The Mensa Genius Quiz Book

The Mensa Genius Quiz Book

The Mensa Genius Quiz Book

The Mensa Genius Quiz Book

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Overview

Are You a Genius?

Let The Mensa Genius Quiz Book help you find out. This collection of quizzes, puzzles, games, and strategies is guaranteed to tax your intelligence, provide hours of entertainment, and make you jumping-up-and-down-crazy for the right answers.You need an I.Q. in the top two percent of the population to join Mensa, but with the sample tests inside you can see how you'd rate alongside such famous M's (as Mensans call themselves) as R. Buckminster Fuller. You'll also find tips from Mensa members on how to boost your own intelligence, improve your memory, and think more effectively. A special section on how to take tests shows how anyone can do better on almost any test imaginable.Whether you're verbally, numerically, or visually inclined, this "Rubik's Cube of Books" is the book for you.


Includes an introduction by Isaac Asimov.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780201059595
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 01/22/1982
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 713,898
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Abbie F. Salny, Ed.D., the Supervisory Psychologist of American Mensa, has written many best-selling puzzle books, including The Mensa Genius Quiz Book. Members of Mensa have all scored in the top two percent of the population on a standard intelligence test.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Fun of Answering8
Are you a Secret Super Brain (and don't even know it?)15
What is this Thing Called Mensa?19
How to Take a Test, Any Test21
1Trivia23
Warm-Ups25
A Question of Relativity29
Match Wits with Mensa35
2Vocabulary39
Warm-Ups41
In-Word ...47
Match Wits with Mensa55
3Analogies61
Warm-Ups63
Analyzing Analogies67
Match Wits with Mensa73
4Mathematics, Reasoning, and Logic77
Warm-Ups79
The Mensa Diet85
Adding It Up87
Match Wits with Mensa95
5Classics99
Warm-Ups101
Classic Conundrums105
Match Wits with mensa113
Answers117
A Word About IQ and What it is and is Not Mensa Mini Test140
About the Authors143
How to Join Mensa144
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