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Frank

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This would be much easier to read with the HTML turned off.

Frank

Sugar Cookie <lo...@airmail.net> wrote:

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>IQ Test

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>Scoring:
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>20 Correct - Genius
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>17 Correct - Above Normal
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>15 Correct - Normal
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>12 Correct - Nincompoop
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>10 Correct - Moron
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>7 Correct - Idiot
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>5 Correct - Brain dead

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>QUESTIONS
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>1. Do they have a 4th of July in England?
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>2. How many birth days does the average man have?
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>3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
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>4. A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar's sister, but
>the
><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
>beggar is not the woman's brother. How come?
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>5. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
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>6. How many outs are there in an inning?
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>7. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? Why?
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>8. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of
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>games. There are no ties. Explain this.
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>9. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10.
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>What is the answer?
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>10. A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have southern
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>exposure. A big bear walks by, what color is the bear?
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>Why?
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>11. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
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>12. I have two US coins totaling 55 cents.
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>One is not a nickel. What are the coins?
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>13. If you have only one match and you walked into a room where there was
>an
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>oil burner, a kerosene lamp, and a wood burning stove, which one would
>you
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>light first?
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>14.&nbsp; How far can a dog run into the woods?
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>15. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every = half
>hour. How
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>long would the pills last?
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>16. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?
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>17. How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
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>18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10'' tall. What does he weigh?
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>19. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
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>20. What was the Presidents name in 1950?&nbsp;
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Powakee

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Sep 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/10/98
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Sugar Cookie wrote:

> IQ Test

So where's the answers???
jb


Madd Chatter

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Sep 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/10/98
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Powakee <pow...@nm-us.campus.mci.net> wrote in article
<35F88E58...@nm-us.campus.mci.net>...

These are the answers I came up with:

1. yes 2. 1 day on which he was born 3. 12 4.beggar is her sister

5. because he is alive 6. is 6 7. No, if she were his widow-he
would be dead

8.They don't play each other 9. 70 10. ???? 11. 2 12 The other is
a nickel

13. The match 14. ???? 15. 1 hour 16. 9 17. 1 18. meat


19. is 12 and 20. is Mr president.

Madd Chatter

Marlene

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Sep 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/10/98
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Sugar Cookie wrote in message
IQ Test
Scoring:
20 Correct - Genius

17 Correct - Above Normal
15 Correct - Normal
12 Correct - Nincompoop
10 Correct - Moron
7 Correct - Idiot

5 Correct - Brain dead

QUESTIONS


1. Do they have a 4th of July in England?

Yes and a 5th and a 6th


2. How many birth days does the average man have?

One


3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?

All of them


4. A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar's sister,

but the beggar is not the woman's brother. How come?
The beggar is her sister -- why isn't she caring for her family
better than the odd 50 cents?


5. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?

He's alive


6. How many outs are there in an inning?

six


7. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? Why?

No, 'cause he's dead


8. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of

games. There are no ties. Explain this.

They are each playing checkers with someone else
9. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
70


10. A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have southern

exposure. A big bear walks by, what color is the bear? Why?
White, because it's a Polar Bear and he's built on the North
Pole


11. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?

The 2 you took away
12. I have two US coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel. What are
the coins?
A fifty cent piece (which is not a nickel) and a nickel


13. If you have only one match and you walked into a room where there wa

s an oil burner, a kerosene lamp, and a wood burning stove, which one would
you light first?
The match
14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
Half-way, after that he's running out


15. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every = half

hour. How long would the pills last?
One hour. Maybe, it depends on when you took the first one.


16. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?

9


17. How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?

One


18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10'' tall. What does he weigh?

Meat (and his thumb, depending on your butcher)


19. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?

12


20. What was the Presidents name in 1950?

Bill Clinton. I don't think he's changed it (although, this
doesn't work as well for him as I think he was named something else when he
was born).

--Marlene (Marty)

Pete

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Sep 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/11/98
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Good job, you got the ones I missed, and I got the two you missed. Does
that mean between us, we are a genius?

~~pete

Madd Chatter wrote in message <01bddd31$21dcdae0$4def10d0@default>...


>
>
>Powakee <pow...@nm-us.campus.mci.net> wrote in article
><35F88E58...@nm-us.campus.mci.net>...
>>
>>
>> Sugar Cookie wrote:
>> IQ Test
>>
>> So where's the answers???
>> jb
>>
>>
>These are the answers I came up with:
>
>1. yes 2. 1 day on which he was born 3. 12 4.beggar is her sister
>
>5. because he is alive 6. is 6 7. No, if she were his widow-he
>would be dead
>
>8.They don't play each other 9. 70 10. ????

The color of the bear is white because it is at the north pole.

11. 2 12 The other is
>a nickel
>
>13. The match 14. ????

Half way, after that he is running out.

Madd Chatter

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Sep 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/11/98
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well Pete,
I think I missed more than two--having seen the answers now---I still
don't believe all the bears at the north pole are white, aren't Kodiac
bears brown?
Between the two of us maybe we got them all right. :o)
Madd Chatter

Marlene

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Sep 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/11/98
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Deep Sigh. I've never been a Biblical Scholar. Moses was Charleton Heston,
Right?
--Marlene (Marty)

Sugar Cookie wrote in message
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t>...
YEA Marlene!! You only missed Moses and the Ark..... It was Noah at
the Ark.
Marlene wrote:

One ( NONE.... Noah took the animals on the Ark. Moses
was not there.


18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10'' tall. What does he
weigh?
Meat (and his thumb, depending on your butcher)
19. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
12
20. What was the Presidents name in 1950?
Bill Clinton. I don't think he's changed it (although,
this
doesn't work as well for him as I think he was named something else
when he

was born). ( The same name he has today.... He did not change his
name...)

--Marlene (Marty)

stevean...@my-dejanews.com

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Sep 12, 1998, 3:00:00 AM9/12/98
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In article <6tabcb$301$1...@news.xmission.com>,
> 18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10'' tall. What does he weigh?
> Meat (and his thumb, depending on your butcher)
> 19. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
> 12
> 20. What was the Presidents name in 1950?
> Bill Clinton. I don't think he's changed it (although, this
> doesn't work as well for him as I think he was named something else when he
> was born).
>
> --Marlene (Marty)
>
Just a word from a lurker: Moses didn't take any animals on the ark---Noah
did!
---Loretta

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