Wanna bet it's a blonde day? ;)

wenwilder · #1 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 05:03 PM

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 are 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 woken by the alarm?

4 Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?

5 A farmer had 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are 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 colour is the bear?

8 If you 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 London and stopped at Liverpool to pick up 7 more people, what's the name of the driver?

11 Do they have a 4th July in England?

12 How many birthdays does the average man have?

13 Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?

14 How many two pence stamps in a dozen?

15 An assistant in a butcher's shop is 5'10" tall. What does he weigh?

16 What do you put in a toaster?

17 Say "Silk" 5 times, now spell "Silk". What do cows drink?

18 If a red house is made of red bricks and a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a green house made of?

19 A plane crashes on the Canadian - US border. Where would you bury the survivors?

20 If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute, how many degrees will it move in an hour?

21 Johnny's mother has 3 kids, one is named April, one is named May. What is the other one named?

22 In a one storey house the floor is blue and the walls and ceiling are white. What colour are the stairs?

23 A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent the night, and left on Friday. How can this be?

24 I have two coins which add up to 15 pence and one of the coins is NOT a 10 pence piece. What are the two coins?

25 If a rooster laid an egg on the apex of a slanted barn roof, which way would the egg roll, left or right?

Answers will be posted when I figure them out...hmmmm maybe you'd all have better luck figurin' them out on your own. Let's see whatcha come up with. ;)

jdiben · #2 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 06:31 PM

Answers

I got them all but #23, anyone know the answer?

1. 12 months
2. 1 hour
3. 12 hours
4. 70
5. 9
6. The match
7. White
8. 2 Apples
9. Moses didnt have an ark
10. You are driving the bus. Its your name
11. Yes
12. Only 1
13. No, If he has a widow he's dead
14. 12
15. Meat
16. Bread
17. Milk
18. Green bricks or Glass
19. You dont bury survivors
20. 1 degree
21. Johnny
22. No stairs in a one story house
23. ????
24. 10 pence and 5 pence
25. Roosters dont lay eggs

Joe

wenwilder · #3 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 06:42 PM

18. is glass
23. His horses name is Friday

WOW! Good Job!!

I'll have to see if I can find some harder questions!

Reece · #4 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 06:42 PM

Friday is his horses name :)

jdiben · #5 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 06:49 PM

doh!!

number 4 should be 25

wenwilder · #6 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 06:50 PM

Pssstttttt

#3 isn't 12 hours and #17 isn't Milk ;)

jdiben · #7 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 06:53 PM

nevermind I was right the first time about #4.

OK I was wrong on 17

what is #3 if its not 12 hours

wenwilder · #8 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 07:18 PM

#3 is 1 hour. It's a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate between a.m. and p.m.

jdiben · #9 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 08:05 PM

I was starting to feel smart. Thanks for ruining that for me :)

Joe

wenwilder · #10 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 08:20 PM

awwwww You still figured out more than I did! I had to look at the answers, but SsssssHhhhhhh don't tell. ;)

Anyone have any similiar questions to add?

jdiben · #11 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 08:31 PM

Here is on that requires some thought. It took me about 45 minutes to figure out.

Einsteins riddle
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors in a row.
In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Other facts:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house`s owner drinks coffee.
6. The owner who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The owner living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The owner who keeps the horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The owner who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.

The question is : WHO OWNS THE FISH?

wenwilder · #12 (**permalink**) 08-28-2003, 09:17 PM

I always liked Einsteins Fish riddle. You do know that Einstein supposedly wrote it and said that 98% of the world would not be able to solve it.

I can't wait to see what members come up with!

cyanide · #13 (**permalink**) 08-29-2003, 01:51 AM

Uhhh, let's see:

The German lives in the Green House, Drinks Coffee, Smokes Prince Cigarettes and Owns the Fish.

Time: 30 minutes

cyanide · #14 (**permalink**) 08-29-2003, 09:14 AM

BTW.

I think #4 is 12

jdiben · #15 (**permalink**) 08-29-2003, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyanide

BTW.

I think #4 is 12

30 divided by .5 = 60
60 + 10 = 70

Good job on Einsteins riddle. You beat my time.

Joe

cyanide · #16 (**permalink**) 08-29-2003, 09:50 AM

LOL! thanks

Quote:

30 divided by .5 = 60
60 + 10 = 70

I dunno ?? half of what ?

30 divided by 15 = 2 + 10 =12

wenwilder · #17 (**permalink**) 08-29-2003, 09:13 PM

Anyone want to provide the next lateral thinking/brainteaser?

Here's an easy one.

If you were to put a coin into an empty bottle and then insert a cork into the neck, how could you remove the coin without taking out the cork or breaking the bottle?

carju1 · #18 (**permalink**) 08-30-2003, 08:43 AM

Thats an easy one,

Push the cork right into the bottle then tip the coin out through the now empty neck :)

Julian

wenwilder · #19 (**permalink**) 08-30-2003, 10:05 PM

You're right Julian that one was rather simple...how about a couple of harder ones?

A survey was conducted of all the various mechanical modes of transportation people use to get to work each day. What did it find was the most common method of transportation?

"Try that story on Principal Pringle," said Scheming Suzie's school teacher. Suzie stood before Pringle and began, "I was on my way to school, and I cut through the park like I always do. Since I was early, I sat down on a bench to rest. I put my essay in my lunch bag, and set it beside me. Just then I noticed a black squirrel run past and scamper up a nearby tree. He was halfway up the tree when he suddenly froze and slowly backed down the tree trunk before taking off. I was curious to see what had frightened him so I looked up the tree and saw a red scarf. I climbed up to get it and just then a big dog grabbed my lunch bag with my essay in it, and ran off." Pringle sighed and replied, "Suzie, you can't possibly expect me to believe that one can you?" Why not?

How many cubic meters of dirt are in a hole 6 meters long, 2 meters wide, and one meter deep?

carju1 · #20 (**permalink**) 08-31-2003, 09:23 AM

Ok if no one else is going to jump in here's my answers

1. Lift
2. IF this was a Eiropean post I'd say lie because you only get Red or Grey squirels. Alternatively squirrels can't back down tree's they can only walk forwards.
3. None its a hole

Julian

jdiben · #21 (**permalink**) 08-31-2003, 11:08 AM

I would think that number 1 would be walking.

Joe

wenwilder · #22 (**permalink**) 08-31-2003, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carju1

Ok if no one else is going to jump in here's my answers

1. Lift
2. IF this was a Eiropean post I'd say lie because you only get Red or Grey squirels. Alternatively squirrels can't back down tree's they can only walk forwards.
3. None its a hole

Julian

Once again you've outsmarted the questions!

1. Elevator/lift.
2. Lie. A squirrel would never back down a tree trunk, but rather, turn around and run down head first. Is there such a thing as a black squirrel? I've never seen one.
3. That one was easy...there is no dirt in a hole.

It's going to be hard to stump you guys. But I'm going to try one more time......

3 men go into a motel. The man behind the desk said the room is US$30, so each man paid US$10 and went to their room.

A while later the man behind the desk realized the room was only US$25, so he sent the bellboy to the 3 guys' room with US$5. On the way, the bellboy couldn't figure out how to split US$5 evenly between 3 men, so he decides to give each man US$1 and kept the other US$2 for himself.

This meant that the 3 men each paid US$9 for the room, which is a total of US$27. Add the US$2 that the bellboy kept brings the total to US$29.

Where is the other dollar!?

Sammi290 · #23 (**permalink**) 09-02-2003, 01:33 PM

FYI ....we have black squirrels here in Montreal Cananda :)

Thought you would like to know that they do exist...lol
Sam

cyanide · #24 (**permalink**) 09-02-2003, 10:57 PM

ooohh, triicckky, triicckky !

well the dollar is still there, in the 3 guy's hands I presume.
Lemme see... the room is $25, which means each guy really paid $8.33.
Add the $3 they got back and the $2 to the bellboy

(8.33 x 3)25 + 3 + 2 = 30

nice one Wen !