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Mayukh Saha
Mayukh Saha
July 6, 2022 ·  2 min read

Can You Ace This Extremely Difficult IQ Quiz?

How do you do in the face of a difficult IQ quiz? Do you falter? Or do you stand tall and answer all the questions? Well, we hope it is the latter, as we have a particularly difficult quiz for you. As we always say, this isn’t something academic, so maybe you would have to keep your wits around you. Also, try thinking of unorthodox means to gain your answer.

So, open up your mind to new observations, and new theories. If you stuck to age-old methods, you would never be able to fit a square peg in a round hole. Observe the questions, and give it your best shot. And if you fail- well, no worries! We have the solution right there for you. 

The IQ Quiz

Are you ready? Here it comes:

There were some people on the train. 19 people get off the train at the first stop. 17 people get on the train. Now there are 63 people on the train. How many people were on the train to begin with?

46
65
48
2

A bat and ball cost 1 dollar and 10 cents. The bat costs 1 dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

$1
5 cents
$1.05
15 cents

6 ÷ 2 (1 + 2) = ?

9
1

You have 1000,
add 40,
add 1000,
add 30,
add another 1000,
add 20,
add 1000 again,
and finally add 10.
What is the result?

4,100
4,300
5,100
3,900

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?

24 days
39 days
40 days
47 days

The Answers

Give your answers a once over.

Are you ready with this? Then here they are:

65
5 cents
9
4,100
47 days

So, how well did you do on this IQ quiz? Did you feel tested, or was it too easy for your tastes? If you stumbled, well, you know where you missed out on. Hopefully, you would not make the mistakes in the next quizzes- as we have a lot more of them for days to come!

Don’t fret about your mistakes, and learn from them. We have it on good authority that there is no better teacher than that. Also, have fun solving them. This isn’t your SATs, after all!

If you liked this quiz, here are some more IQ quizzes for you:

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