MENSA Teaser
When I was a teenager way back when, I use to think up ideas for TV shows and submit them to all the big Hollyweird studios. Nothing ever came of my ideas, and after a couple dozen tries I stopped sending them in. Then the other day I’m watching TV and I turned to this show at 7 pm and lo and behold there’s my idea being played out on screen! I completely freaked out. Then TLDG told me that this show had been on air for about 30 years, it was one of the most popular game shows evah!
Let’s see if you can figure the TV show out from my submitted idea. First, the name of my show was “Wheel of Cabbage”. I wanted a host that was no taller than 5′ 1″ and a hostess who had a skinny,skinny body accompanied by a monstrous head.
I would have three contestants, usually two whiteys and a non-white. A popular phrase relating to cabbage would be on a board and the contestants would try to reveal letters of that phrase by spinning a giant cabbage. Each specific zone of the giant spinning cabbage had a picture of a different type of cabbage or cabbage product. Contestants would try to build up a pantry full of cabbage before guessing the cabbage phrase. At the end of the show, the person with the most cabbages and cabbage related products would win a trip for two to a cabbage farm within the continental United States.
Anyway, as you’ve probably already guessed, I’m talking about Deal or No Deal, obviously. And suffice to say, I really hate Howie Mandel, that insufferable disease-phobe.
Two questions to test you today, two questions that will bend, shape and possibly destroy your mind.
Let’s git ‘er dun!
Oh right; Mr Fnortner and Finn were the last peoples standing after last week’s MENSA Teaser, meaning, they are the Smarty Panted Winners of the Week. You will bow down before them and kiss their feet. do it. Bow down before them. Kiss their feet. Go on, kiss them. Smoochy smoochy, you foot kisser.
Congrats to Mr Fnortner and Finn, you are the cream of last week’s crop.
Now, let’s try this again…
1) What do the following words have in common?
Introduction Biography Exposition Limousine Kilogram Brother Psychopath Stenographer Rhinoceros Mayonaise
2) Unscramble the letters in each word below, then unscramble the order of words to create a Tom Swiftly sentence. (Tom always speaks adverbially.)
MSRALYT I SMUTTBDEI YM OT MSNEA ENITILLGENCE TSET ERULSST DIAS MOT
Ya, good luck with that, or as Tom Swiftly might say, “OODG UCLK HWIT TATH”
Mitchieville welcome all new MENSA players to the game. What’s the worst that can possibly happen if you play and blow it? Sure, I could look up your IP address, find where you live, visit you in the middle of the night, kidnap you and make you live on a work farm in central China for the next two dozen years. Other than that though, what’s the worst that can happen?
I’ll tell you what; “NNTOGHI”, that’s what.
February 10th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Still working on Number 1.
SMARTLY I SUBMITTED MY INTELLIGENCE TEST RESULTS TO MENSA SAID TOM
February 10th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
aHA! I’m pretty sure that using Mr. Fnortners Algebra algorithm from last week’s MENSA teaser, we can answer question number one by saying x = 4 minutes. So IntroductionX + BiographyX * ExpositionX – Limousine / KilogramX(BrotherX)2 + PsychopathZ/StenographerWWE = The square root of Rhinoceros * Mayonaise. Here, I’ll shorten the words so Andy can follow along.
Intro
Bio
Expo
Limo
Kilo
Bro
Psycho
Steno
Rhino
Mayo
February 10th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
1) They all contain an “O”
2) SMARTLY I SUBMITTED MY INTELLIGENCE TEST RESULTS TO MENSA SAID TOM (I copied that from CL)
Awshoot! I just looked at CL’s answer to #2. It’s right. But mine is, too!
February 10th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
BTW: Real funny, CL. Reeeeeel funny…
February 10th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
“Anyway, as you’ve probably already guessed, I’m talking about Deal or No Deal,”
Oh, I thought you were talking about “Wheel of Fortune”.
And there was no need to unscramble that message, it made a lot of sense at it was.
February 10th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
A real Tom Swifty has the adverb at the end, but all the tries above get As for effort, from me at least. The mayor may be pickier, said Mr. Fnortner graspingly:
“I submitted my intelligence test results to Mensa,” said Tom smartly.
And, yes, shorten all the words to an o-form abbreviation.
February 10th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Here’s an informative link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty
February 10th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I read Mr Fnortner’s link to teh Wikipedia and all I have to say is, ‘Who the hell is Tom Swift?!’
If what I learned about Tom Swift author Victor Appleton is correct the sentence should read:
I SUBMITTED MY INTELLIGENCE TEST RESULTS TO MENSA SAID TOM SMARTLY
Begrudgingly, I wish to thank Mr Fnortner… but I don’t have to like it.
February 10th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Always go out fighting.
And I don’t like it either.
February 10th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Well, when I was reading all the books in my grade school library in the 1950s, Tom Swift was one of the characters whose stories I consumed (while the girls read Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins, I presume). If you are of the ‘arry Po’er era, you would not know a thing about Tom Swift. Sorry.
February 10th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
1) All the words contain an “O.”