The below is an assortment of riddles, general enigmas, and questions that would be found on severely difficult I.Q. tests. The I.Q. test type questions would only be for those trying to exact an extremely high quotient. You may need to know certain pieces of useless esoteric knowledge, and the questions may be unreasonably difficult. However each question only has one answer, and there are no partial answers.

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1.
I once had a lengthy conversation with a man on an airplane. It turned out that he sold globes for a living. He handed me his most popular model and I was a little taken back. It was mounted with the North Pole on the bottom, and all the names of the countries were flipped so that they would be read normally from this vantage. I asked him if there was some sort of mistake. He said no. His entire line of globes of the Earth sold like that. Later I learned he wasn't just trying to confuse me. What is the explanation for such an unorthodox globe?

2.
We are the team Babe Ruth could not out hit.
He played so long, if not for us, the Babe
would have out hit all the teams he played against
and more. His score so high, no team could beat;
but us that is. Both leagues strove hard, but he
and we were left. So say you who we are.

3.
One person is talking to another. One motions toward a nearby tree, it was around seventy feet tall. He mentions a time when he jumped over the tree, just in passing, and hardly even noticed doing it. How is this possible?

4.
I have the mass, yet weight will not be found.
Exactly half of me is always bright.
Almost that is. As well, exactly half
of me is cloaked. The eye is tricked again.
Think them the wind you may; but I know right,
the shores do to, they break them here and there.
So once again, I ask of you my name.

5.
I ask of all of you
a vicious quick gray fox,
who jumps so to and fro
around my lazy black
old dog. From all of this
I ask, What did you miss?

6.
What is the next positioning within this sequence?

7.
Sunset finds Dirk Gently standing between the Sagan twins. One of whom is dressed in all white and is facing east. The other is dressed all in black and faces west. They look exactly the same, however, and Dirk knows that with his last bullet he must stop the evil one from destroying the world. The man dressed in black puts down his knife and says he’s the good guy, the man dressed in white, who never had a gun restates his innocence. As the sun sets, both men’s eyes are dilated. Which of the men is the ‘evil’ one and what is the absolute proof that you have?

8.
What is the next character in this series? RAOBYCGDBEIF

9.
Albert Einstein visited the home of Mahatma Gandhi. The two sat talking and had the food that Einstein brought with him, schnitzel. Why is this defiantly not true?

10.
Huey, Duey, and Luey are brothers. In fact they’re triplets, who are 8 and a half years old. One day Huey and Duey take a trip to see their grandma, but Luey stays home. While visiting their grandma Huey goes out for ice-cream. When Huey comes back, he and Duey go back home to see Luey. But when they get there they find that Huey is 16, Duey is 64, and Luey is 112. How could this have possibly happened?

11.
What can replace the blue squares to complete the pattern?

12.
A man started a studying group that would kill those who divulged knowledge of the group. The members worshipped a particular number. But they never wrote it down, nor did they ever see it, why? To make the question harder, what was that man’s name?

13.
I am a Bible, true,
A man just read right through.
My print is normal size,
the wind not bad, he turned
no page, he had no help.
Through these, can you surmise
the way that this did work?

14.
How many triangles are contained within this star?

15.
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