Note that these are all my own examples, and
Examples for Age 10:
1. Paper Cutting:
2. Verbal Absurdities
Why is this absurd?
(1) "The gingham dog and the calico cat got
into a fight and they ate each other up!"
(2) "All the men in the world are above
average in height."
(3) "Santa Claus lives north of the North
Pole."
(4) "The carton of eggs he bought had more
than a dozen eggs in it, but fewer than twelve."
(3) Memory for Designs
Presents a card with two designs for ten seconds,
then asks the child to draw the designs from memory.
(4) Rhymes
(a) "Tell me the name of a fruit that
rhymes with 'very'".
(b) "Tell me a number that rhymes with
'more'".
(5) Making Change
"If I were to buy a candy bar for 40 cents
and put one dollar into the coin machine, how much change would I get
back?"
6. Repeating 4 Digits Reversed (Three chances, read at a
one-digit-per-second rate)
Examples for the Average Adult
Vocabulary
1. chair
2. notebook
3. garage
4. elbow
5. vest
6. factory
7. comet
8. suede
9. aptitude
10. lazy
11. temporary
12. wander
13. reject
14. blonde
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19. grid
20. Terra
21. supple
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42. lordosis
43. afreet
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71. parvanimity
72. callidity