As we grow older, it's important
that we keep mentally alert
(= uyanık, dikkatli).
The saying; "If you don't use
it, you will lose it" applies, more than anything else (including your ever
so precious epicurean organs), to your brain
cells and their synaptic connexions...
Here is a brain teaser test to gauge
(= ölçmek)
your loss or non-loss of
INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT, i.e. your tell-tale IQ...
(tell-tale = herşeyi
açığa vuran)
Take it and find out if you are
losing your mental acuity
(= zihin keskinliği)
or are still "with it" -- or "with us", to be
more precise...
NOT: Yukardaki tehditkâr
pasajı çözebildiyseniz, mesele yok; o derece korkulacak bir tehditle karşı
karşıya değilsiniz demektir... Çözemediyseniz -- kimbilir, belki de bilmemek,
bilmekten daha rahatlatıcı...
Now, relax (if you can, despite
all this threatening Palaver by your indomitable mentor Mr. İzbul)... Clear your mind, and begin...
Incidentally, "palaver" is a
word borrowed from the Portuguese beauty PALAVRA...
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READY... STEADY...
AND, HERE WE GO, THEN !!
01 --
What
do you put in a "TOASTER"?
"TOST" makinesine ne
koyarsınız??
If you said
, your mind is
a little over-fuzzy, my friend... Give up at once and go do something
else. Try not to hurt your essentially undeserved self-esteem.
give up at once
= hemen, şimdi, derhal bırakın, vazgeçin...
go do something else =
gidip başka birşeyler yapın... try
not to hurt your essentially undeserved self-esteem = o temelde hak
etmediğiniz özsaygınızı yitirmemeğe çalışın...
02
-- Say "silk" five times
in quick succession. Now spell "silk." -- S-I-L-K. O:K: Here goes
the question: What do cows drink?
Peşpeşe beş kez "silk" deyiniz.
Şimdi "silk" sözcüğünü "heceleyiniz" (BUNA TÜRKÇE'DE NİYE HECELEMEK
demişler, bilmem. Doğrusu, seslerini sıralamak)...
If you said
,
please don't bother
(= zahmet etmeyin)
to attempt the next question. Your brain
is obviously over-stressed and may even overheat. It may be that you need
to content yourself with reading something more appropriate such as some
children's comics or a cookbook.
over-stressed = aşırı
stresli... to overheat =
aşırı ısınmak... DEMEK Kİ NEYMİŞ?? FİİLLERİN BAŞINA "OVER" GELİNCE "AŞIRI"
ANLAMI EKLİYOR... It may be
that... = Ola ki... Olabilir ki......
to content oneself with =
...ile yetinmek... more appropriate
= daha uygun... comics =
çizgi roman(lar)... cookbook
= yemek kitabı...
03
--
If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from
blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is
made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from?
That is to say = Yani...
If you said
,
what the devil are you still
doing here
reading these questions???
Gerçi "devil" "şeytan
demektir,
ama buradaki "What the devil" deyimi, Türkçe'de "Yahu Allah aşkına", vs.
gibi bir deyimle karşılanabilir... Yani: YAHU, ALLAH AŞKINA HALA NE HALT
ETMEĞE DURMUŞ BURADA SORULARI OKUYORSUNUZ?!!
Açıklaması...
Unutmayınız:
, ama
...
04
--
Twenty years ago, a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany. If
you will recall
(hatırlayacak olursanız),
Germany
at the time
(o zamanlar)
was politically divided into West
Germany and East Germany. Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines
fail
(= arıza yaptılar).
The pilot,
realizing
(=ampul yandı, anladı, kavradı,
kafasına dank etti)
that the last remaining engine is also
failing, decides on a crash landing procedure
(mecburi iniş vaziyetleri)...
Unfortunately the engine fails
before he has time and the plane fatally
(= ölümcül)
crashes in the
middle of "no-man's land" between East Germany and West Germany. Where
would you bury the survivors? East Germany or West Germany or in "no-man's land"?
no-man's land = iki taraf
arasındaki tampon bölge...
If you said ANYTHING else, you
are a real menace to human life
(insan yaşamı için gerçek bir
tehdit oluşturuyorsunuz)
and you must NEVER try to
rescue anyone from a plane crash.
(Sakın bir uçak
kazasından kimseyi kurtarmağa filan kalkışmayın)...
You can be sure that your efforts would not be appreciated.
(Çabalarınızın takdirle
karşılanmayacağından emin olabilirsiniz...)
, ve
...
05
--
If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60 of a degree every minute then
how many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour?
If you said
or anything other than
you are to
be congratulated on getting this far, but you are obviously out of your
league... Go get yourself a nice cup of coffee and try to relax...
06
--
WITHOUT USING A CALCULATOR...
HESAP MAKİNESİ
KULLANMAYINIZ: AKLINIZDAN HESAPLAYINIZ:You are driving a bus from
İzmir to Ankara. As you leave İzmir,
you have 17 passengers on the bus. In Turgutlu, six people get off the bus and nine
people get on. In Salihli, two people get off and four get on. In
Uşak, 11 people get off and 16 people get in. In Afyon, three people get off
and five people get on. In Polatlı, six people get off and
three get on. You then arrive in Ankara.
Now, please tell me: What was the name of the
bus driver?
Oh, for crying out loud! Don't
you remember? It was
who was driving !!
HEY ALLAH'M... NE ÇABUK UNUTTUNUZ?!
OTOBÜSÜ
KULLANIYORSUNUZ DEMEDİK Mİ
!!!
