Around since 1946, Mensa members have arrayed themselves in a wide range of Special Interest Groups.
The question of who actually founded Mensa was for years a matter of dispute.
Mensa now has about 100, 000 members, almost half of them in the United States.
If you think you may have what it takes, try a few puzzles below, courtesy of British Mensa.
Mensa-Bonsu's ten classmates today are sitting in front of their computers in California, Ohio and North Carolina.
My Mom, Mensa smart, Phi Beta Kappa, rigorously logical, tough minded, sparingly adorned.
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They display stickers on their car bumpers, proudly announcing their membership of Mensa.
As a woman of common sense and a member of Mensa - I find it ridiculous, because I know better.
Founder he might be, but in the 1950s Mr Ware also quit Mensa, apparently tired of arguments among the elite.
To be in Mensa, you must be in the top 2% of IQ, and she is probably much higher than that.
The country's first pop disc jockey, Sir Jimmy was also a seasoned television presenter, marathon runner, Mensa member, wrestler and fund-raiser.
Maud Mensa-Bonsu settles into her cubicle in Arlington, Texas, ready to attend a training class given by her employer, Aetna U.S. Healthcare.
With her patent-attorney boyfriend she met at a Mensa event, she heads from Zombie Pox to Suburbia, an intricate strategy game of competitive urban planning.
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Lydia Sebastian achieved the top score of 162 on Mensa's Cattell III B paper, suggesting she has a higher IQ than well-known geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Some of Mensa's critics scoff that it is not selective enough.
Nevertheless, in 1961 he was easily persuaded to rejoin Mensa.
In 1967, after some 20 years of mulling over the matter, Mensa declared that Mr Ware was indeed its founder, and had run a similar group back in 1938.
Farre-Mensa stopped short of saying these differences put public companies at a longer-term disadvantage, but the findings touch on the trade-offs involved with being a public vs. private company.
There was no suggestion that the jury in that case was unintelligent, far from it, it was suggested that the 13-month trial was so fiendishly complex that even Mensa members would have struggled.
Others point to the writings on heredity of Francis Galton, a Victorian, but these days they seem tinged with racism, and no one in Mensa would want to have anything to do with that.
Mr. Dutschke has been in a feud, mostly online, with Mr. Curtis for at least several years, over a range of subjects, from their musical talents to membership in Mensa, a group for highly intelligent individuals.
Privately held firms also account for about 54.5 percent of spending on plants and equipment, professors John Asker and Alexander Ljungqvist of NYU and Joan Farre-Mensa of Harvard estimated in a recent study comparing private- and public-company investments.
According to court testimony and Jack Curtis, Mr. Dutschke has been in a feud, mostly online, with Mr. Curtis for at least several years, over a range of subjects from their musical talents to membership in Mensa, a group for highly intelligent individuals.
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