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IQ Check Grading Scale:

How high is your IQ? 8-10 correct: Brilliant, you are smart
(Write down your answers and do it 5-7 correct: average but be careful around smart people
within the time limit of ten minutes) 0-4 correct: keep trying, not so smart. Are you easily fooled?

1. How many months have 28 days?
2. If a doctor gave you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour, how long would it be
before all the pills are taken?
3. Divide 30 by one half and add ten. What do you get?
4. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 10 died. How many sheep were left?
5. If you had one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil
lamp and a candle, which one would you light first?
6. A man builds a rectangular shaped house. Each side has a southern exposure. A bear walks by.
What colour is the bear?
7. Take two apples from three apples, how many do you have?
8. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ARK?
9. If you drove a bus with 43 people from Mong kok and stopped at Sham Shui Po to pick up 7 more
passengers and dropped off 5 people and stopped at Tsuen Wan to drop off 10 people and picked
up 4 more and eventually arrived at Tuen Mun 2 hours later. What is the name of the driver?
10. Which word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
(Answers on P.8)
Mid-Autumn Festival Idioms Contest

1. An apple a day, keeps the (1) away.
一天一蘋果，醫生遠離我
2. A leopard cannot change its (2) . (1) (2) (3) (4)
江山易改，本性難移
3. Blood is thicker than (3) . (5) (6) (7) (8)
血濃於水
4. It’s raining (4) and dogs.
滂沱大雨 (9) (10) (11) (12)
5. Monkey see, monkey (5) .
有樣學樣 (13) (14) (15) (16)
6. Look before you (6) .
三思而後行
7. Don’t judge a book by its (7). 10. Actions (10) louder than words.
不能以貌取人 行動勝於空談
8. Rome was not built in a (8). 11. People who live in glass (11)
羅馬不是一天建成的 should not throw (12).
9. Absence makes the heart grow (9). 自己有缺點，莫揭他人短
小別勝新婚 12. Don’t put all your (13) in one basket.
不要孤注一擲
English Idiom 13. Every (14) has a silver lining.

黑暗中總有一線光明
14. You are barking up the (15) tree.
phrasal verb 走 错了地方
- to eat a lot or too much 15. Let the (16) out of the bag.
Example: We pigged 洩漏秘密
out on all the delicious (Answers on P.6)
cakes and pastries. Top 3 Winners of the 2016
= We ate many delicious Mid-Autumn Festival Idioms Contest
cakes and pastries. (Elaine Tang 4A, Liz Tsz 4B and Yannes Kwan 6B)

10 BREEZE December 2016