Ged
01-17-2008, 05:41 PM
QUICK QUIZ
1)Mental arithmetic. Take 1000, add 40 to it, add another 1000, add 30, then add another 1000, add 20, another 1000 then add 10. What is your total ?
2)Mary’s father has five daughters. Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono – what is the name of the 5th daughter ?
3)I have two normal wooden dice, I put one on top of the other – How many numbers are visible ?
4)Before Everest was discovered, what was the worlds highest mountain. ?
5)You go into a darkened room with only one match. Inside is a candle, an oil heater and an oil lamp, which do you light first. ?
6)The doctor gives you three tablets and tells you to take one every half hour. How long will it take you to take all 3. ?
7)Divide 30 by half and add 10. What is your answer. ?
8)How many species of each animal did Moses take onto the ark. ?
9)Take two apples from three, how many do you have. ?
10)A farmer has seventeen sheep, all but nine die, how many does he have left. ?
11)A bus depot has three drivers, John, Mark and Dave whose shifts start at 6am, 8am and 10am respectively. You drive the bus to the first stop where you pick up 10 passengers, at the next stop you let off 2 but take on a further 5. They all remain on until the terminus is reached 15 minutes later. What is the drivers name ?
12)Two boys come up from playing in the dirty cellar. One boys face is filthy and the other boys face is clean. The boy with the clean face goes to wash his but the boy with the filthy face does not – why ?
13)There are 2 eskimos. One is the father of the other ones son. What is the relationship between the 2 eskimos. ?
14)A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays 2 days in the saloon yet leaves on Friday, how is that possible ?
15)If it takes 4 men 2 days to dig a hole, how many days would it take 2 men to dig half a hole.
16)A person living on the 12th floor of a block of flats gets the lift each day down to the bottom to go to work. Each evening he gets the lift up to the 9th floor and walks up the stairs for the remaining 3 floors yet the lift is in full working order – why ?
17)A window cleaner using a 40 foot ladder is cleaning a 6 storey block of flats when he falls from the ladder onto solid concrete yet he immediately gets up, uninjured and proceeds to climb back up the ladder – how ?
18)A peacock lays an egg on top of a hill which has a 60% gradient to the east and a 40% gradient to the west. Which way will the egg roll. ?
19)An aeroplane leaves Inverness, Scotland bound for London at the exact same time that an identical plane travelling at the same speed leaves London bound for Inverness. One takes only 70 minutes whilst the other takes one hour 10 – why ?
20)A Canadian aeroplane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean directly half way between the continents of South America and Africa. Where would you bury the survivors. ?
21) fathers and 2 sons go fishing each catching a fish to bring home for tea, yet there are only 3 fish – why. ?
22)Do they have a November 5th in the USA. ?
23)How many birthdays does the average man have. ?
24)A woman gives a beggar 50 pence, the woman is the beggars sister, but the beggar is not the woman’s brother – how ?
25)Why can’t a man living in the USA be buried in Canada. ?
26)Two men play five games of draughts. Each man wins the same number of games yet there are no draws – how. ?
27)There is a forest which is 2 acres across, how far could your dog run into it to come out the other side. ?
28)A man goes into the Chinese take-a-way, studies the menu on the way and after careful consideration orders number 96. The assistant immediately says to him, ‘you are in the Navy aren’t you’ – how did he know. ?
29)A clerk has worked in a butcher shop for 18 months and is 5’ 10” tall. What does he weigh. ?
30)How many 2 pence stamps are there in a dozen. ?
31)What was the prime ministers name in 1982. ?
1)Mental arithmetic. Take 1000, add 40 to it, add another 1000, add 30, then add another 1000, add 20, another 1000 then add 10. What is your total ?
2)Mary’s father has five daughters. Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono – what is the name of the 5th daughter ?
3)I have two normal wooden dice, I put one on top of the other – How many numbers are visible ?
4)Before Everest was discovered, what was the worlds highest mountain. ?
5)You go into a darkened room with only one match. Inside is a candle, an oil heater and an oil lamp, which do you light first. ?
6)The doctor gives you three tablets and tells you to take one every half hour. How long will it take you to take all 3. ?
7)Divide 30 by half and add 10. What is your answer. ?
8)How many species of each animal did Moses take onto the ark. ?
9)Take two apples from three, how many do you have. ?
10)A farmer has seventeen sheep, all but nine die, how many does he have left. ?
11)A bus depot has three drivers, John, Mark and Dave whose shifts start at 6am, 8am and 10am respectively. You drive the bus to the first stop where you pick up 10 passengers, at the next stop you let off 2 but take on a further 5. They all remain on until the terminus is reached 15 minutes later. What is the drivers name ?
12)Two boys come up from playing in the dirty cellar. One boys face is filthy and the other boys face is clean. The boy with the clean face goes to wash his but the boy with the filthy face does not – why ?
13)There are 2 eskimos. One is the father of the other ones son. What is the relationship between the 2 eskimos. ?
14)A cowboy rides into town on Friday, stays 2 days in the saloon yet leaves on Friday, how is that possible ?
15)If it takes 4 men 2 days to dig a hole, how many days would it take 2 men to dig half a hole.
16)A person living on the 12th floor of a block of flats gets the lift each day down to the bottom to go to work. Each evening he gets the lift up to the 9th floor and walks up the stairs for the remaining 3 floors yet the lift is in full working order – why ?
17)A window cleaner using a 40 foot ladder is cleaning a 6 storey block of flats when he falls from the ladder onto solid concrete yet he immediately gets up, uninjured and proceeds to climb back up the ladder – how ?
18)A peacock lays an egg on top of a hill which has a 60% gradient to the east and a 40% gradient to the west. Which way will the egg roll. ?
19)An aeroplane leaves Inverness, Scotland bound for London at the exact same time that an identical plane travelling at the same speed leaves London bound for Inverness. One takes only 70 minutes whilst the other takes one hour 10 – why ?
20)A Canadian aeroplane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean directly half way between the continents of South America and Africa. Where would you bury the survivors. ?
21) fathers and 2 sons go fishing each catching a fish to bring home for tea, yet there are only 3 fish – why. ?
22)Do they have a November 5th in the USA. ?
23)How many birthdays does the average man have. ?
24)A woman gives a beggar 50 pence, the woman is the beggars sister, but the beggar is not the woman’s brother – how ?
25)Why can’t a man living in the USA be buried in Canada. ?
26)Two men play five games of draughts. Each man wins the same number of games yet there are no draws – how. ?
27)There is a forest which is 2 acres across, how far could your dog run into it to come out the other side. ?
28)A man goes into the Chinese take-a-way, studies the menu on the way and after careful consideration orders number 96. The assistant immediately says to him, ‘you are in the Navy aren’t you’ – how did he know. ?
29)A clerk has worked in a butcher shop for 18 months and is 5’ 10” tall. What does he weigh. ?
30)How many 2 pence stamps are there in a dozen. ?
31)What was the prime ministers name in 1982. ?