, the answer should be Arabic.

(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
3. English (322,000,000)
4. Bengali (189,000,000)
5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
8. Russian (170,000,000)
9. Japanese (125,000,000)
10. German (98,000,000)
11. French* (79,572,000)

* The totals given for Chinese, Arabic, and French include more than one SIL variety. See chart for full details.

Not really a very fair question since Arabic and Hindi are so close together, the answer could change after a flu outbreak.