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apocalypsosThat Mensa test that's been going around -- I got to 26 of them right before I started trying to look up answers I really should have known already. Not because I'm some sort of mega-genius or anything, but because I've done that test at least a dozen times in puzzle magazines since I was a kid -- maybe not that exact same test, but I did recognize nearly all of them -- not to mention I think I remember doing one in gifted classes when I was a kid. (For the record, I was missing 10, 26, 30, and 31.)
I've spent all day trying to put a dent in my list of fanfics I've got to write, right up until I stopped in mid-sentence and said, "You know, what I could really stand to write is some smut." So now I'm trying to get in the right frame of mind for writing porn. Urgh. I know there's sex music on this mp3 player somewhere.
EDIT: Some answers for that Mensa test in the comments, so avoid if you still want to do the test.
I've spent all day trying to put a dent in my list of fanfics I've got to write, right up until I stopped in mid-sentence and said, "You know, what I could really stand to write is some smut." So now I'm trying to get in the right frame of mind for writing porn. Urgh. I know there's sex music on this mp3 player somewhere.
EDIT: Some answers for that Mensa test in the comments, so avoid if you still want to do the test.
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Date: 2006-01-22 02:36 am (UTC)Back to the puzzling :)
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Date: 2006-01-22 02:46 am (UTC)Did some of those have something to do with measurements? I had a hard time with a couple and I'm wondering if I just wasnt' familiar with what they were referencing.
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Date: 2006-01-22 02:50 am (UTC)I don't think there were that many measurements on there, other than time. Which ones were you having trouble with?
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Date: 2006-01-22 03:37 am (UTC)6. 52 cards in a pack (without jokers)
7. 13 stripes in the U.S. flag
12. 3 blind mice (see how they run)
17. 11 players in a football (soccer) team
28. 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human body
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Date: 2006-01-22 03:53 am (UTC)Well I never would have gotten THAT. Nor 17. I should have gotten the others though. I can see why people would have issues with that test being culturally biased though. I remember doing one like it as a test for gifted once though, but it was more...general.
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Date: 2006-01-22 03:53 am (UTC)That said: 14, 19, 20 and 33 are all driving me crazy.
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Date: 2006-01-22 04:01 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-22 04:06 am (UTC)14. 15 players in a rugby team
19. 13 is unlucky for some
20. 8 tentacles on an octopus
33. 15 men on a dead man's chest
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Date: 2006-01-22 04:08 am (UTC)however, there's no way I would have gotten 14.
20 on the other hand? I should have known.
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Date: 2006-01-22 04:21 am (UTC)Because I remembered that these things ALWAYS had a cricket question that stumped us when I did them in school.
I did have to check on wikipedia for the right terminology though. An over?? *shakes head*
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