The document contains 5 questions from the Mensa exam that test problem solving abilities. It asks the reader to try answering the questions, then reveals the answers. The questions include: 1) Calculating the average speed of a person climbing and descending a hill. 2) Determining if someone will like videos based on given preferences. 3) Calculating the time needed to eat 21 pies at a given rate. 4) Identifying an 11 letter word that smart people commonly misspell. 5) Naming a tree with all 5 vowels in its name.

1. Are You Smarter Than A
Mensa Genius?
(Actual questions from the Mensa exam)
from Jeff McHugh, AMA board member

2. The St Louis AMA invited author Bill Donius to
speak to our members about “Unleashing Your
Inner Creative Genius.”

3. As a warm up for the cerebral
neurons before Bill spoke, I
presented the following
questions from the Mensa
genius test.
Click through all five questions
and see how many you can
answer.
The questions are repeated
with answers at the end. This is me. NOT a genius.
GOOD LUCK!

4. AMA President Steve Thomas
climbs a two-mile hill at an
uphill speed of two miles per
hour, spend no time at the top,
and immediately walks down at
six miles an hour.
What is Steve’s average
speed for the up and down
trips?

5. Colleen Sheley from Aspect
Software likes books but not
magazines. She likes going to
shows but not the ballet, and
she likes movies but not
pictures.
By the same rules, will
Colleen like videos or tapes?

6. I like pie
In a St Louis County Fair pie-eating contest, Chris Gregory of
Creatives On Call ate three pies in 20 minutes.
At the same speed, how long did it take to win the
contest by eating 21 pies?

7. What is the eleven letter word that
all smart people spell incorrectly?

8. Can you think of
an American tree
whose name
contains all five
vowels?

9. How’d you do? The answers are next!

10. AMA President-Elect Steve
Thomas climbs a two-mile hill
at an uphill speed of two miles
per hour, spend no time at the
top, and immediately walks
down at six miles an hour.
What is Steve’s average
speed for the up and down
trips?

11. Three miles per hour
(one hour up, 20 minutes down = 80 minutes for four miles; 20
minutes per mile, three miles per hour)

12. Colleen Sheley from Aspect
Software likes books but not
magazines. She likes going to
shows but not the ballet, and
she likes movies but not
pictures.
By the same rules, will
Colleen like videos or tapes?

13. Videos
(She likes words with “O”)

14. I like pie
In a St Louis County Fair pie-eating contest, Chris Gregory of
Creatives On Call ate three pies in 20 minutes.
At the same speed, how long did it take to win the
contest by eating 21 pies?

15. Two Hours, Twenty Minutes
(Seven times as long = 140 minutes)

16. What is the eleven letter word that
all smart people spell incorrectly?

17. Incorrectly

18. Can you think of
an American tree
whose name
contains all five
vowels?

19. Sequoia!

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