MensaQuiz
7.
Jerrybought favors for hisbigbirthday cel-
ebration. Hebought 42 favors. Halfwerenoise
makers, one-sixthwere costume jewelry, one-
seventhwerehats, and the restwereminiature
cakes. Howmanywere cakes?
8.
The sameeight letters, if rearrangedproperly,
canbeused to fill in theblanks in the sentence
belowwith twodifferentwords. The sentence
will thenmake sense.
Manycookbooks tell you thataspecificcut
ofmeatmustbe________ in theparticular
liquidchosenand then________ for the
appropriatenumberofhours inorder toobtain
a tastymeal.
BONUSQUESTION:
There is at least onenine-
letterword that containsonlyonevowel. Doyou
knowwhat it is?
1.
Rearrange the letters in thenameof Cleo-
patra’snemesis to find theword for “ahealth
resort.”
2.
Thenamesof four numbers arehidden in the
sentencebelow. Canyou find them? (The letters
are in consecutiveorder.)
Thenotewasoneverybulletinboardatwork
andwaseven in thenewspaperveryoften.
3.
Theanswer to the fill-in-the-blank is a
palindrome. Quick review: Apalindrome is a
sentenceor groupofwords that reads the same
backwardand forward.
Whatwouldyoucall severalold,
incapable tigers?
S_____ _______
4.
What does the following figure represent?
5.
What letterwould logically replace theques-
tionmark in the sequencebelow?
AGBFCEDDECF?GA
6.
The followingpoem (especially in this
economy) canbe completedby solving the
cryptogram:
Onceupona timestartsa fairy tale;
Todayonestarts
VJG EJGEM KU KP VJG OCKN
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