Answers to Mensa Test #1

1. time
2. three

3. c (made up only of straight lines)
4. b

5. 207 (multiply the difference between the two preceding terms by 3, then add the result to the last term)
6. b (Not a, where the depth is out of proportion to that in the parallelepiped)

7. d
8. 720 (M = 2, E = 3, N = 4, S = 5, A =6)

9. firm
10. d (the big angle rotates 90 degrees in each successive square, while the number of liines in the other figure keeps increasing by one)

11. T (Alphabetical distance between successive letters keeps increasing by 1)
12. c

13. c (Nothing is missing from, or added to, any of the four groupings, as is the case with the other choices)
14. c (leader, follower)

15. 19 (the rule is addition)
16. partner

17. b (Alternation of slant direction reuires that the answer slope from upper left to lower right; alternation of closed figures with open lines requires that the answer be a closed figure)
18. d (Remember that the first 7 dancers are still dancing)

19. 24 (3² = 9; 9 x 2 = 18; 2³ = 8; 8 x 3 = 24)
20 16 (Pizza begins with P, the sixteenth letter of the alphabet)

21. d (Yellow -- In pigments, yellow is contained in both green and orange)
22. e

23. b (Imagine that one dot is fixed and the other rotates clockwise)
24. a (Stone -- all the other objects are man-made)

25. news (or sewn or wens. The code was North, South, West, East, i.e., N, S, W, E)
26. c (W, M, I are obtained from T, X, H by moving forward 3, 15, 1 letters in alphabetical direction, going from Z to A where necessary. The same distances separate C, G, Q and F, V, R)