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Write your answers down to each of the 15 take a wild guess questions below.    After you have answered all 15 questions, scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answers and your take a wild guess IQ score.

The answer to each question will appear as 3 numbers.  The middle number is the exact answer.  The two outer numbers are referred to as the “margin of correctness”.  However, since these questions are such that on one is expected to know the exact answer, an answer is considered correct if it falls on or between the margin of correctness.  Award yourself one point for each answer you gave within the margin of correctness.  Remember, don’t be intimidated by the questions.  You’re not expected to know the exact answer, just take your best “wild guess”.  Good luck.

1.  In colonial America, to make a ton of iron took approximately 2.5 tons of ore and how many bushels of charcoal?

2.  How long does it take for a lock on the Panama Canal to fill with water?

3.  How many nations competed in the Lake Placid, New York winter Olympic games in 1980?

4.  If you had the contract to paint the outside of the white house, how many gallons of paint would you need?

5.  How many Rhode Islands (determined by square miles) could fit inside Alaska?

6.  How many feet of wire does it take to make a slinky?

7.  The Royal George, built in 1756, was one of England’s largest warships with 100 guns.  It took approximately how many oak, elm, and fir trees to build the ship?

8.  Approximately how many golf balls did Titleist make in 2003?

9.  How many gallons of sap are needed to produce one gallon of maple syrup?

10.  By 1890, approximately how many dead horses were removed from the streets of New York city each year?

11.  In the plains, during the early 1800’s, a typical barter for an ordinary riding horse would require 3 pounds of tobacco, 5 tipi poles, or how many eagle feathers?

12.  How many kernels of wheat does it take to make a pound of pasta?

13.  How many executions in the u.s. From 1977 through 2001 were by a firing squad or hanging?

14.  A violin is made up of how many separate wooden parts?

15.  What percentage of America’s population in 1790 lived in towns of more than 2,500?

Answers:

(1.)   90 ----------- 180 ----------- 270

(2.)   4 min.------- 8 min. -------- 12 min.

(3.)   19 -----------  37 ------------ 56

(4.)   285 --------- 570 ------------ 855

(5.)   250 --------- 499.8 ---------- 750

(6.)   32 -----------  63 ------------- 95

(7.)   2,900 ------- 5,800 ---------- 8,700

(8.)   120 mil. --- 240 million ---- 360 mil.

(9.)   18 -----------  35 ------------- 53

(10.)  7,500 ------ 15,000 --------- 22,500
(most died from being underfed  and/or overworked)

(11.)  8 ------------ 15 -------------- 23

(12.)  8,250 ------ 16,500 --------- 24,750

(13.)  3 ------------ 5 --------------- 8

(14.)  34 ---------- 68 -------------- 102

(15.)  2.5% ------- 5% ------------- 7.5%

Take a Wild Guess IQ score

 0-2       dink-bat: cut out the Game Boy and take up reading

3-5       nothing to be ashamed of; probably have a great personality

6-8       smarter than the average Joe; probably an honor student; could jeopardy be next?

9-12     a nerd: a bookworm: an intellectual; maybe a valedictorian or even an Ivy League grad.

13-15   a genius of the 1st order; the next Einstein; a cosmic intellect, or Mensa candidate.