Are you clever? A FUN test for you.

Australia
January 12, 2007 12:17am CST
Are you clever? - or - are you heading for dementia? A few weeks ago a myLotter gave us a fun mental arithmetic test. Try your hand at this one. Answer them QUICKLY. 1. You are participating in a race. You overtake the person running second. What position are you in now? 2. If you overtake the last person, then you are ??? 3. In your HEAD (no paper & pencil) - Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 and then add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total? 4. Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fourth daughter? 5. A mute person goes into a shop to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth, he is able to purchase it. Next, a blind man comes in and wants a pair of sunglasses. How can he indicate what he wants? 6. For the REALLY clever ones: Two men are hiking in the forests, far from civilisation. In a small clearing, they come across a cabin. Inside the cabin they discover two dead bodies. That is enough information for you to tell me exactly HOW they died. (to help, there were no weapons, no poisons)
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54 responses
12 Jan 07
ok, gonna try again...this has been really bugging me and have been thinking about it way too hard!!! Was it the cabin of an airplane and they were the pilots?
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• United Kingdom
12 Jan 07
Oh I see. I'm glad I found this answer because it was bugging me, I already knew the others, I've seen a few of them before. This one really got me though, but then, I wouldn't have thought of that because I wouldn't have called it a cabin. I think that would be what I'd call a cockpit. But then of course the problem wouldn't work.
@jsgrand0 (246)
• United States
12 Jan 07
congrats!
@rein2410 (809)
• Australia
12 Jan 07
1. Second 2. how can you overtake LAST person????? not possible 3. 4100 4. Mary 5. He can Talk 6. Plane crash (the cabin is an airplane or helicopter cabin consisting only two person)
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@dattatray (893)
• India
12 Jan 07
Answer 1) I'm 2nd in the race. Answer 2) How can that happen... I'm at last how can i overtake myself. Answer 3) 4100 Answer 4) Is it fourth or fifth.. Well anyways the answer is Mary. Answer 5) Well the blind man can ask for the sun glasses as he is not dumb. Answer 6) This is the only quetion i'm not able to solve.. Plz help me with this...
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
Very good! Now think about that last one. Offer some suggestions.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
12 Jan 07
Lol ok Cloudwatcher now Remember I am blonde lol but I will give it a go 1. 1st 2. The person before the last Person 3. The total is 5000 4. Nono 5. Huh??? Blind Men don't need Sunglasses ????? 6. Ok this one is tough I would guess either from Starvation, loneliness or Lack of Civilisation Ok I know that was more then one answer but again lol I blame the Blonde
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
12 Jan 07
Oh ok looking at the one above me I see now where I went wrong Sorry about that
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
That's OK Gabs. What about number 6? All the information is in the question. I'd LOVE you to be the one to get it.
@mjgarcia (725)
• United States
12 Jan 07
I'll give it a try. 1. second place 2. How can you overtake the last person? 3. 4100 4. nyna 5. he just asks 6. I have no idea on this one.
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
Try again with number 4. If you read the question again, you'll see it. Number 6: Just a clue: think outside the square. The answer is already there.
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@mjgarcia (725)
• United States
13 Jan 07
is 4. nyny?
@mjgarcia (725)
• United States
13 Jan 07
duh. I now see that 4. is Mary and I see why. This is a good one.
@kotad6 (209)
• Pakistan
12 Jan 07
Yeap, it is interesting. But i think i am not clever enough to answer such questions. Any others?
• India
12 Jan 07
1.second 2.last but one. 3.4100 4.Nono 5.he is blind not mute. 6.they saw the mirror!!they saw their future!! ok let out the answer!!
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
No 2 is wrong. No 4 is wrong. Good work on the others. No 6: No, I'm sorry. The mirror didn't kill them. The answer is in the question.
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@jolanda33 (720)
• Netherlands
12 Jan 07
oke, here are my answers! 1- second one 2- one behind the last one 3- 4100 4- Mary 5- ask for them 6- hunger?
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• Romania
12 Jan 07
The bear killed them because there was no food in the forest, because the polution killed the vegetation, because the factory was producing poisons for rats, because the city has been invaded by rats, because they felt the smell of cheese from the cheese factory, because there was a food festival in about two days... Now... who's fult is it?
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
Ingenious! See responses 23 and 32
• United States
12 Jan 07
I'm not very clever, but always am game! 1. 2nd 2. 2nd to last 3. 5000 4. nono 5. imitating putting on glasses and covering his eyes to indicate dark??? 6. bodies of what, men, animal?/ starvation maybe ;) I really enjoy this -- how'd I do?
• Australia
12 Jan 07
See response number 32
@doncris (637)
• Romania
12 Jan 07
I answered just like you except the last one, which I really didn't think of anything. It's obvious that I'm not smart enough, but for the last one you need some more info!!
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@eseomame (1146)
• United States
12 Jan 07
Alright, here they are. 1. Second 2. Second to last 3. 5000 4. Nini 5. By imitating a person wearing sun glasses I guess (he he) 6. Bitten by a snake or some other wild and poisnous animal? (another he he) Now please correct me where I'm wrong
• Australia
12 Jan 07
I'm sorry. See response 23 for the answer to number 6
@eseomame (1146)
• United States
13 Jan 07
Ok thanks, I've seen it... but were the others right?
• Belgium
12 Jan 07
1 second 2 no way! 3 4100 4 Nunu 5 he speaks.. 6 there was little food, and so they killed eachother, the cabin fell of the mountain :p
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
No 4 is wrong. Read it again. No 6 They didn't kill each other. The cabin didn't fall off the mountain.
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• Belgium
14 Jan 07
Allright Mary, I had to know that one :P, but the last stays very strange, now I already know it offcourse cause someone else posted it, the smart one :)
@rein2410 (809)
• Australia
12 Jan 07
lol.. ok 1. second 2. first 3.4,100 4. Mary DOH!! 5. Just talk!! he is not mute!! 6. cannot answer
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
Try number 2 again. Number 6: The answer is in the question.
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@atul01 (26)
• India
12 Jan 07
second first 5000 mary why does he need sunglasses they were ghosts
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
Question 2, 3 and 5 are wrong. Q6 No they weren't ghosts and no ghosts were involved
@anja31 (708)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
I am not clever, So if you give me the answer maybe I wil learn from it, but now i feel like that I am stupid.
• Israel
12 Jan 07
1.I would be in 2nd place 2. You cant overtake the last person. 3.4100 4.Mary 5.Well he is only blind he can still speak 6. THere could be no cabin if they are far from civilization. Is that right
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@doncris (637)
• Romania
12 Jan 07
I answered the questions, but how do I know what I did good or bad? Aren't there any guidelines available? Or a test grid? Something to see, if my answers were correct.
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@mjalingo (169)
• Nigeria
12 Jan 07
1.position 2. 2.second to the last. 3.5000. 4.Nunu. 5.by acting as if he want to wear a glass. 6.Thirst
• India
12 Jan 07
first second last 5000 mary he is blind not mute last one is really a clever one totally its too good i mean it was good i liked it
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• Australia
12 Jan 07
I'm sorry, but the first three were wrong. And of course, so was the last one. Have a go.
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• Canada
12 Jan 07
the clearing was caused by a small explosion killing the 2 occupents of the cabin..
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