Before an athlete can become an NFL star he has to train relentlessly, become a college standout, and then take a 50-question intelligence test in 12 minutes! Think you're smarter than an NFL player?

An curved arrow pointing right. Before an athlete can become an NFL star he has to train relentlessly, become a college standout, and then take a 50-question intelligence test in 12 minutes!

Giving pro-hopefuls the Wonderlic test became standard practice in the 1970s at the NFL Combine, the annual four-day event ...

Legend has it that Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry was one of the first National Football League coaches to employ the Wonderlic Personnel Test to assess players' cognitive ability. By 1970 several ...

The new FX series American Sports Story depicts Aaron Hernandez taking an exam known as the Wonderlic test. Josh Rivera leads ...

See how you score on some examples from a Wonderlic IQ test. Set your clock for five minutes, don't peek at the answers, and ... oh, yeah, run the 40 and give us some bench-presses first ...

So does the Wonderlic matter? According to Brad Kullman, a former GM of the Cincinnati Reds and founder of Max Q Performance, the test doesn’t account for traits that translate to football success.

The Wonderlic Test, administered annually at the NFL combine, is part of that evaluation. The test includes 50 multiple-choice questions that prospects get 12 minutes to answer, and the results ...