[TAG] [OT]Intelligence test for fluent-in-English crowd(not me, apparently)

Breen Mullins bpm at idiom.com
Wed Feb 8 00:21:42 MSK 2006


On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:14:11PM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> 
> At least it says "if you excuse the cultural bias". I'll bet you didn't 
> get 3 B M (S H T R): 3 blind mice (see how they run). "39 B of the O T" 
> nearly eluded me, as I was raised to consider there to be 45, not 39 :)

Cultural bias indeed. I don't think many on this side of the pond
would have got 6 B to an O in C. (I did but I'm eccentric...)

I noticed the O T ambiguity, too.
> 
> Oh... 25/33 :)
30/33 here. 

Quizzes like this have been around for quite a while - I first saw
one about 25 years ago in Games Magazine - it even had some of the 
same questions.

Breen
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Breen Mullins
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