Intelligence Test

[PeteyB]

if you want to check your answers


http://www.chesskit.com/miscellaneous/quiz.php

[NancyJ]

Originally Posted by byRo

q14: quite British (commonwealth);
q24: probably more British;
q31: very very British (commonwealth) - not something your average American would ever know.

Good luck,

Rô

Most british people dont know any more about the commonwealth than anyone else :p

Would be nice if this was international. Not really a test of intelligence since it relies on certain and in some cases, culture specific, knowledge.

[byRo]

Gary, if you want some hints, here a big one....

q28 H B is not Holy Bible

Nancy, it's not knowledge about the commomwealth, it's knowledge in the commonwealth. The sort of things a Brit, Aussie, New Zealander would recognize, but not an American.

The second test is much less biased. I'm 15/24 now and not one is "just for Brits".

Rô

[NancyJ]

technically 14 isnt quite right it should be 15 P in a R U T since there are to types of R each with different numbers of P

[NancyJ]

Not impressed with part 2, no wonder I cant get them

#1 - just wrong there are 7 C in the W, not sure which 2 they're missing out there, aparently it originally said just 5
#3 - massively inaccurate since 206 is widely accepted as the average number of B in a H B, 208 - 214 cant be the range. In reality the range is nearer 200-300 B in an H B (since they're not more specific than that)
#15 isnt technically correct but it is the generally accepted number
#18 - terminology/semantics isnt great since the P is redundant an H is a P, there are no non-P H's
#19 facinating fact but certainly not general knowledge or a well known phrase or saying
#20 depends on the size of the P
#21 thats just getting silly and desperate
#23 - constantly changing, already out of date there are 116 now
#24 no comment.

hope part 3 is better.

[Gary Richardson]

Up to 31 now, 2 to get.

24,28

Cheated and looked up the last 2. Should have got 24, wouldn't have got 28.

[Cameraken]

Originally Posted by NancyJ

hope part 3 is better.

Some questions in part three are just stupid. Part one is the best.

Ken.

[1STLITE]

Very Fun - HOWEVER -

28, 30, 31, 33 - !!!!

I know I know what 33 is but the DM part won't focus in my brain - lol. 28 seems on the tip of my tongue as well, but I swear. About to throw this thing out the window.

Want a good laugh. Have had all but these for probably the past hour, just driving me nuts - and one other. I am thinking of every t on a f I can think of. DUH - I feel stupid!

Still thinking on these last 4 though. UGH!!!

Fun!

[1STLITE]

oh well. i peeked - and glad i did. don't think i would have gotten any to them - except maybe the last one. the DMC part came to me while i was cooking supper - lol. on to part 2!

[Syd]

I still can't get 5 T on a F... I thought I had it when I decided it was 5 tines on a fork but then it didn't fit and I did some research on Wikipedia and found that forks (table forks) usually have 2-4 tines..ha, ha...did anyone else come up other silly answers that didn't fit?

Syd

[chrishoggy]

Well I got them all right, no problems






























I R the A first

[1STLITE]

Syd - I SOOO know what you mean about the T on a F.
That was what I was thinking too. Seriously, if you haven't already gotten it - when you do - well, think Homer Simpson - DOH!! You will not believe that you actually had to TRY for that one.

I was totally overthinking that one. Try not to do that. lol

[Syd]

Thanks Dawn I got it! It had me stumped for a while and then it hit me this morning while I was wiggling them in bed! Now I am still stuck with 9 L of a C! Oh, you won't believe what I have come up with for that one but I have a sneaking suspicion it is just as easy as the last one. I desperately want to peek at the answers but then I know I am going to be disappointed if I find out I should have got them all along, so, for the time being, I am sticking doggedly at it. Thanks for your support!

Sincerely Syd

[1STLITE]

Yeah definitely don't peek for 9 L of a C - definitely at least almost as easy. Took me a while too though.