The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a "professional" escort or hobbyist. Scroll down for each answer. The questions are NOT that difficult.






1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?













The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.



















2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?



















Did you say, "Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator?" (Wrong Answer)




















Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.




















3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?




















Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator, remember?




















You just put him in there. This tests your memory. OK, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.




















4. There is a river you must cross but it is inhabited by crocodiles. How do you manage it?




















Correct Answer: You swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.















According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong. But many preschoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four year old.

 

Ok, I'll take this overly seriously for a moment.  The problem with the test is that the correct answers are actually wrong.

Correct answer to question 1 and 2: you can't put a giraffe or elephant in a refrigerator, they're too big and won't fit.

The questions didn't state the size of the refrigerator or the animals, so its not totally wrong.

I still got them all wrong! lol

Same thing with the elephant, although I figured it would take a larger refrigerator.  

No one said we were putting them in the SAME refrigerator!  If the refrigerator is big enough for an elephant, then who says it's not big enough for the elepant and the giraffe together?

You got me on questions 3 and 4.  Very cute, and I realize this is just a joke.  

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.........cut them into small pieces.....very disturbing..;-]

from sound of the 4 year old level questions....they could all be small toy pieces....

Got #1 OK, but as for #2, as Laurel implied, there was no mention of it being the same refrigerator nor that we should assume that both would not fit in the same one.  After all if a giraffe fits, it's not the average refrigerator is it?

Now #3, got that one OK because of the nature of the answers to #1 and #2. But #4 is a problem again.  There is no mention that the river crossing coinsides with the time of the conference, and you did tell us that the river "is inhabited by crocodiles" not 'was inhabited'.  This implies that they are there now.

So perhaps the person who set up the test was qualified to be a "professional" escort or hobbiest.

Now I'm through nit picking...it was a fun quiz.

Anderson Consulting changed their name years ago. I think they are called Accenture now. Something like that.

However, no knives for you..!

LOL!

Aren't (or weren't) they a division of the same people that brought us that Enron mess?  That's a qualification for making up a test like this.

BTW, I got the first 3 correct, and missed the last for all the logical reasons spouted above, so I won't repeat them.

Ah, Laurel, I am truly amazed that you seemed to fall for Muffyman's clever, but crazy joke. I thought that you are smarter than that.  Reiminds me of the old kids joke, "How do you get down off of an elephant?"

How DO you get down off an elephant?  You can't just tell the riddle without giving the answer.  I won't be able to sleep, trying to figure it out.

I knew it was a joke, but, like not2long, I had to argue some of the points.  It reminded me of an I.Q. test I was given when I was eight years old.  The psychologist stated the question this way:  You're out playing on a baseball diamond, and later you realize you dropped your coin purse on the field.  Draw the path you would take to find it.  

I hesitated a very long time (I was shy), and she kept encouraging me to just to draw it, but I would not move the pencil.  After some more prompting, I finally told her, "I would climb up on the backstop and look over the field for it."  She still insisted I draw the damn path!  I guess I think outside the box... or maybe like a serial killer.

Chopsticks aren't too dangerous, are they?  

Oh, and stuffing a live animal into a cold, dark, airtight box is not disturbing?  

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you don't!  You get down off a duck.  (Or a goose).

I have a 10 and 4 year old and will pose the questions tonight. They are pretty quick, inspite of having me for a father, so we'll see how they do. I'll get back to you all tomorrow. Oh, one thing, I, too, thought the thing to do, was cut up the giraffe first. Are we sick or what? lol

L,

In the hands of an expert... anything can be lethal.

The rumor is that many of you ladies hands are lethal. is that true? Well at least lethal to our bank accounts.

Good answer to the change purse thing.

I know plenty of little girls that would draw a path home so daddy coould buy them a new one!

Laurel:
I thought that if I gave you the answer I'd run the risk that you'd never again agree to a date w/ me. But now, Moose Lover has done it for me.  The best comes from Eider ducks.

How do you put a giraffe into a fridge?  

Depends on the size of the fridge.  They are much to big for home fridges.  If it is a walk-in kill it, cut it up, and carry in the pieces.  If it is a home fridge, kill it cut it up, boial it down to reduce the total size until it can be put into a fridge, and put the result into the fridge.  If that doesn't work.  Hollow out the fridge to get more space.  If there is still not enough space, ...

anybody who does this in a straightforward way is wrong because it simply won't work.  

need I go on?

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A real intellegence test (Gauss Solved it at 6).  

What is the sum of all the #s from 1 to 100?  Math majors need not apply here.  Do it in a minute and a half.  Do it in your head.

A second intellegence test (requires only common sense).  It has been observed by psychologists that a higher percentage of successful people are first born.  This is correct, regardless of the definitioin you use for successful.  why is this true?

Answers in the response below this memo.  Don't peak until you tried them first.

Question 1 5050.  Pair the biggest and smallest #s and multiply and make any adjustments for the middle.

Question 2.  There are more first born people dummy.  Every family with a child has a first born child, not every family has a second born child...

The next time somebody trys this on you, stroke your chin and say.  I have heard the same thing applies to the youngest child in the familhy.  then you can listen to their theories about why this would be true.

Well, the results are as follows. My ten year old got the last one right. Also, she suggested getting a really big refrigerator before putting in the girafe but didnt do well on the other two. My five year old was clueless on all four which surprized me as she usually has something to say about everything. Maybe she wasnt concentrating, always a possibility.
Before we all start yammering about Andersen Consulting a few points. The entity was a large part of Arthur Andersen Accounting. Over the years a very strained relationship developed between the two divisions of the partnership about among other things, money(why arent you surprized). This culminated with a split of the partnersip into two seperate entities a few years ago. I have not heard of any real negative comments about the consulting operation other the usual ones about "beltway bandits" with which those of us who live around your nations capitol are only too familiar.

According to all these tests, I am not smart enough to be alive!