Dan Kohn points to an intelligence test: How Smart Are You?
Posted by DeLong at October 27, 2002 02:58 PM | TrackbackI'm surprised they didn't include "Does New Year's Day ever come before Christmas?"
Posted by: Kieran Healy on October 27, 2002 04:19 PMSpeaks more about the test than Bill Gates, I would say. It's just a trick question test, albeit amusing.
Posted by: Ian Welsh on October 28, 2002 06:09 AMSome others, furnished by a 13-year-old of my acquaintance:
--Marie's father has five daughters -- Blanche, Gladys, Ellen and Sarah are the first four. What is the name of the fifth one?
--You overtake the runner in second place -- where are you in the rankings?
--Same question, except you overcome the runner in last place.
(At the risk of being dreary, I can think of a real-world analog to the last one -- the Bankruptcy Code provides that the claim of a wrongdoing creditor can be demoted to below other creditors /or below equity/. But by definition, equity is the class that gets what is left when everyone else has been paid. How can you be below that?)
Posted by: jda on October 28, 2002 11:58 AM