# Intelligence test (as if!!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866 "2001-01-13T16:21:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/21 "2001-01-21T21:51:02Z")
Possible reply to 104: Does North Carolina allow people to execute their assailants? I’m not sure however about the use of murder rather than kill. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/22 "2001-01-21T22:02:46Z")
102A. On the way to work, the man is listening to the radio. The deejay calls his house as a prank call, and male voice answers the phone on the air. Man drives home, confronts his wife’s lover and shoots the wife for being unfaithful. (Lover may have escaped or may have also been shot.) 102B. Man is driving to work and is checking his messages on the cellular phone, not realizing he had picked up his wife’s phone. Her lover had left an explicit message (either regarding an upcoming tryst or possibly arranging her divorce proceedings) for her. Man drives home and shoots his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/23 "2001-01-21T22:09:19Z")
1. Son 2. 3 3. Normal 4. White 5. 20 6. 40360 7. There is less water in the first can than milk in the second can 8. Thursday 9. Epiminides is a Liar 10. Indeterminable ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Isabella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Queen\_Isabella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Isabella)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/24 "2001-01-22T04:40:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*Here’s mine: > > 1. son > 2. 3 > 3. normal > 4. brown > 5. 20 > 6. 40359 > 7. There is less water in the first can than milk in the second can. > 8. Thursday > 9. indeterminable > 10. both normal \*\* Hmmm… 6 out of 10. Pretty good for a 13 year old, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/25 "2001-01-22T05:01:04Z")
6 out of 10…damnit. I hate those things. Don’t take my dismay personally Queen Isabella…I’m 17 years old. I would’ve expected to do just a little better than someone the age of my little sister! grrr… :o doughie…This is killin me…tell us the answers to your scenarios! ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/26 "2001-01-22T05:11:10Z")
1. Himself 2. 3 3. Normal 4. White 5. 20 6. 40360 7. More Water, Less Milk 8. Thursday 9. Indeterminable 10. Both normal ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/27 "2001-01-22T20:59:19Z")
1. A man enters a field with a package and dies. How did he die? 2. Two archaeologiest walk into a cave and find 2 perfectly preserved bodies. They automatically know they are Adam and Eve. How do they know? 3. A man buys his wife a present. She wears the present to work and is subsequently killed. What is the present and how does she die? 4. A man finds a cabin in the mountains. There are 7 dead people inside. How did they die? HAVE FUN 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/28 "2001-01-22T21:40:46Z")
1. The man’s parachute failed to open. 2. They have no navels. 3. The present is a pair of shoes. She goes to work at the ammunition plant, creates a spark as a result of wearing non-non-conductive shoes, and goes BOOM! 4. I don’t have any clue about this one, unless the man who discovered the scene is about to become #8 at the hands of the axe murderer who owns the place. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/29 "2001-01-22T21:43:00Z")
1. It was a minefield. 2. No belly buttons. 3. A strychnine laced necklace??? 4. ??? ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/30 "2001-01-22T23:03:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nikjohns \* > \*\* > Question 4 > A hunter leaves his cabin early in the morning and walks one mile due south. Here he sees a bear and starts chasing it for one mile due east before he is able to shoot the bear. After shooting the bear, he drags it one mile due north back to his cabin where he started that morning. What color is the bear? > > The Solution: White > > An Explanation > He can walk one mile due south, then one mile due east and finally one mile due north where he finds his cabin again. This means that his cabin can only be at the north pole, and for that reason the bear will be white. > \*\* Technically, besides the North Pole, there are an infinite number of points about 1.16 miles away from the South Pole, where you can walk 1 mile south, walk one mile east (all the way around the earth back to the same spot), and then back north again. I’m not sure about the color of bears near the south pole. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866/31 "2001-01-31T00:32:05Z")
> [@](#): > > 102A. On the way to work, the man is listening to the radio. The deejay calls his house as a prank call, and male voice answers the phone on the air. Man drives home, confronts his wife’s lover and shoots the wife for being unfaithful. (Lover may have escaped or may have also been shot.) _Very_ close! 🙂 (From memory expert Harry Lorayne) In the version I am alluding to, the man tuned his car radio to a game show that called people’s homes. For 104: The explanation was: “A woman in North Carolina fires a bullet from a rifle over the state line into Tennessee and kills her husband. The woman never comes over into Tennessee.” --Dick Hyman, _Cockeyed Americana_ 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intelligence-test-as-if/49866.md?page=1)