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Online Verbal IQ Test
« on: May 14th, 2003, 10:40am » |
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I recently did an online verbal IQ test for which the answers are no longer available - and even when they were, one had to pay! Perhaps you guys could collectively help me to find out how well I did. (I estimate I have about 25 correct using no reference materials and with no time limit.)
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Find the best solution for each of the following analogies. Example -- CLEAR : CLOUDY :: TRANSPARENT : ?
The best answer would be TRANSLUCENT. Misspellings will be given half credit if otherwise correct. The final authority, wherever possible, for correct spellings will be the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition.
1. Once : Twice :: Bitten : ?
2. Amphibian : Salamander :: Political district : ?
3. Riddle : Mystery :: Mystery : ?
4. Penny : Thrift :: Pinch : ?
5. 2.54 : Inch :: 454 : ?
6. One-eyed : Cyclops :: Two-faced : ?
7. Swiftness : Velocity :: Stickiness : ?
8. Say : Hear :: Imply : ?
9. Space : Hyperspace :: Vector : ?
10. Wind : Rain :: Typhoon : ?
11. Scenic : Picturesque :: Roguish : ?
12. Inward : Outward :: Infection : ?
13. Strong : Herculean :: Polymorphous : ?
14. Sophisticated : Wisened :: Wrinkled : ?
15. Wicked Woman : Witch :: Bad Taste : ?
16. Silly, Not Obese : Fatuous :: Offensive, Not Loud : ?
17. Column : Row :: File : ?
18. Humbug : Bach :: Seek : ?
19. Coals : Newcastle :: Rough Beast : ?
20. Enlightenment : Illuminati :: Knowledge : ?
21. Pride : Prejudice :: Sense : ?
22. Of Ten : Factor :: Of Magnitude : ?
23. 2.54 : Inch :: 3.26 : ?
24. Pocus : Hocus :: Pokery : ?
25. Eggs : Grading :: Wounded : ?
26. Mock : Mach :: Oiler : ?
27. Go : Gang :: Awry : ?
28. Tall, Dark : Handsome :: Nasty, Brutish : ?
29. Split Apart : Cleave :: Stick Together : ?
30. Image : Idea :: Hallucination : ?
31. Hairpiece : Wig :: Party : ?
32. Tom : Harry :: Gold : ?
33. Them : Us :: Eskimo : ?
34. Wedding Assistant : Best Man :: Movie Production Assistant : ?
35. A, AB, B, BO, O : BO :: A, C, G, T, U : ?
36. Plus Ultra : Ne :: Ne Sais Quoi : ?
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #1 on: May 14th, 2003, 11:46am » |
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I'll play. But how will our answers help you figure out your IQ?Without any cheating, here are my guesses:
1. shy
2. gerrymander
3. enigma
4. spend
5. pound
6. janus
7. viscosity
8. infer
9. matrix
10. deluge
11. picaresque
12. defection
13. sisyphean
14. crass
15. kitsch
16. noisome
17. rank
18. haydn
19. london
20. cognoscenti
21. sensibility
22. order
23. meter
24. dokery
25. triage
26. euler
27. amiss
28. ogreish
29. cleave
30. delusion
31. gig
32. myrrh
33. inuit
34. best boy
35. u
36. je
I've already checked and figured out a few are wrong, but I won't post any corrections just yet.
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« Reply #2 on: May 14th, 2003, 12:39pm » |
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Several of your alternatives I'd agree with (10,12,23,24). I'll stick to my original answer on 6,11,29. For 27, I realized after I posted that the correct answer was aglee. I think 19 might be Bethlehem and 28 is short.
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #3 on: May 14th, 2003, 1:51pm » |
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the answer to six is Janus (click for link), medusa had snakes for hair, but wasn't twofaced, unlike Janus
I don't think many of these have to do much with IQ, but more with trivia. A lack of knowledge is not necesarily a lack of intelligence.. Confucius probably didn't know much about greek mythology..
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #4 on: May 14th, 2003, 2:05pm » |
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35 is ambiguous, there are two right answers, depending on if you take RNA or DNA as measure..
(DNA is composed of A T C G , RNA of A U C G, [e]my memory failed me, but luckily my books didn't :p [/e])
13 must (imo) be Protean (from Proteus) He was known for his shape changing, like Herculus was known for his strength.
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #5 on: May 14th, 2003, 7:08pm » |
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towr, the maker of the test claims a high positive correlation between IQ and the size of one's vocabulary.
(Of course, the test is culture-dependent.)
http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/ultra.html
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #6 on: May 15th, 2003, 10:54am » |
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Oh well.. If you really want some answers out of me, I'll oblige 
But I'm really not any good with words, I'm a number kinda person..
1. shy
5. pound
6. Janus
7. adhesiveness
8. deduce
9. matrix
12. immunoresponse
13. Protean
15. tacky
16. Noisome (thanks to m-w.com)
20. freemasons
21. sensibility
22. order
27. ho
30. delusion
33. inuit
35. T (fits with place, and RNA)
36. je
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #7 on: May 15th, 2003, 12:07pm » |
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A vector doesn't imply 2D, it implies a point in (hyper)space, a vector can be any length from 0 to infinite.
Hmm.. maybe it could actually be vector again..
On the otherhand a matrix can be seen as a vector of vectors of sorts. Just like hyperspace is a space of spaces, in a way..
27: go awry & gung ho. That's what it struck with me..
35, I had made a mistake before, it's either T or U, not A or U, but imo T fits better since it's also in the same place as BO.
As for 20, the illuminati as group have a link with the freemasons, and I think knowledge is fairly important in freemasonry.
Scientology on the other hand is just a cult that has nothing to do with knowledge, nor enlightenment.. imo
I also don't think all of these analogies have exactly one right answer..
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« Reply #9 on: May 15th, 2003, 12:41pm » |
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As for consensus building. Here's a list of what I think are the best answers so far:
1. shy
2. gerrymander
3. enigma
4. spend
5. pound
6. janus
7. viscosity
8. infer
9. quaternion is more specific, but since most of this quiz is not such specialized lingo (I'd never heard of quaternion), I still prefer matrix
10. monsoon
11. picaresque
12. outbreak
13. protean
14. crass (none of the answers stands out as perfect so I'll stick with my original for now)
15. kitsch
16. noisome
17. rank
18. haydn
19. Bethlehem
20. cognoscenti
21. sensibility
22. order
23. parsec
24. jiggery
25. assessing or maybe triage
26. euler
27. aglee (the best laid plans)
28. short
29. cleave (it can mean either to cut apart or cling together)
30. delusion
31. how about stag (as a gender-specific party, like wig is a gender specific hairpiece)
32. myrrh
33. inuit
34. best boy
35. u (as the better known of the 2 possibilities)
36. je
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #10 on: May 18th, 2003, 9:33am » |
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tohuvabohu, a few I can't understand:
2. Gerrymander
OK, gerrymander political districts. How does that fit in with LHS?
14. Crass (none of the answers stands out as perfect so I'll stick with my original for now)
Seems too negative and has little to do with age or experience. How about 'matured'?
18. Haydn
Hide 'n' Seek? Where does 'humbug' fit in?
19. Bethlehem
I think I've heard of Coals of Newcastle, but I don't see any further connections.
20. Aglee
In fact, it is 'agley'. I didn't know this word before.
31. Stag (as a gender-specific party, like wig is a gender specific hairpiece)
Dictionary.com says nothing about gender.
34. Best boy
I've never heard this term before.
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #11 on: May 18th, 2003, 10:31am » |
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on May 18th, 2003, 9:08am, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:
I think #1 is the most common and least technical meaning. And, while quaternions are commonly used by games programmers to denote points in 4D space, I suspect that 'matrix' was indeed the required answer.
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I'm pretty sure game programmers don't use quaternions.. They use homogeneous coordinates, being 3D space coordinates + a sort of scaling coordinate.. It makes transformations easier, since you can do translation, rotation and any other affine transform with one simple matrix transform (had a course on it the last few weeks).
They're nothing like the definition mathworld gives of quaternions. But just a length 4 vector (which is identical to a 1 by 4 matrix, a point in 4D space, or a length + direction in 4D space).
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« Reply #12 on: May 18th, 2003, 10:55am » |
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Here are a few suggestions:
6. Hyprocrite
10. Flood
11. Grotesque
17. Folder
20. Understanding
34. Director
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Re: Online Verbal IQ Test
« Reply #13 on: May 18th, 2003, 11:09am » |
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towr, I don't think you will meet cutting-edge techniques on an introductory(?) course.
Anyway, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
In fact, I was talking to a games programmer the other week who said that quaternion interpolation
was useful in avoiding the gimbal lock phenomenon suffered by Euler angles when using matrices.
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Looking at the quiz as a whole, a number of the questions are more a play on words than an analogy.
2. Salamander (an amphibian); gerrymander (a political district, oddly-shaped, drawn specifically to benefit one political party) Word play more than a serious analogy.
14.crass
"wizened" is a "sophisticated" way of saying somebody's looking old. "Wrinkled" is a rude or crass way of saying the same thing. Sophisticated does not mean old or wrinkled, so I wasn't looking for an answer that means aged (although I've heard people say wrinkles can make a person look sophisticated. So maybe we should be looking for something that makes a person look wizened. Dry skin? Age spots?)
18. "Bach, humbug" is a musical pun on Ebenezer Scrooge's line, "Bah, humbug", as "Haydn Seek" is a musical pun on Hide and Seek.
19. The expression is "carry coals to Newcastle" which is a pointless activity as Newcastle had plenty of coal.
Yeats wrote a poem called "The Second Coming" which ends with the lines "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Not much of an analogy, but it's a town to which the first element of the analogy is associated as coming.
20. "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley." is a fairly well-known line of Robert Burns (you're right, I misspelled it).
31. Stag. Try looking up "stag party" on dictionary.com and it will say a party for men only.
34. Best boy is one of those titles that shows up in the movie credits that nobody knows what it is. Here's the definition from imdb.com
Best Boy: AKA: Assistant Chief Lighting Technician, Best Boy Grip, Best Boy Electric
The chief assistant, usually of the gaffer, but more often lately used as a general term for the second in command of a group. This term is likely borrowed from early sailing and whaling crews, as sailors were often employed to set up and work rigging in theatres. There are no "best girls" per se; female chief assistants are also called "Best Boys".
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on May 18th, 2003, 11:09am, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:Interesting link.. So it seems quaternions do get used.. And have some disadvantages over matrices in the long run (In part because current API's need them to be turned into matrices anyway. And matrices have the advantage you can turn a sequence of transforms into just one matrice)
Depends on when and where you use it though..
All in all I'm not surprised my books hardly mention them..
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hmm
just an idea.... could #5 be chevy?
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Cheating on that test is one of the dumbest ideas a person could have.
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Sorry, I should make myself clearer. Because some have cheated (or now have the ability to cheat) on that particular test, it is no longer being scored. It seems foolish and contradictory that someone would cheat on a test that provides no real benefit other than personal satisfaction. This doesn't apply to anyone in here though, since the test has been compromised before this thread had started. Sorry for omitting the important details! 
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31. is Whig.
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Actually, there was also an American Whig party. In the mid-1800's, they were the dominant political party for a while, opposed by the Democratic-Republicans, who eventually shortened their name to the Democratic party. While the Democrats were staunchly pro-slavery, the Whigs tried to be the "big tent party", including people of all views. Those who were staunchly anti-slavery eventually left to join the newly created Republican party, which had formed around the anti-slavery stance. Meanwhile the pro-slavery folks all moved to the Democratic party, and as the issue continued to polarize the nation, eventually, there were not enough people left to hold off the Republican threat.
The moral is: if you try to mean everything for everyone, you eventually mean nothing to anyone.
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