Densa

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Densa has been used as the name of a number of fictional organizations parodying

portmanteau of denser
(in the sense of stupider) and Mensa.

There is no single formal Densa organization; instead, various projects using that name exist as informal groups, usually meant by their founders as a joke rather than a serious organization. Even within Mensa itself, a SIG (special interest group, an informal sub-group of Mensans sharing a particular common interest) has existed for Densa, which, like all Mensa SIGs, required Mensa membership for admission, while it was active.

The concept of an organization for the mentally dense originated in Boston & Outskirts Mensa Bulletin (BOMB), August 1974, in "A-Bomb-inable Puzzle II" by John D. Coons. The puzzle involved "The Boston chapter of Densa, the low IQ society". Subsequent issues had additional puzzles with gags about the group and were widely reprinted by the bulletins of other Mensa groups before the concept of a low

IQ group gained wider circulation in the 1970s, with other people creating quizzes, etc.[6]

A humor book called The Densa Quiz: The Official & Complete Dq Test of the International Densa Society was written in 1983 by Stephen Price and J. Webster Shields.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Boxer, Sarah (13 November 1999). "What's the Opposite of a Tree? Ask Mensa's Testers". The New York Times. p. B13. Retrieved 28 April 2021. There is a special club for those who don't make it into Mensa, the high I.Q. society. It is called Densa (really).
  2. ^ Queenan, Joe (28 March 1989). "You Wanna Be a Wacko, You Gotta Pay the Dues". The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition). p. 1. Says Densa is one of many groups who are 'the wacko patrol: the daffy, satirical organizations that never fail to tickle our funny bone with their zany antics'.
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  6. ^ Amyx, Meredy (June–July 2005). Lundeen, TJ (ed.). "The Origin of Densa". Interloc. American Mensa, Ltd. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
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