| 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. |