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Title: Match Wits With Mensa: The Complete Quiz Book by Marvin Grosswirth, Mensa, Abbie F. Salny, Alan Stillson, American Mensa Limited, Members of American Mensa Ltd ISBN: 0-7382-0250-9 Publisher: Perseus Book Group Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Entertaining Challenge
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: The ONLY Mensa Quiz book worth having
Comment: 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!
Rating: 3
Summary: if it was not for one gem...
Comment: 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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Title: The Mensa Genius Quiz-A-Day Book by Abbie F., Dr. Salny, Members of Mensa ISBN: 0201135493 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mensa How To Excel At Iq Tests by Carlton Books ISBN: 1842226851 Publisher: Carlton Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Mensa Mind Busters by Philip Carter, Ken Russell, John Bremner, Kenneth A. Russell, Phillip Carter ISBN: 1571458824 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.98 |
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Title: The Mensa Genius A-B-C Quiz Book by Alan Stillson, Ltd the Members of American Mensa, Members of American Mensa Ltd ISBN: 0201311356 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Succeed at I.Q. Tests by Gilles Azzopardi ISBN: 0572019483 Publisher: Foulsham & Co Ltd Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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