Digging through the trash.

I spent part of yesterday cleaning up my hard drive at work -- I was running low on space -- and I found the following blog post (saved as a Word file) that I may or may not have posted at that time. Regardless, you get it today:

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World’s Most Difficult IQ Test (short form)

1) Name the letter that comes next in the following series: A, B, D, E, G, ___
a) H
b) I
c) J
d) K
e) L


2) Name the number that comes next in the following series: 1, 1000, 1000000, ___
a) 1
b) 1000001
c) 1000002
d) 1000003
e) 1000000000


3) Name the number that comes next in the following series: 1, 2, 3, 4, __
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) 27
e) 1923.5

4) Name the element that comes next in the following series: triangle square pentagon
a) hexagon
b) octagon
c) circle
d) three triangles in a row
e) Q

5) Blue is to dark blue as green is to ______.
a) dark green
b) dark purple
c) dark red
d) dark white
e) dark black

6) LIVE is to EVIL as 1600 is to ______.
a) 0016
b) 0061
c) 1609
d) EUNE
e) dark black

7) Pauly Shore is to George Washintgon as Adam Sandler is to
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) John Adams
c) Abraham Linco;n
d) Thomas Jefferson
e) Ronald Reagan

Answers:

1) L (e). Odd elements in the series cycle through every fourth letter -- starting with “A” – while even elements spell out the word “BELLBOTTOMS.”

2) 1 (a). The series is a repeating pattern that cycles through the trio of numbers 1, 1000, 1000000.

3) 27 (d). The nth element equals n^4-10n^3+35n^2-49n+24.

4) Q (e). If the (4n+1 mod 26)th letter of the alphabet contains only straight lines, then the nth element is a regular polygon with n+2 sides. If the (4n+1 mod 26)th letter of the alphabet contains a curved line, then the nth element is that (4n+1 mod 26)th letter.

5) dark purple (b). As “blue” has half as many letters as “dark blue,” so does “green” have half as many letters as “dark purple.”

6) EUNE (d). In the first half of the analogy, LIVE is the first four characters in “live,” and EVIL is the last four characters, reversed, in “live.” In the second half of the analogy, 1600 is the first four characters is “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” and EUNE is the last four characters, reversed, in “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

7) Abraham Linco;n (c). As Pauly Shore would likely spell “Washington” by transposing the “g” and “t,” Sandler would likely spell “Lincoln” with a semicolon.

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Eventually, everything ever broadcast on television will be on DVD.
I am so very happy.

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Capitalism.
You can now purchase things for Kim's and my upcoming child, or you can get some stuff for the baby I already had with my other wife.

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John Olerud watch.
Now up, with apologies to Ed.