A test to try

[London Dave]

This story was on front page of nytimes.com, which is no mean feat

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13prof.html?hp

And try the test

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/science/20070313_PROF_GRAPHIC.html

I go em all, but had to cheat a little.....I used pen and paper for a couple!

[Pa Marmo]

I got one out of 8 and was honest in my responses.

[pica]

Great read, LD. I love this sort of stuff.

Oh, 6 outa 8, btw. (One I misread, the other I just got plain wrong!)

[sherrife]

5... but took me a bit longer than it took Terry by looking at his responses...

That last one is funny, sort of like "How many bubbles in a bar of soap"

[London Dave]

[sherrife]

Yea i wasn't looking for any tricks, missed the pythagoras one and misread the clock one.

Oh the simultaneous equation one with the kerosene... with paper i wouldve got it, confused myself with 2y and y's

[Pa Marmo]

I tried to do them in my head quickly and it just wasn't possible.

[Plenty O'Toole]

The test says I am Annafrid from Abba.

[eddiesmith]

I couldnt believe how easy some of those questions were especially that kerosene one, seemed like yr8 maths

I got them all right, only one that took time was trying to understand what the angle question was asking on the clock

[~Madness~]

Of Course!!!

[David]

There were some trick questions there, but I thought the clock one was the cleverest.... I completely misread the question. Got the other seven right, although I did spend a little while on question 5.

Let's face it though. We all got beaten by a seven year-old. There's room for improvement

Nuxta, Sherrife, how do you find out how long it took Terry to work them out?

[sherrife]

just read his words... seems like none of them took him more than 15 seconds.

[leelee]

haha considering i failed yr 10 maths... i actually got 4 of them right!