Mensa is a social organization in which people who meet certain intellectual standards (as determined by tests like this one) gather and correspond to exchange ideas and match wits.   The test presented here is typical of actual Mensa admission tests, and was created for Games magazine by Dr. Abbie Salny, advisory psychologist for both American and International Mensa.

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1. Some collywobbles are geniunes.
    All geniunes have six legs.
    Therefore which of the following must be true?
      (a) All collywobbles have six legs.
      (b) All geniunes are collywobbles.
      (c) Some collywobbles have six legs.
      (d) It can not be determined whether any of the above are true.

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2. Insert the same four-letter word in both sets of blanks to make two words.
      D O _ _ _ _
            _ _ _ _ T A I N

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3. Complete the series in the top row of figures with one of the lettered diagrams in the bottom row.
     

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4. Pick the numbers that most reasonably come next in the following series:
      2   8   3   7   5   6   8   5   __   __
      (a)     8   6
      (b)   11   4
      (c)   12   4
      (d)   12   6

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5. Find a word that in one sense means the same as the phrase on the left
      and in another sense means the same as the word on the right
      RUN AWAY   ____________   FASTENING

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6. In this analogy,
     

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7. Meg is younger than Beth.
    Amy is older than Meg.
    Jo is older than Amy.

    Therefore (choose one):
      (a) Amy is older than Beth.
      (b) Beth is older than Amy.
      (c) Meg is older than Jo.
      (d) Jo is older than Meg.

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8. Complete the analogy by entering a seven letter word ending in m:
      Star is to constellation as petal is to _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

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9. Which of the figures below can be obtained by rotating the figure at far right?
     

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10. What number, multiplied by 3, is three-fourths of 120?

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11. Insert the same three-letter word in both sets of blanks below to make two sets of new words each.
      (Example: Inserting the word ACT in F _ _ _ R E S S   and in   TR _ _ _ UAL
        makes FACT, ACTRESS, TRACT, and ACTUAL.
        P L _ _ _ L E R        GR _ _ _ I Q U E

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12. Alarming is to marginal as enraged is to
      (a) angered
      (b) dormant
      (c) caustic
      (d) belligerent

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13. In this analogy,
     

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14. If   I   III   V   = SAT, and   IV   III   VI = RAY, and   VI   III   II = YAM,
      then what is   I   II   III   IV   V ?

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15. Jim has as many sisters as he has brothers,
      but his sister has twice as many brothers as she has sisters.
      How many boys and how many girls are there in the family?

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16. All winkles are franchies.
      All franchies are light blue.
      Some franchies are hornswoggles.

      Therefore (choose one):
        (a) All winkles are light blue.
        (b) All hornswoggles are winkles.
        (c) Neither (a) nor (b) is true.
        (d) Both (a) and (b) are true.

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17. The numbers in the square at left, below, have been placed following a certain
      mathematical rule.   If the numbers in the square at the right
      were placed following the same rule, what is the missing number?
     

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18. In this analogy,
     

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19. Think of a wooden cube measuring three inches on each side.  
      Imagine painting it red all over -- on the exposed surfaces.  
      If you now cut the cube into one-inch cubelets (there will be 27 of them),
      how many will have paint on exactly two faces?

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20. Capitalism is to entrepreneur as feudalism is to
      (a) horse
      (b) serf
      (c) lord
      (d) fief

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21. Which set of letters logically comes next in the following series?
              Z   Y   X   U   V   W   T   S   R   _   _   _
      (a)   O   P   Q
      (b)   P   O   Q
      (c)   O   Q   N
      (d)   N   O   Q

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22. There are four houses in a row along a deadend street.
      The Wilsons live next to the Joneses but not next to the Ronsons.
      The Browns do not live next to the Ronsons.

      Who are the Ronsons' next door neighbors?
        (a) the Wilsons.
        (b) the Joneses.
        (c) the Wilsons and the Jones.
        (d) It cannot be determined from the information given.

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23. Sally types 50 characters in 10 seconds.
      Jane can type only 40 in the same time.
      Working together, how long will it take them to type 360 characters?

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24. Below are three views of the same cube.
      Which of the four lettered patterns is opposite the blank white face of the third cube?
     

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25. The number of dresses owned by Susan is the same number owned by Tess divided by the number owned by Jane.
      Tess has 42 dresses and would own eight times as many as Jane if Tess had 14 more.
      How many dresses does Susan have?

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26. In this analogy,
     

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27. You buy an elephant for $5,500.
      A traveling circus buys it from you for $5,500.
      After the season, they sell it back to you for $5,000,
      and you sell it to a zoo for $6,000.
      How much money have you made or lost on this transaction?

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28. What is the price of the last item below?
      Leather   $3.00
      Linen       $9.00
      Sateen     $10.00
      Worsted $_____

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29. If A + B = 18, and A x B = 72, then A2 + B2 =
        (a) 144
        (b) 160
        (c) 180
        (d) 252

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30. Below are four views of the same alphabet block,
      which has a different letter on each of its six faces.
      What is the missing letter in view d?      

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31. "You can't judge a book by its cover" is closest in meaning to which of the following?
      (a) People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
      (b) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
      (c) Where there's smoke, there's fire.
      (d) All that glitters is not gold.

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32. A man bets $30 and wins back his original wager plus $60.
      He spends one-third of his new total on a present for his wife,
      $10 for taxi fare home, and 10% of what is left to tip the driver.
      How much does he have when he gets home?

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33. Which of the figures can be obtained by reversing and rotating the figure at right?
     

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