One of my university profs told a story of working as an IQ test administrator during his earlier days. He was adminstering a test in Lakeland, Florida where citrus crops are a major business. He was asking the questions verbally to a group of young children. One of the questions was, "What is an orange?" He asked the question to one young boy who replied, "I don't know." At that point, he should have just marked the answer as incorrect and gone on to the next question, but he couldn't believe that a kid in Lakeland didn't know what an orange was. So he stopped and asked the kid, "You don't know what an orange is? What are those thing growing on all the trees around here that you pick and squeeze the juice from."

"Oh!" replied the kid, "You mean urnjes! My daddy owns a orchard, but we don't call 'em oh-ranges."

He aslo said that one of the questions on the test was, "What is Mars?" The correct answer was that Mars is a planet. Identifying Mars as a candy bar or as the Roman god of war were incorrect answers.

Bruce