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Check Your General Intelligence

To test your general I Q, answer the five questions below.

Try to answer each spontaneously - and then check the answers below.

So here we go ...

[1] You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you then in?

[2] What's your position if you overtake the last position?

[3] Take 1000 and add 40to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30.Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?

[4] Mary's father has five daughters - Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono and (what's the name of the fifth daughter)?

[5] A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By Imitating the action of brushing his teeth, he successfully indicates to the shopkeeper what he wants and the purchase is done. Next a blind person comes into the shop - he wants a pair of sunglasses. How does he indicate this to the shopkeeper?

Answers to questions ...

1. Not the first position - if you overtake the second person, you are the new second placer.
2. Not the second last person - there's no position from which to overtake the last position!
3. The answer is not 5000 - it's 4100. Check with a calculator.
4. Not Nunu. Mary!
5. He asks - he's not mute!

How's your self-esteem going?