Awards to high-range I.Q. test candidatesI.Q. Tests for the High Range
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Now and then a prize is announced for the highest scorer on a particular test before a particular date. This is to encourage people to take that test, so that more data will come in for norming and other statistics. Below is a list of awards thus won; the first was called "Prize for Genius", the later ones are called "Prize of the Beheaded Man". The early history of this prize is told in The History of I.Q. Tests for the High-Range, and also occurs in the novel Field of eternal integrity.
| Award | Date | Test | Winner |
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| Prize of the Beheaded Man | December 21, 2020 | Cooijmans Intelligence Test 5 | Heinrich Siemens |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | December 21, 2015 | Cartoons of Shock | Jorge Montero |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | June 21, 2014 | Reason Behind Multiple-Choice — Revision 2008 | Rick Rosner |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | December 21, 2013 | De Roskam | Edward Vanhove |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | June 21, 2012 | "Reflections In Peroxide" and "Integrity Must Prevail Above Loathsome Evil" (combined) | Not awarded |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | December 21, 2010 | A Paranoiac's Torture: Intelligence Test Utilizing Diabolic Exactitude (Prize: Booklet The Upperland Satires) |
Kenneth E. Ferrell |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | June 21, 2010 | Laaglandse Aanlegtest | Pietje the Parakeet (2006-2010) |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | January 1, 2009 | The Sargasso Test | Martijn Tromm |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | January 1, 2008 | The Nemesis Test | Peter Heymans Wesley Sampson (equal) |
| Prize of the Beheaded Man | January 1, 2007 | Test of the Beheaded Man | Wesley Sampson |
| Prize for Genius | April 6, 2000 | Long Test For Genius (NL) (Prize: 2000 Netherlandic guilders) | Walter van den Heerik |
Other organizations that reward candidates for their efforts in taking the tests are the Order of Imhotep and the Order of Thoth.