IQ Test Question
1. Which one of the five choices makes the best comparison? LIVED is to DEVIL as 6323 is to:
2336
6232
3236
3326
6332
2. Which one of these is least like the four?
Horse
Kangaroo
Goat
Deer
Donkey
3. Which number should come next? 144 121 100 81 64 ?
17
19
36
49
50
4. Even the most ___________ rose has thorns.
Ugly
Weathered
Elusive
Noxious
Tempting
5. HAND is to Glove as HEAD is to
Hair
Hat
Neck
Earring
Hairpin
6.
is to as is to
7. John likes 400 but not 300; he likes 100 but not 99; he likes 3600 but not 3700. Which
does he like:
900
1000
1100
1200
8. A fallacious argument is:
Disturbing
Valid
False
Necessary
9. If you rearrange the letters "ANLDEGN," you would have the name of a(n):
Ocean
Country
State
City
Animal
10. NASA received three messages in a strange language from a distant planet. The
scientists studied the messages and found that "Necor Buldon Slock" means "Danger
Rocket Explosion" and "Edwan Mynor Necor" means "Danger Spaceship Fire" and
"Buldon Gimilzor Gondor" means "Bad Gas Explosion". What does "Slock" mean?
Danger
Explosion
Nothing
Rocket
Gas
11. If some Wicks are Slicks, and some Slicks are Snicks, then some Wicks are definitely
Snicks. The statement is:
True
False
Neither
12. Ann is taller than Jill, and Kelly is shorter than Ann. Which of the following
statements would be most accurate?
Kelly is taller than Jill
Kelly is shorter than Jill
Kelly is as tall as Jill
It's impossible to tell
13. A boy is 4 years old and his sister is three times as old as he is. When the boy is 12
years old, how old will his sister be?
16
20
24
28
32
14. Assume that these two statements are true: All brown-haired men have bad tempers.
Larry is a brown-haired man. The statement Larry has a bad temper is:
True
False
Unable to determine
15. Two girls caught 25 frogs. Lisa caught four times as many as Jen did. How many frogs
did Jen catch?
4
5
8
10
15
16. Inept is the opposite of:
Healthy
Deep
Skillful
Sad
Happy
17. A car traveled 28 miles in 30 minutes. How many miles per hour was it traveling?
28
36
56
58
62
18. If all Zips are Zoodles, and all Zoodles are Zonkers, then all Zips are definitely
Zonkers.
The above sentence is logically:
True
False
Neither
19. Sue is both the 50th best and the 50th worst student at her school. How many
students attend her school?
50
75
99
100
101
20. In a race from point X to point Y and back, Jack averages 30 miles per hour to point Y
and 10 miles per hour back to point X. Sandy averages 20 miles per hour in both
directions. If Jack and Sandy begin the race at the same time, who will finish first?
Jack
Sandy
They tie
Neither
Impossible to tell
21. Ten people can paint 60 houses in 120 days, so five people can paint
30 houses in:
15 days
30 days
60 days
120 days
22. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never ________.
Complete
Accurate
Complex
Simple
Wise
23. Which number should come next? 64, 16, 4, 1, 1/4?
1/16
1/12
1/8
1/2
1
24. What number is one half of one quarter of one tenth of 800?
2
5
8
10
40
25. A cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the ________ of nothing.
Emotion
Value
Meaning
Color
Quality
26. Two cars start off at the same point on a straight highway facing opposite directions.
Each car drives for 6 miles, takes a left turn, and drives for 8 miles. How far apart are
the two cars?
2 miles
11 miles
14 miles
20 miles
26 miles