Brain Teasers (you'll like these)

[Rob_the_Saint]

Brain Teasers

 

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

 

2. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?

 

3. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?

 

4. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

 

5. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?

 

6. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

 

7. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in England?

 

8. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?

 

9. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?

 

10. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

 

11. If you went to bed at 8 o'clock at night and wound up your clock alarm to get you up at 9 o'clock the next morning, how many hours sleep would you get?

 

12. How many birthdays does the average man have?

 

13. If you had only one match and entered a room in which there was a kerosene lamp, an oil heater, and a woodburning stove, which would you light first?

 

14. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?

 

15. If a doctor gave you 3 pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last you?

 

16. How far can a dog run into the woods?

 

17. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left?

 

18. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add ten. What is the answer?

 

19. Two men were playing checkers. Each played five games and each man won the same number of games. No draws. How can this be?

 

20. Take two apples from three apples and what do you have?

 

21. How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the Ark with him?

 

22. Is it legal in England for a man to marry his widow's sister?

 

 

 

[Colin Zeal EFM]

For starters...

 

1. "Incorrectly"

 

4. It could be either: half of two (1), plus two (2) equals three.

Half of "two plus two (4) equals two.

 

17. Nine

 

20. Two apples

 

 

[GHA EFM]

1. incorrectly

 

2. 0

 

3. White

 

4. Either

 

5. Goldfish, cricket ball

 

6. None

 

7. 45'F both times. 30'F is frozen

 

8. An umbrella

 

9. 1

 

10. pass

 

11. 13 (said with suspicion...)

 

12. 1 a year

 

13. The match

 

14. Occasionally 1

 

15. 3 and a half hours

 

16. Not far <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

 

17. 9

 

18. 70 (I think)

 

19. They weren't playing each other

 

20. Two apples

 

21. None. Moses wasn't too good with boats

 

22. It should be

[GHA EFM]

Is that all you could muster, Zeal?

 

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[Colin Zeal EFM]

Hmmm... I won't bother answering any more then, GHA. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[Northern Monkey]

3- white

5- Goldfish bowl knocked over and smashed

6- none

8- Umbrella

9- 1

10= temperature

11- depends what time you go to sleep

12- one every year

13- the match

14- all of them

15 -1 hour

16- half way

17- 9

18-70

19- they were not playing each other

21- What would Noah have said!

22- definitely not!

 

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Quote:

Is that all you could muster, Zeal?

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Not at all. Unlike yourself though, I thought I'd answer a few and give other people a fair crack.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

And cynic got 11 right. Not GHA!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[Northern Monkey]

2= none

[GHA EFM]

Purposefully done, Zeal, to let others have a fair crack <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />