Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/362 - Intelligence Tests

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 * Intelligence Tests
 * These are examples of the sort of intelligence tests that were given to children in 's day.


 * An English officer fell asleep in church during a sermon.
 * He was dreaming that the executioner was approaching him to cut off his head,
 * and just as the sword was descending on the officer's unhappy neck
 * his wife lightly touched her husband on the back of his neck with her fan to awaken him.
 * The shock was too great, and the officer fell forward dead.


 * Now, there is something wrong with this.
 * ''What is it?


 * Another such question goes along these lines:


 * If we sell apples by the cubic inch,
 * how can we really find the exact number of cubic inches in, say, a dozen dozen apples?