# Take The Densa Test! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000 "2000-03-19T23:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/21 "2000-03-20T07:00:00Z")
## 11 - the pill one is totally dishonest. _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/22 "2000-03-20T07:11:00Z")
radar ralf, you started this. [ul][li]Fill 5 oz. container with milk from vat.[/li][li]Fill 3 oz. container with milk from 5 oz. container, leaving 2 oz. in 5 oz. container.[/li][li]Dump 3 oz. container’s milk back in vat.[/li][li]Pour the 2 oz. from 5 oz. container into 3 oz. container.[/li][li]Fill 5 oz. container from vat.[/li][li]Fill 3 oz. container from 5 oz. container.[/li][li]The 3 oz. container already had 2 oz., so you subtracted 1 oz. when you filled it, giving you 4 oz. in the 5 oz. container.[/ul][/li] STOP TORMENTING ME! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/23 "2000-03-21T06:04:00Z")
11 out of 12, I also flubbed the Moses question, dammit! And I had heard that one before, too! ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/24 "2000-03-21T06:22:00Z")
Yup the Moses one got me, as well as that damn pill question. I blame it on a brain fart. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/25 "2000-03-21T06:24:00Z")
Ditto to Seal. 11/12, with that damned Mosas question tripping me up. And I went to Sunday school, too. Feh. ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/26 "2000-03-20T19:05:00Z")
12/12 but the butcher one threw almost…All the other answers were numbers or click boxes, I wasn’t counting on nouns… Here’s one for ya: You have one match when you enter a darkened room. (Light from the door so you can see these, don’t get to technical) You see a gas-lamp, an oil-lamp, and a gas heater. Which do you light first? ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/27 "2000-03-20T19:10:00Z")
You’d light the match first. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/28 "2000-03-20T20:10:00Z")
8 out of 12. It _says_ I’m average, but I feel subaverage compared to y’all ☹ * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/29 "2000-03-20T20:18:00Z")
10 out of 12: Moses and pills kicked my butt. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/30 "2000-03-20T21:09:00Z")
Moses! ARgggggghhhh! ---
**Author:** ![sixseatport](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sixseatport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sixseatport)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/31 "2000-03-20T22:05:00Z")
11 / 12 I missed the Moses one because I tried to type in something about “the flood & the ark is just a story, it didn’t really happen…” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/32 "2000-03-20T22:57:00Z")
11 I thought one of the giraffes was named Moses… ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/33 "2000-03-21T00:31:00Z")
Demo–I stand by the 90-minute thing as well. I scored an 11 for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/34 "2000-03-21T06:10:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by douglips: > **radar ralf, you started this. > [ul][li]Fill 5 oz. container with milk from vat.[/li][li]Fill 3 oz. container with milk from 5 oz. container, leaving 2 oz. in 5 oz. container.[/li][li]Dump 3 oz. container’s milk back in vat.[/li][li]Pour the 2 oz. from 5 oz. container into 3 oz. container.[/li][li]Fill 5 oz. container from vat.[/li][li]Fill 3 oz. container from 5 oz. container.[/li][li]The 3 oz. container already had 2 oz., so you subtracted 1 oz. when you filled it, giving you 4 oz. in the 5 oz. container.[/ul][/li] > STOP TORMENTING ME!** ## A slightly easier way to do this is: [ul][li]Fill 3 oz. at vat.[/li][li]Pour contents into 5 oz.[/li][li]Fill 3 oz. again.[/li][li]Pour contents into 5 oz. This leaves 1 oz. in the 3 oz.[/li][li]Empty 5 oz.[/li][li]Pour contents of 3 oz. into 5 oz.[/li][li]Fill 3 oz. again and empty into 5 oz.[/ul][/li] “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/35 "2000-03-21T06:13:00Z")
On second thought, both systems have seven steps. Whatever works for you. Anyway, what kind of a kitchen doesn’t have measuring cups? * * * “His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard, I wish he was mine, he’s really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/36 "2000-03-21T06:18:00Z")
I got 12, but only because I’d seen that birth day weasel before. (Note the space. I took one once where they asked “birthday” (no space) and insisted we each had only one. They relented when I took my Compact OED and smashed their cranium, pointing out that “birthday” is the word for “anniversary of one’s birth”. The _Compact OED_ only weighs seven or nine pounds, as opposed to the complete 24 volume version that I cannot lift.) * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/37 "2000-03-21T07:01:00Z")
!@# I got a !#% eleven. Damn question 8. I bet everyone gets that one wrong, except really smart folks. Damn it damn it damn it, and here I thought I was smart. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/38 "2000-03-21T07:02:00Z")
!@# I got a !#% eleven. Damn question 8. I bet everyone gets that one wrong, except really smart folks. Damn it damn it damn it, and here I thought I was smart. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/39 "2000-03-21T09:47:00Z")
It seems odd that so many people, including me, missed moses and pill only. I agree that the pill question is poorly put, but I’m kicking myself over that damn moses! * * * Perked Ears indicate curiosity - Know Your Cat ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000/40 "2000-03-21T14:20:00Z")
10 - but being European, I have a God-given right to be ignorant about baseball! “Outings”, indeed! Norman [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-densa-test/15000.md?page=3)