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About This Quiz
Hey there brainiac - or are you? An IQ may not be the only measure of how smart you are, but it's useful to measure one kind of intelligence. What's your IQ range?
Do you instinctively know what angle to place a ladder against a wall?
Yes, exactly 75 degrees
Yes, around 75 degrees
Yes, between 60 and 80 degrees
Trick question: all ladders are different.
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What does Pi actually mean?
It's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and I know it in radians too.
It's the ratio of a circle.
It's how you calculate the area of a circle.
It's math, you guys.
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What is the Fibonacci sequence?
It's when you add the previous two terms to get the next one and it's progressively closer to the Golden Mean.
It's when you add two things to get another, then add the last one to get the next one, and so on.
It's an Italian dish.
It's Elton John's new tour.
If you roll a dice 100 times, how many heads will you get?
Trick question: a dice does not have heads, and if there's only one, it's a die, not "a dice."
One, when I bang my head on the table after realizing I did the first ten rolls before realizing there is no heads.
Oooh, I know this! 50!
Either 100 or 0, depending on the dice.
Cut a brand new deck of cards perfectly in half. How many cards are in each half?
28 because of the jokers
26 because of the suits
104 because of the pairing
52 because I sliced it literally
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Be honest: how good are you at parallel parking?
I'm excellent.
I'm very good.
I'm OK.
It's a miracle I have never killed anyone.
Do you find some people just painfully stupid?
Only EVERYONE
Only the actually stupid
Only the stupid AND mean
No, most people aren't that dumb, are they?
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What type of TV do you like most?
Documentaries and interesting dramas with good plots
Comedy
Action
Reality
What newspaper would you read to hear from right and left?
The WSJ and the Independent
The Telegraph and the Guardian
The Express and the Huffington Post
The Daily Mail and the Socialist Worker
How young did you become a good speller?
As a toddler
In elementary school
In middle school
I'm not really a good speller.
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Did you ever get bored in school because it was too easy?
All the time
Sometimes
Once in a while
No, I wish.
Why are there tides?
Because of the gravity and rotation of the moon acting on the water
Because of the moon's gravity
Because the Earth and moon move
Because the ocean is all wobbly so sometimes it goes up and sometimes down
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Why is the sky blue?
Because light from the sun hits the atmosphere at an angle and scatters like a prism, with blue, the middle of the spectrum, appearing as the dominant color
Because of the angle the sun's light enters
Because that is how the human eye perceives visible sunlight
Because it is reflecting the sea
How many sides does a dodecahedron have?
Trick question: it has faces.
12
10
Two. It is also a relative of the diplodocus.
Which is correct: the yolk of an egg are white, or the yolk of an egg is white?
Trick question: the yolk is yellow.
Trick phrasing: the egg yolk is white.
The yolk of an egg is white.
I don't know!
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How often do you read a book cover to cover?
More than once a week
Weekly
At least monthly
When I have to for work
If you were driving your car and it started feeling like it wanted to drift slightly left, what is the simplest explanation?
The car is fine and I'm leaning slightly that way.
One of the left tires has low pressure.
The axle is out of alignment.
It listened to Bernie Sanders.
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How do you snap a breadstick into three parts with only one motion?
One hand on each end, pinch with fingers and thumbs, and push both hands forward simultaneously
Hand around the middle and press top and bottom of your fist
Put one end on the table and press vertically downward
Trick question: it actually can't be done.
If a person is frugal, what does that tell you?
They're thrifty, possibly cheap.
They don't spend much.
They don't over-indulge.
They're mean.
Onyx is to black as malachite is to what?
Green
Blue
White
Trick question: there is no such thing as malachite.
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How's your attention span?
I can go for hours and forget to eat.
I can go for a few hours.
About an hour
What was the question again?
Are you good at hiding your intelligence when you have to?
Nope
I can if I must.
Yes, it's only polite sometimes.
No, why would I need to do that?
How good are you at Tetris?
I can play right hand against left on the top level, indefinitely.
I can play to a high level pretty much indefinitely.
I do OK I guess.
I'm fine if I use the shadow piece and the "next" predictor.
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