BuddingGeezer
01-06-2009, 11:13 AM
Your yearly Dementia Test is here!
Found this on another site.
It's that time of year to 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!
Following 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. Read each question once then go with your first answer. The answers are spaced below each question so you don't see them until you've come up with your own.
OK . . . relax . . . clear your mind . . . and . . . . . begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?
Answer: "Bread"
If you said "Toast," give up now and do something else. Try not to hurt yourself.
If you said "Bread," go to Question 2.
2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?
Answer: "Water"
If you said "Milk," don't attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World.
If you said "Water," proceed to Question 3.
3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?
Answer: "Glass"
If you said "green bricks," why are you still reading these?
If you said "Glass," go on to Question 4.
4. It's twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany (if you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West and East 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 land"?
Answer: "You don't bury survivors."
If you said anything else, you're a dunce and simply must stop torturing yourself.
If you said, "You don't bury survivors," proceed to the next question.
5. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people get off and four get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver?
Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own name? It was you!
Have a great year, hopefully you'll remember some of it this time next year!
Ralph Sims
Found this on another site.
It's that time of year to 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!
Following 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. Read each question once then go with your first answer. The answers are spaced below each question so you don't see them until you've come up with your own.
OK . . . relax . . . clear your mind . . . and . . . . . begin.
1. What do you put in a toaster?
Answer: "Bread"
If you said "Toast," give up now and do something else. Try not to hurt yourself.
If you said "Bread," go to Question 2.
2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?
Answer: "Water"
If you said "Milk," don't attempt the next question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat. Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature such as Auto World.
If you said "Water," proceed to Question 3.
3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?
Answer: "Glass"
If you said "green bricks," why are you still reading these?
If you said "Glass," go on to Question 4.
4. It's twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany (if you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West and East 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 land"?
Answer: "You don't bury survivors."
If you said anything else, you're a dunce and simply must stop torturing yourself.
If you said, "You don't bury survivors," proceed to the next question.
5. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people get off and four get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver?
Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own name? It was you!
Have a great year, hopefully you'll remember some of it this time next year!
Ralph Sims