Which animals sit on Hamilton’s coat of arms? Who is the Speaker of the House of Commons? How many Inuit live in Canada? On our national day, test your knowledge of our fascinating home and native land and its people. Mensa Canada’s annual Canada Day Trivia Quiz covers everything form music to history to sports and everyday life. Few Mensa Canada members could pass the entire quiz. Why not try it, eh? Here are the first dozen questions.
Just before Thanksgiving I volunteered on a nonprofit farm near Princeton, chopping beets to donate to local families in need. While we worked, I started chatting with one of the workers. He appeared to enjoy his work, and seemed like a nice guy – until we got on the subject of the people we were helping.
Poor people, especially those on welfare, are “lazy,” he said. “They” sit on their stoops in Trenton in the middle of the day, “when they should be out looking for work.” He said he knew they were on welfare because of their skin color.
On the first and third Monday of every month — except in summer months when only one Monday will do — in an old building on a downtown street wanting for bustle, the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Wellsburg Lodge No. 2 meet. Members only, and only men.
1) a) Mary Magdalene b) For God so loved the world
1. In the New Testament:
a) Who was the woman from whom Jesus cast 7 demons? ____________________
b) Often seen on signs at football games, how does the quote from John 3:16 begin?
VietNamNet Bridge – Put a license plate in front of most 3-year-old boys and they will probably add it to their building block collection. Not so for Lieu Bao Bao. This little boy from the Nung ethnic group in the northern province of Lang Son will look at the numbers and add them all up. Then he will memorise the sequence and repeat it again anytime anyone wants to hear.
Some things just don’t make any sense: Elton John and 50 Cent? The Godfather (I and II) and When Harry Met Sally?
Or, better still, Mensa club, winemaking, and mixed martial arts — all from a guy who’s not to high on getting punched.
That’s like asking Manny Ramirez to play nice with the Yankees.
But for Team Wolfpack’s Aaron Stark, the aforementioned anomalies may just describe him in a nutshell, and he’s perfectly fine with that.
Do you agree?
1. The Simpsons
2. Seinfeld
3. All in the Family
4. Mary Tyler Moore Show
After a weekend-long game-playing marathon, members of Mensa, the high IQ society, have
named the 2008 recipients of the Mensa Select® seal.
‘I’d much rather understand, perceive and imagine — and be unhappy — than be stupid and content’
Think of a Mensa meeting and you imagine either a bunch of affable masterminds or overbearing snobs. Oliver Roberts discovers that genius is indiscriminate.
On the third Thursday of every month, a group of extraordinary people infiltrates the musty halls of the Old Edwardian Sports Club in Houghton.
Among the brass plaques, framed photographs of conquering teams and smell of Deep Heat they lurk, holding cups of tea and appearing uncomfortable even when they’re comfortable. Some have rounded shoulders, others wear glasses comically repaired with tape, and many flaunt a self-satisfied confidence. They are the brain jocks, and they don’t belong here.
This abode of beer games and towel-flicks is, however, one of the few places they can go to seek refuge from the condition that has both cursed and blessed them throughout their lives. Outside the hall where they find each other is a blackboard with an arrow, and above it, the word that spells out their hope for connection and an exchange of warm, intellectual juices — Mensa.
