Verbal Intelligence
Complete this analogy:
Obese:Overweight:Average:?
Underweight (accept thin/fit)
__ + 24 = 82
What is the missing number?
58
Stripes are to tigers what spots are to __________?
Leopards
Milk, dark, ruby, _____
What is the missing word?
White (types of chocolate)
Find the odd one out:
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury, Ringo Starr
Freddie Mercury (not a Beatle)
You never miss the ______ until the __________. Which words complete the gaps:
rain, clouds fly by
water, well runs dry
soil, worms die out
water, well runs dry
7 waitresses can serve 35 tables in 3 hours. How many tables can 2 waitresses serve in the same time?
10
The day after the day after tomorrow is four days before Monday. What day is it today?
Monday
Which shape comes next: triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, ________?
Octagon (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 sides)
Spot the odd one out:
Centaur, mandrake, goblin, unicorn, sphinx
Sphinx (not in Harry Potter)
Rearrange the following letters to make a word: FADLOFDI
Daffodil
Complete the sequence
10, 17, 26, 37, ?
50
A fisherman has 5 fishes (A, B, C, D, E) each having a different weight.
A weighs twice as much as B. B weighs four and a half times as much as C. C weighs half as much as D. D weighs half as much as E. E weighs less than A but more than C.
Which fish is the lightest? A, B, C, D or E?
C
100 metre sprint, long jump, shot put, high jump, hurdles, discus, pole vault, ______ , 1500 metre run
Spot the pattern to complete the gap.
javelin (decathlon events, track/field Olympic events)
Which word does not belong:
Everest, Vesuvius, Etna, Kilimanjaro
Everest (a mountain not a volcano)
What is an antonym of promiscuity?
Chastity/celibacy
1, 3, 9, 27, ?
What is the missing number?
81
Forest is to tree as tree is to ?
A. plant
B. leaf
C. branch
D. mangrove
B leaf
If white=blue and blue=green, white=purple, and purple=white. What is white?
Green (the only one that doesn't send you to another equals)
Spot the odd one out:
Bruno Fernandes, Lionel Messi, Paul Pogba, Wayne Rooney
Lionel Messi (Has never/does not play for Manchester United)
Rearrange the following letters to make a word:
t e c a r
cater
Write a calculation that equals 2000 if the only number you can use is 2, and you can use add, take-away, divide or multiply (2 can be used as many times as required).
2222-222
6121135 is to flame as 21215120 is to ?
C bloat (2=B, 12=l, 15=o, 1=a, 20=t)
If NEW YORK can be encrypted as PGYAQTM, how can you code the word CHARLOTTE?
2 (Move each letter two alphabet letters)
Spot the odd one out:
Gary Speed, Ryan Giggs, Gareth Bale, Chris Gunter, Ashley Williams
Ryan Giggs (Has less than 80 caps for Wales)