I'VE never thought of myself as Mensa material and now I know for sure after I pitted my wits against Reg Noquet from Swanage.

Reg is celebrating after being accepted into the high IQ society at the age of 93, which is quite an achievement by anyone's standards.

In a brief moment of "how hard can it be?" it was decided that I would go head-to-head in a battle of the brains against World War Two veteran Reg, with three random questions from Mensa - I wasn't optimistic.

Reg, who was born in Tottenham in 1914 and retired to Swanage in 1982, took the test unsupervised test at home, before undergoing a supervised exam in Bournemouth.

He said: "I think the youngest candidate was nine, a bit younger than me.

"I found the form of the test surprising, but about three-quarters of the way through I came to the English proficiency tests, about which I felt quite confident.

"On some of the more difficult tasks I concentrated so much that I thought my head was boiling." I know how he felt. Just looking at some of the questions Mensa will stick in front of you made me want to run away - sitting down for two hours' worth of them is not something I even want to think about.

But it was all worth it for father-of-three Reg, who saw action on D-Day aboard HMS Bulolo and also served in the North Atlantic, West African and Russian convoys during the conflict.

Son Peter is also a member of Mensa and encouraged his dad to take the test himself.

So, how did he feel about passing?

"I must admit that I was slightly elated, and somewhat surprised, because a number of the questions totally baffled me," said Reg, who has an IQ of 150.

Every one this reporter looked at was indeed baffling to some extent, including two of the three you see here.

Reg is a clever man, and, yes, he did get more right than I did.

Take the test:Question 1. Replace the blanks in the following sentence with two nine-letter words. The same nine letter must be used for both words.

The_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ have confirmed that payments will be made to all of the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What are the words?

2. What number should appear next in this sequence?

3,6,7,20,11,42,15,72,19?

3. Rearrange the letters of "Any time" to give a seven letter word.

Answers below:

How did you do?

1. directors and creditors 2. 110. (1+2, 2x3, 3+4, 4x5, 5+6 etc) 3. Amenity