What is the distinct mark or peculiarity of a chicken?

[narblecinder]

what is the difference between a chicken?

 

[bjr_jyd15]

hmmm

do you mean the difference between a chicken and a question mark?

i suppose one has eggs beneath it, the other has a period beneath it.

 

[narblecinder]

no no, that is the entire question. I found it on one of those "genius IQ boards" like MENSA. It does have an answer (well, actually I don't like their answer so when I do post the answer I will post both their's and mine).

(oh, and the guy on the board who made the question said that if you get it right you should have an IQ of about 165)

 

[ticopi]

Thought that was part of a joke from Coluche (very famous french comedien)

 

[matthyaouw]

About 25cm? Just a guess.

 

[Galileo]

"One of its legs is the same".

Or so I've heard somewhere...

 

[Atheist]

Both legs are equal lenght, especially the left one.

EDIT:
"Both legs are equal lenght, especially the other one" might be an even better answer.

 

[narblecinder]

the answer on the site said it was "5 letters", or "hicke".

now my answer is "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" because Dictionary.com has for a definition of difference as:
4. (A) A disagreement or controversy.
(B) A cause of a disagreement or controversy.

and for between it has the definition:
6. as measured against

which would turn the sentence into this:
what is the (controversy) ( as measured against) a chicken?

furthermore, measured has the definition of:
7. An evaluation or a basis of comparison

which would make the sentence:
what is the controversy as an evaluation against a chicken?

 

[The Idiot]

Well, given the original question, and the given response, I'd say that the question is flawed. "What is the difference between chicken?" would be more apropriate, I think.

 

[Moonbear]

Well, given the original question, and the given response, I'd say that the question is flawed. "What is the difference between chicken?" would be more apropriate, I think.

Even then it really doesn't work. Since when are the middle letters of a word a difference? Maybe if it had just said, "What is between a chicken?" But then that would have opened up the possibility of too many answers based on chicken anatomy rather than looking at the word alone. If this is from an intelligence test, it's just another example of how they are biased against people with the ability to apply knowledge.

 

[arildno]

I wonder why Mensa members are rarely successful mathematicians/physicists/logicians in life..

 

[hitssquad]

no no, that is the entire question. I found it on one of those "genius IQ boards" like MENSA.

The Prometheus Society?

(oh, and the guy on the board who made the question said that if you get it right you should have an IQ of about 165)

http://www.prometheussociety.org/guestbook/archive1.html

• Mon Feb 9 16:32:27 1998
  john
  mailto:john@net.yu[/URL]
  for all those people who think they have their place in a society like this one, here is a simple wat of determining
  if it really is so. the correct answer to the follwing question should place a person to a group of above 180 IQ.
  this is the real test of ones mental abilities.the question:
  
  "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CHICKEN?"
  
  i would really like to know if there is anyone here who dares to try answering this! u can send your answers to my e-mail address and i will send you the result if you leave your e-mail address.GOOD LUCK![/list]

 

[Gokul43201]

the answer on the site said it was "5 letters", or "hicke".

What a crock ...

Surely, you see that this makes no more sense than the question, which is at the very least syntactically incorrect.

 

[narblecinder]

yes hitssquad that is where I found it a while ago, thank you for finding it.

 

[Alkatran]

what is the difference between a chicken?

How are we supposed to know he's referring to the word itself, and not the difference between some other arbitrary two points?

This is more like a "Do you think like I do?" question.

 

[Bartholomew]

Before looking at the various answers, I also tried dictionary.com for "difference" and "between." I didn't notice the "disagreement" definition (incorrectly lumping it with those definitions that require two objects) and I jumped straight to the archaic "distinct mark or peculiarity." Then I tried "between" and came up with "in the interim of." So what is the distinct mark or peculiarity in the interim of there being a chicken? An egg.