| BRAIN TEASER
#1:
1) Some months have 30 days, some
months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
2) If a doctor gives you 3 pills
and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before
all the pills had been taken?
3) I went to bed at eight o'clock
in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine
o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being
awoken by the alarm?
4) Divide 30 by half and add ten.
What do you get?
5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but
9 died. How many live sheep were left?
6) If you had only one match and
entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp
and a candle, which would you light first?
7) A man builds a house with four
sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure.
A big bear comes along. What color is the bear?
8) Take 2 apples from 3 apples.
What do you have?
9) How many animals of each species
did Moses take with him in the Ark?
10) If you drove a bus with 43 people
on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up 7 more people
and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and
pick up 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what's
the name of the driver?
ANSWERS BELOW GOOD LUCK!
ANSWERS TO BRAIN TEASER 1
1) All of them. Every month has
at least 28 days.
2) 1 hour. If you take a pill at
1 o'clock, then another at 1.30 and the last at 2 o'clock, they will be
taken in 1 hour.
3) 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm
clock which cannot discriminate between a.m. and p.m.
4) 70. Dividing by half is the same
as multiplying by 2.
5) 9 live sheep.
6) The match.
7) White. If all walls face south,
the house must be on the North Pole.
8) 2 apples. I HAVE 3 APPLES, YOU
TAKE 2, WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
9) None. It was Noah, not Moses.
10) YOU are the driver. |