The Titan Test

Did not look any up.


3. LACKING MONEY : PENURIOUS :: DOTING ON ONE'S WIFE : uxorious

6. ALL IS ONE : MONISM :: ALL IS SELF : ego(t)ism

9. HOLLOW VICTORY : PYRRHIC :: HOLLOW VILLAGE : Potemkin

10. PILLAR : OBELISK :: MONSTER : Sphinx

12. GOLD : MALLEABLE :: CHALK : brittle

13. EASY JOB : SINECURE :: GUIDING LIGHT : paragon

14. LEG : AMBULATE :: ARM : brachiate

18. JEKYLL : HYDE :: ELOI : Morloch

20. SET OF SETS NOT MEMBERS OF THEMSELVES : RUSSELL :: DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT SKY IN AN INFINITE UNIVERSE : Olbers
 
This test is supposed to be for people whose IQ is beyond Genius level.
I don't think so. The questions aren't easy, but they aren't fiendishly difficult either.
There is another test on the site, in which the questions are really easy.
I would like to see what the people who score IQ 160 plus on these tests would score on a Mensa test.
 
We never worked out what 16 was.
I thought it might be Cortex, but your answer is correct.
Types of lobes.
 
Obviously, ‘spoilers' — I don’t know how to create that fancy button to warn so.

Here’s what I have:

1. Klein
2. compulsive
3. uxorious
4. kings
5. palimpsest
6. solipsism
7. Procrustes
8. Pierian
9. Potyomkin
10. basilisk
11. span
12. friable
13. cynosure
14. brachiate
15. Kuru… or perhaps CJD?
16. occipital
17. cliometics
18. Morlock
19.
20. Olber
21. anagogic
22. Paul
23. genealogy
24.

I omitted two because my guesses were obviously incorrect/didn’t want to make a fool out of myself, but left some of the more promising guesses in. There’s [poor] reasoning for each, which I’d be happy to explain if asked.

None of these were searched up; I’d like to thank excessive reading, crossword puzzles and sheer, “Slumdog Millionaire”-esque, dumb luck for my answers [though they're likely the wrong ones]. If you have the correct list, I’d love to see it. Numbers nineteen and twenty-four are just going to irk me until then.

Thanks for the challenge!
 
Answers to the Titan Test, no guarantee!!? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.puzzles/_B_FTJxS_Ys

Captain Kremmen said:
See how many questions you can get right from the verbal part of the Titan Test for geniuses.
No answers given, but that shouldn't be a problem for sciforum genii.
Say whether you had to use reference/google to help.

VERBAL ANALOGIES

Write the word or prefix that best completes each analogy. For example, in the analogy MAN : WOMAN :: ANDRO- : ?, the best answer would be GYNO-.

1. STRIP : MÖBIUS :: BOTTLE : ?
2. THOUGHT : ACTION :: OBSESSIVE : ?
3. LACKING MONEY : PENURIOUS :: DOTING ON ONE'S WIFE : ?
4. MICE : MEN :: CABBAGES : ?
5. TIRE : RETREAD :: PARCHMENT : ?
6. ALL IS ONE : MONISM :: ALL IS SELF : ?
7. SWORD : DAMOCLES :: BED : ?
8. THING : DANGEROUS :: SPRING : ?
9. HOLLOW VICTORY : PYRRHIC :: HOLLOW VILLAGE : ?
10. PILLAR : OBELISK :: MONSTER : ?
11. 4 : HAND :: 9 : ?
12. GOLD : MALLEABLE :: CHALK : ?
13. EASY JOB : SINECURE :: GUIDING LIGHT : ?
14. LEG : AMBULATE :: ARM : ?
15. MOSQUITO : MALARIA :: CANNIBALISM : ?
16. HEAR : SEE :: TEMPORAL : ?
17. ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS : ASTROPHYSICS :: HISTORY AND STATISTICS : ?
18. JEKYLL : HYDE :: ELOI : ?
19. UNIVERSE : COSMO- :: UNIVERSAL LAWS : ?
20. SET OF SETS NOT MEMBERS OF THEMSELVES : RUSSELL :: DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT SKY IN AN INFINITE UNIVERSE : ?
21. TEACHING : UPLIFTING :: PEDAGOGIC : ?
22. LANGUAGE GAMES : LUDWIG :: PIANO CONCERTI FOR THE LEFT HAND : ?
23. IDOLS : TWILIGHT :: MORALS : ?
24. SWEETNESS : SUFFIX :: BOATSWAIN : ?

From http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/titan.html
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Divye Singh said:
According to me answer to 16th should be
Occipital
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Spatial
What one hears is a change through time, what one sees is a change through space.

An obelisk is a ceremonial pillar, a symbolic rather than structural architectural feature, so "basilisk" - a functional monster - would be a miss. Perhaps "grotesque"?

And so forth.

Genius is as genius does, as Forrest Gump might say. Not a description of a test score.
 
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