Members Yearly Dementia Test

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Yearly Dementia
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> take our annual senior citizen test.
> Exercise of the brain is
> as important as exercise of the muscles. As
> we grow older, it's
> important to keep mentally alert. If you
> don't use it, you lose
> it! Below is a very private way to gauge your loss
> or non-loss of
> intelligence.
> Take the test presented here to determine if
> you're losing it or not. The spaces below are
> so you don't see the
> answers until you've made your answer.
> OK, relax, clear your
> mind and begin.
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> 1. What do
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> Answer: 'bread.' If you
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> hurt yourself. If you said, bread, go to
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> 2. Say
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> Now spell 'silk.' What do cows
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> Answer: Cows drink water. If you
> said 'milk,' don't attempt the next
> question. Your brain is
> over-stressed and may even overheat. Content
> yourself with
> reading a more appropriate literature such
> as Auto World.
> However, if you said 'water',
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> 3. If a red house is
> made from red bricks and a blue house is made
> from blue bricks
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> black brick s, what
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> Answer: Greenhouses are made from
> glass.. If you said 'green bricks,' why
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> If you said 'glass,' go on to Question 4.
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> 4... It's twenty years
> ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over
> Germany
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> recall, Germany at the time was politically
> divided into West
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> Germany ) Anyway,
> during the flight, two engines fail. The
> pilot, realizing that
> the last remaining engine is also failing,
> decides on a crash
> landing procedure.
> Unfortunately the engine fails before he
> can do so and the plane
> fatally crashes smack in the middle of
> 'no man's land' between
> East Germany and West
> Germany ... Where would you bury the
> survivors? East
> Germany , West Germany , or no man's
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> Answer: You don't
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> If you said ANYTHING else, you're a dunce
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> 5. Without using a Calculator - You are
> driving a bus
> from London to
> Milford
> Haven in
> Wales . In London ,
> 17 people
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> bus.
> In Reading , 6 people
> get off the bus and 9 people
> get on.
> In Swindon, 2
> people get off and 4 get
> on.
> In Cardiff , 11 people
> get off and 16 people
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> In Swansea , ;3 people get off and
> 5 people get on.
> In Carmathen,
> 6 people
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> You then arrive at
> Milford Haven..
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> Without scrolling back to review, how old is the bus
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> Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
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> Don't you remember your own age? It was YOU driving the bus!!
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> If you pass
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> your friends, pray they do better than
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I passed does that mean I still have my wits.
The mind is the 2nd thing to go