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

Frank Rodolf linux at rodolf.com
Wed Feb 8 10:32:48 MSK 2006


On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 13:21 -0800, Breen Mullins wrote:
> 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...)

LOL - I guess you are in a minority indeed with that answer, in North
America. :)

The one that took me longest was "9 P in S A" - I was never taught that
fact in school. :)

> I noticed the O T ambiguity, too.

The only reason I got that one, was cause it said "66 B of the B". 

> > 
> > Oh... 25/33 :)
> 30/33 here. 

Almost ashamed... 33/33

My love for trivia quizzes and such helped, I guess.

Grtz,

Frodo





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