A guide to the dumb tests

This is a guide where you can look at the reasoning behind every dumb test question.

Introduction

You might have come across one of my dumb test packs while playing this game and you might have been stunned by a particular answer to a question and wonder why is that one the right one? Well, If you don't have the opportunity to play with me during SNT, here you go! This guide will explain the answers to the various dumb tests.

Abbreviations:

• Question -----> Q
  
• Right answer -----> RA
  
• Wrong answer -----> WA

The dumb test 1

• Q1: Which colour is the white horse of Santiago? (RA: White)
  Santiago (St.James) is commonly depicted with a white horse which represents purity.
  
  However, the point of the question is not the historical context but, the fact that this is a common spanish dumb test question which tests your ability to realise that the answer is in the question. (Therefore, the answer is white).
  
  
• Q2: Which job does dr.Stone have? (RA: trichologist; WA: builder, soldier,stonemason)
  He is a doctor (dr.Stone) so, the only reasonable option is trichologist (the doctor for hair and scalp).
  
  
• Q3: Which way is up? (RA: The yellow way)
  The game has an option to fix answers and this question is fixed to have the box which is up (the yellow one) as the right answer. (Therefore, the yellow way is the way up).
  
  
• Q4: If I'm you and you are me, who is the dumbest of the two? (RA: depends on the context; WA: You, me, someone else).
  This another common spanish dumb test question although, more on the annoying side rather than dumb test per se.
  
  The point is that if you say "me", on the normal context of the word you have admitted to being stupid, and if you say "you", under the context proposed by the question, you have admitted to being stupid.
  
  Therefore, the answer is that this depends on the context because the one proposing the question will twist it to his own benefit.
  
  
• Q5: What does 2+2 equal? (RA: 4?; WA: 5?, 22?, Am I missing something?).
  If you go to any calculator, 2 plus 2 equals 4
  
  (as a sidenote, having the equal sign or the text does not matter since the sign is meant to be a mathematical abbreviation for equal/s).
  
  
• Q6: How much is log(69x25x0x420+27x11x10x0x4)? (RA: The answer doesn't exist).
  The logarithm of 0 (both parts of the equation equal 0 because they are muliplied by 0) is a math error and thus the answer doesn't formally exist.
  
  
• Q7: How many holes in a polo? (RA: four).
  As some of you might have noticed, this question is from Splapp-me-do the original creator of "The imposible quiz". At first I wasn't thinking on making more dumb tests, just one, and so I wanted to make an homage to "The impossible quiz" which partially inspired me to do this.
  
  Anyway, the answer is four since the phrase "a polo" has four holes in it (the a, the p, and the two os).
  
  
• Q8: If a car has nine seats, including the driver, how many children can go in the car? (RA: 8).
  Children cannot legally drive so, they can't go into the driver seat since that seat is reserved for drivers.
  
  
• Q9: What is the seventh letter of the alphabet? (RA: h; WA: g, i, j).
  As you might have also noticed, this question is also from "The impossible quiz". The question refers not to the actual alphabet but, the phrase: "the alphabet" of which, the seventh letter is h.
  
  
• Q10: A paradox is? (RA: confusing; WA: false, a difficult situation with two choices, time and space).
  Paradoxes aren't necessarily false (only falsidical ones), a difficult situation with two choices is the definition for dilema (some paradoxes might be dilemas but, this definition is too restrictive with paradox), and time and space aren't considered paradoxes.
  
  However, paradoxes are not intuitive making them confusing.
  
  
• Q11: This Question Is More Obvious Than What You Think (RA: TQIMOTWYT; WA: HWJOPSGAB, LWEVAJDOL, PUQXCEMGO).
  If you look at the random capitalization of the question and put each capital letter together, you get TQIMOTWYT.
  
  
• Q12: Rocketry is to Elon Musk like: (RA: Comfort to cars; WA: Entertainment to movies, Time tracking to clocks, Data processing to computers).
  This question is one of the weirder ones and the point is that since the main job, which made Elon Musk rich, is Tesla (car manufacturing) then, his rocketry business is more like a secondary thing to him (at the time he was more known for Tesla than SpaceX).
  
  If you look at all answers, they all relate a main function with an object which has said main function except for comfort to cars (they are made for movement primarily; not for comfort).
  
  
• Q13: Find the odd one (RA: Hammer; WA: Screwdriver, Saw, Scissors).
  Hammer is the only one which starts with an H.
  
  (Sidenote: another relation can he made which is that hammers aren't pointy/don't cut. I'm aware of this but, couldn't find a wrong answer starting with S which has still a tool).
  
  
• Q14: Find X: (69+420-27+8)/X = 470 (RA: Log(10); WA: 5/0, Square root of -1, infinity minus infinity).
  This question isn't there to test your quick math skills but figure out that it is easier and faster to just look at the answers and replace X with that one to see which one works.
  
  If you do that, you will realise that all are mathematical error except for log(10) which equals 1 solving the equation.
  
  
• Q15: Find the odd one (RA: Ice cube; WA: chair, lamp, oven).
  Ice cube has two words while the others have 1.
  
  (Sidenote: Originally it was supossed to be Ice cube since it was the only cold one. However, that reasoning could work for chair as it is the only one which doesn't have an extreme temperature. Since, I didn't want to change it, I went for another reasoning which works).
  
  
• Q16: If an electric train goes from the NORTH to the SOUTH, which way does the smoke go? (RA: Nowhere; WA: pointing north, pointing south, it goes up).
  It goes nowhere since it is an ELECTRIC train.
  
  (Sidenote: Yes, the cardinal directions are capitalized just to confuse and make you forget about the fact it is an electric train).
  
  
• Q17: Life happens to be a cycle that repeats. It continues because the the species that are alive keep reproducing. So what is wrong? (RA: The; WA: wrong, reproduction, nothing).
  If you look at the text, the word the is repeated: "because the the species". Turns out that the brain tends to omit repeated words on a first reading.
  
  (Sidenote: In the game the first the is at the end of the first line and the second the is at the start of the second line which is needed for the trick to work even more effectively. Turns out that I was lucky in my estimation since I got a text that could do this on my first try).
  
  
• Q18: Timmy's dad has 5 sons. The first is Johna, the second is johne, the third is johni, and the fourth is Johno. Who is the fith? (RA: Timmy; WA: Johnu, Johny, Pablo).
  So, there are 5 children and you have johna, johne, johni, johno, and if you look at the start of the question, you can see that it is TIMMY's dad who has 5 sons.
  
  (Sidenote: this is also a common spanish dumb test question and one of my favourites).
  
  
• Q19: Where is the blue answering box in "Trivia Tricks"? RA: On the left; WA: On the bottom, On the right, On the top).
  This question might feel silly to someone who is reading just this guide however, in the game the fixing answers to a place is used here. It is done in such a way that all of the answers do not correspond with the location stated in their text (so for explample, the one on the top says on the bottom).
  
  
  
  
• Q20: It's simple. The answer is: (RA: A stick; WA: A hammer, A chair, A clay pot)
  The answer is to choose the simplest object which is a stick since it doesn't require any type of human interaction.

The dumb test 2

• Q21: What is a fridge? (RA: A red fig).
  If you look at the answer, you will be able to notice that a red fig is a fridge with the letters reordered.
  
  
• Q22: How many visible balls are there in the "Trivia tricks" chance round vending machine? (RA: 14).
  It took me various pictures to conclude on an answer and it is 14.
  
  
• Q23: Es sencillo. Lo único que tienes que hacer es buscar la única respuesta lógica. (RA: A wording can change as long as it keeps the definition; WA: If the floor is wet, it is because it has rained, If something moves, it can get me anywhere, More Ice cream consumption causes more shark attacks).
  The point of this question is to make it so you can't rely on the question under normal circumstances and you have to focus on the answers. The only way I found to do it was to put the question in another language and it says to look for the only logical answer.
  
  If you take a closer look at all of them, the only one that makes sense is the RA (since words are there to reference things, a wording can change as long as the same thing gets referenced by the new wording). The rest are logical fallacies, the first one assumes there can only be one cause for something being wet, the second assumes that the ability to move (the cause) can do it without any limitation, and the third is the basic correltaion doesn't equal causation.
  
  
• Q24: How do you put an elephant into a fridge? (RA: Opening the fridge and putting it in the fridge; WA: With some peanuts, Going to Mars, Destroying the fridge and rebuilding it).
  I never specified the size of the elephant or the fridge so, you can just put a tiny elephant into a massive fridge.
  
  (Sidenote: destroying the fridge and rebuilding it doesn't imply that it must be enclosing the elephant in the reassembling and, even if it did, that is not putting but enclosing. Putting would require a fridge without the elephant at the start).
  
  
• Q25: Oh no! Another find the correct answering box question! If only someone in the room had a clue… (RA: On the right).
  This question is like Q19 from the previous dumb test, the place of the answers are swapped but, this time there is only a clue to know which box is the right one.
  
  The clue is that someone in the room knows. The only someone which is present in all games is mr.Tricks and characteristic top hat with a RED ribbon. This means the the box should be the red one which is on the right (I hope you've remembered that the places are swapped!).
  
  
• Q26: It looks like gold, a banana is. (RA: Banana).
  It's a banana; the question says so.
  
  As some context, this is another common spanish dumb test question however, in english is easier to get since the translation doesn't work that well. The normal phrase should be: "It looks like gold, silver is not". Silver in spanish is "plata", no is the same, to be in the present is "es", and banana is "plátano". So the trickery is that if you put those together "Silver no is" it would turn into "plata-no es", meaning it is a banana.
  
  This is to show how some things at first glance seen really valuable (gold) but if you look at it the right way, they are as wortheless as a banana.
  
  
• Q27: Where is the green box in "Trivia tricks"? (RA: On the right; WA: On the left, On the center-right, On the center-left).
  So this green box doesn't refer to the answering box but the stand of the fourth contestant (which is green) or if you are less than 4, where the green box appears on the big screen.
  
  
• Q28: How many dark blue lines are in the "Trivia Tricks" big screen? (RA: 11 - sides in a triangle).
  I counted them and they were 8. To make the question more complicated, I put dumb math to confuse.
  
  
• Q29: Find the odd one (RA: A dice; WA: A DVD, A pizza, A donut).
  All of those are circular except for the dice.
  
  
• Q30: Find the odd one (RA: A closet; WA: A radiator, A lamp, A chair).
  It is a closet since it is the only thing where you can store stuff.
  
  
• Q31: Find the odd one (RA: Zebra; WA: Elephant, Lion, Leopard).
  It is a zebra since it is the only one to start with a Z.
  
  
• Q32: ?Enihcam gnihsaw a xif yllacitsilaer dluoc tcejbo hcihw (RA: A spanner).
  The question is backwards. It says: "Which object could realistically fix a washing machine?" The only object proposed which could do that is a spanner. A detail is that the question mark at the start helps you figure it out.
  
  
• Q33: A taste to food is like: (RA: A colour to paint; WA: The engine to a car, The letters to a text, The illumination to a street lamp).
  A taste to food is ancillary. The food must substantially have a taste but, any can do. This also works for a colour to paint but, not for the others since they point to the fact of having that thing instead of any of that type (A car must have an egine (the engine) but any can work (an engine)).
  
  A big clue is the wording since the RA starts also with an "a" and the others with a "the".
  
  
• Q34: Similar to orange? (RA: Green; WA: Yellow, Blue, Red).
  The right asnwer is green since it shares the most letters with orange (both share the g, the r, the e, and the n).
  
  (Sidenote: it can be either yellow or red (which both make orange) since the argument for one can be made for the other and they are cancelled out).
  
  
• Q35: If you clean a vacuum cleaner, do you become a vacuum cleaner? (RA: with enough habit, yes).
  This is because if you do something with some regularity and time, it can be said about you that you normally do that. So if you have a habit of cleaning a vacuum cleaner, you can be called a vacuum cleaner (since you clean the vacuum container of the vacuum cleaner).
  
  
• Q36: Caesar once said: "Jnqsfttjwf" (RA: Thanks).
  If you think about it, you can realise that the message is encrypted and not just gibberish. The way to know how is it encrypted is to see that the quote is from Caesar. This means that it is a Caesar's code (which consists on moving all words an amount of places forward or backward; normally forward). The amount forwards is one since Caesar ONCE said.
  
  If you decrypt it, the message says "impressive". Therefore, the answer is thanks since Caesar is congratulating you for your skills.
  
  
• Q37: Quick! Count human food! 3 apples, 9 pears, 11 chairs, 2 grass, 1 laptop, 5 yogurts, and 4 roofs. (RA: 17).
  If you count it, it is 17. Grass doesn't count as human food since humans can't digest grass.
  
  (Sidenote: When I was young, some of my math teachers posed a version of this question to point out that we should add things with reasoning and not just to add all of the information given to us. Well, it can be said that I learnt from this question and now others can).
  
  
• Q38: Are you a robot? (RA: Ugh, not this again!; WA: no, I'm not a robot, negative).
  The only one that shows emotion (that one of having to do a CAPTCHA again) is the RA. That is the only way to prove you aren't a robot.
  
  
• Q39: Pony (RA: Horn; WA: Hooves, Mouth, Legs).
  Do ponies have horns? No.
  
  
• Q40: If you go back in time and kill your old grandfather, what will happen next? (RA: Not much to be honest).
  You kill your OLD grandfather. Since he is old (and a fact of being old is that reproduction capabilities start to decrease) it is realistic for him to already have fathered your father.
  

The dumb test 3

• Q41: Just press the right key (RA: I did it already).
  Right can mean many things. One meaning can be right as in correct or right as a direction. If you press the right key in your keybord (for controllers that would be the right button) you will select the option on the right which is the RA.
  
  
• Q42: Sedo a salin vahe wiif? (RA: Incorrect).
  The letters are all misplaced. If you place them in the correct order, the sentence is "Does a snail have wifi?". Since do not have wifi capabilities in their body, the right answer is "incorrect".
  
  
• Q43: If you pass the person in second, which position do you hold now? (RA: second).
  If you pass the person in second, you now hold his place making you the second.
  
  (Sidenote: I use the feature of the game to fix the answers so second is at the bottom and some will get it wrong on first impulse).
  
  
• Q44: One day; Sarah, orCa rol, went to the aquarium. She visited dolphins, otters, and orcas. What could be said about this? (RA: It could have not been Sarah).
  If you look carefully at the text, there is an intentional typo at the start: "Sarah, orCa rol,". This means that there is a misplaced space and the right text should be: "Sarah, or Carol,". And as such, Sarah or Carol could have gone to the aquarium.
  
  
• Q45: Build the phrase: round, fruit, isn't, the, red, isn't, and, green, that. (RA: Pineapple; WA: Orange, Apple (red), Cherry).
  You have to take the elements of the phrase and build it. The real phrase is: "The fruit that isn't round and isn't red". The only option which complies is a pineapple.
  
  
• Q46: What is USA? (RA: Universal Strong Adolescence; WA: Uranium Across Saturn, Under Strit Absortion, Useles Sand Across).
  You have to choose the only viable alternative and that is Universal Strong Adolescence since it doesn't have typos and it can be abbreviated to USA.
  
  
• Q47: How much is 77+33? (RA: 110x(10)/(2x5); WA: 100x(88)/(88), 110+(10x3)/(10x3), 100+(11x8)/(88)).
  The answer to 77+33 is 110, that is the first step. The second one is to look at the answer in which the factors which multiply cancel out and you get 110. That would require a multiplication (in this case) and the only one that leads to 110 is the RA (since it multiplies).
  
  
• Q48: Where is the capital of ireland? (RA: On rage; WA: On happiness, On a blue feeling, On craziness).
  The capital of IREland (or the land of ire). Therefore, it is on rage. A clue is that it doesn't say Ireland (with a capital I) so it is not the country.
  
  
• Q49: You went for a knife, went to his house, went through his opened door, killed him, and then escaped through the broken window. (RA: I didn't escape through the window).
  This is somebody (probably the police) accusing you of a crime. However, there is an inconsistency on the accusation which is that it is ilogical to escape through the window if the door was open on the first place (which is why the answer is to point out this inconsistency).
  
  
• Q50: I went to a vegan restaurant and inside I encountered a USB. What is that USB? (RA: Uniquely Small Bathroom; WA: Ugly Salty Beef, Unoriginal Street Bench, Unbiased Simple Butter).
  The only acronym which can be found inside a vegan restaurant is a Uniquely Small Bathroom. They don't serve beef or butter and a street bench is on the street.
  
  
• Q51: Si vous pouvez lire ceci, passez une bonne journée. (RA: Invalid; WA:I don't know, 42 is the answer, Correct).
  This one is the hardest and weirdest question from all of the dumb test.
  
  Although, I want this one to remain a mystery and see if someone can get why the RA is "Invalid" and privately message me the answer. Just try to think outside the box!
  
  
• Q52: On bag 1 there are 4 red balls and 4 green ones. On bag 2; 6 red and 4 green. How likely is to get a red ball from both bags once? (RA: 0,3).
  You have to get a red ball from both. The probability of a red ball in bag 1 is 4/8 (or 0,5) and the probability for bag 2 is 6/10 (or 0,6). Then, you have to multiply those and 0,5 by 0,6 is 0,3.
  
  (one piece of help is that when you multiply something by 0,5 it is half of whatever you multiply since it is 1/2).
  
  
• Q53: Bag 1 has 4 red balls and 4 green ones. Bag 2 has 6 red and 4 green. Probabilty of a RED one from bag 1 and GREEN from bag 2 once? (RA: 0,2).
  The probability of getting a red ball from bag 1 is 4/8 (or 0,5) and the probability of getting a green ball from bag 2 is 4/10 (or 0,4). If you multiply 0,5 and 0,4 you get 0,2.
  
  
• Q54: Door1: Room full of deadly acid. Door2: A killer from 1890. Door3: A bomb about to explode. Door4: A gun that will kill you. Pick (RA: Door 2).
  The killer from 1890 would be dead today so there is no threat to somebody from 2023.
  
  
• Q55: Door1: A killer clown. Door2: A hungry lion. Door3: An evil alien. Door4: Poisoned cookies. Pick a door (RA: Door 4).
  There are poisoned cookies behind door 4 but, there is nothing forcing you to eat them so you are fine.
  
  
• Q56: I ran out of Ideas (RA: Be patient or it will be bad; WA: Then try to find inspiration, Try to fight with those ideas, Write down ideas).
  If you take a closer look at the wording, you can notice that Ideas is capitalised. This means that Ideas is a place not ideas in themselves. That is why the RA is "Be patient or it will be bad" since running out of a place for no reason can lead to health problems due to stress.
  
  
• Q57: Search: What belongs to you but others use it more than you? (RA: Center right).
  This question has two parts. The first one is to solve the riddle, which the answer is your name, and then, the second part, is to find a place for a name. If you take a closer look at your screen, you will see that there is tag to credit the question to someone and, that tag is at the center right of the screen.
  
  (Sidenote: the question was easier when the tag used to be at the top right but it was changed no long ago).
  
  
• Q58: Complete the figure (think in squares): right, right, down, down, left, left, down, down, right, ? (RA: Right).
  The figure is meant to be a two and as such the last part is to go to the right and complete the two.
  
  
• Q59: Find the odd one (RA: Tornado; WA: Wheel, A windmill, Plane engine).
  A tornado is the only circular/cylindrical thing which is not man made.
  
  
• Q60: Find the odd one (RA: Chili sauce; WA: Lava, Fire, A spark).
  The Chili sauce is the only fake hot item (it doesn't increase heat considerably but, it just makes your tongue feel like it is on fire).

The dumb test 4

Q61: Bob (RA: Pepsiman!)
The question feels non-sensical until you realize that the question is credited to Pepsiman! and that is your clue to get this question right.

Q62: Which month has a 28th day? (RA: All)
You usually jump to the conclusion that it is only Februrary but, it turns out that the question is not asking which month has only 28 days; it is asking which month has a 28th day. Since every month of the year has a 28th then, the correct answer is all of them.

Q63: Going to NYC I saw the front of 7 trucks which all carried two trailers and every trailer weighted 9 tons. How many went to NYC? (RA: 0)
You saw the front of the trucks while going so, all trucks were leaving NYC while you were going there. None went since all were leaving.

Q64: Where does the helf on the Shelf live? (RA: In pain; WA: In a land far far away, In a fairy tale, In regret)
I tried to make a dumb test question of the famous elf on a shelf and found this to be the only way. The only difference between helf and Shelf (the wording is changed to give a clue there) is the capital S at the beginning of the second word. If you add that to the answer "In pain", you realize that it says "In Spain" which is a real place that exists and thus, it is the only valid reasonable answer.

Q65: sDRAWrof NOiTSeuq eht dAer Won (RA: Ok, mom; WA: 37, I'm lost in the woods, left)
The question is written from right to left and it says: "noW reAd the queSTiON forWARDs". If you do that and pay attention to the capital letters, you get the phrase: "DRAW NOT SAW". In other words, it is somebody giving you advice about your career future and, taking into account the answers, it is your mom. Therefore, the answer is acknowledging her advice.

Q66: If a bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total, and the bat costs $1 more than the ball, what is the cost of the ball? (RA: $0.05)
The total cost is 1,10$ and the bat costs 1$ more than the ball. If you do an equation like that -given that x is the cost of the ball-, you get: 1,10$ = X + X + 1$. If you simplify that, you get 0,1$ = 2X and that solves as 0,05$ = X.

(Sidenote: this is a real question in trading to teach that you shouldn't buy on impulse and I was slow to add it to a dumb test. I saw that ChatGPT gave me this question in the dumb test ChatGPT edition and thought it had to be in the dumb test 4).

Q67: I came into a shopping center and saw an ATM talking. What is ATM? (RA: Average Teacher in Minnesota; WA: Alergic and Toxic Metal, Automatic Teller Machine, All To Mars)
This is an acronym question and you see the ATM talking. The only ATM that can talk is an Average Teacher in Minnesota.

Q68: I was lost and got TBD from a stranger. What is TBD? (RA: Totally Baseless Directions; WA: Tomatoes Being Defrosted, Toast By December, Too Bad Decorations)
You are lost and you get something from a stranger. Since you are lost, the thing you are asking are directions and thus, Totally Baseless Directions (TBD) is what you get.

Q69: "Two of these can have 10 and I'm part of your body" (RA: Left; WA: Up, Right, Down)
This is a riddle and the solution is a hand. The only hand you can always see in trivia tricks is that of the chance machine, which is to your left (and thus, it is the right answer).

Q70: How many light blue lines are in the "Trivia Tricks" big screen? (RA: 12 minus a sides in a pentagon)
I counted them and there are 7. To complicate it, I made some stupid math. The only equation that gives 7 is 12 minus sides in a pentagon (5).

(Sidenote: there is an oppostie question in the dumb test 2 and I decided to put the other version of it).

Q71: Door1: hungry rats, Door2: an angry old lady, Door 3: an annoying gramophone, Door4: a corrupt lawyer. Pick (RA: Door 3)
You have to pick the right door and the only one that doesn't harm you is door 3. You can unplug the annoying gramophone and you can stop the annoyance.

Q72: Door1: a cowboy, Door2: a mafia boss, Door3: an assasin, Door4: an evil genious (RA: Door 1)
Out of all of the four doors, the first one is the one that doesn't have a criminal behind it (cowboys are ranchers, not outlaws).

Q73: Did the chicken cross the road? (RA: No, it is in its nature; WA: Yes, it is halfway, Maybe, I can't see it at the end, There is no way to know)
I wanted so badly to put this question on a dumb test and I finally did it. Since the question is not asking you why it did it, but whether it did, and thus the sense changes. All of the wrong answers never fully answer the question (either doubt or it doesn't state it fully made it to the other way), except for the RA.

The RA is the one since it is in his nature, it chickened out and didn't do it.

Q74: eehrw esod a tpo ath lyuulas tsre? (RA: On a head; WA: In my car, On top of a mountain, Nowhere to be found).
The letters are shuffled within the words and the sentence says: "Where does a top hat usually rest?" The correct answer of course, is on a head since it is a top hat.

Q75: Closest to Andrew? (RA: Henry; WA: William, Joshep, Jack)
The one closest to Andrew is Henry since it shares the most amount of letters (3; the e, the n and the r). The rest only have 2 at most.

Q76: Similar to Habitat (RA: Pickaxe; WA: Chair, Oven, Stick)
Pickaxe is the most similar since Habitat has 7 letters and pickaxe is the only one with that amount. The rest has less.

Q77: Hopeyouenjoythislongtext,itismypleasurethatyoufindyourselfinthis. Youaredoingood. Tellme,whatistheseventhword(ifspacedcorrectly)? (RA: it)
There are no spaces between the words here and that is the point. If you put them, you get: "Hope you enjoy this long text, it is my pleasure that you find yourself in this. You are doing good. Tell me, what is the seventh word (if spaced correctly)?

If you do that, you find that it is "it" (the RA).

Q78: I talked to my friend Henry and he does not have: seven onions, two pencils or nine maracas. How many "e"s in this whole question? (RA: 13)
The question is quite straightforward. It is just annoying to complete correctly in 20 seconds. There are 13 if you take the time to count them.

Q79: Find the odd one (RA: Wood; WA: Iron, Copper, Silver)
The correct answer is wood since it is the only one that doesn't conduct electricity

Q80: What is the square root of a square? (RA: A line, WA: A triangle, A circle, A rectangle)
A square is a surface and that it is squared by itself (m*m = m^2). If you do the square root, you get just m, which is a line since it is meters in just a single direction and it doesn't make any surfaces like the rest of them.

The dumb test ChatGPT edition

• Q1: What is the next number in the sequence 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...? (RA: 32).
  This sequence is formed by the increasing powers of 2. 2^0, 2^1, 2^2, and so on. 2^5 is 32 so it is the answer.
  
  
• Q2: What is the next number in the sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ...? (RA: 8)
  Turns out that ChatGPT gets its own questions wrong and I had to correct some of these. This question is based on a Fibonacci sequence in which it starts with a 1 and a 0 and then the last to numbers are added to continue the sequence. 3+5=8.
  
  
• Q3: If a rectangle has a perimeter of 28 units, what is the length of its side? (RA: 7 units).
  Turns out that ChatGPT made a small mistake here. The problem is that it is not actually a rectangle, it is a square. The answer is that 7 works since a rectangle/square has 4 sides and 7*4 is 28.
  
  
• Q4: What is the next number in the sequence 0, 2, 6, 12, 20, ...? (RA: 30).
  You have to add to 0 an increasing even number and then continue. So 0+2 is 2, 2+4 is 6, 6+6 is 12, 12+8 is 20, and 20+10 is 30.
  
  
• Q5: If 5 + x = 12, what is the value of x? (RA: 7).
  Simple math. x = 12-5 is 7.
  
  
• Q6: What is the next number in the sequence 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, ...? (RA: 63).
  This question is like Q4 but in this case what is getting added are the increasing powers of 2 (1+2^1 is 3, 3+2^2 is 7 and so on). Therefore, the answer is 31+2^5 which is 63.
  
  
• Q7: What is the opposite of up? (RA: down).
  Yes, the opposite of up is down; what a shocker.
  
  
• Q8: What is the next figure in the sequence: triangle, square, pentagon, ...? (RA: Hexagon).
  ChatGPT has created a sequence of geometrical figures with an increasing number of sides. The next in the sequence is 6 which corresponds with a hexagon.
  
  
• Q9: If you walk one mile in one direction and then walk one mile in the opposite direction, where are you? (RA: 0 miles away; WA: 1 mile away, 2 miles away, you are lost).
  1 mile - 1 mile is 0 miles. Another shocker.
  
  (Sidenote: The last WA looks like a genuine dumb test answer, wow).
  
  
• Q10: If you turn off the lights in a room, what happens to the room? (RA: It gets darker).
  There is not much more to it.
  
  (Sidenote: I'm through half of these and I'm starting to feel like a math teacher for kids).
  
  
• Q11: What is the opposite of hot? (RA: Cold).
  Now you know for those who didn't.
  
  
• Q12: What is the next word in the sequence: night, day, evening, ...? (RA: Morning; WA: Afternoon, Sunset, Twilight).
  Now, I'm not sure if ChatGPT got this question wrong, like some others, and because I'm not a native english speaker I'm not that familiar with these terms so, I can't tell. If someone on the comments can clarify it will be of much help.
  
  
• Q13: If you walk toward the sun, what direction are you going? (RA: West)
  The sun rises on the east and disappears on the west. That is why Asia is ahead of time and the Americas are behind.
  
  
• Q14: What is the next word in the sequence: high, low, medium, ...? (RA: Short; WA: Tall, Small, large).
  It's short and not small since the sequence is talking about sizes and it stablishes that after a high one, there is a low one.
  
  
• Q15: If A is the father of B, and B is the father of C, then what is the relationship between A and C? (RA: Grandfather-grandson; WA: Father-son, Uncle-nephew, Brother-brother).
  The descendancy line would be: A-B-C. So, A and C are grandfather and grandson respectively.
  
  
• Q16: In a group of 6 people, what is the maximum number of handshakes that can take place if each person shakes hands only once with every other person? (RA: 15).
  ChatGPT got this question wrong and said 18 when it is 15 and I checked. The reasoning is that the first person can make 5 handshakes but, the next person can only do 4 since it has already shaked hands with the first person and so on. This makes a sum which is 5(fist)+4(second)+3(third)+2(forth)+1(fifth)=15.
  
  The math would be 5C1 + 4C1 + 3C1 + 2C1 + 1C1.
  
  
  
  
• Q17: If it is raining outside and you have an umbrella, what is the probability that you will get wet? (RA: 0%).
  Apparently ChatGPT assumes the effectiveness of umbrellas to be 100% when we all know that is completely true.
  
  
• Q18: A man walks into a store and buys a shirt for $10. He gives the cashier a $20 bill. How much change will the man receive? (RA: $10).
  20$ - 10$ = 10$.
  
  
• Q19: If a bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total, and the bat costs $1 more than the ball, what is the cost of the ball? (RA: $0.05).
  The equation is x+x+1=1,1. If you solve for x, the result is x=(1,1-1)/2 which means that x = 0,05$.
  
  (Sidenote: this question is not from ChatGPT but a common gotcha question in the world of finance to show that relying on intuition and rash decision making is not a good idea. This is one of the most iconic ones and, expect it to be in a future dumb test because I feel bad for forgetting about its existence and more so by the fact that an AI had to remind me of its presence).
  
  
• Q20: A man is facing north. He turns 90 degrees to his right, then another 90 degrees to his right. In which direction is he facing now? (RA: South).
  There are 360º in a circle and rotating 180º means you are facing the opposite direction (which is south in this case).