mensa-test pt2

January 27, 2006 5:22 PM

Lord, forgive me but here is Part 2 of the phoney Mensa-Test.
posted by snsranch (38 comments total)

101 D?

I mean what the fuck. There are plenty of bright people on five continents who won't get this cultural reference.
posted by orthogonality at 5:37 PM on January 27, 2006

6TDARH2EATCTTTWNCB = 6 times DevilsAdvocate rolled his 2 eyes at the claim that this test was not culturally biased

(and that's just of the 12 I got fairly quickly).

On preview, what orthogonality said.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 5:46 PM on January 27, 2006

Not culturally biased if you're in the American mainstream.

(Metafilter: there is no cultural bias this time?)
posted by grobstein at 5:47 PM on January 27, 2006

Um orthogonality, that's the fun of it. Some of the questions are really easy, others are completely non-sensical. All are pretty damn stupid.

And I say this as someone who has read about the test.
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 5:48 PM on January 27, 2006

Fool me once...
posted by furtive at 5:52 PM on January 27, 2006

(i.e., I'm not saying that I have the definitive answers. It's meant to frustrate the fcuk out of you. )
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 5:56 PM on January 27, 2006

What do you mean biased? There are 191 United Nations Member States, aren't there?

Fun.
posted by aladfar at 6:14 PM on January 27, 2006

Fun.

Not as much fun as the last time, yet fun.
posted by caddis at 6:22 PM on January 27, 2006

YES I AM GENIOS
posted by ori at 6:28 PM on January 27, 2006

gesamtkunstwerk writes "Um orthogonality, that's the fun of it. "


Yeah, I'm not good at having fun. "Fun" has always seemed pointless to me.
posted by orthogonality at 6:34 PM on January 27, 2006

8 L on a S

I say '8 limbs on a squid' works just fine.
posted by dgaicun at 6:37 PM on January 27, 2006

Hmm.

100 S O A M F P!
posted by eriko at 6:43 PM on January 27, 2006

B of the W!
posted by fungible at 6:45 PM on January 27, 2006

This one seems a lot easier than the first one (at least from a mainstream American perspective).
posted by feathermeat at 6:51 PM on January 27, 2006

21 P B A B A O!
posted by davejay at 6:55 PM on January 27, 2006

er, I G 21 P B A B A O
posted by davejay at 6:56 PM on January 27, 2006

Also:

MF: I S 8 L O A S W J F
posted by davejay at 6:58 PM on January 27, 2006

Pft. I only got 15/24, then I tried Googling one and accidentally found all the answers. Some of the ones I didn't find were things I knew but would NEVER have thought of (like 6 S W M) and others are things I felt embarrassed not knowing, but then I realized I have never EVER had to memorize "208 to 214 B in a H B" , and even with a M.Sc. in chemistry, I NEVER memorized "115 K C E".
That is not "common knowledge".
posted by easternblot at 7:17 PM on January 27, 2006

I got 17. Maybe 18, if aladfar didn't give one away ahead of time. T A L, D.
posted by dgaicun at 7:37 PM on January 27, 2006

And kudos to anybody that can figure out 19 & 24. J H C.
posted by dgaicun at 7:39 PM on January 27, 2006

FTS
posted by redteam at 8:05 PM on January 27, 2006

E W H 7 S S E S H 7 C E C H 7 K
posted by ed at 9:57 PM on January 27, 2006

Yeah, but, googling some of these things, comes up with some odd stuff. The first two things came up with surveillance satellites, and then there is this one...



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I have to take the test tomorrow, my neurons are through for this day.
posted by Oyéah at 10:15 PM on January 27, 2006

IFNNENRG
posted by longsleeves at 10:59 PM on January 27, 2006

IFNNENRG
Do you need some help getting that duct tape off? Purse your lips, this is gonna hurt.
posted by Oyéah at 11:03 PM on January 27, 2006

?
posted by longsleeves at 11:09 PM on January 27, 2006

I'm not good at having fun. "Fun" has always seemed pointless to me.

I must not have fun. Fun is the time-killer. Fun is for inferiors, servants and the help. I will ignore fun. I will work through it. And when the fun is gone only I will remain--I, and my will to win. Damn, I'm good.
--The Litany Against Fun

posted by Aknaton at 11:16 PM on January 27, 2006

For #13 I put 101 Dalmations, didn't work, oh well.....Shouldn't there be a time limit, I mean anyone can figure these out given enough time...
posted by highgene at 11:30 PM on January 27, 2006

101 D?

I mean what the fuck.

I know. It's like they never played Dungeons and Dragons. D101, not 101 D. Jeee-zus. Even my mom knows that.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:38 PM on January 27, 2006

For #13 I put 101 Dalmations, didn't work, oh well

Dalmatians
posted by dgaicun at 12:06 AM on January 28, 2006

dgaicun: Squid have ten limbs, no?
posted by edd at 1:04 AM on January 28, 2006

Not in the world of folk biology where humans evolved from monkeys, whales are big fish, and squid=octopi.

mmm. . . octopie
posted by dgaicun at 2:01 AM on January 28, 2006

Aknaton writes "The Litany Against Fun"

We're not supposed to talk about it outside the Sisterhood.
posted by orthogonality at 2:03 AM on January 28, 2006

15 the first time through. I'm a little upset that it won't take "1 7 sided head in the world", but that may be the liquor talking.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:01 AM on January 28, 2006

"208 to 214 bristles in a hair brush"... but apparently not! I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SMART!
posted by teletype1 at 6:50 AM on January 28, 2006

"208 to 214 bristles in a hair brush"... but apparently not! I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SMART! posted by teletype1[!]

Bones in a human body
posted by BlueMetal at 10:16 AM on January 28, 2006

Im stumped on 19, 20 and 23. I actualy got the rest without googling.
posted by skrike at 1:12 PM on January 28, 2006

Second time through I got all but the aforementioned 1 7 S H in the W, which I am steadfastly refusing to accept as anything other than my previous answer.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:02 PM on January 28, 2006