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Subject: Yearly Dementia Test

Written By: Dude111 on 07/04/21 at 9:55 am

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
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>> Answer: "bread." If you said "toast," give up now and do something
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>> 2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk." What do cows drink?
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>> Answer: Cows drink water. If you said milk," don't attempt the next
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>> yourself with reading a more appropriate literature such as Auto
>> World. However, if you said "water," proceed to question 3.
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>> 3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made
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>> Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks,"
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>> 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 Germany and East Germany ). Anyway, during the
>> flight, TWO engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last
>> remaining engine is als o 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?"
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>> Answer: You don't bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you're
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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 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 Cardiff , 11 people
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>> five people 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
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>> Answer: Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember your own name?
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>> Now pass this along to all your friends and pray they do better than
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>> PS: 95% of people fail most of the questions
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I only got #5 right!!! (Ah man!!)

Subject: Re: Yearly Dementia Test

Written By: karen on 07/04/21 at 11:34 am






I only got #5 right!!! (Ah man!!)


Then you didn’t read it carefully enough. It tells you not to move to the next question if you got number 1 wrong.

Subject: Yearly Dementia Test

Written By: Dude111 on 07/04/21 at 10:21 pm

Hehe I just read it closer now :D

What was your score??

Subject: Re: Yearly Dementia Test

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/05/21 at 1:16 am

I was wrong all the way! http://www.inthe00s.com/Smileys/4thJuly/grin.gif

Subject: Re: Yearly Dementia Test

Written By: karen on 07/08/21 at 11:36 am


Hehe I just read it closer now :D

What was your score??


I have seen this style of quiz before so I got full marks. I have learned to read each question very carefully and spot the traps they want you to fall into.

Subject: Re: Yearly Dementia Test

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/21 at 11:41 am


I have seen this style of quiz before so I got full marks. I have learned to read each question very carefully and spot the traps they want you to fall into.
There is also that other test made famous last year, in which a previously asked question is asked again around ten minutes later.

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