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(Just plain common sense)
SIUE CRITICAL
THINKING TEST
1. If you went to bed at 8 o'clock at night and set
the alarm to get you up at 9 o'clock in the morning, how many
hours sleep would you get?
2. Do they have a 4th of July in England?
3. How many birthdays does the average
man have?
4. Why can't a man living in Winston-Salem,
N.C. be buried west of the Miss.?
5. If you had only one match and entered
a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil heater,
and a wood burning stove, which would you light first?
6. Some months have 30 days, some have
31, how many months have 28?
7. If a doctor gave you three pills
and told you to take one every half hour. How long would they
last?
8. A man builds a house with 4 sides
to it, it is a rectangular shape, each side has a southern
exposure. A bear wanders by, what color is it?
9. How far can a dog run into the woods?
10. What is the minimum number of active baseball players
"on the field" during any part of an inning how
many outs in each inning?
11. What four words appear on every
domination of U.S. coins?
12. I have in my hand only 2 U.S. coins
which total 55 cents in value. One is not a nickel. What are
the two coins?
13. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but
9 died. How many did he have left?
14. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add ten. What
is the answer?
15. Two men were playing checkers.
Each played five games and each man won the same number of
games. No draw. How can you figure this?
16. Take two apples from three apples
and what do you have?
17. An archaeologist claimed he found
some coins of gold dated 46 B.C. Do -~70u believe him?
18. A woman gave a beggar 50 cents.
The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the
woman's brother. How come?
19. How many animals of each species
did Moses take aboard the Ark with him?
20. Is it legal in California for a
man to marry his widow's sister?
15 correct - genius
8 correct - subnormal
10 correct - normal
5 correct - idiot
Answer Sheet.
1. 1
2. Yes
3. 1
4. he's living
5. the match
6. all of them
7. 1 hr.
8. white
9. halfway
10. 0 6
11. in God we trust
12. nickel
13. 9
14 . 70
15. they weren't playing each other
16. two apples
17. no
18. beggar is woman
19. none - Noah's Ark
20. impossible
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