A math quiz for you all

[ebns72 0]

Question 1

If 1 Greek Drachma (Gk Dr) is worth 1 Ë Greek Drachmas, how many lamps can be bought from the market, if each lamp is 4 times the cost of each other lamp, the cost being the same as it was the year before last?

Question 2

What is the smallest number?

A) 00

B) 0.0

C) -0

Question 3

Two clock towers (Tower A and Tower B) facing North East and North North East respectively, stand almost one mile apart. Both towers are taller than each other by roughly 54 feet but less wide than one another by a similar value. Each Tower Master often charges an admission fee of around 15 pence but adds a non-mandatory administration charge of about 20% to almost every visitor. Can you calculate:

A) the exact height of Tower A

B) the approximate height of Tower B

Question 4

If: UP = -DOWN

MORNING = -AFTERNOON

and EMPTY = -FULL

What does KENNETH equal?

Question 5

You have been sent out on an errand to buy some fruit for your family. Your fruit-basket has the capacity to hold 80 apples. At the fruit-mongers you fill your basket up to a third, but returning home, you are reprimanded by the tax collector of your citadel, and ordered to pay the 32.4% apple levy - in apples. You return home with your remaining apples and distribute them amongst your 12 family members. Are there enough apples to give each family member sufficient vitamin C to see them through the bitter winter ahead?

Question 6

I am divisible by two, but not by one. If I add myself to myself, I become nothing. My whole is half the sum of my total. What am I?

Question 7

magician pulls rabbits out of a top hat at the rate of 18 standard rabbits per hour. How long will it be before he has enough pelts to make a fur coat for his assistant, who has a mass volume of 144 gallons?

Question 8

What is a Niligon?

Question 9

In an average year, the Sun orbits the Earth 1.2 times in 24 hours. If, on January 1st, its speed is 22 million mph, and it increases by a factor of 12 every fortnight, then

A: How many days will there be this year?

B: On what day will Christmas fall?

See if you can refrain from using the internet or a calculator, but it is nearly impossible to do so. Good luck!

[blackdog~ 0]

<span style='color:red'>Ok, here are my answers (highlight to see)</span>

<span style='color:#E9EDF2'>The market does not sell lamps. It sells fruit, vegetables, traditional carvings, dishcloths, badges, pottery, lamps, silverware, butterflies and butter.

2) Zero

3) A: 1202 feet

B: 1200 feet

4) -KENNIFER

5) No. Apples contain no vitamin C.

6) A pair

7) The Magic Circle refuses to divulge the answer.

8) A shape with no sides.

9) A: 11,400,362

B: December 10,998,701st

9.2) x+</span>

[LoTekK 0]

AAAAARGH! I can't make heads or tails of these.

I feels stupid.

[DrBobcat 0]

The funny thing about these questions is that they are quite typical for an IQ test in an English speaking country. Those who cannot speak english well will have a VERY hard time doing the test (well). In the old days, they would call foreigners stupid when really they just couldn't understand the questions given. Ironic, ain't it?

Sorry, just a sociology plug....

Caz

[Thunderbird 0]

Hehe, funny test, found the answers 'in a website' but won't publish'em in order to let people to find'em themselves.

Regards

TB84

[quicksand 0]

Are this really present in IQ tests or was it a joke?Because I tested myself an year ago with eTickle,if I remember corectly,English IQ test and I scored 131 as a foreigner who had mild problems of understanding some of the words.

But nothing whatsoever resembled this questions and I don`t think they can even determine how intelligent you are.Half of this questions resemble more to magicians techniques of focusing the audiance attention on a completly different thing while masking their illusion same as the questions try to mask the answer while the reader is focusing on the entire question and think it can be brought down to simple mathematics and rationality

[DrBobcat 0]

Well there are different tests. In my opinion, Tickle seems to be quite a universal test (a lot of numerical questions,and puzzles, and only a few vocabulary questions). However, I was really speaking of previous tests, such as the ones that you had to take for getting a job. Those were immensely biased and were really instated to keep immigrants, especially African Amerians, out of the work force.

Oh, and good job. 131 is excellent

Caz

[EiZei 0]

I can tell you that most of those online IQ tests are bullshit, let's just say I scored much better on them than in a real one administered by a trained professional.

[Rikki Tikki Tavi 0]

Internet Iq test- my score was around 160

Real - closer to 130

I wish those internet tests were for real  

[chops 111]

I think heard somewhere that the IQ test has been disregarded by most psychologists. Te internet ones are a big of fun though. I did one that told me my IQ was about 159, then found another which told me about 98

[EdGrrr 0]

Is this one of the look around you tests? There are many more on bbc.co.uk in the look around you section. A brilliant spoof science program.

[mattxr 9]

lol i think someone is trying to get us to do their homework for them

[.pablo. 0]

can someone can explain the answers?

[llauma 0]

can someone can explain the answers?

42.. It's satire

[.pablo. 0]

Quote[/b] ]42.. It's satire

thanks, i wasn't sure if there was some joke behind the answers themselves or not.

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

Yep, 42 is the answer i got after calculating for 1000 years.