The following questions are provided by the folks at American Mensa, the High IQ Society. Can you provide the answers? If you find that you do need some help, click here for the answers. By Dr. Abbie F. Salny

1. A statement is written below in a simple substitution code. Decipher the code to get the statement.

14-5-22-5-18 16-21-20 15-6-6 21-14-20-9-12
20-15-13-15-18-18-15-23
23-8-1-20 25-15-21 3-1-14 16-21-20 15-6-6
21-14-20-9-12 20-8-5
4-1-25 1-6-20-5-18 20-15-13-15-18-18-15-23

2. Think of a word for a piece of clothing or a geographical feature, and then add a letter to it to get a word for a prank or a part of a flower used in food.

3. Unscramble the letters in each word below, and then unscramble the order of the words to create a Tom Swifty sentence.

EEMS EVHA LICNEP
PRSHAENRE YM I OT
MOT DSIA STOL YLPTONIDE

4. A good idea is coiled in the grid below. To spell it out, start with one letter and move to an adjacent letter in any direction. (Hint: Start with a “D.” There is one null.)

Bonus Question: A late-nineteenth-century tone poem based on Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra became the signature theme for a 1968 film nominated for four Academy Awards. What was the film?


American Mensa Limited, known as the High IQ Society, is an organization for individuals who have one common trait: a score in the top two percent on any supervised standardized intelligence test. For more information about American Mensa or to take the Mensa Home Test, visit www.us.mensa.org/americanway or call (800) 66-MENSA.

Dr. Abbie F. Salny was the supervisory psychologist for American Mensa and Mensa International for more than 25 years. She is a coauthor of the Mensa Think Smart Book. Quiz © 2008 by Dr. Abbie F. Salny and American Mensa Limited from the Mensa Page-A-Day Calendar (Workman Publishing). The 2008 edition of the calendar is available for sale now.