BRAIN TEASERS

 

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

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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 Canada?

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

10. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? (hint... chim chimminy)

11. 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?

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

13. 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?

14. Do they have a 4th of July in England?

15. How many birth days does the average man have?

16. Why can't a man living in Winston-Salem, NC, be buried west of the Mississippi River?

17. 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?

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

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

20. A man builds a house and all four sides have a southern exposure. A bear wanders by - what color is the bear?

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

22.What four words appear on every denomination of U.S. coins?

23. In baseball, how many outs in an inning?

24.I have in my hand only 2 U.S. coins which total 55 cents in value. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?

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

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

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

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

29. An archaeologist claimed he found some coins of gold dated to 46 B.C. Do you think he did?

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

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

ANSWERS

"Answers To Brain Teasers"

1. The word "incorrectly." {Almost cracked your brain, didn't you?}

2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.

3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Duh.

4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.

5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.

6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him. {Poor Sloppy.}

7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt. (And those of you who said 36 cubic feet are wrong for another reason, too. You would have needed the length measurement too. So you don't even know how much air is in the hole.)

8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down...

9. The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.

10. An umbrella.

11. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

12. The temperature.

13. 1 hour of sleep. Wind up clocks don't have am/pm settings.

14. Yes, and a 5th, a 6th, ...

15. 1

16. He could be buried alive but that would be awful.

17. Light the match first.

18. All 12 have 28 days

19. 1 hour

20. White. The North Pole is the only place where all four sides face south.

21. halfway, then he would be running out of the woods.

22. In God We Trust

23. 6 outs per inning

24. A half-dollar and a nickel. (Only one was not a nickel)

25. 9 sheep

26. 70

27. They weren't playing against each other

28. 2 apples

29. How can coins be dated B.C. if the designation didn't exist until A.D.

30.I thought Noah brought 2 of each animal, not Moses

31. No. Can't marry someone if you're dead.

A big thanks to Kristen for this contribution

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