NAME _____________________________ Homeroom: __________
MENSA CHALLENGE 20: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
1.
Below are four words that can have the same four letter word added to their beginning to make a new item. What four
letter word will work for all these words?
_ _ _ _horn
_ _ _ _string
_ _ _ _tree
_ _ _ _maker
2.
AZURE is to BLUE as GAMBOGE is to __________________.
3.
What is visible once in a second, twice in a decade, and not at all in a century?
4.
What name is given to the study of postcards and postcard collecting?
a. Postology
b. Deltiology
c. Maltiology
d. Phrenology
e. Paporology
5.
If someone from Ireland is Irish and someone from Italy is Italian, then what do we call someone from Cyprus?
6.
What is the plural of each of the following words?
a. Campus ______________
b. Covey_________________
c. Mother-in-law___________________
d. Quantum____________________
e. Axis___________________
f. Vertex___________________
7.
Which word is the odd one out?
a. Level
b. Rectifier
c. Detartrated
d. Madam
e. Civic
8.
The day before the day before yesterday is three days after Tuesday. What day is today?
9.
Here is a word used in everyday language. Unscramble it: TLRCEIEONACA
10. Only one of these words is spelled correctly. Which one?
a. Fluorescent
b. Garrgantuan
c. Popscicle
d. Commisserate
e. Extraterrestial