Test for Dementia

Below are four (4 ) questions and a
bonus question. You have to answer them
instantly. You can't take your time, answer
all of them immediately. OK?

Let's find out just how clever you really are....

Ready? GO!!!


First Question:

You are participating in a race. You overtake the
second person. What position are you in?

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Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are
absolutely wrong!

If you overtake the second person, you take his place,
so you are second!



Try not to screw up next time!!!


Now answer the second question, but don't take as
much time as you took for the first one, OK ?




Second Question:
If you overtake the last person, then you are...?




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Answer: If you answered that you are second to last,
then you are wrong again.


Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?



You're not very good at this,
are you?


Third Question:

Very tricky arithmetic!

Note: This must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.


Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 .
Now add 30. Add another1000.
Now add 20. Now add another 1000 Now add 10 . What is the total?




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Did you get 5000?

The correct answer is actually 4100.

If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator!



Today is definitely not your
day, is it?

Maybe you'll get the last
question right.......Maybe.




Fourth Question:

Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono.

What is the name of the fifth daughter?



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Did you Answer Nunu?

NO! Of course it isn't. Her name is Mary.

Read the question again!

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Okay, now the bonus round:


A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a
toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his
teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper
and the purchase is done.


Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to
buy a pair of sunglasses; how does HE indicate what he wants?


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He just has to open his mouth and ask...

It's really very simple.... Like you!

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Don't feel bad....C~B~N had a BAD day too!!

LOL

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AAADD

(Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder)

This is how Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder manifests itself :

I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered. I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

the car isn't washed
the bills aren't paid
there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter
the flowers don't have enough water
there is still only one check in my check book
I can't find the remote
I can't find my glasses
I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail. Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC!



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Age Test

This was developed as an age test by an R&D department at Harvard University.

Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake. The average person over 40 years of age can't do it!

1. This is this cat
2. This is is cat
3. This is how cat

4. This is to cat
5. This is keep cat
6. This is an cat

7. This is old cat
8. This is person cat
9. This is busy cat

10. This is for cat
11. This is forty cat
12. This is seconds cat

Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down

~~SMILES~~

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