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russ
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posted October 09, 2007 10:45 PM |
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In other words, there is no way you can be a genious without reading bible and caring about US.... interesting....
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kookastar
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posted October 09, 2007 10:58 PM |
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Question 31 is very specific to a non US sport. I got it instantly as an aussie, but can't imagine too many other people getting it.
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Ted
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posted October 09, 2007 11:01 PM |
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Edited by Ted at 23:04, 09 Oct 2007.
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i think i know what sport it is, but i havent got a clue what the thers mean
9/33 go me! and i speak english as my native language
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13 is a unidentified flyig object
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted October 10, 2007 10:05 AM |
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spoilers.. not that it matters, people will have taken the test by the time they read this anyway
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I looked up some of the answers. Most of them require ridiculous trivial knowledge that no one in our generation would know.
88 books of the bible
I will never know that, will I ever care. Mensa can suck it.
I didn't know that and I got it...
It is dodgy though. It was made in south africa, what can you expect.
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In other words, there is no way you can be a genious without reading bible and caring about US.... interesting....
Yep. And the first one I saw was cents to the Rand rather than Dollar (this guy americanised it)
At first I was like
USF... united states of france? lol
And then I was like 13 stars on the flag? Wait a second theres more than that
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Question 31 is very specific to a non US sport. I got it instantly as an aussie, but can't imagine too many other people getting it.
As aussie we shouldn't have got it at all considering our performance on saturday night...
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ratmonky
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posted October 10, 2007 07:34 PM |
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how about if we share the correct answers?
Warning! Spoilers!!! Read at your own risk!!!
1 26 L of the A 26 Letters of the Alphabet
2 7 D of the W 7 Days of the Week
3 7 W of the W 7 Wonders of the World
4 12 S of the Z 12 Signs of the Zodiac
5 66 B of the B 66 books of the bible
6 52 C in a P (W J) isn't this the number of chords in a piano???
7 13 S in the U S F 13 stripes in the United States Flag
8 18 H on a G C 18 Holes on a Golf Course
9 39 B of the O T 39 Books of the Old Testament
10 5 T on a F forgot the answer to this one! 
11 90 D in a R A 90 Degrees in a Right Angle
12 3 B M (S H T R)
13 32 is the T in D F at which W F 32 is the Temperature in Degrees Fahrenheit at which Water Freezes
14 15 P in a R T
15 3 W on a T
16 100 C in a D 100 Cents in a Dollar
17 11 P in a F (S) T 11 Players in a Football (Soccer) Team
18 12 M in a Y 12 Months in a Year
19 13 is U F S
20 8 T on an O
21 29 D in F in a L Y 29 Days in February in a Leap year
22 27 B in the N T 27 Books in the New Testament
23 365 D in a Y 365 Days in a year
24 13 L in a B D
25 52 W in a Y 52 Weeks in a Year
26 9 L of a C 9 Lives of a Cat
27 60 M in an H 60 Minutes in an Hour
28 23 P of C in the H B 23 Pairs of Chromosomes in the Human Body
29 64 S on a C B 64 Squares on a Chess Board
30 9 P in S A
31 6 B to an O in C
32 1000 Y in a M 1000 Years in a Millennium
33 15 M on a D M C
Spoilers End Here
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Duncan
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posted October 11, 2007 06:49 PM |
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Nooo!!! Spoilers!! 
Anyway, I first encountered this kind of test in a 1991’s book titled “Games Magazine presents Will Shortz’s Best Brain Busters” and used it ever since for teamwork trainings. I never see it as an IQ test, under the condition that the questions are not trivias. What I normally do in those trainings is to ask participants to solve the questions individually, then ask them to form a group of 2 or 3 to combine answers. What normally happen is once the answers are combined, they complement to completion. Most of them usually yell out “Ah yes how could I miss that.” The morale of the game is this: those numbers aren’t new in our life, they’ve actually ever crossed our memory before at least once (again, trivia questions like the number of books in The Bible or culturally-related ones should never be used). But some people memorize better some numbers and other people, because having different perspective or life experience, remember better the other numbers. In teamwork it’s like combining different skills and experience from team members, rather than expecting all members to have uniformity in the way they think etc. Sadly, I’ve seen many teams prefer the latter to avoid conflicts and assume they can work better without conflicts. Conflicts are part of the game. Respecting differences is hard, but will be fruitful when can be satisfactorily managed.
In case some of you would like some more, here we go:
1001 = A.N.
200 = D. for P.G. in M.
1000 = W. that a P. is W.
40 = D. and N. of the G.F.
None of these is trivia. Feel free to discuss the answers, and if needing them from me but not wanting to spoil the others, just page me via HCM 
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friendofgunnar
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posted October 11, 2007 11:03 PM |
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angelito
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posted October 12, 2007 02:58 AM |
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Could someone explain the meaning of no.33 to me? Is it an american saying? Never heard of that...
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Corribus
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posted October 12, 2007 04:51 AM |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Men
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ratmonky
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posted October 12, 2007 10:01 AM |
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Thanks FoG for the answers. most of them were quite easy but hard to figure out!
And wait, there is Part 2 too!
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Trogdor
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posted October 13, 2007 09:11 AM |
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My current answers that are correct:
1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 32
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Trogdor
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posted October 13, 2007 09:17 AM |
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Edited by Trogdor at 09:32, 13 Oct 2007.
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And for part 2:
7, 12, 13, 22
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william
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posted October 13, 2007 10:07 AM |
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I am doing part 2 now, and so far have:
7, 12, 16, 21 and 22
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posted October 13, 2007 01:58 PM |
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I tried part 2 and so far I got 1, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. That's enough for now
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted October 15, 2007 12:46 AM |
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And wait, there is Part 2 too!
Oh god no! lol so much more time down the drain. Ok here we go, this time this one won't be spoiled for me.
So far I have 12 I'll have to come back to it though..
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OMG
Part 3
Part 4
It never ends!!
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RedSoxFan3
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posted October 15, 2007 09:28 AM |
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I only got 3 on part 2. These are so gay.
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted October 15, 2007 03:00 PM |
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Man part 2 is easier. Noob.
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william
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posted October 15, 2007 04:30 PM |
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For part 3 I can only seem to get 2 and 10 at this current time.
Guess I will try tomorrow when I have had some sleep.
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friendofgunnar
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posted January 08, 2008 09:30 AM |
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bjorn190
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posted January 13, 2008 04:11 PM |
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Im actually a member of Mensa, but luckily the entry test I took was about intelligence, not about being born in the US or having read the bible ^^
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