Quiz test

Wisdom is the ability to quickly find the right solutions for different tasks. This feature in yourself can be developed by constantly training the mind with appropriate tasks. The more decisions you find, the more you develop this feature. In order to determine your current score, you can pass a test for ingenuity.

Quiz test

Specialists have developed a large number of psychological tests for ingenuity. We suggest to address to the popular American variant which offer to entrants at the Californian university. The main condition is to answer, not consulting with anyone. Record all your answers on the sheet, indicating their serial number.

  1. The professor went to bed at 8 pm and set the alarm at 9 o'clock in the morning. How long will he sleep?
  2. Can a man marry his own widow's sister?
  3. Is there in Australia on November 7?
  4. Mamed has ten sheep. All but nine were dead. How Mamed has the sheep left?
  5. You are a pilot of an airplane flying from Havana to Moscow with two transplants in Algeria. How old is the pilot?
  6. Almost every month ends with either the 30th or the 31st number. In what month is the 28th?
  7. You go into a dark unfamiliar room. In it - two lamps, one gas and one gasoline. What will you ignite in the first place?
  8. One train goes from Moscow to Ekaterinburg, and the other - from Ekaterinburg to Moscow. They came out simultaneously, but the first developed a speed 3 times more than the second. When will they meet, which one will be further from Moscow?
  9. The father and his son got into an accident, and the father died in the hospital. A surgeon came to his son's room and said, pointing to him: "This is my son." Can the surgeon's words be true?
  10. Archaeologists have found a coin on which the date "35th year BC" is indicated. Is it possible?
  11. How many cuts do you need to cut one stick into 12 pieces?
  12. It's no secret that there are 10 fingers on the hands. How many fingers are there on 10 hands?
  13. How many Biblical hero Noah took into his ark of beasts?
  14. The patient was prescribed to put three injections, one every half hour. How long does it take to get all the injections?
  15. How many 9 digits in a row of numbers from one to hundreds?
  16. A lone watchman died at night. Will they give him a pension?
  17. There were 7 candles in the room. Soon 3 of them died out. How many candles are left?
  18. The brick weighs 1 kg plus half a brick. How much does the brick weigh?
  19. Under which bush does the hare sit during the rain?

Compare your answers to this list, and charge yourself 1 point for each WRONG response.

  1. 1 hour.
  2. No, because the widow is the one whose husband died.
  3. Yes.
  4. 9.
  5. You - the pilot, then so many years as you.
  6. In all.
  7. Match / lighters.
  8. Equally.
  9. Yes, the surgeon is his mother.
  10. No.
  11. eleven.
  12. 50.
  13. Each creature in pairs.
  14. 1 hour.
  15. 20
  16. No.
  17. 3, the rest burned.
  18. 1 kg.
  19. Under the wet.

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