I'm okay to share my score: 6 correct, though I think that it may just have been dumb luck. I did use deduction and process of elimination to try to answer several of the questions (example: "candied sweets" being a nickname for sugared yams, and guessing the equivalent number in the dice question). But I wonder, is that really a measure of intelligence? Is the test really have any validity at all?
I agree with the other posters who responded by saying that there was no real contextual associations with the questions, which would damn any reasonable attempt at trying toward a correct answer; and that the questions were very heavily leaning toward a particular culture and were therefore not truly objective questions for a "standardized" test. If this "standardized" test was given to a wide audience, those who were not part of the culture associated with this test could be doomed to failure and perhaps set upon an incorrect course of action in thier schooling as a result of this test: given a label of "exceptional" and perhaps all of the emotional, social, and scholastic consequences of that label. It really demonstrates to me how someone's entire life can be pivoted into an entirely new and quite erroneous direction simply based on empirical data harvested from an imperfect and invalid test. Scary.
To answer Dr. Sarah's question below, I wouldnt have any terrific guesses as to who or what body creates a test such as this one. (They should be fired, anyway.) But within my professional experience I've become fairly well aquainted with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) which administers standardized college admission tests such as the SAT, GRE, TOEFL, LSAT, MCAT, and our beloved Praxis. ETS states on their website ([http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.22f30af61d34e9c39a77b13bc3921509/?vgnextoid=28d65784623f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD]) that their tests are carefully developed and continuously reviewed for fairness and equity, free of racial/ethnic/socioeconomic/etc. bias, do not reinforce stereotypes of any particular group, etc. etc. etc. Being a part of the 'dominant ethnic group,' I haven't recognized any bias when I have taken tests administered by the ETS, but I do wonder just how careful the development of these tests really are. ETS is essentially a testing monopoly, and they keep fairly tight reins on their tests to make sure that they face as little testing competition as possible. One example that I can think of is for English-language testing for international students who are applying to colleges in the U.S. — another European English-language test called IELTS was developed, was a much better quality test and provided a much better assessment of English language skills, and was being more widely accepted in the US and Europe than ETS's English test, the TOEFL. Immediately, ETS scrambled to revamp its TOEFL test in order to test the same criteria as the IELTS competitor, and, presumably, to not lose its market in Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world to the superior IELTS. Thier development of this new TOEFL could not have been THAT careful, rushing through it in the way that they did. Call me a cynic, but in the end, it's all about money when it comes to standardized testing. Schools that do not meet AYP with their standardized test results face financial consequences (is that right?).