Are You Mensa Material?
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Mensa = people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population, Mensa is a social society with the aim to identify and foster human intelligence.
Open Houses invite you to explore Mensa
August is Open House Month at American Mensa! In celebration, many of our groups are opening at least one of their events to the general public. So if you're curious about Mensans and what they do when they get together, try out an Open House event and then plan to take our admissions test on Mensa Testing Day!
What kinda questions will you find on a Mensa exam? Well here is one of thier practice tests to see if you are mensa material. To see the answers simply highlight the black covered areas.
MENSA MINI-QUIZ (Quiz by Dr. Abbie F. Salney)
The following questions are similar to those administered on the Mensa Admission Test.
Take the challenge and find out if you are Mensa material.
1. What is the 5-digit number in which the first, third and last digits are the same, the first digit is four less than the second, the last is four less than the fourth and the second and fourth are the same? (Hint: The sum of all the digits is 33.) the answer is: 59,595
2. Boris Smetana and Karl Smith were world-class chess champions. In one series of matches, each won every game. How? They were not playing each other.
3. Nicole was sure she got the right answer when her botany teacher asked her to pick out the plant that was not a tree from the list below. Which one would you choose?
Peach, Plum, Walnut, Linden, Banana the answer is banana
4. Six bricklayers can lay 24 bricks in half an hour. How many bricks can twelve bricklayers lay in two hours? 192 (Each bricklayer lays 4 bricks in half an hour, or 8 bricks in an hour. That is 16 bricks in 2 hours X 12 bricklayers who can lay 16 bricks each.)
5. What is the number that is one more than one-tenth of one-fifth of one-half of 4,000? 41. (4000 / 2 =2000, / 5 =400, / 10 = 40, + 1= 41)
6. In a pie-eating contest, Alice was neither first nor last, but she beat Evan. Ben beat Alice. Carol beat Dan who beat Ben. Who was last? the last person was Evan
7. What letter would logically complete the series below? V (There are two series: A to E forward and Z,Y,X,W backward)
A Z B Y C X D W E ?
8. Jim had a small baseball card collection. All but 5 were signed, all but 5 were rookie cards, and all but 5 were less than 10 years old. What is the minimum number of cards he could have had? the minimum number would be 6
9. Start with the number of lives a cat reputedly has, multiply by the number of stitches saved by a stitch in time and add 10. What is the answer? 91. (9 x 9 = 81 + 10)
10. What is the 11-letter word that all smart people spell incorrectly? "Incorrectly" - gotta love that one huh
Scoring: Count the number of correct answers.
9-10 Mensa Material! Try to join.
7-8 Good chance you qualify for Mensa.
5-6 Not bad, you might make Mensa.
Below 5 You must have had a bad day. Why not try the games available at www.us.mensa.org/games?
So how did I do? Well lets just say that Mensa won't have to worry about scoring my test because I must have had a bad day as they put it 
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OK so I dont give away the answer for #3 I will black it out but haha I got that one right:
banana.com/farming.html "Though the banana plant has the appearance of a sort of palm tree, and is often called a banana palm, it is actually considered a perennial herb. It dies back after each fruiting and produces new growth for the next generation of fruit."
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so how do you get the answers to know if you got them right?