I showed this trick to a few magicians, now I want to fabricate it. But I need your help.

I'm from Colombia, sorry for bad english.

I will explain the effect first.

The effect is that you ask for a man and a woman to come up to the stage with you. You say that this man and this woman are representing all men and women, and you will find out which gender is more inteligent than the other by asking questions.

In a transparent bag you have poker chips, each chip has a number that corresponds to a question. (You also have a list of 40 questions that you give to a spectator.

The woman and the man select 3 random chips from the bag. When you began to ask the questions the ones that the man selects are very obvious and foolish, and the ones that the woman selects are very, very hard.

The secret is a double bag (I don't know how to say doble fondo in english), in one side are the chips with the numbers that corresponds to the easy questions and in the other side are the chips with the hard ones.

Now, I need your help because I have only a few questions already made.
Do you want to hep me with more?,

Please questions and answers.

These are the questions I have:

EASY:
Which animal is known as man's best friend?
Name 3 brands of soda.
Which sport is played with a bat and a baseball?

HARD:
Name 3 popes of the II century.
What's the capital of Uganda?
Name the Argeninan squad that won the soccer world cup in 1978.


I am making the game that is with 40 questions.

I'd just sort through your local version of Trivial Pursuit...

or your local library..

Nice advice. Thanks a lo,t man!

Up until now I didn't know about the existence of that game. It's perfect for my trick!!!!!

I would be very careful how you present this. If you don't handle it right, you could wind up with all the women in your audience hating you (and possibly throwing things at you)

That being said:

easy:
-complete this sentence: "Pick a card, any ________"
-what is your favourite colour?
-what sound to cows make?

This one got me the first time..

say "Silk, silk silk"
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What do cows drink?

If you was stupid like me and said milk put up ur hand

I did the first time (which was like five years ago).

You can do the same thing with "what do you put in a toaster".

Most people will say toast even without the phonetic trick (make them say "roast")

I'm away from my library, but isn't this the same as the last routine in Fulve's 'Self-Working Mental Magic'? (He uses a father and son, and makes the father look foolish.) You might get some ideas about his working from there.

I was wrong (of course). The bit I described is in a Fulves book all right, but it's in the 'Big Book of Magic Tricks' in the chapter on Comedy Magic as 'The IQ Test'. He credits the basic concept to Lu Brent. Fulves says a spelling-bee version was marketed by Frank Lane, and Sid Lorraine and others published similar routines. So they might also be good sources for presentation notes.

If Columbia is a 'gaucho' place, I would make the man seem stupid, just to turn the tables on sexist cliche.

Todsky, do you mean 'macho'?

And I agree. The comedy is always stronger if you make the perceived underdog come out on top.

Gaucho is the south american version of macho, specifically referring to Argentinian men, I believe.

I seem to recall that back in the early 70's, in the US at least, "Gauchos" were actually cookies (I believe they were peanut-butter-filled... mmmm!).

But I digress... again!

Someone, please help to put this thread back on track!

Merci Buckets.

Jonathan

So 'gaucho' is an Argentinian macho peanut butter cookie. But I digest again.

I think you've been reaading too many Magic Café posts Todd...

You must have "Reader's Digest".

But I digress.

Best.

Jonathan

I learned that the Gaucho is the Argentinian cowboy. And those lady's pants that were popular in the '80's.

Airship, my first thought on this is to have the "hard" questions include the solutions right there on the card, with connecting phrases already in place.

An example might be:

What is the integral of "e" to the "x" power "dx". Well that's easy... it is "e" to the "x" power.

Joe

Look in the "Puzzle Me This" forum, for some of the hard ones.