How's your analytical ability?

How’s Your Analytical Ability?

Choose the letter of the word which relates to the other in the same way as the given pair:

1) PESO is to PHILIPPINES as MARK is to
a) Russia
b) Germany
c) Finland
d) Australia
2) DAFFODIL is to flower as _______ is to stone.
a) Larkspur
b) Honeysuckle
c) Morning Glory
d) Golden Beryl
3) MONTH is to YEAR as MINUTE is to
a) Time
b) Hour
c) O’clock
d) watch
4) DOG is to BARK as ______ is to HISS
a) Bird
b) Snake
c) Worm
d) cat
5) CELSIUS is to 0° as FAHRENHEIT is to
a) 100°
b) 0°
c) 32°
d) 212°
6) KITTEN is to CAT as SHOAT is to
a) Deer
b) Pig
c) Lion
d) elephant
7) VOLERY is to BIRDS as CLOWDER is to
a) Horses
b) Sheep
c) Cats
d) goats
8) GOLD is to METAL as RICE is to
a) Food
b) Grain
c) Cake
d) man
9) REWARD is to DRAWER as STAR is to
a) Heaven
b) Rats
c) Sky
d) moon
10) STALACTITES are to STALAGMITES as CEILING is to
a) House
b) Wall
c) Windows
d) floor
11) RICE TERRACES are to PHILIPPINES as GREAT PYRAMIDS are to
a) Italy
b) Egypt
c) Japan
d) china
12) DOCTORS have PATIENTS while LAWYERS have
a) Customers
b) Servants
c) Clerks
d) clients
13) SUN is to DAY as MOON is to
a) Dark
b) Shine
c) Sky
d) night
14) LEFT is to RIGHT as HUSBAND is to
a) Mother
b) Children
c) Family
d) wife
15) DYNAMITE is to NOBEL as AIRPLANE is to
a) PAL
b) Fly
c) Wright
d) passenger

Answers ( How observant are you?)

How observant are you?

1. c.) Parallel
2. b.) receiver
3. green; red
4. five stanzas
5. 21 consonants
6. forward
7. By the blue smoke which rises from the pan
8. 7 months
9. a.) 37 C
10. 32 permanent teeth
11. higher
12. four
13. salt
14. The lion has a mane; the lioness does not have.

How Observant are You?

How observant are you?

Do you often ignore things around you? Try to answer the following questions as fast as you can.

1. Lights in our homes are wired in a.) circuits b.) pairs c.) parallel
2. The telephone has two main parts. One is the mouthpiece or transmitter. The other one is a.) handpiece b.) receiver c.) telephone wire
3. The traffic light has three colors. Yellow is in the middle. What color is above yellow? Below yellow?
4. Our Philippine National Anthem is composed of how many stanzas – four? Five? Six?
5. How many consonants are there in the alphabet – 20? 21? 22?
6. In a car, where are you pushed if the driver stops suddenly – forward? Backward?
7. How can you tell, just by looking, when fat is hot enough to fry in?
8. We all knew that there are 12 months in a year. How many months have 31 days – 5? 6? 7?
9. The normal temperature of the is a.) 37° C b.) 38°C c.) 39°C
10. How many permanent teeth do we have – 30? 32? 35?
11. When the string of the guitar is tightened, the pitch of the string becomes a.) lower b.) higher
12. The compass has ____ directions. a.) two b.) three c.) four
13. Sodium Chloride is the scientific name for a.) sugar b.) salt c.)water
14. What is the most obvious difference in appearance between the lion and the lioness?

Answers (Do you Know how many?)

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY?

1. 10
2. 100
3. 2
4. 52
5. 4
6. 2
7. 100
8. 9
9. 11
10. 8
11. 14
12. 12
13. 32
14. 44
15. 87

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY?

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY?

1. years in a decade?
2. years in a century?
3. weeks in a forthnight?
4. cards in pack?
5. players in a double match?
6. tens in a score?
7. cents in a dollar?
8. lines on a tennis courts?
9. players in a soccer team?
10. notes in an octave?
11. lines in sonnet?
12. moons in planet jupiter?
13. b;ack squares on a chessboard?
14. keys on a standard typewriter?
15. years in fourscore and seven years?

Answers ( How sharp are you?)

how sharp are you?

TEST 1
1. Madam, I'm Adam
2.solos
3.pup
4.toot
5.boob
6.Eve
7.level
8.mam or ma'am or madam
9.pip
10.radar
11.tit
12.hannah or eve
13.bib
14.ewe
15.civic
16.deed
17.did
18.peep
19.gag
20.aha! or wow! or hah!
21.pop
22.mum
23.dad or pop
24.mom
25.noon
26.gig
27.redder
28.sees
29.poop
30.eye

TEST 2

"they can be spelt both ways"

How sharp are you?

How sharp are you? (The answers to the following questions are words or phrases which can be spelt both ways.)

1. What Adam first said to Eve?
2. What singers prefer to sing?
3. A lively and popular pet.
4. Sound of a horn.
5. A foolish person.
6. The first lady in the land.
7. A carpenter’s tool.
8. Form of address for a lady.
9. Part of a fruit.
10. A kind of apparatus for detecting objects.
11. A nipple or teat.
12. A woman mentioned in the Old testament.
13. Worn by a baby.
14. A gentle domestic animal.
15. Related to city or municipal life.
16. A legal Document.
17. Part of the verb “to do”.
18. To look through a narrow opening.
19. A joke or funny story.
20. An exclamation of surprise.
21. A small sharp explosive sound.
22. Silent.
23. Father.
24. Mother.
25. Midday.
26. Vehicle
27. More red.
28. Perceives.
29. Information.
30. Something anybody sees through.

TEST 2

Read the following group of words carefully and state your answer in one sentence by answering the question – What have you noticed in the grouping of the words?

- A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL, PANAMA –
- DO NINE MEN INTERPRET, NINE MEN I NOD –
- I ROAMED UNDER IT AS A TIRED NUDE MAORI –

Answers ( How fast are you?)

1. 10 boxes
2. "T"
3. a.) NO b.) 55 by 45
4. 28 handshakes
5. Five cats
6. 13
7. In the English Grammar and Composition exam where Kristoffer had had "had", had had "had had", "had had" was correct
8. Nine Ladies Dancing
9. Owl
10. Four Months ( April, June, September, and November)

How fast are you?

Answer the following problems and time yourself. Test yourself on how fast you answer the problems. Good Luck!

1. If I have a large box with three small boxes in it and two small boxes in each small box, how many boxes are there?
2. Write the letter that follows the leter that comes next after “R” in the alphabet.
3. When you add 55 and 45 the sum is 100. When you add 65 and 35 the sum is also 100. Now, here’s the question – when you mutiply 55 by 45, will the answer be also same as when you multiply 65 by 35? a.) yes? No?b.) Which is greater 55 by 45 or 65 by 35?
4. Eight men are in a room. Each man shakes hands with each of the other once. How many handshakes are there?
5. If five cats catch five mice in five minutes, how many cats will catch two mice in two minutes?
6. How many 1’s are there in eleven billion, one hundred eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven pesos and eleven centavos?
7. Can you punctuate this sentence so that it makes a sense? In the English Grammar and Composition exam where Kristoffer had had had had had had had had had was correct
8. What, according to the song, was given on the ninth day of Christmas?
9. What is referred to in a poem… “Of all the queer birds I ever did see…”?
10. How many months have 30 days? Name them.