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| Thread ID: 99346 | 2009-04-28 22:57:00 | Quiz For Intelligent People ONLY! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 769279 | 2009-04-28 22:57:00 | 1 . Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . 2 . What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? 3 . Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . All other vegetables must be replanted every year . What are the only two perennial vegetables? 4 . What fruit has its seeds on the outside? 5 . In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle . The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way . How did the pear get inside the bottle? 6 . Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words . Name two of them . 7 . There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar . Can you name at least half of them? 8 . Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh . 9 . Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S . ' Answers To Quiz: 1 . The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing . 2 . North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute . ) . 3 . Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb . 4 . The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry . 5 . How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle . The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree . The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season . When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems . 6 . Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle . 7 . Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses . 8 . The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce . 9 . Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 769280 | 2009-04-28 23:01:00 | An intelligent person would just read the supplied answers. Never quite seen the connection between intelligence and trivia. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 769281 | 2009-04-28 23:02:00 | Intelligent people wouldn't cheat nor trivialize information. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 769282 | 2009-04-28 23:03:00 | In answer to one, what about Synchronised Swimming? | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 769283 | 2009-04-28 23:46:00 | Does this mean that Dweeb isn't an English word, I'm sure it is in the dictionary Suprisingly I got most of them well apart from Niagra Falls some of the puctuation, and some of the S words |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 769284 | 2009-04-29 00:12:00 | No intelligence test here, only general knowledge . Intelligence and knowledge are two entirely different things . |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 769285 | 2009-04-29 01:35:00 | Not so, grasshopper! There are several ways to define intelligence; In some non-psychological instances, it is defined as the cumulative trait of creativity, personna, knowledge and wisdom - and is the combined ability to recall past facts and factoids. Francis Galton, influenced by his cousin Charles Darwin, was the first to advance a theory of general intelligence. For Galton, intelligence was a real faculty with a biological basis that could be studied by measuring reaction times to certain cognitive tasks. Galton's research on measuring the head size of British scientists and ordinary citizens led to the conclusion that head size had no relationship with the person's intelligence. However, head sizes in British Parliament have continued to aggrandize in both size and attitude. From "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", which was signed by 52 intelligence researchers in 1994: A very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on", "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do. Other notables with their quotables: Alfred Binet Judgment, (It is) otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances...auto-critique. David Wechsler: The aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment. Cyril Burt: (it's) Innate general cognitive ability Howard Gardner: To my mind, a human intellectual competence must entail a set of skills of problem solving—enabling the individual to resolve genuine problems or difficulties that he or she encounters and, when appropriate, to create an effective product—and must also entail the potential for finding or creating problems—and thereby laying the groundwork for the acquisition of new knowledge. Linda Gottfredson: .....(as) the ability to deal with cognitive complexity Sternberg & Salter: .....(a) Goal-directed adaptive behavior Charles Spearman is credited with having developed the concept of g. g can be derived as the principal factor using the mathematical method of factor analysis. One common view is that these abilities are hierarchically arranged with g at the vertex (or top, overlaying all other cognitive abilities). g itself is sometimes considered to be a two part construct, gF and gC, which stand for fluid and crystallized intelligence.Carroll expanded this hierarchy into a Three-Stratum theory, also known as the Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of cognitive abilities (or simply CHC Theory). Intelligence, as measured by IQ and other aptitude tests, is widely used in educational, business, and military settings due to its efficacy in predicting behavior. g is highly correlated with many important social outcomes - ie: - individuals with low IQs are more likely to be divorced, have a child out of marriage, role-play computer games, be incarcerated, and need long term welfare support, (ibid): .....while individuals with high IQs are associated with more years of education, higher status jobs and higher income. Intelligence is significantly correlated with successful training and performance outcomes, and g is the single best predictor of successful job performance and not messing with Linux. Certain unnamed members here at F1 shan't use their inflated hat size as an intelligence measure. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 769286 | 2009-04-29 03:39:00 | Intelligent people wouldn't cheat nor trivialize information. Depends on what type of intelligence we are talking about... :punk |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 769287 | 2009-04-29 04:52:00 | SJ - Perhaps we don't speak standard English but dwang is a word in common use in NZ | Dally (6292) | ||
| 769288 | 2009-04-29 05:00:00 | SJ - Perhaps we don't speak standard English but dwang is a word in common use in NZ We use the Anglo-Saxon generic word: "Dang" as in "dang it!". Dwang, on the other hand seems to be a sound a loose A string makes on a bass guitar. |
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