Jouve-Cerebrals Crystallized-Educational Scale (JCCES) - Revised

If you have 4 books and buy 7 more, how many books do you have in total?

If \( 3a = a + 8 \), what is the value of \( a \)?

If each cubic inch of a block of metal weighs \( \frac{1}{4} \) pound, and the block is \( 2^{\prime\prime} \times 3^{\prime\prime} \times 4^{\prime\prime} \), what is the total weight?

What is the result of \( 2 + 3 \times 4 - 3 \)?

If angle \( B \) is bisected, what does \( a \) equal to?

What is the distance between the centers of the holes in the given figure?

If \( y = 2\pi rh \), what is the value of \( a \)?

What is the value of Angle \( C \) in the given figure?

In a five-day week, if an industrial piece worker wants to average \$36.00 per week, how many pieces per day must he produce at 30¢ a piece?

If one mathematician can solve a problem in \( 15 \) minutes and another in \( 10 \) minutes, how long will they take to solve it together?

A board \( 10 \) feet long measures \( 9 \) feet \( 9 \) inches after drying. What is the percentage of shrinkage?

What is a discount of \( 5\% \) on \$12.00?

An alloy consists of \( 3 \) parts copper by weight, \( 2 \) parts zinc by weight, and \( 1 \) part tin by weight, and weighs \( 24 \) lbs in total. How much does the zinc weigh?

What is the square root of \( 80 \)?

If a regular hexagon is divided into a number of small triangles, what is the common name for each triangle?

If \( a = \pi r^{2} \), what does \( a \) equal to?

How many multiplication(s) are required to obtain the number \( 130 \) using the numbers \( 3 \), \( 10 \), and \( 10 \)?

\( 300 \) bees have honey supplies sufficient for \( 4 \) months. They are joined by \( 180 \) bees whose hive has been destroyed. How long will the overall honey supplies last for the \( 480 \) bees?

If \( 16 \) men can build a brick shed in \( 225 \) hours, how many hours will it take \( 9 \) men to build it?

What is the measure of each central angle of a regular pentagon?

A rod has a taper of \( \frac{3}{4} \) inch per foot. What is the taper of a \( 4 \)-inch length?

What is the included angle of a regular pentagon?

Which of the numbered angles in the figure below is an "inscribed angle"?

Shane decided to tidy up his wardrobe, where he had shorts and shirts all mixed up. If for any pair of shorts, there are as many shirts as other shorts, but for any shirt only half as many shirts as shorts, how many shorts are in the wardrobe?

Following the previous question, how many shirts are in the wardrobe?

A math geek has been invited to a TV show. When the Showman asks him how old he is, he does not want to reveal his age. However, as he knows the age of the Showman, he poses a riddle. He says that both he and the Showman are in their twenties, and that he is four times as old as the Showman was when he was three times as old as the Showman was when he was twice as old as the Showman. How old is the math geek?

Following the previous question, how old is the Showman?

What is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways?

A board \( \frac{297}{8} \) inches long is cut into \( 8 \) equal pieces. After allowing \( \frac{1}{8} \) inch for each saw cut, what is the length of each piece (in fractions)?

What is the volume of the material in a hollow shaft \( 2 \) feet long?

A car is travelling at a velocity of \( V \) along a road. Consider just one of the car wheels and its rotation. The central point of the wheel, at the axle, must also be travelling at a velocity of \( V \) with respect to the road since it is fixed to the car. Relative to the road, what is the velocity of the points at the top of the wheel (or tire)?

Following the previous question, relative to the road, what is the velocity of the points at the bottom of the car wheel (or tire)?

A plank \( 18 \) inches wide, \( 2 \) inches thick, and \( 6 \) feet long contains how many board feet?

In the metric system, how many millimeters is an inch approximately equal to?

A grandmother plans to visit her grandchildren and buys \( 5 \) cakes for them, but she remembers that she has \( 6 \), not \( 5 \) grandchildren. How does she divide the cakes so that all grandchildren get equal parts, without ruining the cakes by dividing them into too small parts? (Give the fractions without space in between)

Using two bottles of \( 7 \)L and \( 5 \)L and a tap, what is the minimum number of steps required to obtain \( 6 \)L?

How many days are there in a week?

Who is the inventor of the Telephone?

What is the country of origin of the Olympic Games?

What is the name of the highest mountain in the world?

What is the name of the planet closest to the sun?

On which continent is Egypt located?

Who was Van Gogh?

What is the name of the sacred Book of the Muslims?

Who is the spiritual leader of the Catholics?

On which continent is Tajikistan located?

Who was the author of the simple principle of the "Relativity Principle"?

Who was the prime minister of England during WW2?

What is the word for a rebellion on a ship?

Who wrote, <i>On the Origin of Species</i>?

What is the name associated with Napoleon?

What is the word beginning with the letters FA and finishing with LE for an exact copy?

What is the word for a natural hot water fountain?

What is the capital of Finland?

What animal is associated with an Ornithologist?

What is the name of the highest mountain in Africa?

What color is associated with Manfred von Richtofen?

What is the name of the sacred river in India?

Who was the first man to fly over the Atlantic?

What is the word for a complete view of a region in every direction?

What color is associated with the highest mountain in Europe?

Who is the author of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>?

What well-known character has been created by Cervantes?

What animal is associated with an Ichthyologist?

What is the word for a government by the priests?

What is the country behind the "Apparatchiks"?

Who wrote, <i>Faust</i>?

What is the religion of the Copts?

The branch of zoology which relates to reptiles is?

The talkative one is said to be?

What is the word finishing with the letters US for being everywhere at the same time?

What is the word for a government by the wealthy?

What is the word beginning with the letters PR for deviating from the truth?

Who is the person studying the life of the past geological periods through analysis of rocks and fossils?

Bees are kept in a(n)?

What is the word beginning with the letters RA for the process of exact thinking?

Who is the person studying all phases of languages and literature?

Who was Berkeley?

What is the word for indicating the back portion of the head of an animal?

The science of interpretation and explanation is known as?

What is the word beginning with the letters ES and finishing with AL for the ultimate things?

Professor Stevens is often verbose in his lectures. Today, his remarks were uncharacteristically?

The behavior of one who has delusions of grandeur is said to be characterized by ?

In whom do the Zoroastrians believe?

I perceive sounds as having characteristic colors. I am a ?

What is the word for making something imperfect by cutting off a part?

What is the word for a deficiency in amount?

When the earth is at the point of its orbit, which is nearest the sun, it is said to be at its ?

What does S mean in the acronym P.S.?

"All hands on deck" is an example of ?

The strength of Joan's poetry is its original imagery. The weakness is that the lines are often sweet-sounding or ?

To yield obsequiously to the will of another is to ?

"Audible to the ear" is an example of ?