Mensa Quiz
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, scroll down for the answers. By Dr. Abbie F. Salny
1. What the bigamist thought about his wives, Edith and Katherine, 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 “H.”)



E D T O T E O O

T N A H A A T H

H A V E K N T I

E W H I S D E D


2. The candy-store owner sold six jelly beans and five fruit drops for 85 cents. However, six fruit drops and five jelly beans cost only 80 cents. How much did each cost?


3. To find a common nine-letter word, unscramble the letters below and supply the missing letter in the center square.

P I M

A ? O

T E R


4. The names of three animals are hidden in the sentences below. Can you find them? (Hint: The letters are in consecutive order.)

“See the bad ogre,” said the storybook reader. “It was a delicate matter because the ogre was, maybe, arguably, not that ogrelike.”


5. Make your way from TALK to HEAR in five steps, changing one letter at a time to make a good English word at each step.
TALK
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _

HEAR


6. What palindrome (a word, sentence, or group of words that reads the same backward and forward) completes the sentence?

For her birthday, the children called the florist to place a
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.


7. The following letters can be anagrammed into a two-word phrase meaning “not yet finished.”

D R E I O O U U C C R S T T N N N


8. What is the number that is one-half of one-fourth of one-tenth of 2,000?


9. What two words, formed from different arrangements of the same eight letters, can be used to complete the sentence below?

Some people have trouble communicating, but for a salesman, __________ is a ____________.


Bonus Question: In what modern-day country are the following ancient ruins located?
A. Troy
B. Zimbabwe
C. Carthage
D. Angkor Wat
E. Mycenae
F. Abu Simbel





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Mensa Answers

1. He wanted to have his Kate and Edith, too.
2. Jelly beans cost 10 cents each and fruit drops cost five cents each.
3. Proximate. The X is missing.
4. Dog, cat, bear
5. TALK, TALL, TELL, TEAL, HEAL, HEAR (there may be other options)
6. Red roses order
7. Under construction
8. 25 (2,000/10=200; /4=50; /2=25)
9. Glibness, blessing
Bonus Question:
A. Turkey
B. Zimbabwe
C. Tunisia
D. Cambodia (Khymer Republic is also acceptable)
E. Greece
F. Egypt