{"id":3603,"date":"2007-02-14T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:29:45","slug":"book-report-the-mensa-genius-quiz-book-by-marvin-grosswirth-dr-abbie-salny-and-the-members-of-mensa-1981-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/book-report-the-mensa-genius-quiz-book-by-marvin-grosswirth-dr-abbie-salny-and-the-members-of-mensa-1981-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The MENSA Genius Quiz Book by Marvin Grosswirth, Dr. Abbie Salny, and the members of MENSA (1981, 1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at a yard sale or at a book store cheap, much like the <a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2004\/11\/book-review-mensa-think-smart-book-by.html\" target=\"_new\"><i>MENSA Think Smart Book<\/i><\/a> that I read in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>This book is the same schtick, with chapters on different kinds of puzzles.  Unfortunately, this book&#8217;s previous owner had penciled in a number of the answers, which really rather spoiled it.  I mean, I was trying to prove or disprove those answers instead of answering them myself.<br \/><r><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s worth a quick read and a couple pieces of silverage, but for Pete&#8217;s sake, open it up and make sure it&#8217;s unmarked.  Don&#8217;t fall prey to the same problem I did.  Unfortunately, the next time I pick up one of these books used, I&#8217;ll not remember to do that, ultimately proving that I am not MENSA material.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0201059592&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=musinfrombria-\n20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1578660548&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at a yard sale or at a book store cheap, much like the MENSA Think Smart Book that I read in 2004. This book is the same schtick, with chapters on different kinds of puzzles. Unfortunately, this book&#8217;s previous owner had penciled in a number of the answers, which really rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18260,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/18260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}