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Summary: Great questions
Review: I brought this Mensa book with me when my family went sailing, and it was a big hit with all. It is great even for children, if they have adults helping them along with the questions. Being a kid myself, I found the a-b-c quizzes hte easiest and most fun, because it wasn't pure over-stuffed-brain-knowledge and way-above-my-head common sense. Even with those questions, though, I found the book very enjoyable and would recommend it to any and all people who are looking for a good challenge.
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Summary: The ONLY Mensa Quiz book worth having
Review: I can honestly say that I have never seen a Mensa book that so accurately reflected the challenges of being truly intellegent as this quiz book. I'm sorry that some of the other reviewers found the questions trival or inconsequential. However, I've found the book to be a lot of fun, and my husband-- a radio personality-- uses questions from it on the air constantly with great response.I think it's a winner!
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Summary: What'sThe Big Deal?
Review: I don't get the whole MENSA sponsored puzzle book thing. These books, and particularly this one, are just plain bad. Doesn't MENSA have any better puzzle writers than the ones currently writing? Isn't Terry Stickels a member of MENSA? Now his puzzle books have something to offer. Anyway, MENSA, you can do better.
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Summary: What'sThe Big Deal?
Review: I don't get the whole MENSA sponsored puzzle book thing. These books, and particularly this one, are just plain bad. Doesn't MENSA have any better puzzle writers than the ones currently writing? Isn't Terry Stickels a member of MENSA? Now his puzzle books have something to offer. Anyway, MENSA, you can do better.
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Summary: This book inspired me to join Mensa
Review: I enjoy puzzles and brainteasers and have been told by many I'm bright but I wasn't sure if I had what it takes to get into Mensa. The best way I thought was to by this book and see how I really stood compared to members of Mensa. It turns out that overall I was doing comparable to the Mensans and in some instances outscoring them. After that I decided I should go and take the Mensa test. I did and I passed. This book has numerous questions dealing with trivia, vocabulary, math, and logic. For each question it lists the percentage of Mensans that got it wrong. For several questions this is a surprisingly high number. I found that I was able to keep up with or even outdo the Mensans in all of the areas except for the Trivia. Those were pretty tough. I've never done well at Trivial Pursuit or Jeopardy but I learned alot of new information in the process.
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Summary: This book inspired me to join Mensa
Review: I enjoy puzzles and brainteasers and have been told by many I'm bright but I wasn't sure if I had what it takes to get into Mensa. The best way I thought was to by this book and see how I really stood compared to members of Mensa. It turns out that overall I was doing comparable to the Mensans and in some instances outscoring them. After that I decided I should go and take the Mensa test. I did and I passed. This book has numerous questions dealing with trivia, vocabulary, math, and logic. For each question it lists the percentage of Mensans that got it wrong. For several questions this is a surprisingly high number. I found that I was able to keep up with or even outdo the Mensans in all of the areas except for the Trivia. Those were pretty tough. I've never done well at Trivial Pursuit or Jeopardy but I learned alot of new information in the process.
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Summary: this book sed I is smart
Review: I is smart at puzzles. I could do them good. My frend who wurks with me at Burgur King said I should be in Mensa because I am extra intelidgent. I said okay Larry I will bye this book to see if I could do the puzuls. The guys at the drive threw window laffed at me but Mom said I is a jenyus. I got the book. I tried to do puzuls and I could do them. Now I is smart ha ha ha drive threw guys. I am going now, time to watch A-Team rerunds.
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Summary: The answer is "3"
Review: If you only turn two transactions, the answer is three, not 7. I didn't read the book, so I do not know how the question was asked, but the way the poster wrote it only shows two transactions, and therefore the answer is 3 Horses.
**of 3 horses
One half = 1.5 plus a half = 2 (one horse remaining). Half of that horse plus a half equals 1 horse. So 3 horses in total.
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Summary: An Entertaining Challenge
Review: If you want a challenge, 'Match Wits With Mensa' is the book. Filled with baffling, beguiling and brain-bursting puzzles, it will amaze, frustrate, inspire and delight. The puzzles are presented within specific categories, and although some solutions might appear obvious, don't jump in too quickly. To illustrate the book's scope and level of difficulty, following are a few examples. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: True or False.
1) A 'stake-out' is the annual barbecue organized by the detectives within the Remedial Spelling Squad. _______ 2) The largest canal in Europe is Pavarotti's Alimentary. _______ 3) Chicken Cacciatore is always the last guy in the Italian Sky Diving Team to jump. _______ LATERAL THINKING: Circle the odd one out.
1) General, Parental Guidance, Restricted, X.
ANSWER: X. It's not a movie classification. It's how Britney Spears signs her autograph. 2) pullover, boot, belt, buckle.
ANSWER: Buckle. That's what Bill Clinton did under the pressure. The other words describe what LA Highway Patrolmen do to black motorists by the side of the road. 3) Franz Kafka, Henry Miller, Simone de Beauvoir, Alexei Tolstoy.
ANSWER: Henry Miller. He's the only one of the four writers whose stuff has never been translated into English. 4) 12, 13, 14, 15.
ANSWER: 13. 12, 14 and 15 are composite numbers. 13 is the IQ of your average talk show host. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: True or False.
1) Having just been struck on the head by a falling apple, it was Sir Isaac Newton who said in a moment of brilliant scientific insight, "Of course! That's it! I'll call it gr... gra... granny smith!" _______ 2) In 1912, while vigorously arguing that repressed feelings played no part in any notion of The Unconscious, Sigmund Freud said to his rival, Alfred Adler, "Listen, Addled... whoops, pardon the slip. Well, there goes THAT little theory." _______ 3) It was Captain Smith of the 'Titanic' who said to his radio operator, "You're starting to bug me, Sparks. For the last time, the only ice around here is in the navigator's drink." _______ SHOW BUSINESS: Spot the mistake in these well known show business stories.
1) After three years locked away in her study, Bo Derek has recently completed a kiss-and-tell book about her life as an actress in Hollywood. "It was hard work," she said, "but now that I've done it, I might even think about reading another one."
MISTAKE: Bo Derek is not an actress. 2) In July, 1991, following one of her more 'explicit' concerts, Madonna was charged with performing an act of gross indecency with a hand-held microphone by singing into it.
MISTAKE: The word 'concerts' is ludicrously over-generous. ENGLISH USAGE: True or False.
1) A 'Simple Sentence' is not as good as an acquittal. _______ 2) A 'Double Negative' nets a blackmailer twice the amount. _______ 'Match Wits With Mensa' requires an average understanding of the English language and a moderate ability to reason. I guess that explains why the copy I sent to Jim Carrey is still in the envelope.
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Summary: if it was not for one gem...
Review: ok, i went through the whole book...i never really tested my iq...this was a total let-down...most of the questions are just childish forms of trick questions (how far does a dog run into the woods? halfway. from there the dog is running out of the woods...whaaaaaaat?).
there is one gem and if you can't get this one, maybe you should buy the book: a horse merchant goes to a fair to sell his horses. he sells half of his horses to his first client and adds half a horse as a bonus. then he sells half of the horses he has left to the second client and, you got it, adds another half a horse for good measure. to the last client, he sells half of the horses he has left and then adds half a horse. all clients got full horses (nobody had to drag half a carcass away). how many horses did the horse merchant sell that day?
my god, it seems soooooo simple now but it did take me ten whole minutes to get this one.
but honestly, this is probably the only gem in this book so unless if you are totally bored and like asking trick questions to little kids...buy yourself a good meal instead!
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