Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles. As we grow older, it's important that we keep mentally alert. The saying: "If you don't use it, you will lose it" also applies to the brain.
Below is a very private way to gage your loss or non-loss of intelligence. So take the following test presented here and determine if you are losing it or are still a MENSA candidate. OK, relax, clear your mind and…begin.
- What do you put in a toaster?
ANSWER: Bread. If you said "toast", then give up now and go do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, "bread", go to question 2. - Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk". What do cows drink?
ANSWER: Cows drink water. If you said "milk", please do not attempt the next question. Your brain is obviously overstressed and may even overheat. It may be that you need to content yourself with reading something more appropriate such as "Children's World". If you said, "water" then proceed to question 3. - If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?
Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks", what the heck are you still doing here reading these questions? If you said "glass", then go on to question 4. - Twenty years ago, a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany. If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany. Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he has time and the plane crashes smack in the middle of "no man's land" between East Germany and West Germany. Where would you bury the survivors - East Germany or West Germany or in "no man's land"?
ANSWER: You don't, of course, bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to rescue anyone from a plane crash. Your efforts would not be appreciated. If you said, "Don't bury the survivors" then proceed to the next question. - If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute then how many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour?
ANSWER: One degree. If you said "360 degrees" or anything other than "one degree", you are to be congratulated on getting this far, but you are obviously out of your league. You should leave the room now. Everyone else proceed to the final question. - Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven.
ANSWER: You!
- How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
ANSWER: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way. - How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
ANSWER: If you said, "Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator.", you're wrong.
Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions. - The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?
ANSWER: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory. OK, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities. - There is a river you must cross but it is inhabited by crocodiles. How do you manage it?
ANSWER: You swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.
Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four year old.
Q: It is a part of us, and then replaced.
It escapes our bodies to a better place.
The world becomes its sizable home.
Its passions unrestrained, the planet it roams.
A: Water
Q: I have a face, yet no senses. Time is of the essence to me, but I do not really care what time it is.
A: A clock
Q: What five letter word would be pronounced the same if its last four letters were removed?
A: queue
Q: If nine-thousand nine-hundred and nine dollars is written as $9,909, how should twelve-thousand twelve-hundred and twelve dollars be written?
A: $1,321
Q: My scale is something that does not weigh in grams, ounces, or pounds. However I may be heavy or light. What am I?
A: Music scales
Q: I am in a place where weight does not exist, and every direction I face is up. Where am I?
A: Center of the earth
Q: Double my number, I'm less than a score,
Half of my number is less than four.
Add one to my double when bakers are near,
Days of the week are still greater, I fear.
A: 6
Q: For all times it's unchanging, it divides without traces;
it's powers are limited to itself and it's bases.
A: 1
Q: What word in the English language, when written, can be turned upside-down to result in an abbreviation of the antonym of the original word?
A: up
Q: What is yours, but is used by others more than yourself?
A: your name
Q: What does everyone have that goes up, but never comes down.
A: age
Q: Nearly bright as the sun,
Sometimes dark as space. Like a pearl on black velvet,
with diamonds twinkling in my case.
What am I?
A: the moon
Q: Many many keys I have, but no door I unlock.
Four strong legs and enchanting voice,
Yet I never run or talk.
What am I?
A: a piano
Q: A truck leaving New York for West Virginia weighs exactly 2 tons. About halfway through the trip, it crosses a bridge with a maximum capacity of 2 tons -- any more weight on it, and the bridge will instantly collapse. Just before the truck crosses the bridge, a 2 pound tree limb falls and lands on the roof of the truck and remains there as the truck crosses the bridge. But the bridge does not collapse. Why?
A: the truck used a lot of gas by the time the log fell on the it
Q: Nothing inside, nothing outside, at least that you can see.
I'm as light as a feather, yet ten men can't lift me!
What am I?
A: a bubble
Q: We are five little things of a similar sort. You will find us all on "a tennis court".
A: vowels
Q: What makes my left hand, my right?
A: a mirror
Q: What is the only 6-letter word in the English language that gives you 12 when you take away 1?
A: dozens
Q: A man drove all the way from New York to San Francisco only to discover at the end of the trip that he had a flat tire from the very start. Yet his car was completely unaffected by it? How is this possible?
A: his spare tire had the flat
Q: Throughout history, there have been thousands of well-documented cases of horses jumping over towers and landing on clergy and small men, forcing their removal. When does this bizarre-sounding phenomenon occur?
A: in chess