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ARE YOU A MENSA CANDIDATE?

ARE YOU A MENSA CANDIDATE?. 1. In the space provided place a three letter word which can be attached to the beginning of the given words to form six longer words.  What is the three letter word?   . 2. What numbers should replace the question marks in the fourth triangle?.

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ARE YOU A MENSA CANDIDATE?

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  1. ARE YOU A MENSA CANDIDATE?

  2. 1. In the space provided place a three letter word which can be attached to the beginning of the given words to form six longer words.  What is the three letter word?   

  3. 2. What numbers should replace the question marks in the fourth triangle?

  4. 3. What letter should appear next in this sequence? C H K P S ?

  5. 4.  Rearrange the letters of TINSEL to give four other words. What are they?

  6. 5. What have the following words got in common? YARN HURT LONE ARMY

  7. 6.  If RM = 5, XK = 13 and JC = 7, what does SP=?

  8. 7. In a supermarket, the first 25 customers of the day purchased an average of two items each. After a further 15 customers, the average number of items purchased by each customer rose to eight.  What was the average number of items purchased by the last 15 customers only? 

  9. 8.  Replace the blanks in this sentence with two words. The same nine letters must be used for both words. What are the words? The employee’s actions BLANK BLANK until he was caught on a security camera.

  10. 9.  Replace the vowels in each group of letters to form six connected words. What are the words? PRL CRL JD TPZ PL PRDT

  11. 10.  On each row place a letter that can be substituted for the second letter of the words either side. When completed a word will be read downwards. What is it?

  12. 11.  Use the letters given to complete the star so that two five letter words, one four letter word and two words of two letters can be read. A C E I M N S S UWhat are the words?

  13. 12.  Replace each set of dashes with a word which will suffix the previous word and prefix the following word so that a chain will be formed. 

  14. 13. In each of the following what number should replace the question mark?

  15. 14.  Rearrange the letters of UPRIGHT PARANOIA to give three musical instruments. What are they?

  16. 15. Find a word to fit the first clue. Add one letter to this word to give a word to fit the second clue. Add another letter to give the word to fit the third clue and finally another letter to give a word to fit the fourth clue. What are the four words? NOT OFFOFFSPRINGIN A SHORT WHILEFOOD SERVER

  17. 16. On each row place a word to fit the clue given, if the correct words are chosen a word will be read down the shaded column. What is it?

  18. 17. What number should replace the question mark?

  19. 18. Vincent lives at house number 106, Claire lives at number 151 and Olivia lives at number 57.  Does house number 60 belong to Alan or Alex?

  20. 19.  For each of the following find a word beginning with H that has an opposite meaning to the given word. a) Clear b) Resolute c) Welcoming 

  21. ANSWERS

  22. 1. In the space provided place a three letter word which can be attached to the beginning of the given words to form six longer words.  What is the three letter word?   

  23. 1.  Car. 

  24. 2. What numbers should replace the question marks in the fourth triangle?

  25. 2. Eight in the bottom left corner and 27 at the top.Bottom left numbers divide by 3. Bottom right numbers increase by 4, then 5, then 6. Left plus right gives top.

  26. 3. What letter should appear next in this sequence? C H K P S ?

  27. 3. X. The sequence takes the third letter of the alphabet, then the fifth letter after that, then the third again and then the fifth again and so on.

  28. 4.  Rearrange the letters of TINSEL to give four other words. What are they?

  29. 4.  Listen, silent, inlets and enlist.

  30. 5. What have the following words got in common? YARN HURT LONE ARMY

  31. 5. When rearranged they all give a name – Ryan, Ruth, Noel and Mary. 

  32. 6.  If RM = 5, XK = 13 and JC = 7, what does SP=?

  33. 6. Three. The difference between the two alphabetical places gives the number.

  34. 7. In a supermarket, the first 25 customers of the day purchased an average of two items each. After a further 15 customers, the average number of items purchased by each customer rose to eight.  What was the average number of items purchased by the last 15 customers only? 

  35. 7. 18.

  36. 8.  Replace the blanks in this sentence with two words. The same nine letters must be used for both words. What are the words? The employee’s actions BLANK BLANK until he was caught on a security camera.

  37. 8.  Continued and unnoticed.

  38. 9.  Replace the vowels in each group of letters to form six connected words. What are the words? PRL CRL JD TPZ PL PRDT

  39. 9.  Answer: Pearl, coral, jade, topaz, opal and peridot.

  40. 10.  On each row place a letter that can be substituted for the second letter of the words either side. When completed a word will be read downwards. What is it?

  41. 10.  Almond.

  42. 11.  Use the letters given to complete the star so that two five letter words, one four letter word and two words of two letters can be read. A C E I M N S S UWhat are the words?

  43. 11.  Panic, amuse, onus, am and is.

  44. 12.  Replace each set of dashes with a word which will suffix the previous word and prefix the following word so that a chain will be formed. 

  45. 12.  Ice, less, set and comb.

  46. 13. In each of the following what number should replace the question mark?

  47. 13.  a) 288 The square of the number is multiplied by 2. b) 306 Each number is multiplied by one more than itself.

  48. 14.  Rearrange the letters of UPRIGHT PARANOIA to give three musical instruments. What are they?

  49. 14. Harp, guitar and piano.

  50. 15. Find a word to fit the first clue. Add one letter to this word to give a word to fit the second clue. Add another letter to give the word to fit the third clue and finally another letter to give a word to fit the fourth clue. What are the four words? NOT OFFOFFSPRINGIN A SHORT WHILEFOOD SERVER

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