Football IQ Test

[Woppy V]

I Love football and thought this was cool.





Well, let's dig out the ol' sample Wonderlic and give you a chance to find out. Used by the NFL since 1970, the Wonderlic has been evaluating the mental capacity of draft prospects for the past three decades. Twelve minutes long and made of fifty questions, it's scored on a 1-50 scale. Where do you fit in? Would you be a Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Harvard grad who scored one of the only perfect scores in Draft Combine history? Or would you be a Jeff George, finishing up with a mind-boggling 10?





Take a stab at it below. Grab the stop watch, set it for 2 minutes and forty seconds, and break out a banana.



Ready?



And with that ... begin:



1. Assume the first 2 statements are true. Is the final one:



1. True

2. False

3. Not certain



The boy plays baseball. All baseball players wear hats. The boy wears a hat.



2. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will 4 pads cost?



3. How many of the five pairs of items listed below are exact duplicates?

Nieman, K.M. Neiman, K.M.

Thomas, G.K. Thomas, C.K.

Hoff, J.P. Hoff, J.P.

Pino, L.R. Pina, L.R.

Warner, T.S. Wanner, T.S.



4. PRESENT, RESENT — Do these words:

1. Have similar meanings

2. Have contradictory meanings

3. Mean neither the same nor opposite



5. A train travels 20 feet in 1/5 second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in three seconds?



6. When rope is selling at $.10 a foot, how many feet can you buy for sixty cents?



7. The ninth month of the year is:

1. October

2. January

3. June

4. September

5. May



8. Which number in the following group of numbers represents the smallest amount?



7

.8

31

.33

2



9. In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type?



10. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?



11. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one:

1. True

2. False

3. Not certain



Tom greeted Beth. Beth greeted Dawn. Tom did not greet Dawn.



12. A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister?



Time's up.

















How'd you do? Check the answers below, and multiply the amount you got right by 4.16.



1. True 2. 84 cents 3. 1 4. 3 5. 300 feet 6. 6 feet 7. September 8. .33 9. 17 10. $560 11. not certain 12. 40 years old



Ace it? If so, nice job.



Fail it? Eh, it's not the worst thing in the world. Maybe that just means you're destined to win Offensive Rookie of the Year and make the Pro Bowl next year.



Doubtful, but it's happened before.

 

[Woppy V]

Got them all but number 10. I HATE MATH. Hence why I got a BA in History....

 

[TomT]

Dang it. I R miss every dang one. Gues I'll have to turn pro. :blink:

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Only missed one...#9...just messed it up out of haste.



TJR

 

[Bill V]

I would seriously be worried about anyone over about 16 years old--not just athletes, but anyone--who doesn't get every single one of those example questions correct if they take the proper time to figure out the problems correctly. (Hence, TJR, you're forgiven. )

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Sorry, Bill V, I was trying to stay under the 2 min 40 sec mark. I did a quick mental calc of #9 and transposed the small font wpp with the large font wpp and never double checked my answer.

 

[Mark Grumpy]

X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?

If it's proportional, X does NOT receive less, he receives more. Something wrong here.



grump

 

[Thomas Rogers]

grumpy...



Total invested is 20K.



Total profit is $4,800



Ratio of X's investment to the whole is 9K over 20K...or 45%.



45% of the profit is $2,160...that is how much X would have made if his profit was in proportion to his investment.



X actually only received an equal portion of the $4,800...which is $1,600.



And, $1600 is $560 LESS than $2160.

 

[Mark Grumpy]

:blink: :lol: I read the question wrong. :lol: I completely ignored the

and agree to divide the profits equally

and keyed in on proportional.

Must have been subconsciously thinking X was a dumba$$ for going along with it



grump

 

[Woppy V]

:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Bill V]

Any know if the NFL athletes get to use a calculator when doing this?

 

[Matthew W]

:blink:they know what a calculator is ? or even what one looks like ??

 

[Bill V]

After seeing this here, I did an internet search for other sample Wonderlic problems, and came up with a few sites which include the problems above, plus some others, including a problem that asks which of the following figures is most different from the others, and then shows a square, an irregular trapezoid, a rectangle, a regular hexagon, and an irregular quadrilateral. (It's question #6 at the attached link.)



My initial answer was #5--it's the only figure of the group that has no parallel sides.



But according to this site (and all the other sites with this question), the correct answer is #4. Once I saw that, I deduced that this is because it's the only one that's not a quadrilateral.



However, my answer is still correct!



That's one of the reasons that people shouldn't put much merit in such tests--the answers they seek are often incomplete.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

BillV....



Your answer reminds me of Cheers, when Cliff was on Jeopardy and answered:



"Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?"



True, though he was technically correct, just like you, it wasn't the answer they were looking for.



TJR

 

[Bill V]

TJR, I see your point--and definitely got a chuckle at the Cliff Claven reference, my wife calls me "Cliff" all the time for my frequent references to pointless trivia (I prefer to think of it being more like Dennis Miller than Cliff Claven)--except that on that Cheers episode, Cliff gave the wrong-but-technically-correct answer intentionally, as a way to try to back his way out of a blunder. My answer was my honest first response when viewing the figures presented...

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Bill V, I just looked at the question and the objects. It screamed out to me that all but one had 4 sides. But then again, I read your post first.



TJR