YOUR IQ compared to" World Chess Champion" Garry Kasparov ..

I think I know (maybe) why Kasparov didn't get a perfect score.  He's smarter than the testers!

#3 could be Venus.  She is the only female, all the others are males.  Also, Hermes is actually the Greek name for the planet Mercury.

#7 could be Washington.  All the other locations are cities and Washington D.C. is not a city, it's a federal district.  Although technically Berlin is a city-state.

I got 21 for #10.  If the pattern of increments between the respective top and bottom numbers is 3,4, then doubles to 6,8.

I got 35 for #5.  Since the fibonacci sequence breaks down, I saw it as two groups of three numbers.  Group 1 (3,5,8) follows fibonacci so I restarted fibonacci with the second group (13,22,35).

I think the only real IQ questions are 2,5,8,9,10.  4 would be an IQ test if it were multiple choice.   As is, it's a vocabulary question.

plus , some of the answers are wrong

9..... not bad. I was listening to music anyway

I got 142.  I took the Mensa test several years back and got 147.  But I think my old high school test, 131, is more accurate.  When I was in college, we chemistry majors at UMBC and grad students at IIT has seminars where we were given a never-made-before chemical compound and had to present a possible way to make it.

There were two professors, one at each school, who were so brilliant that when I presented my synthetic plan after working on it for fifteen minutes, they'd shoot it down so fast I realized they had thought of the same thing in the first several minutes, saw its weakness, and had thought of a couple better ways.  It gave me an appreciation for how mentally challenged people must think about bright people!

In one case, my research advisor at UMBC and I reacted two different compounds, dienols, in acid and the difference in reaction rate would confirm our theory about the Dienol-Benzene Rearrangement, one of those poorly understood processes that theory said shouldn't occur, if compound A reacted faster than compound B.  But I ran the experiment and the results came out the other way around!

As my advisor, the late Dr. Victor Vitullo, and I sat in his office trying to make sense of it all, Dr. Joel Liebman, Ph.D. in Chemistry at age 19 from Princeton U and in his 30's at the time, walked past the office door.  He was one of the two most brilliant people I ever met.

"Hey Joel," Vitullo called out, "Which one of these compounds should react faster in aqueous acid?"

Liebman looked at the equations on Vitullo's office chalkboard for about 1 minute and replied, "B should go faster than A!" - which is what happened.

Liebman explained how that DID support our theory and a few months later I, a college Senior, presented "The Kinetics and Mechanism of the Dienol-Benzene Rearrangement" as a formal, scheduled talk at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.  We also published the findings in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the British Journal Tetrahedron Letters.

A few months later I was notified I had won a full scholarship to grad school at IIT with a $1700 (in 2017 dollars) a month Teaching Assistantship.

So I'll NEVER forget Joel - who I kept in touch with until he retired.  He was a TRUE genius.  I am not.

The questions here give an unfair advantage to math-oriented people. Those of us with graduate degrees in science and math through Multivariable Calculus with Linear Algebra have and edge due to greater familiarity with number patterns like Fibonacci Sequences, etc.

There should be more logic questions, like:

The lion lies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the other days he speaks the truth. The unicorn lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, however the other days of the week he speaks the truth.
Lion: Yesterday I was lying.
Unicorn: So was I.
What day of the week is it?

Answer:

The Lions is either telling the truth he lied yesterday, which can only happen on Thursday, or lying today and was truthful yesterday, with can only happen on Monday.

The Unicorn is either telling the truth he lied yesterday, which can only happen on Sunday, or lying today and was truthful yesterday, with can only happen on Thursday.

Today is Thursday in this problem.

Q7.  With the cities of the world, I chose Washington DC.  Aren't all the others the largest cities in their corresponding country?  So, I am not a fan of this question.  The others seem good.

Lol my actual IQ from the test I took some years back was 162. I don't think this is accurate. I mean of course it's not accurate it's ten questions! The real IQ test composes of probably over 50. 

I only got number 9 wrong, but I guessed on number 7 and got it right....I always do well on these things, but the people that know me say I'm a lucky guesser.....when I was a kid I used to play dumber than I was intentionally because I just wanted to be a normal guy....

I have taken several IQ tests (not this one though).  My IQ has always been in the 138-140 range.   However, my short term memory sucks.  That's where Kasparov, Carlsen and most other GM's really excel. They can memorize book openings up to 20 moves deep and entire games, sometimes.   Some of them can also play blind simuls.   

My IQ "improves" with age. The more you do of them, the less valid the result. I suspect that my first of 129 was the most accurate.

Clearly, to me, Kasparov would be at least 160. 

iq:151 but shouldnt it be culture fair?

"Thanks to the Internet’s matchless ability to spread myths and rumors, I’ve found myself bombarded with all sorts of misinformation about my own intellect. Spurious lists of “highest IQs in history” might find me between Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, both of whom have probably taken as many proper IQ tests as I have: zero"

Kasparov in Deep Thinking

My IQ is high enough to understand that threads about IQs are usually a bad idea.

Intelligence is good for dealing with new situations; specific training and experience in a given activity will beat it almost every time though.

Which of these two would anyone here rather be operated on by:

1). someone with an IQ of 190 who had read a load of books on surgery but wasn't actually a surgeon (assuming they have all theright equipment and qualified staff supporting them)

2). a world class surgeon with an IQ of 130?

I've yet to meet a strong Chess player who was an idiot but I have known some very intelligent people who failed to grasp Chess.

If psychiatrists can't diagnose Bobby Fischer after he's dead, I'm reasonably sure you can't estimate the IQ of anyone you've never even met.  People tossing out comments like this is exactly how false rumors about Kasparov's IQ started in the first place.

Dear me, I made the comment weeks ago, btick.

Better late than never I guess.

Too much similar math calculations for an IQ test. The Aristotle and Haydn question looking like a child's play. The test leaves the impression of unassorted things thrown in a heap. No wonder I never do them.

I've never liked measuring intelligence by IQ. IQ may somewhat correlate with intelligence, but it does not describe it in any way. Especially given the kinds of questions used in IQ tests. For example, the 1st question in this test doesn't have the "right" answer: it all depends on what kind of oddity you are focusing on.  I would pick the shark, for example, because it is the only ultimate predator from the list - yes, I know, whale is mammal and the other 4 are fishes, but that's just a matter of classification.

According to various tests, my IQ is around 138, but I have to respond in a way I assume they expect me to respond, instead of honestly, and I am VEEEEEERY FAR from the top 1% in terms of intelligence, trust me.  Compared to Kasparov, I am a dumb beast!

This thread started in 2011...some 300 weeks ago.  I wouldn't call my post "late".  It's the first time I saw your post, and it's just as misguided now as when you made it .  Now, if I had responded to the OP that is long gone, that would be late.