IQ Test Three: Questions
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01. Which is the odd one out?
02. Which two of these words are closest in meaning?
crave, assay, impute, examine, appoint, adhere
03. Which is the odd one out?
annihilate, subdue, rout, crush, pulverize
04 Which is the missing section?
5. 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 (5,4) that differ only by the omission of a single letter do the clues beat with/disappoint lead to?
6. A man is playing roulette and starts with a modest value of chips. In the first 10 minutes he gets lucky and doubles the value of chips he starts with, but in the second 10 minutes he loses £20.00 in chips. In the third 10 minutes he again doubles the value of chips he has left but then quickly loses another £20.00. He then gets lucky again and doubles the value of chips he has left, after which he hits another losing streak and loses another £20.00. He then has no chips left. What was the value of chips he started out with?
7. If 9L of a C is nine lives of a cat, can you decode the following phrase?
1 GTDA
8.
9. Presto is to fast as forte is to: loud, smooth, majestically, rigorously, slow
10. What number should replace the question mark?
11. Which of the following is not an anagram of a word beginning with the letter A?
MEAN BILBAO
LAP DANCES
NAME A CLUB
FAIL TRICIA
12. What number should replace the question mark?
13.What comes next?
14. Which two of the following words are most opposite in meaning?
aversion, vitality, potency, inertia, propriety, mercy
15. What number should replace the question mark?
100, 99.5, 98, 95.5, 92, 87.5, ?
16. The following clue leads to what pair of rhyming words?
like the wind from one side to the other
17. What number is two places away from itself plus 2, three places away from itself multiplied by 2, four places away from itself divided by 2, and three places away from itself less 2?
18. Which word, when placed in the brackets, will complete the word on the left and start the word on the right?
SL ( – – – ) HER
19. Insert the numbers 1 to 6 in the circles, 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:
20. Change the position of four of the words in the sentence below so that it then makes complete sense.
In order to view others sympathetically we need to have aspirations with them, their character, perceive and points of empathy.
21. What is pelota?
a) a ball game
b) a fancy bow
c) a dish of prawns
d) a mild breeze
22. Which anagram is not a type of insect?
TEBLEE
AGLEBE
FLYDOG
DIPRES
WRIEAG
23. Rearrange the 12 letters below to spell out two breeds ofdog (six letters each):
ABBEIO ORSSTZ
24. Which is the missing box?
25. What number should replace the question mark?
26. Place the three-letter bits into the correct order to reveal a quotation by Tacitus (55–117 AD).
tur tea lib als giv yis yna ent nim enb ert omu eev
27. Which number is the odd one out?
2772
3663
2970
4275
5841
3564
28. What is rugose?
a) wrinkled
b) reddish
c) disguise
d) disagreeable
29. Which two of these words are most similar in meaning?
fallacious, abject, pestilential, baneful, mendacious, noteworthy
30. Find a word (10) 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: watch out for splinters in your feet.
31. Which two pieces below can be fitted together to form a perfect square?
32. Which is the longest word in the English language that can be produced from the 10 letters below? No letter can be used more than once.
H U T L K E M F A N
33. What number should replace the question mark?
34.
35. What is the opposite of intractable?
a) tameable
b) misdeed
c) baleful
d) vindictive
36. Simplify:
37. Fill in the missing letters to produce the name of a colour:
– – – AMAR – – –
38. Which is the opposite of plethora?
a) scarcity
b) satisfy
c) surfeit
d) copious
39. Which number is the odd one out?
40. Fill in the missing letters to produce the name of a sporting activity:
– – – OBAT – – –
Test Three: Answers
1. E: it contains four white dots, the rest only contain three
2. assay, examine
3. subdue
4. B: looking across, alternate numbers are +2 and +5.
Looking down they are +5, +2.
5. flail/fail
6. £17.50: £17.50 × 2 = £35, less £20 = £15, × 2 = £30 less
£20 = £10, × 2 = £20 less £20 = £0
7. one good turn deserves another
8. B: only lines that appear three times in the same place in the first three figures are carried forward to the final figure
9. loud
10. 11: each adjacent group of three numbers total 23 i.e.
11 + 5 + 7; 6 + 12 + 5
11. LAP DANCES = LANDSCAPE. The A words are ABOMINABLE, AMBULANCE, ARTIFICIAL.
12. 3: the four-figure numbers in each line of the top square are repeated in the bottom square in reverse, except that a different position digit is increased by 1 each time i.e. 5726 becomes 6285, 2132 becomes 2313, 7411 becomes 2147 and 3869 becomes 9783
13. B: the largest segment moves 90° clockwise at each stage, the second largest moves 90° anti-clockwise and the smallest moves 180°
14. vitality, inertia
15. 82: deduct 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5
16. blew through
17. 8
18. ANT: SLANT/ANTHER
19.
20. In order to perceive others sympathetically we need to have empathy with them, their character, aspirations and points of view.
21. a) a ball game
22. AGLEBE = BEAGLE (the others are BEETLE, DOGFLY, SPIDER and EARWIG)
23. BORZOI, BASSET
24. B: looking across and down, only lines (and the circle) that appear in the same position twice in the first two squares are carried forward to the final square
25. 128: in each line add the numbers formed by pairs of alternate digits, i.e. 91 + 37 = 128
26. Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals
27. 4275: the number formed by the first two digits plus the number formed by the second two digits is 99
28. a) wrinkled
29. fallacious, mendacious
30. SANDALWOOD
31.
32. THANKFUL
33. 25: the numbers in the sections at the bottom are the sum of all the numbers in the adjoining triangles at the top
34. E: the arcs appear in the second figure that would complete the circles in the first figure
35. a) tameable
36.
37. AQUAMARINE
38. a) scarcity
39. 3826: the rest are in anagram pairs, i.e. 8674/6847,
2493/3429, 1376/7163, 2197/1927
40. ACROBATICS