General IQ Test

If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long
would it be before all the pills had been taken?
A.
B.
C.
D.

3 hours
2.5 hours
1 hour
1.5 hours
2 If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was
. an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first?

A.
B.
C.
D.

oil heater
candle
oil lamp
match
3 NASA received three messages in a strange language from a distant planet. The
. scientists studied the messages and found that "NecorBuldonSlock" means
"Danger Rocket Explosion" and "EdwanMynorNecor" means "Danger Spaceship
Fire" and "BuldonGimilzor Gondor" means "Bad Gas Explosion". What does "Slock"
mean?

A.
B.

Explosion
Danger

C.
D.

Gas
Rocket
4 A boy is 4 years old and his sister is three times as old as he is. When the boy is
. 12 years old, how old will his sister be?

A.

19

B.

20

C.
D.

21
impossible to determine
5. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?

A.

B.
C.
D.

8
12
9

6.

HAND is to Glove as HEAD is to

A.

Hair

B.

Nape

C.

Head

D.

Scalp
7. Which number should come next? 144 121 100 81 64 ?

A.

54

B.

43

C.

49

D.

41
8. Which one of the five choices makes the best comparison? LIVED is to DEVIL as
6323 is to:

A.

3623

B.

3263

C.

3236

D.

3632
9.

A.

Inept is the opposite of:

Adroit

B.

Skillful

C.

Exert

D.

Expert
10.

A.

Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?

1 apple

B.

2 apples

C.

3 apples

D.

None
11 Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months
. have 28 days?

A.

B.
C.
D.

12
None
Only February

12.

Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?

A.

70

B.

25

C.

15

D.

10
13. What number is one half of one quarter of one tenth of 800?

A.

20

B.

10

C.

15

D.

12
14 John likes 400 but not 300; he likes 100 but not 99; he likes 2500 but not 2400.
. Which does he like?

A.

800

B.

1800

C.

900

D.

200
15 I went to bed at eight 8 'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the
. alarm to sound at nine 9 'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I
get before being awoken by the alarm?

A.

13 hours

B.

12 hours

C.

1 hour

D.

10 hours

16. A bag of potatoes weighs 50 lbs divided by half of its weight. How much does
the bag of potatoes weigh?
Ans : 10 lbs

17.
42
31
32

What number should replace the question mark?

22
14
15

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18. How many minutes is it before 12 noon if 1 hour 39 minutes
ago it was twice as many minutes past 8 am?
Ans. 47
19. The average of three numbers is 29. The average of two of these numbers is 38.
What is the third number?
Ans. 11
20. A B C D E F G H
What letter is two to the right of the letter which is four to the left of the letter which
is immediately to the right of the letter four to the right of the letter C?
Ans. F
21. Carrie has 0.125 more than Larry and Larry has more than Harry. Between
them Harry, Larry and Carrie have 151. How many has each?
Ans. Carrie=50.66
Larry=50.54
Harry=49.79
22. What is the factorial of 5?
a. 1
b. 120
c. 60
d. 25
e. 15
23. What is the value of 3/8 + 5/16 as a decimal?
Ans. 0.6875
24. In a right-angled triangle what is the length of the hypotenuse if the two
shortest sides are 10 and 24 cm respectively?
Ans. 26 cm
25. A photograph measuring 3.9 4.6 cm is to be enlarged. If the shortest side of
the enlargement is 17.55 cm, what is the length of the longest side?
Ans. 20.7