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Test Your Word Power, Test Your Knowledge!
By William F. BultasSee how many of these brain teasers you can solve. Puzzles 1-15 are analogies, & take the form of W is to X as Y is to Z, which is written as W : X :: Y : Z. Problems 16-25 are odd man out puzzles. Choose the word that does not belong with the others. For all of the puzzles, guess if you are not sure of the answer, & look for the best answer. When you're finished, you can rank yourself with the scale below. Feel free to add a few points to your score if your native language is not English, and/or if you are under age 18. You'll find the answers on this page. Work those verbal neurons, test your knowledge, & have fun!
Number Correct Skill Ranking 0-5 Need Improvement 6-10 Average 11-15 Above Average 16-20 Erudite 21-25 Professor of Knowledge
1. Zeno : Stoicism :: Muhammad :
Existentialism Islam Physiology Zymology Astrophysics
2. Ruth : 60 :: Maris :
61 62 63 64 65
3. tertiary : third :: feline :
sagacious cantankerous stealthy wealthy productive
4. Raymond : Flash Gordon :: Burroughs :
Mork Frodo Tarzan Skywalker Tarbosh
5. chic : fashionable :: chicanery :
hilarity servitude honesty propensity trickery
6. fortitude : endurance :: intransigence :
forthrightness obduracy temerity consideration voluptuousness
7. movable type : Gutenberg :: lightning rod :
Edison Roentgen Ellison Franklin Martin
8. curiosity : cat :: patience :
parlance important lengthy boring virtue
9. greenhouse : photoelectric :: Titanic :
Mamba Challenger Standard Gota Subway
10. Sarah : Abraham :: Guinevere :
Lancelot Gawain Luther Gallahad Arthur
11. corpulent : obese :: opulent :
silly optimistic wealthy watery immature
12. man : eunuch :: rooster :
capon eunuch renton eland bicker
13. Star Wars : Force :: Space Balls :
Force Schwartz TourDeForce Farce Energizer
14. stygian : celestial :: empiricism :
rationalism idealism existentialism Buddhism asceticism
15. aconite : wolfsbane :: aconite :
grailturn cornback tigerpaw seabrine monkshood
16. crestfallen kindred lugubrious melancholic dismal
17. raven jetty crow Cimmerian onyx
18. Bush Quayle Reagan Carter Clinton
19. Paleozoic Mesozoic Cenozoic Tageozoic
20. Maya Seminole Cherokee Blackfoot Delaware
21. rod volt yard foot inch
22. think dream thought emotion mind
23. water metal chain hydrogen frequency
24. ire umbrage peregrine rancor asperity
25. condense shrink cower retract flinch
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