Recruiting brilliant people

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Hi /sci/.
I'm the creator and sole writer of a children's cartoon. This cartoon relies heavily on imagination and creative use of language (wordplay, funny naming, funny analogies, etc). I want to recruit other writers for my cartoon, and I need brilliant people that have a lot of imagination. There are only 2 million people whose mother tongue is this particular language, and we live in kind of a cluster. So I thought about running an ad in the newspaper (who pretty much everyone reads) saying that if you write an episode of the show, you send it in, and I like it, you could become part of the writing team of the show.

The problem is that I don't want to read over a 10,000 episodes or so (which most are going to be trash). So I need a way to winnow the field to about a few hundred. And here is where I need your help.

In this ad I want to run some sort of intelligence question, and IQ question or a math problem. I don't want a problem based on language because I fear I would have the same problem as before. Then I would have them send both the solution to the problem as well as the episode they wrote, thus removing undesirables from submitting an episode.

My question to you is: what question/problem would you run in this ad?

PD: Putnam questions and the sort are out of the question since the answers can easily be found online.

inb4: think about one yourself. I would agree this is the best way, but I don't feel like it because it's hard and because I want the question/problem to be of high quality.