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Puzzle – Maria C. Faverio
The Kraxpelax Test Of Intuitive Intelligence (version 1) – Peter (Krax) Ingestad
Test Puzzle – Peter (Krax) Ingestad
A Letter Test – Peter (Krax) Ingestad

Puzzle – Maria C. Faverio

Which figure comes next in the following series?

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The Kraxpelax Test Of Intuitive Intelligence (version 1) – Peter (Krax) Ingestad

I am into test construction as a little hobby. This one is perfectly seriously intended, but may be taken as a poem as well:

The Kraxpelax Test Of Intuitive Intelligence (version 1) or just

KTU1

TIME LIMIT 15 minutes. Using reference (like google) allowed.

1. Complete the dialogue below:

Where do you live?
High up somewhere else.
What are you thinking about?

A: - The whereabouts of Jesus.
B. - G-d and Sex.
C: - A well used bicycle tyre.
D: - I have forgotten.
E: - A snake hopping around.
F: - Ham and eggs.
G: - Nothing.
H: - The farting nightingales of Lust.
I: - The meaning of "meaning".
J: - I've gotta pee.

2. What film is referred to in this short poem:
The sleeping man passes by the refuse chute.
Slowly the shutter opens...

A: Psycho
B: Traffic (by Jacques Tati)
C: Deep Throat
D: American Psycho
E: The Shining
F: Insomnia
G: M
H: Sleepwalkers
I: Malcolm X
J: Pulp Fiction

3. What kind of person shouts like this:

Mignonette!
Come here immediately, I will give you a new pistil.

A: The Beginner
B: The Jew
C: The Florist
D: Dad
E: God
F: The Serial Killer
G: The IQ test junkie
H: The Stand Up Comedian
I: The Politician
J: The Pimp

4. What is this about:

NIGHT!! The sudden voice:
Tomorrow you will travel to Trelleborg.

(Remark: Trelleborg is the southernmost town of Sweden. It's medium size.)

A: Broiled eggs
B: Mathematics
C: Sweden
D: American TV shows
E: Paul Nachbar's headache
F: Elks copulating
G: Pornography
H: Religion
I: Seafaring
J: Nothing at all

5. What country is to be associated with this exclamation:

Ah, this sadness of the fall!

A: China
B: Oz
C: Sweden
D: Britain
E: Mordor
F: Dreamland
G: Italy
H: Massachusetts
I: India
J: Ancient Greece

6. Which one of the correspondences below really strikes Kraxpelax:

A: egg - cosmogony
B: sex - seven
C: A - Omega
D: Yes - Nope
E: escalation - rabbit
F: Rome - Germany
G: all - something
H: Jesus - dope
I: anathema - Brahms
J: Tao - tennis

7. What person is the dialoge below referring to:

It dawns outside.
Why?
The thief sneezed.

A: Jack the Ripper
B: Arsène Lupin
C: Jesus
D: Mark Twain
E: Anyone
F: Bodhidharma
G: Bob
H: Samuel Beckett
I: Kraxpelax
J: Thomas Alva Edison

8. Acoustic enlightenment is like:

A: an oxymoron
B: black snow
C: Blue Ice
D: visual music
E: sexual love
F: pretended profundity
G: a sensual organ
H: nothing else
I: musical insight
J: shoes and bananas

9. Who had the dream told about in short poem below:

A voice
in the darkness:

"the picture
hangs askew"

A: St Paul
B: Mike Tyson
C: Ted Bundy
D: Donald Duck
E: René Descartes
F: Frodo
G: Sigmund Freud
H: Karl Marx
I: Madonna
J: Chris Langan

10. How many flashes are there?

A: None
B: googolplex
C: gamma
D: Time
E: It varies
F: Zen
G: Three
H: One
I: innumerable
J: It depends on nothing

11. Nonsense is ...what?

A: everything
B: sex
C: abracadabra
D: God
E: mystery
F: meaningless
G: humor
H: death
I: time
J: life

12. How is the smell of snow?

A: high
B: striking the austere fatherhood of Noon
C: black
D: exhilarating
E: nonexistent
F: there
G: confusing
H: meaningless
I: of negligible interest to Al Pacino(?)
J: funny

13. Mystic Enlightenment is like:

A: Sex without headache
B: Disneyland sans Lumière
B: Rabbits without a poonatory
C: a summer without a moon
D: mystery
E: faith ohne God
F: kanaana ne kubaya qubayash
G: Being without Being
H: Spain without Michelangelo
I: text without a rider
J: a knock with outside

14. What is time about?

A: clocks
B: history
C: life
D: nothing
E: It's all about you
F: existence
G: room
H: God
I: futility
J: sex

15. WTF is this test really about?

A: nothing
B: knowing the obvious
C: having fun
D: profound pretension
E: Oz without Jesus
F: measuring intuitive intelligence
G: making an impression on Laura
H: ham and eggs
G: sexual overcompensation
I: socializing
J: there is no clear answer

16: Who fears the hornblower?

A: Legolas
B: Napoleon
C: Jesus
D: Nefertiti
E: Karl C. Griggs
F: Isaac Newton
G: nobody
H: Harold Lloyd
I: the sinner
J: Miles Davis
¨

17. What is the third line of the three line text below:

How you talk, Felix, What was "this" you said?
Which is it now -

A: I must have forgotten my bus ticket!
B: The band will play forever.
C: Who is that man, barking under the Moon...
D: Let's spend the nignt together.
E: I will be back in a single minute.
F: Nobody knows where the Iron crosses grow.
G: Frankly, ma'am, I don't give a damn.
H: I am liberal about sex.
I: There are many roads leading out of Rome.
J: And the rest is somnolence.

18. What is "despite everything"?

A: ham and eggs
B: the farting nightingales of Lust
C: an odor of petroleum, prevailing thoughout the world
D: Sexuality, this oldest sunset in the deep of the woods...
E: Prohibition of announcing another passing by
F: pure joy of ice hockey
G: Death as the proper definiton of Life
H: sex, lies and video tapes
I: the urge to kill time
J: a falling leaf in the autumn...

19: Complete the dialogue below:

But then that.
What?

A: - Give me a break.
B: - The girl from Ipanema went to Hiroshima.
C: - Nothing happened...
D: - Frankly, ma'am, I don't give a damn.
E: - Just whistle.
F: - Of course I am serious.
G: - Will you ever grow up?
H: - Veni, vidi, vici.
I: - Nowbody knows the trouble I have.
J: - I make you nervous, then?

20. Which of these pairs constitutes opposites:

A: Cesar Franck - oblivion
B: sausage - cat
C: eternity - Chinese Wall
D: bird - necktie
E: philosophy - etymology
F: wintery lakes - sunnytime blues
G: basketball - Boston Tea Party
H: a helicopter - a coffee-mill on wheels
I: River Phoenix - Charlie Parker
J: barbarian woman - Meryl Streep

Published in current issue of Chiaroscuro, internet journal of VinCI and ISI-S.

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Test Puzzle – Peter (Krax) Ingestad

What's unique with this Association Test?

"start

1. mongolian, adminicular
2. contango, intersubjective
3. solitary, toothpicker
4. backwardation, sickening
5. altricial, waffles
6. dreadnought, cineast
7. bulimi, canasta
8. paladine, firetrap
9. cop, semiparanoid
10. hebephrenic, shoemaker

end"

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A Letter Test – Peter (Krax) Ingestad

Time limit 15 minutes

1 A B B ? >
2 N U T ?
3 A E D H G ? J >
4 X X ? >
5 A E I ? >
6 E M ? >
7 S H - ?
8 W E I R R R ? >
9 C D E E I R R R S V ? >
10 A G O ? 8 >
11 B P ? >
12 S T U ? Y >
13 L K ? L N >
14 A ? D G L S >
15 A C ? K O
16 B D D U B D I ? A B B D >
17 C O S ? >
18 A D I R I ? >
19 A C ? >
20 ? E I M O R S T U >

- end of test

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