Quizzes test the reader's knowledge of facts and trivia about literature, art, etiquette, music, theatre, dance, science, and history

The True Cognoscente's Culture Test: Your Know Your I.Q.--Now Learn Your C.Q. (Culture Quotient)

Reference

Salny, Abbie F.

Grosswirth, Marvin

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Harpercollins

From Mensa quiz-master Abbie Salny, here are tough questions about tricky words people think they know, as well as games and puzzles using word derivations, meanings, and little-known facts.

The Mensa Book of Words, Word Games, Puzzles, & Oddities

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Harper-perennial

The Mensa Book of Literary Quizzes: An Ingenious Collection of Questions, Facts, and Puzzles

Perennial

So You Think You're Pretty Smart...Try these quizzes, games, puzzles and strategies to find out just how intelligent you really are. Following the success of The Mensa Genius Quiz Book, here is another challenging collection of brain busters complied by Mensa, the internationally famous high-IQ society. You need an IQ in the top 2 percent of the population to join this elite group; this book enables you to match your wits against theirs.Just in case you need them, you'll find all the answers inside, plus tips from Mensa members on how to find clever solutions to tricky, real-life problems. A special section on how to take tests shows how to do better on almost any test imaginable.

The Mensa Genius Quiz Book 2

Addison-Wesley Publishing

Test your wits with this all-new collection of mindbusters from Mensa, the high-IQ society. Master puzzler Abbie Salny provides a fun brainteaser, logic twister, math mystery, or word game for every day of the year. Whether you're mathematically, verbally, or visually inclined, you're sure to find twelve months' worth of exciting challenges inside.Included with each puzzle's solution is the percentage of Mensa members who answered it correctly, so you can score yourself against the people with the high IQs. With a puzzle for every date and an extra for leap years, you can match wits with Mensa 366 days out of every year! Here are a couple of sample questions, and the percentage of Mensans who answered correctly: 
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<li>February 24: Can you make three words from the letters LGNEA? (100%) </li>
<li>May 14: You have fifty coins that total 1.00. If you lose one coin, what is the chance that it was a quarter? (15%)</li>
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The Mensa Genius Quiz-a-day Book

MENSA

Da Capo Press

Brain-Busters: The Most Challenging Puzzles You'll Ever Do

Dodd, Mead

Shocking origins! Altered meanings! Wild abuses of language! Who knew English was so full of fascinating surprises? For word lovers, these quizzes and games by Mensa member extraordinaire Dr. Abbie Salny will be a pure delight…and illuminating, too. She delves into the sometimes-unexpected etymology of a variety of words and reveals how they came to have their present meanings, examines derivations, and analyzes the frequently misunderstood, mispronounced, and misused. Then, she gathers them all into brain-teasing puzzles designed to test and improve the solver’s vocabulary. For anyone seeking a bon mot or le mot juste, here’s the place to find it!

The Mensa Book of Words, Word Games, Puzzles and Oddities

Bbs Pub Corp

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