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Is anyone getting their questions from this site?

http://sites.ninemsn.com.au/minisite/testaustralia/

I had a shot at the IQ test and got 6/10 for language, 8/10 for memory and 10/10 for the rest. I'm not going to watch the show though, as there is something truly disturbing about the Collingwood president testing the intelligence of the population ;)
 
Originally posted by Rusty Brookes
Is anyone getting their questions from this site?

http://sites.ninemsn.com.au/minisite/testaustralia/

I had a shot at the IQ test and got 6/10 for language, 8/10 for memory and 10/10 for the rest. I'm not going to watch the show though, as there is something truly disturbing about the Collingwood president testing the intelligence of the population ;)
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Have been to that site....got similiar results, 7/10 for language and 9/10 for memory. How much easier was it to remember something that wasn't there, than to recall something that was there.
 
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black.
None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm.
A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him.

How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
 

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Originally posted by Gonzo
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black.
None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm.
A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him.

How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
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The car was going to do a left turn at the intersection anyway!
 
Originally posted by Gonzo
A black dog stands in the middle of an intersection in a town painted black.
None of the street lights are working due to a power failure caused by a local storm.
A car with two broken headlights drives towards the dog but turns in time to avoid hitting him.

How could the driver have seen the dog in time?
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It doesnt say it was at night, so it was probably day time. Easy. :D
 
Q: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which controls one of three light bulbs in the next room. Your task is to determine which switch controls which bulb. All lights are off. Your constraints are: you may flick only two switches and you may enter the room with the light bulbs only once. How would you set about determining which switch controls which bulb?
 
Originally posted by |D_J^B_J|
A man's dog is sent to jail, yet half an hour later it goes to the train station. How is this so?
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The train station would be either Kings Cross, Liverpool St, Marylebone, or Fenchurch St.
 

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Originally posted by grimlock
Q: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which controls one of three light bulbs in the next room. Your task is to determine which switch controls which bulb. All lights are off. Your constraints are: you may flick only two switches and you may enter the room with the light bulbs only once. How would you set about determining which switch controls which bulb?
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No idea??? This one is tough. Is it possible at all?
 
Originally posted by grimlock
Q: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which controls one of three light bulbs in the next room. Your task is to determine which switch controls which bulb. All lights are off. Your constraints are: you may flick only two switches and you may enter the room with the light bulbs only once. How would you set about determining which switch controls which bulb?
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Turn one switch on (switch 1), wait for 10 minutes, then turn it off. Turn on the next switch (switch 2). Enter the next room. The light that is on is switch 2, the light that is warm is switch 1, the other one is switch 3.
 
polar bear answer

Originally posted by Bomber Spirit
A hunter walks out the door of his hut to try to hunt a bear. He walks 1km south, but can't find a bear.
He walks 1km east, but there's still no sighting of any bear.
Then he walks 1km north, and then he finds a bear - right at the door of his hut.
What colour was the bear?
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The answer to this is supposed to be white because the
hunter is supposed to have started at the north pole.

However, there is a flaw.

The hunter's hut could be anywhere on the line of southern
latitude one km north of the line of latitude with a circumference
of exactly one km (if you are following this, the hut is close to
the south pole). However, there are no polar bears in
Antarctica. Therefore, any bear must have come from a
travelling circus. The point is, the question assumes that
there is only one answer to where the hunter's hut is (the
north pole), when actually there are an infinitely large number
of answers. That is the flaw.
 
Originally posted by -PC28-


The surgeon is the Grandfather of the youngest boy and the father of the youngests father.

i.e. 3 Generations of the same family
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Wrong. The head surgeon is obviously the boy's mother!
 
Originally posted by bunsen burner
Turn one switch on (switch 1), wait for 10 minutes, then turn it off. Turn on the next switch (switch 2). Enter the next room. The light that is on is switch 2, the light that is warm is switch 1, the other one is switch 3.
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Er, there are only 2 switches, but you have the gist of it. Turn one switch on, leave it for a few minutes, switch it off, and go into the other room. The bulb that is still warm is the one that was connected to the switch.
 
Re: polar bear answer

Originally posted by Svea Rike


The answer to this is supposed to be white because the
hunter is supposed to have started at the north pole.

However, there is a flaw.

The hunter's hut could be anywhere on the line of southern latitude one km north of the line of latitude with a circumference
of exactly one km (if you are following this, the hut is close to
the south pole). However, there are no polar bears in
Antarctica. Therefore, any bear must have come from a
travelling circus. The point is, the question assumes that
there is only one answer to where the hunter's hut is (the
north pole), when actually there are an infinitely large number
of answers. That is the flaw.
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Okay, so the hut could be at any point along this line of lattitude that is 2km North of the South Pole. However, it could also be at the North Pole. Polar bears are found in the Arctic, which is near the North Pole. Therefore, it would be reasonable to assume that the hut is at the North Pole (considering neither brown, black, or white bears are likely to be in the Antarctic). And hence, the bear (beyond reasonable doubt) would have to be white.
 

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Originally posted by grimlock
Q: You are in a room with three light switches, each of which controls one of three light bulbs in the next room.
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Originally posted by grimlock

Er, there are only 2 switches, but you have the gist of it.
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Whatchya on about Grimlock...:confused: ;)

Make up your mind!:D :D
 
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
 
Originally posted by Stucey
There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
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The German
 

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