bakwaas!

actually last one is based on an Interesting Isaac Asimov's article. Its
bit long but interesting:

"What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the
kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of
100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that,
and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn't mean
anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen
police - as my highest duty.)

All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the
complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other
people to think so, too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean
that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are
considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence
tests--people with intellectual bents similar to mine?

For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence
tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I
always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was.
Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it,
watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his
pronouncements as though they were divine oracles--and he always fixed
my car.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an
intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed,
almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I'd prove
myself a moron. And, I'd be a moron, too. In a world where I could not
use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something
intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My
intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I
live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has
managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.

Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes
whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the
automobile hood to say: "Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware
store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter
and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a
hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was
hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he
wanted, and left. Well, Doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man.
He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?"

Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my
first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and
said, "Why, you dumb jerk, he used his voice and asked for them." Then
he said smugly, "I've been trying that on all my customers today." "Did
you catch many? I asked. "Quite a few," he said, "but I knew for sure
I'd catch you." "Why is that?" I asked. "Because you're so goddamned
educated, Doc, I knew you couldn't be very smart."

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there."

Pankaj Maurya wrote:
QUESTIONS FOR ONLY INTELLIGENTS



Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them
instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK?

Let's find out just how clever you really are.

Ready? GO!!! (scroll down)

First Question:
You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What
position are you in? (SCROLL DOWN)

Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are
absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his
place, you are second!

Try not to screw up in the next question.

To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the
first question.

Second Question:
If you overtake the last person, then you are...?(SCROLL DOWN)

Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong
again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?

You're not very good at this! Are you?

Third Question:
Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only.

Do NOT use paper! and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another
1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000
Now add 10. What is the total?

Scroll down for answer.

















Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100.

Don't believe it? Check with your calculator! Today is definitely not your
day. Maybe you will get the last question right?

Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini,
4. Nono.

What is the name of the fifth daughter? (SCROLL DOWN)

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Answer: Nunu?

NO! Of course not. Her name is Mary. Read the question again


Okay, now the bonus round.

There is a mute person who wants to buy a toothbrush. By
imitating the action of brushing one's teeth he successfully
expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is
done.

Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of
sunglasses, how should he express himself?



















He just has to open his mouth and ask, so simple.