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December 4th, 2013

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Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 04:39 pm

Недавно все газеты Британии опубликовали сенсацию: любимец народа – юморист и велосипедист Борис Джонсон, мэр Лондона, блистательно запорол тест на IQ, не ответив правильно ни на один вопрос из заданных ему журналистом

(http://www.theguardian.com/politics/quiz/2013/dec/03/boris-johnson-iq-test-questions)

Can you beat Boris Johnson on 'IQ test' questions?

London mayor Boris Johnson's remarks on low IQ and inequality have attracted controversy – and an IQ test of sorts for Johnson himself.
The questions below were put to Johnson on Tuesday on his monthly radio phone-in by presenter Nick Ferrari.

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson declared that inequality was essential to foster the spirit of envy and hailed greed as a valuable spur to economic activity. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA

1. A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction. Each side having a southern exposure.  A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear? (Чел построил прямоугольный дом, все стороны которого смотрят на юг. Мимо идет медведь. Какого он цвета)

  1. Black
  2. Brown
  3. White

2.Take two apples from three apples, what do you have? (Возьмите два яблока из трех, сколько яблок будет у вас?)

  1. One apple
  2. Two apples
  3. Three apples

3.I went to bed at eight o’clock in the evening and I wound up my clock to set the alarm to sound at nine o’clock in the morning. How many hours would I get before being woken by the alarm? (я лег спать в 8 часов вечера и завел свой будильник на 9 часов утра. Сколько часов у меня осталось до пробуждения по сигналу будильника?)

  1. One hour
  2. 13 hours
  3. Do not answer