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Mensa Quiz The following questions are provided by the folks at American Mensa, the High IQ organization. Can you provide the answers? If you find that you do need some help, the answers are on page 100. Puzzle already worked? Check with a flight attendant to see if another copy is available. 6. Use the clues to find the word that fits the definitions below when it's a) a whole word and b) divided into two separate words. a) Whole word: fine wool (8 letters) b) Two words: 1) money (4 letters) 2) trifling (4 letters) 7. We found three English words using these let- ters once in each word. What are they? C D E K O R Bonus Question: Fill in the blanks to get the names of four famous rivers. _ A _G T _ _ R _B _ _ _N R _ _N _ D _ _ _B _ 1. What two eight-letter words that are ana- grams of each other can be used to complete the following sentence? Flute player Sally found the winsome leader of her outdoor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ band to be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _and planned to ask him out on a date. 2. In each row, change the first letter of the two words to a different letter (the same letter for both) to form two new words. Write the new letter in the blank. These letters will form a word when reading down. Rain _ Joint Rim _ Prose Cope _ Patio File _ Hick 3. Which of the words below is least like the others? (The difference has nothing to do with vowels, consonants or syllables.) Planes, Pairs, More, Avenge, Evince, Extract, Hasten 4. There are 64 contestants in a chess tourna- ment where winners are determined by single- elimination. If there are no draws, how many chess games are played to determine the sole champion? 5. The 18 letters below can be anagrammed into a five-word phrase describing something that's hard to find. The enumeration is (1-6-2-1-8). What is the phrase? A A A A C D E E E H I K L N N S T Y Did you enjoy this Mensa Quiz? Take the Mensa Prep Test online right now for just $5. Go to us.mensa.org/mht and enter code AA110114. Mensa encourages and sup- ports knowledge-seekers like you. Discover how to join at us.mensa.org/join or call (800) 66-MENSA. A A .CO M/A M E R I C A NWAY N OV E M B E R 2 01 4 97