Match Wits With Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book
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Match wits with the 70,000 certified geniuses of Mensa, the high-IQ society! Puzzle fans have bought more than 650,000 copies of the Mensa Genius Quiz series-the only books that let readers “match wits with Mensa,” comparing how well they do against members of the famous high-IQ society. Here, in a giant omnibus edition, are four best-selling titles: The Mensa Genius Quiz Books 1 & 2, The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book, and The Mensa Genius ABC Book. Here are more … More >>
Match Wits With Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book
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January 15, 2010
Tags: Book, Complete, Match, Mensa, Quiz, Wits Posted in: Puzzles and Games
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If you want a challenge, ‘Match Wits With Mensa’ is the book. Filled with baffling, beguiling and brain-bursting puzzles, it will amaze, frustrate, inspire and delight. The puzzles are presented within specific categories, and although some solutions might appear obvious, don’t jump in too quickly. To illustrate the book’s scope and level of difficulty, following are a few examples.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: True or False.
1) A ‘stake-out’ is the annual barbecue organized by the detectives within the Remedial Spelling Squad. _______
2) The largest canal in Europe is Pavarotti’s Alimentary. _______
3) Chicken Cacciatore is always the last guy in the Italian Sky Diving Team to jump. _______
LATERAL THINKING: Circle the odd one out.
1) General, Parental Guidance, Restricted, X.
ANSWER: X. It’s not a movie classification. It’s how Britney Spears signs her autograph.
2) pullover, boot, belt, buckle.
ANSWER: Buckle. That’s what Bill Clinton did under the pressure. The other words describe what LA Highway Patrolmen do to black motorists by the side of the road.
3) Franz Kafka, Henry Miller, Simone de Beauvoir, Alexei Tolstoy.
ANSWER: Henry Miller. He’s the only one of the four writers whose stuff has never been translated into English.
4) 12, 13, 14, 15.
ANSWER: 13. 12, 14 and 15 are composite numbers. 13 is the IQ of your average talk show host.
FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: True or False.
1) Having just been struck on the head by a falling apple, it was Sir Isaac Newton who said in a moment of brilliant scientific insight, “Of course! That’s it! I’ll call it gr… gra… granny smith!” _______
2) In 1912, while vigorously arguing that repressed feelings played no part in any notion of The Unconscious, Sigmund Freud said to his rival, Alfred Adler, “Listen, Addled… whoops, pardon the slip. Well, there goes THAT little theory.” _______
3) It was Captain Smith of the ‘Titanic’ who said to his radio operator, “You’re starting to bug me, Sparks. For the last time, the only ice around here is in the navigator’s drink.” _______
SHOW BUSINESS: Spot the mistake in these well known show business stories.
1) After three years locked away in her study, Bo Derek has recently completed a kiss-and-tell book about her life as an actress in Hollywood. “It was hard work,” she said, “but now that I’ve done it, I might even think about reading another one.”
MISTAKE: Bo Derek is not an actress.
2) In July, 1991, following one of her more ‘explicit’ concerts, Madonna was charged with performing an act of gross indecency with a hand-held microphone by singing into it.
MISTAKE: The word ‘concerts’ is ludicrously over-generous.
ENGLISH USAGE: True or False.
1) A ‘Simple Sentence’ is not as good as an acquittal. _______
2) A ‘Double Negative’ nets a blackmailer twice the amount. _______
‘Match Wits With Mensa’ requires an average understanding of the English language and a moderate ability to reason. I guess that explains why the copy I sent to Jim Carrey is still in the envelope.
Rating: 5 / 5
The question asks “How many horses did the owner SELL”, not how many did he get rid of.
Assuming (although not stated) that he ended up with no horses left:
To the first purchaser, he SOLD 3.5 and GAVE AWAY 0.5.
To the second, he SOLD 1.5 and GAVE AWAY 0.5.
To the third, he SOLD 0.5 and GAVE AWAY 0.5.
So the total number of horses he SOLD is 3.5 + 1.5 + 0.5 = 5.5
Rating: 2 / 5
I is smart at puzzles. I could do them good. My frend who wurks with me at Burgur King said I should be in Mensa because I am extra intelidgent. I said okay Larry I will bye this book to see if I could do the puzuls. The guys at the drive threw window laffed at me but Mom said I is a jenyus. I got the book. I tried to do puzuls and I could do them. Now I is smart ha ha ha drive threw guys. I am going now, time to watch A-Team rerunds.
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t get the whole MENSA sponsored puzzle book thing. These books, and particularly this one, are just plain bad. Doesn’t MENSA have any better puzzle writers than the ones currently writing? Isn’t Terry Stickels a member of MENSA? Now his puzzle books have something to offer. Anyway, MENSA, you can do better.
Rating: 2 / 5
The orginal question that was posted should have indicated that there were no horses left at the end of the day. Without that qualifier, there can be no definitive answer.
If the Merchant has 7 horses when he sees his FIRST customer, then sells half (3.5) and adds half a horse (0.5), then he has sold to the first customer 4 horses, leaving him with 3 horses.
Then, the Merchant goes to his SECOND customer, and sells half his horses (1.5) and adds half a horse (0.5) then he has sold to the SECOND customer 2 horses, leaving him with 1 horse.
Finally, the Merchant goes to his THIRD and FINAL customer, and sells half of his horses (0.5) and adds a half a horse (0.5), so that the Merchant has sold to the THIRD and FINAL customer 1 horse, leaving the Merchant with ZERO horses.
Three transactions, selling half his total plus 0.5, ending the series in zero.
The total number of horses is 7.
Rating: 3 / 5
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