Beginners Mensa Test

[ronnybabes]

All are bona fide questions.

I think they all will be answered pretty quickly by our brainboxes here on the Round Table.

Any that you don't get (and I do not think that is about to happen here) then all the answers will be  posted on here when I get back, sometime after  mid-day - Monday.

1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May.
...What was the third child 's name?

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers
....What does he weigh?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered,
...what was the highest mountain in the world?

4. How many cubic feet of dirt is there in a hole
...that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English language
...is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.
....How is this possible?

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.
...Why not?

8. What was the President 's name
...in 1975?

9. If you were running a race,
...and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field,
....how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?

[right-then-petal]

.1/..What was the third child 's name / Jonny

2/   .What does he weigh /meat

   
3/    .what was the highest mountain in the world / K2

    
4/     .that measures two feet by three feet by four feet / pass

     
5/    ...is always spelled incorrectly / spelt

6/.     .How is this possible / give up

     
 7/     .Why not / they do,nt have wooden legs

  
 8/      in 1975 / Mr preident nixon and ford

  9/     what place would you be in now / second

 10/   ...how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field / one

[cee-dee]

Oh dear petal.............. 

[right-then-petal]

[cee-dee]

Ha ha, how many cubic feet of dirt in the hole petal? NONE. It's a hole, the dirt was dug out.

[fionajohnston]

 5/ incorrectly

6/ he's in australia

6/ everest

[cee-dee]

You missed out 8/, Obama.

Oh, and 7, you need a camera, you can't take pics with wooden legs.

[right-then-petal]

hmm i see now hahaha

[ed_blackadder_1]

Dont worry petal my husband did the same, and him with his masters degree, ha ha

[cee-dee]

I tried a Mensa test, I found questions like that mixed up with "more serious" questions along with some really wierd ones that had no real answer, they seemed to be trying to see what you made of them. (I got an invite)

[right-then-petal]

hahaha

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

3 is Everest. It was still the highest mountain in the world before it was discovered.

[tuckerbigdaddy5ngv]

No 8 .President of what ?

[ronnybabes]

Here are the Answers

1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named April The second child was named May. What was the third child 's name?

Answer: Johnny of course

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

Answer: Meat.

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn 't discovered yet. [You're not very good at this are you?]

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.

5. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

Answer: Incorrectly

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

Answer: You can 't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.

8. What was the President 's name in 1975?

Answer: Same as is it now. 

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.

10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field?

Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one.
 
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[ronnybabes]

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@tuckerbigdaddy5ngv wrote:

No 8 .President of what ?

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Very astute... 

I meant USA, but it doesn't matter of what really, as he/she would still have the same name.

Unless a lady president got married in the ensuing time .. of course. 

[right-then-petal]

i,m getting there,nice one Ronny