According to Mensa (the smart folk society) if you get 19 of the riddles right on this test you, my egg head friend, are a friggin’ genius.
Actually, the test doesn’t measure friggin-ness, just genius-ness.
Want to know how I did? Don’t look below the fold till after you take the test.
And it takes a while, but I’ll wait right here for you.
Not too shabby
I only got 19… I’m deeply disappointed in myself. 🙁
Hey, at least you’re a genius!
which three did you miss, and do you want to know?
although it wont accept the 27 B in the N T answer. I must have mispelled something.
Must have, I got that one. I had to alt-tab over to Word and check the “M” word in “1000 Y in a M,” so don’t feel bad.
I eaked out a 19. Looks like I misspelled the M word. There were a couple more that I was sure I had right.
26 and counting…
21/33 but i know there are some lurking in my brain somewhere…i’m glad it wasn’t timed.
Spacemonkeys are ALWAYS smarter than their terrestrial counterparts. That’s a true fact. As opposed to the other kind of fact, i suppose…
so congratulations!
26… dang it, but i’m sure i’ll figure the others out before the end of day…
Sorry, I was at 27 and counting when I posted. I discovered one while posting.
wtf?
My current score is 28. I have 19 correct answers, and 14 blanks. How the F does that work?
23 here…..so either the vast majority of IMAO readers are uber-intelligent, or we’re all a bunch of filthy cheaters. Smart money is on the latter.
28, unaided, 31 with 3 clues, 33 with 2 outright answers.
I gave up at 27. I’m happy just being a super-genius, rather than a super-duper-genius.
I am right with coleman063, on score and opinion…i give up at 23…of course the rest will bug me till my old age…which should be here any day now, if i’m any judge of horseflesh…
I’m currently at 22 out of 33. But I’ll get the rest, give me more time.
somebody’s been reading digg.com…..
Ya’ll must be drinking the right water, this poor ole dumb Redneck could only manage 16 correct…of course thats a actual 16. Damn it must be ’cause I’m from Texas, but you know what I’d bet large money I can out-shoot them genius boys…(1 S = 1 K, I D, N R) ya’ll figure that one out!
L8R WK
27 is my limit. i gave up and read the answers. 3 of those i missed, i would have never gotten in a million years…
couldn’t figure out six of them; now my head hurts…… (I had to look up millennium too…)
Well you are more genius than I as I only got 23. But I did get one that you missed … 15 Men on a dead man’s chest.
I missed the other one you did too, but think there must be a spelling error. What else could it be but 1000 years in a millenium?
aaaah, millennium … so score 24. So how come I’m unemployed and my blog is under read?
Only 20 here. I’m a low-level genius. Oh well.
31 for me. The ones I couldn’t get were #30 (9 P in S A) and #31 (6 B to an O in C)
How about this one…
7th L of H
For whoever came up with such a puzzler!
SpaceChimpanzee, I’m stuck on the exact same two.
Ultimate Spoiler Alert!!
Don’t click here if you want to finish this yourself!
(Man, do I love Google. Note to self: Invest in that company one day.)
I got a perfect score!!!!
Oh, wait, that’s my result for the Love Child quiz just one post down.
Uh oh…
21 here – two misspellings that kept me at 19 for a while, the M one and I put an apostrophe in another one.
There was a set of three that once I got one, I immediately knew the other two…
22, not counting the “52 cards in a pack (without joker)” for which it won’t give me credit (nor for several other variations on it). I spelled “millennium” correctly only because I remembered misspelling it when it was the name of a proudct competitive with one of my employer’s products.
Not bad for a guy who earns his living writing VBA, SQL, etc., instead of English.
I was impressed I had 30 until I gave my 17 y/o the URL and he came back an hour later with 30. I’m not so sure this is a genius test.
He helped me with the cricket one (English nanny), and I helped him with the geography one, so now we both have 31 and are both stumped on 27 & 28.
Make that 28 and 29. And there is usually more than a single joker in a deck.
22.
I’m disappointed, but then again there’s no time limit. If I had more time, maybe I’d be even smarterer.
With a lot of help from dictionaries and Google, I got to 25 before I had to give up and go to bed. Finishing today with help of the spoiler, I got 26 on my own. I would never have known 30, 31 or 33.
I almost punched my keyboard when I quit at 27. I was one word off on three of them.
Delete and retype the ones you know are correct but it doesn’t accept. It wouldn’t accept the two “7” answers until I retyped them. Duh!!
…it still won’t accept the 1000 Y answer no matter how I spell “M”.
And there is usually more than a single joker in a deck.
That probably explains it. I’m sort of ignorant of anything resembling pop culture; now, if the clue had been “32 P S by B”, I would have gotten it instantly (piano sonatas by Beethoven).
They forgot
1 “S”hot to a “Hole” “I”n “O”ne
99 B of B on the W
dowload music music
I have 26 so far, some of these others I am sure I know, but they just ain’t clicking in my brain. I am missing 17, 24 and 28 thru 31.
grrr!
Hahahahaha!
Okay, I’m a friggin’ genius and I’m still dumb enough to forget to add my name before posting! Derherr!
I have 26 so far, some of these others I am sure I know, but they just ain’t clicking in my brain. I am missing 17, 24 and 28 thru 31.
grrr!
I got 23 right, then I got immersed in the wonderful world of Anglo-American weights and measures.
8 furlongs in a mile, 4 homesteads in a section, that kind of stuff.
I got 27. Would have gotten a couple more if I were British.
7th L of H
Seventh level of hell?
(the Circle of the Violent, in the Divine Comedy)
i got 31. missed 31 & 32.
I’m a dolt; only got 21…
Scoring: 1 to 5 is Average, 6 – 11 Somewhat Intelligent, 12 to 18 Intelligent, 19 + Genius
CORRECT ANSWERS: 33 / 33
You have to remember that this test was created by people in South Africa.
20 here. I’m thinking it can’t be a true measure if genius if I got 19+. Then again, they do say IMAO readers are pretty damn smart.
Well, I got them all correct. That’s right, 33/33.
But then, it said nothing about not being allowed to use Google.
Okay, maybe not smart, but at least resourceful.
i got 32 out of 33 and i’m only 14! how cool is that!! I couldn’t do 1000Y in a Millenium though, i spent about 6 minutes on that one question but whole test took me only 17 minutes!!!