# IQ test
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 30, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364 "2006-11-30T19:03:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/1 "2006-11-30T19:03:26Z")
1. Popeye
CCCCCCC
2. idiot…$$$$$
3. lalollvisefawiarr
4. past events past events
5. Jehovah Mr. Clean
6. Group of lions autumn
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/2 "2006-11-30T19:06:55Z")
1. A fool and his money are soon parted.
2. Pride goeth before a fall.
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### Author:  [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/3 "2006-11-30T19:09:16Z")
[QUOTE=tdn]
4) past events past events
[/QUOTE]
Past events are bound to repeat themselves?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/4 "2006-11-30T19:15:16Z")
1. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/5 "2006-11-30T19:17:23Z")
I see that 2-6 are all familiar proverbs, but I don’t get #1 except that it’s something about a sailor and the seven seas.
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/6 "2006-11-30T19:18:44Z")
1. Popeye on the seven seas.
2. A fool and his money are soon parted.
3. Pride goeth before the fall.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/7 "2006-11-30T19:24:35Z")
1. Sail o’er (?) the seven seas.
2. History repeats itself.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/8 "2006-11-30T19:25:07Z")
1. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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### Author:  [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/9 "2006-11-30T19:47:29Z")
1. Popeye
CCCCCCC
2. idiot…$$$$$
3. lalollvisefawiarr
4. past events past events
5. Jehovah Mr. Clean
6. Group of lions autumn
Number one is Popeye and the Seven Seas
The second one is A Fool and his money are soon parted
The thrid is All is fair in love and war
Number four is History repeats itself
Number 5 is Cleanliness is next to Godliness
and the final one is Pride goeth before the fall.
Pretty fun little word games.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/10 "2006-11-30T20:09:12Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm]
1. Sail o’er (?) the seven seas.
2. History repeats itself.
[/QUOTE]
Sailor over the seven seas. #4 is correct. **feppytweed** got #3.
Post your own!
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/11 "2006-11-30T20:42:19Z")
Personally, I prefer
2(NaCl[sub]aq[/sub])
CCCCCCC
for the first one.
Then there’s also:
0
M.D. Ph.D. B.A.
or
linereadline
And not quite the same thing, but related, we have
2b || !2b = ?
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/12 "2006-11-30T20:46:17Z")
Saline over the seven seas.
Three degrees below zero.
Read between the lines.
To be or not to be. That is the question.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/13 "2006-11-30T20:47:36Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos]
Personally, I prefer
2(NaCl[sub]aq[/sub])
CCCCCCC
for the first one.
Then there’s also:
0
M.D. Ph.D. B.A.
Three degrees below zero?
or
linereadline
Read between the lines.
And not quite the same thing, but related, we have
2b || !2b = ?
[/QUOTE]
That is the question?
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/14 "2006-11-30T21:05:59Z")
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
An oldie but a goodie:
WOOD
JOHN
MASS
Hint: It’s a partial address.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/15 "2006-11-30T21:21:09Z")
I got the John Underwood part, but can’t figure out the rest.
R[sub]D[/sub]R/R = R-C[sub]9[/sub]H[sub]11[/sub]N[sub]2[/sub]O[sub]4[/sub]S
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/16 "2006-11-30T21:25:22Z")
I wrote a sonnet once that was kind of a huge rebus. I’d just read a research article for class claiming that teachers weren’t teaching students the appropriate math terminology, and as part of my homework response wrote [the third sonnet on this page](http://students.unca.edu/dtwithro/math212/sonnets.htm).
Line 7 seems to be the hardest.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/17 "2006-11-30T21:36:03Z")
Momanon.
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### Author:  [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/18 "2006-11-30T21:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Momanon.
[/QUOTE]
Man in the moon.
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### Author:  [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/19 "2006-11-30T21:54:58Z")
[QUOTE=tdn]
I got the John Underwood part, but can’t figure out the rest.
[/QUOTE]
Mr. Underwood lives in Andover, Massachusetts
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iq-test/382364/20 "2006-11-30T22:00:39Z")
Without peaking:
[QUOTE=tdn]
1. Popeye
CCCCCCC
Sailor on the seas ??
2. idiot…$$$$$
A fool and his money are soon parted ??
3. lalollvisefawiarr
???
4. past events past events
History repeats itself.
5. Jehovah Mr. Clean
Cleanliness is next to godliness
6. Group of lions autumn
Pride goeth before a fall.
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