Online IQ Test

[conuly]

Which of these is not like the others?

Apple
Lime
Orange
Tomato


Well, let's see. The apple is the only fruit with a core, the tomato is the only berry, the lime is the only fruit that's not roughly spherical, the orange is the only fruit without any green on it (no leaves attatched) in the picture. The tomato is the only fruit that is typically used as a vegetable, and it is also the only one that is made of a primary color (the apple is green). The lime is the only fruit without a visible shine, and the only one with a monosyllabic name. The tomato lacks an "e" in its name. I could go on, but I'm bored now.

The whole test is most fucked up. My mom got a Mensa puzzle book once, and I spent a good part of a day noting all the places where, really, their answer was wrong/incomplete because there was more than one right answer to the question. That was fun, if a bit disheartening. Do only conformists join Mensa?

Comments

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Actually oranges and limes are berries too, just the same as bananas are berries and cherries are drupes but not berries.

[conuly]

Um, I'm pretty sure that citrus fruits are a separate category from "berry". I'll look it up.

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

I do believe you can trust me on that. I enjoyed very much finding out about that in botany last semester in my biology studies at the university here. So I cite my textbook:

"There are three main types of fleshy fruit - berries, drupes and pomes. In berries - examples of which are tomatoes, dates and grapes - there may be one to several carpels, each of which is typically many-seeded. The inner layer of the fruit wall is fleshy."

Biology of Plants, Raven, Evert and Eichhorn. Page. 543.

Berries are a fruit in which the three layers of the fruit, the endocarp, mesocarp and exocarp, are all fleshy.

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

By the way, just to be on the save side, I meant no offence by this.

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

*safe

[conuly]

*laughs* I'm not offended. Why would I be?

Just being paranoid...

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

I did guess that you would not be, but many "normal" people would have been, and yes... let us say that I worry a lot about that. I hate it when I am simply sharing information and people get all cross and think I am patronising them and thinking of them as inferior and stupid and what not.

(actually that reaction often makes me perceive them as inferior and stupid)