High IQ Society | Abbie F. Salny | George Washington | United States

The following questions are provided by the folks at American Mensa, the High IQ Society. Without seeking the assistance of fellow passengers, can you provide the answers? If you find that you do need some help, the answers are on page 102. By Dr. Abbie F. Salny

1. The answer to the question “What’s in a name?” 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 an N.)

2. What would you call an apparatus designed to trip someone at a festive social event? (Hint: The answer is a palindrome, which is a word, sentence, or group of words that reads the same backward or forward.)

_ _ _ _ _ B_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _


3. Make your way from hide to seek in exactly seven steps, changing one letter at a time to make a good English word at each step.

HIDE
____
____
____
____
____
____
SEEK


4. The total cost of the video was $5.50, including tax. The video cost $5 more than the tax. How much was the video? How much
was the tax?

5. Which of the words below is least like the others? (The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants, or syllables.)

Chain pains mail squash


6. A simple substitution code has been used to conceal a quote. Work out the code to decipher the original words.

George Washington: 9 20-8-15-21-7-8-20 9-20 23-1-19 1-14 1-16-16-12-5 20-18-5-5.


























7. An eight-letter word is in the box below. Find it by beginning with the correct letter and moving clockwise or counterclockwise around the box, using each letter only once.




8. Which two words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently (such as polish and Polish) can complete the sentence below?

I really don’t think I need to ________ this. I _________ it yesterday.


Bonus Question: A popular toy introduced in the United States by Louis Marx was not a toy when it originated in the sixteenth century in the Philippines. What was the toy?
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1. Not much, but you’re better off if it’s easy to spell
2. Party booby trap
3. Hide, bide, bite, bits, bets, bees, sees, seek. (There may be other ways.)
4. $5.25 for the video, 25 cents for the tax. (No, it isn’t $5 and 50 cents. If you got that answer, kindly refigure it!)
5. Squash. The others can be anagrammed into geographic names (China, Spain, and Mali or Lima).
6. “I thought it was an apple tree.” (Code: a=1, b=2, etc.)
7. Bookcase
8. Read, read


Mensa Bonus Answer:

The toy was the yo-yo. It was a weapon weighing four pounds and having a 20-foot cord.