About This Quiz
The average human IQ or intelligence quotient is 100. Anything over 140 makes you a genius and anything under 80 means you probably ought to have an adviser beside you any time you're making a major life decision.
IQ isn't the be-all or end-all of human smarts: It doesn't measure emotional intelligence or whether you're a nice person. It's also often accused of bias, as it favors certain cultural perspectives and types of educations that are more likely to be accessible to people from certain nationalities, family backgrounds, and subcultures. It's also malleable: You can study up on how to do well at IQ tests, and improve. You can also improve your IQ by spending your early childhood in culturally enriched environments with lots of books and adults who have time to talk to you (hardly a choice many get to make), and also by being around smart people, reading a lot, and getting good nutrition and plenty of sleep (not all of which are possible, but one can try).
That said, as long as you treat it as merely one slightly woolly fact about yourself and not the sum total of who you are, it's lots of fun to see if yours is high or low. If you score 22, you're about average, 25 is good, 30 is very high, and anything over 32 is probably genius. So let's see how you do!
The first person shakes 11 hands, the next 10, and so on. Add all of those up and multiply by 2 for before and after.
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40 mph for two hours will take you 80 miles.
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There are 5 days in the working week (if you're lucky) and 15/5/=3.
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It means "respondez, s'il vous plait", meaning "reply please!"
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Sally and Becky are both taller than Jodie but we don't know which of them is taller than the other, or whether they are the same height.
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All the others are primes. 25 divides by 5.
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ALERT has 12 anagrams. STALE has only 10.
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All the others are types of blue. Citrine is green.
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TAERC makes CATER or CRATE.
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Mustang, Colt, and Bronco are all cars named for horses. Wrangler is named for the person who takes care of the horses.
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Sure, he has 70ft of rope, but he's going to lose some to the knots, and that puts him over his 10ft safety.
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These are all dogs but the others are purebred. Labradoodles are mixed.
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It'll just look right (if you have a high IQ, anyway).
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If you're reckless, then you rush into things without thinking.
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They're all kinds of triangles except the rhombus.
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Rivers can briefly flow backward during certain types of conditions, namely natural disasters.
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The pattern is that the first letter vanishes and a new letter on the end makes a new word.
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It's all about cause and effect.
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Coma, come, comp and comb are the four!
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Three can be made into words with the addition of the word "back." Backstop, backstroke and background can all be made into words, but "back up" is two words.
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Close-up, high-angle, and establishing are all types of a single shot. "Match" describes a relationship between two shots.
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A daffodil is a flower!
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If x+y=10 and x-y=4, then 4+2y=10, so 2y=6, so y=3.
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Each machine is making a widget every 5 minutes!
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At 99 days, they cover half. So at 98 days, they cover a quarter. It's an exponential curve.
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They are polygons in ascending size order.
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Three are metals. Silicon is not a metal.
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If the sun just went out, there would be a delay of 8 minutes before anyone on the surface would know about it. Anyone on the dark side of the planet at the equator would just happily go 12 hours and 8 further minutes before they would wonder what happened to the sunrise.
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A leaf is part of a tree which is part of a forest.
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The Earth pulls on the object, but if it's going just the right speed, it won't escape the gravity - but it will start to "fall." If it goes the right speed it will fall at just the right speed to constantly fall in a perfect circle around the planet.
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It's a list of squares, the next being 7 squared which is 49.
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He has 30m cubed. The 10 boxes that are 1m cubed take up one 10m cubed layer. The five boxes that are 2m cubed take the next layer. The two boxes that are 5m cubed each take up the third layer.
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Oxygen is the odd one out as the others are noble gases and it is not.
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All the others are the numbers of the Fibonacci sequence.
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It's counter-intuitive, but yep, it's Monday!
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