A basketball player averaged 20 points a game over the course of six games. His scores in five of those games were 23, 18, 16, 24, and 27. How many points did he score in the sixth game?That’s one of 50 questions on the Wonderlic Test, the now-infamous quiz given to NFL prospects before the draft.It’s back in the news now because of Jeannette High School graduate and the object of ire of anyone who lives in the great state of Ohio or wears a sweater vest, Terrelle Pryor.The Oakland Raiders’ rookie reportedly scored a 7 on the Wonderlic Test before the NFL Supplemental Draft.A score like that would have put him in a select company of dunces and would have roughly equaled the number of cars he drove while at

The Ohio State University.Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert, who administered the test to Pryor, said the quarterback scored significantly higher than a 7.Of course, the NFL average score is a 21. The average score for an engineer is 31. A rocket scientist: 40; A bank teller: 22. An NFL commissioner: 5 (this is not confirmed).A journalist? That would be a 26, thank you very much.I wondered what all the fuss was about, so I found one of the many sample Wonderlic tests online and decided to take it.It is a timed 50-question test. You only have 12 minutes to finish the thing, which raises the level of difficulty — you can’t obsess over a question to finally get it correct.I wrapped mine up just under the gun, wiping the beads of sweat off my forehead when I finished.Before I reveal my score, here are a few of my observations about the test:• It didn’t take me very long to have a flashback to those awful standardized tests we all took in grade school.How long it takes a train to get from point A to point B is irrelevant in my mind.• There was an awful lot of math. I’m not sure what the practical application of deciding what number comes next in a sequence is for a quarterback who is trying to quickly find an open receiver.• Some of the questions were downright impossibly difficult while others the Gatorade cooler could have answered correctly.I guess the designers of the test figured if they made all of the questions Albert-Einstein-hard and people started scoring a big, fat goose egg, that would be too embarrassing for both the players and themselves.I scored better than I thought: a 30.I’m no Ryan Fitzpatrick, who polished off his 48 in a mere nine minutes, but I’m no Vince Young, either, who reportedly scored a 6 on his first attempt.Other notable scores: Tim Tebow, 22; Terry Bradshaw and Jim Kelly, 15; Peyton Manning, 28; Eli Manning, 39.And if you were wondering, the answer to the sample question above is 12.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.