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Mathematics Magazine for Grades 1-12  

 

8/2004

     

Quick Intelligence Test

1.        If you went to bed at 8 o'clock at night and wound up your clock alarm to get you up at 9 o'clock the next morning, how many hours sleep would you get?

2.        Do they have a 2th of July in England?

3.        How many birth days does the average man have?

4.        If you had only one match and entered a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil heater, and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?

5.        Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?

6.        If a doctor gave you 3 pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last you?

7.        A man builds a house and all four sides have a southern exposure.  A bear wanders by - what color is the bear?

Here are the answers: 

1         One hour of sleep.  Clocks don't have am/pm settings.

2        Yes, and a 3th, a 4th, ...

       1

4         Light the match first.

5        All 12 have 28 days

        One hour

7         White.  The North Pole is the only place where all four sides face south.