To Be Announced...

{Jill is twice the age of her brother who is 15. How old will Jill be when her brother turns 25?}

Wrong! Jill will have been stuck on 34 for at least a couple years now.

{1) All athletes are active. (2) Some of the people in this room are active. (3) Some of the people in this room are athletes. Assume the first two statements are true, is the final statement true or false?}

Well...according to a Venn diagram you could not prove this statement to be true even if you did use the word "some". And ya know...if this questions was devised in a government building in some conference room then the answer should have been: definitely no!

{Which of the following numbers is the smallest? (2, 1, .89, .8, 1.089)}

'1' does take up less font space, no?

{Your supervisor wants to know how many museums are in the United States - you have no access to research - how would you estimate the number of museums in the United States?}

Well hold on now! Since the question makes assumptions and hypotheticals, why can't I state that, "I'm an historical activist and it’s my opinion that there's not enough, damn it!" Notice that I didn't mention hysterical activist, even though the two usually complement each other.

{(essay portion) Write a paragraph using all of the following words...the paragraph can be fictional or true. (whether...temperate...their...beach...it's)}

"Their" not going to take too kindly to someone who ain't going to follow them "they're" directions and only write them a sentAnce regardless "weather" or not it make sense to "it's" grader. Well ain't that a "beach" Greg's got himself a typo...oh well, I'm sure one of his former and loyal listeners will leave him an intemperate thought via the e-mail and same him the public embarrassment. Then 'gain, maybe not.

{(essay portion) Why does a clock run clockwise?}

It doesn't really run clockwise. See originally the hand (when looked at from the top position) did run to the left but there was great debate and over time the sentiment shifted and when it did shift the change was abrupt. So you see, the clock really does run counter-clockwise if judged from an historical account...but now that we have been accustomed to the clock's hand movement to the right, we now consider IT to be clockwise. This, too, may change over time due to political pressures. For instance, a Kerry administration might even influence this clock movement sentiment - after nearly a half millennium - and decide that it's time for a regime change. Though we might just find ourselves under a Kerry regime to alternate the direction of clock movement on a day-to-day basis.

Seriously Greg, I think you SOL! They do not want people as intelligent as you are at the Department of Motor Vehicles...I hope you've made a plan "B".
 

Let me guess. I'll bet this was the notorious Blackbaud test right? I've talked to several people who have taken it and those questions sound familiar.
 

The old clock questions always sorts the men from the boys... Since clocks were invented in the Northern Hemisphere and were essentially designed to mimic sundials they are linked to the suns apparent motion accross the sky (rising in the East and setting in the West).The sun actually never does go down, however the horizon certainly does move up. So, since observers facing South (in the Northern Hemisphere) noticed the whole left to right motion and similar sundial action they quite naturally made clocks turn clockwise as well. Incidentally, there are known examples of early clocks that rotated counter clockwise, but this was apparently not a popular option. Oddly enough the Earth itself rotates counter clockwise, so I guess it would be more accurate to say that that modern clocks rotate counter eartwise.

Regards,

Warren
 

Yeah that was DEFINITELY from the Blackbaud test. That is so freakin' hilarious because I only found this link by searching online to find out how far off I was on the clock question when I took the test recently. I was totally bull***ting my way through that question cuz, of course!, I had no idea, but if the last comment posted on here about the sundial thing is true, then I am in luck. That was the first bull**** answer I discussed in my essay. But I didn't stop there! Since I wasn't sure, I went on to say that originally clocks required winding and that the mechanics inside produced the customary clockwise rotation. Then, I started babbling about the existence of counter-clockwise clocks. I threw that in as a last-ditch effort to sound clever by going on to explain that their inner workings were simply installed upside-down while the display was not. I figured if none of the other stuff I said was right, at least that would prove that I wasn't mentally disabled. I am totally stoked that my first guess was right though! But since they grade so meticulously, I probably won't get credit anyway since the rest of it sounds like I made up a bunch of nonsense i made up just to form a paragraph. I mean, shouldn't the ability to bull**** your way out of a situation be more of a desirable quality amongst employers? What employer couldn't use a full-time bull**** artist to handle his/her light work, eh? "Hmmmm...This guy sounds convincing, resourceful, creative, and confident...But this other guy knows about that clock thing...Decisions, decisions." All I know is, if having a business of my own is in my future, I am going to ask that question too...just to ensure that I never hire some freak who can promptly recite the reason why the hell a clock runs clockwise, or why a manhole cover is round, or why the freakin' birds fly. Anyone with that kind of useless knowledge probably has some real issues with priorities, concentration, and purpose. Yikes! Maybe the whole clock thing is exclusive to Daniel Island secret society. Man, that island has kinda of a spooky, programmed feel to it. Kind of a Village of the Damned meets Pleasantville atmosphere. What's worse is, you KNOW Blackbaud masterminds got some huge breaks on local taxes so that they would build their crazy universe here, since, of course, their operation would surely benefit the community by adding hundreds of jobs. Strangely enough, everyone I know that works there moved here from somewhere else, AND Blackbaud paid moving expenses. Somehow, it seems like that little island has tuned out the entire surrounding city.
 

Yeah that was DEFINITELY from the Blackbaud test. That is so freakin' hilarious because I only found this link by searching online to find out how far off I was on the clock question when I took the test recently. I was totally bull***ting my way through that question cuz, of course!, I had no idea, but if the last comment posted on here about the sundial thing is true, then I am in luck. That was the first bull**** answer I discussed in my essay. But I didn't stop there! Since I wasn't sure, I went on to say that originally clocks required winding and that the mechanics inside produced the customary clockwise rotation. Then, I started babbling about the existence of counter-clockwise clocks. I threw that in as a last-ditch effort to sound clever by going on to explain that their inner workings were simply installed upside-down while the display was not. I figured if none of the other stuff I said was right, at least that would prove that I wasn't mentally disabled. I am totally stoked that my first guess was right though! But since they grade so meticulously, I probably won't get credit anyway since the rest of it sounds like I made up a bunch of nonsense and put in paragraph form.
I mean, shouldn't the ability to bull**** your way out of a situation be more desired amongst employers? It’s completely underrated. What employer couldn't use a full-time bull**** artist to handle his/her light work, eh? "Hmmmm...This guy sounds convincing, resourceful, creative, confident, and motivated...But this other guy DOES know clock trivia...Decisions, decisions." All I know is, if having a business of my own is in my future, I am going to ask that question too...just to ensure that I never hire some freak who can promptly recite the reason why the hell a clock runs clockwise, or why a manhole cover is round, or the history of standing in line, etc. Anyone with that much useless knowledge has got to have some real issues with focusing and prioritizing. Yikes!