Test your Mensa knowledge

Now here's your chance to see how you would fare in a Mensa test yourself, with this selection of sample questions.

If you correctly answer eight or more questions, you could be eligible to join Mensa – The High IQ Society.

Questions (Answers at bottom of screen)

1. What number is missing from this sequence?

2 4 3 9 4 ? 5 25 6 36

2. Which three letter word can be attached to the beginning of the following words to form five longer words?

FOOD FRONT LED SIDE SON

3. Rearrange the letters of 'IT IS CLEAR' to give a nine letter word with an associated meaning. What is it?

4. Which two letter word can be placed in the centre of each of the following words to form a longer word in each case?

DOES CORNED GOWN OUTING

5. What is the value of the bottom row of the grid?

6. If AE = 4 and GN = 7 what does OW = ?

7. What number should replace the question mark?

8. What letter should appear next in this sequence?

Z X C V ?

9. On each row place a four letter word that will link the two given words (i.e. SECOND – HAND – BAG). When completed the third letters of the added words will give another word reading downwards. What is it?

10. What number should replace the question mark in the grid?

Answers:

1. 16. The numbers 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are squared.

2. Sea

3. Realistic

4. Do to give dodoes, cordoned, godown and outdoing.

5. 65. A circle is worth 22, a triangle is worth 15 and a square is worth 13.

6. Eight. The number is the amount of alphabetical places between the first and second letter.

7. Six. Moving clockwise along each edge, subtract the alphabetical value of the second letter form the first letter to give the number.

8. B. These letters appear from left to right on the bottom row of a keyboard.

9. Memories. The four letter words are JUMP, DEEP, HOME, ROOM, FIRE, SUIT, OVER and DISH.

10. Seven. On each row the first number plus the second number minus the third number gives the fourth number.