Mentalacrobatics IQ test - Answers

Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 12:08 PM

On Monday I tested your brain juice with some teasers. Here are the answers. For all the questions with the original pictures check out this post.

Question 1

I asked you what the man was doing lighting a fire in a straight line in the middle of the night.

Answer

SIAFU also know as Safari Ants. We found a line of ants between two buildings when we got home. They had already started attacking livestock and people walking between the two buildings. The fire was to stop them in their tracks or rather to scatter them. Stopping Siafu is almost impossible as we found out one month back in the day. But that is a blog post for another day. Just to prove that “Kakamega chickens are the craziest” check out these kuku feasting on the left over ants in the morning. Siafu can kill cows, horses and even (very drunk) people but in Kakamega our chickens download them like maize.

Question 2

I ask what signs are there in the picture that a major event is about to take place.

Answer

The banana plants (yeah the ones pointed at by the big red arrows).

The event that was taking place was a Harambee for a secondary school. We had asked for signboards to be put up to direct people to the school. When we got there in the morning there was only one signboard up, about a kilometre away on the main road. We asked where the rest of the signboards were we were told, “Didn’t you see the banana leaves along the route?” before they walked away muttering something about how city slickers are bleeding useless.

Question 3

I asked at what level of education does the owner of this desk study.

Answer

Secondary school. Not because the desk is big (you should see the size of some of the kids in Standard 8). There is one main clue:

The desk has a lock.

Primary school students, if they are lucky enough to have an individual desk, would not get a lock. Secondary students however, probably as a symbol that they are becoming more responsible, get their own desk with a lock.

Question 4

I asked at what level of education the boys performing the play study.

Answer

This was probably the easiest one. They are in secondary school. The trousers are the big clue. Primary school students wear shorts. (This must be all very confusing to people who went to “American style” schools where you can wear what you want all the time and uniforms did not exist. I remember being in a school where someone turned up for the day at school in a “Fuck the Police” t-shirt. I was scandalised.

School uniform is one of those things that you hate when you are in school but look at with pride once you leave. Some of my brothers were in Lenana School and a couple of years after they left we bumped into some Lenana boys standing at a bus stop with their shirts tucked out and ties loose. Man my bros jumped on those kids telling them that if they want to dress like that they should remove their school badges from their blazers so people think they go to Kabarak Boys (which apparently has the same colours as Lenana).

I remember bumping into some students from my former primary school and they were (and yeah this is shocking so you better sit down) the kids were wearing the Sunday uniform (white shirt, red blazers, grey shorts) WITHOUT TIES! I lectured them. For a good 5 minutes. In the middle of Sarit Centre. On a busy Sunday. Still it was their fault. If you do not want to wear the school tie then wear the “everyday uniform” (grey shirts, red sweaters, grey shorts). If you want to wear the “Number 1″ then wear the flipping tie ok!

Still on the subject of uniforms I was watching a Kenyan music video on TV the other day (what I can’t spend all my time solving the world’s problems) and in the music video, which was all about sex and smoking, the kids were wearing their school uniforms. I hope that those kids had all left the school by the time that video came out. Otherwise I’m scared to think what happened to them once they got back to school. I know the man we still THE Doctor would have finished us.

Question 5

I asked whether the girl guides were raising the flag or lowering the flag.

Answer

They are lowering the flag.

As any Scout or Girl Guide will tell you (and I speak as a veteran here; scout, Buffalo Patrol leader and later on Troop Leader (BDIS) of the 8th Nakuru Scout Troop) when the flag is being raised it is tied up in a bundle comme ca:

Congratulations to all of you who tackled the questions successfully. As for Mitzy, what are you? A brain reader or something?

An extra big thank you to all of you who responded to my SMS for contributions for the Harambee. I was touched by the response. I will send pictures of the event to your email addresses soon.

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