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Thomas Edison Test: Hiring Process
During Edison's hiring process, he had certain criteria all applicants had to pass. He created a 146 questionare that every candidate had to take in order to be hired as one of Thomas Edison's workers. Below are examples of questions that were on the Intelligence test.
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Spain, Andorra, Monaco, Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium
1.What countries bound France?
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In Denmark
10.Where is Copenhagen?
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The first signer of the
Declaration of Independence.
18.Who was John Hancock?
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The Spanish conqueror of Peru
26.Who is Pizarro?
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Harrisburg
39.What is the capital of Pennsylvania?
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Mergenthaler was the first to
perfect a highly practical one.
52.Who invented the typesetting machine?
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Amundsen, and then Scott
63.Who reached the south pole?
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Cyanide of potassium, strychnine and arsenic.
83.Name three powerful poisons.
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Eli Whitney