IQ Test One: Questions
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1. Which section is missing?
2. Which word is most opposite in meaning to dreary?
practical, joyful, interested, alert, vivid
3. What number should replace the question mark?
52, 25, 77, 77, ? , 451, 605
4. Which of the following is not an anagram of an ocean or sea?
CAR INTACT
HAY SALAMI
ACID RITA
ARABIC BEN
5. Which is the odd one out?
leveret, foal, calf, buck, joey
6. What number should replace the question mark?
15, 30, 45, 90, 135, 270, ?
7. The clues seed/smile lead to two words (5,4) that differ only by the omission of a single letter: grain/grin. Which two words (6,5) that differ only by the omission of a single letter do the clues bowl-shaped cavity/provide food lead to?
8. Which is the missing tile?
9. Semibreve is to whole as crotchet is to which of: eighth, sixteenth, quarter, half, double?
10. What number should replace the question mark?
11. The following clue leads to what pair of rhyming words (4, 7 letters)?
every cry
12. Which of the following is the missing section?
13. Start at one of the corner squares and spiral clockwise round the perimeter, finishing at the centre square to spell out a nine-letter word. You must provide the missing letters.
14. Which is the odd one out?
15. GIANT WEB is an anagram of which two words that are similar in meaning?
16. You have four weights of 1 g, 2 g, 3 g, 4 g. Place these weights into the pans, one per pan, so that the scales balance.
17. Which word, when placed in the brackets, will complete the word on the left and start the word on the right?
SC ( – – – ) LE
18. Insert the numbers 2 to 6 in the circles (1 is already placed) so that for any particular circle the sum of the numbers in the circles connected directly to it equals the value corresponding to the number in that circle, as given in the list. Example:
19. MNOP is to TSRQ as EFGH is to ?
20. Change the position of four of the words in the sentence below so that it makes complete sense.
Great is something most of us achieve for in our lives and many of us will go to long lengths to control it.
21. Fill in the missing letters to find a profession.
– – – CKLA – – –
22. Make a six-letter word from these four letters:
I V Y F
23. Which is the missing box?
24. Find an antonym for extol from:
applause, denigrate, assuage, mien
25. Find a word which when placed on the end of the first word and the start of the second makes two new words or phrases:
MASTER (– – – – –) ROOM
26. Find the two words that are closest in meaning:
tranquil, placid, tremor, transgress, tacit, aptitude
27. What is a merle?
a) blackbird
b) boat
c) tunnel
d) beach
28. What number comes next?
482, 693, 714, 826, 937, ?
29. Find two words (8, 5) in this diagram. Letters are traced across the circle by chords. If the next letter is four letters or less away it will be found by tracing around the circumference. Clue: keep it away from electricity.
30. What number should replace the question mark?
31. Fill in the missing letters to produce a mathematical term. Clue: shape.
– – – MB – – –
32. Fill in the missing letters to produce the names of fish:
BA – – A C – – A
– AR – – C – U – A
33. What is urbane?
a) civil
b) outlying
c) unruly
d) make amends
34. When this shape is folded to form a cube, which is the only one of the following that can be produced?
35. Fill in the missing letters to produce two words which are building terms:
PO – TC – L L – –
36. Glance, namely, emboss, ? , ejects. Which of these words is missing?
abhors, object, celery, socket, tripod
37. Simplify + 6 – 22 × 3 – 8
38. Find a word which makes two more words when added at the end of the first word and the start of the second word.
CAN ( – – – ) SURE
EM – – NK – – NT
39. Which circle is missing?
40. What number should replace the question mark?
Test One: Answers
1. C: added together, opposite segments contain six empty circles and three with a stripe
2. joyful
3. 154: reverse the previous number and add; for example
52 reversed is 25, and 52 + 25 = 77
4. HAY SALAMI = HIMALAYAS. The oceans and seas are ANTARCTIC, ADRIATIC, CARIBBEAN.
5. buck: it is a male animal. The others are all names of young animals.
6. 405: multiply by 2 and 1.5 alternately
7. crater/cater
8. F: looking across and down only same-coloured dots in the same position in the first two squares are carried forward to the end square, but they change from black to white and vice versa
9. quarter
10. 10: start at 1 and working clockwise, jump one segment adding 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
11. each screech
12. A: looking across and down each number is the sum of the previous two numbers
13. reinforce
14. B: A is the same as F rotated, C is the same as G and E is the same as D
15. gnaw, bite
16.
17. amp, to produce scamp and ample
18.
19. LKJI: LKJI follows EFGH in the alphabet, but in reverse order
20. Control is something most of us long for in our lives, and many of us will go to great lengths to achieve it.
21. BRICKLAYER
22. VIVIFY
23. E: the lines within the large square are drawn top, bottom, middle left and middle bottom
24. denigrate
25. CLASS: MASTERCLASS/CLASSROOM
26. tranquil, placid
27. a) blackbird
28. 148: the numbers 48269371 are being repeated in the same sequence
29. MAGNETIC POLES
30. 9: looking across, lines containing 1 number total 7, lines of 2 numbers total 14, lines of 3 numbers total 21 and lines of 4 numbers total 28
31. RHOMBOID
32. BARRACUDA
BARRACOUTA
33. a) civil
34. C
35. PORTCULLIS, EMBANKMENT
36. object: each word starts with the middle two letters of the previous word in reverse
37. + 6 – (22 × 3) – 8 = + 6 – 66 – 8 = –68
38. TON: CANTON/TONSURE
39. D: each circle has an identical pairing, albeit rotated
40. 3: (3 × 9) – (6 × 4)