Pop Quiz
Q1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms: The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Q2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
Q3. A magician was boasting one day at how long he could hold his breath under water. His record was 6 minutes. A kid that was listening said, “that’s nothing, I can stay under water for 10 minutes using no type of equipment or air pockets!” The magician told the kid if he could do that, he’d give him $10,000. The kid did it and won the money. Can you figure out how?
Q4. There are two plastic jugs filled with water. How could you put all of this water into a barrel, without using the jugs or any dividers, and still tell which water came from which jug?
Q5. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and grey when you throw it away?
Q6. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?
Q7. This is an unusual paragraph. I’m curious how quickly you can find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it! In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though. Study it, and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out! Try to do so without any coaching!
Q8. You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?
Q9. If you overtake the last person, then you are…?
Q10. (in your head!) Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10. What is the total?
Q11. Mary’s father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?
A1. The third. Lions that haven’t eaten in three years are dead.
A2. The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
A3. The kid filled a glass of water and held it over his head for 10 minutes.
A4. Colour and Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice in the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from which jug.
A5. The answer is Charcoal. In Homer Simpson’s words: hmmmm… Barbecue.
A6. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
A7. The letter “e”, which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph
A8. If you answer that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!
A9. If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?!
A10. Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. Don’t believe it? Check with your calculator!
A11. Nunu? NO! Of course not. The fifth daughter is Mary. Read the question again.
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December 26th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
I got all of them except 2 and 5. Nine out of eleven. Not too bad.
December 27th, 2006 at 1:30 am
I got 10 out of eleven, but not with your answers… here’s how.
4: I only froze one, didn’t need to freeze both.
6: christmas eve, christmas day, and boxing day.
9: You can overtake the last person if it’s a multi lap race. Or if there are compulsory pit stops. And there is no way to tell your position in the race from him. You might be first to lap the slowcoach, or there may be people ahead who already lapped him.
11. Poor Mary. I didn’t read the question well enough either. Didn’t you know all her sisters call her Nunu?
Hope things are getting back to normal over there, have seen more pics of the storm damage, and accounts of the areas blacked out. Keep the electric eels as a standby measure, but please feed the pigeon and send him back.
December 27th, 2006 at 9:43 am
no way dude, I am keeping the pigeon, he’s wicked smart!
December 27th, 2006 at 9:55 am
I got all of them, except I didn’t bother coloring the water, just freezing one pail. I had seen some of these before, and knowing how they tend to work helped me with the new ones.
December 27th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
I missed Q2
December 27th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Pigeon’s got a wife and four eggs here.
December 27th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Alright, I’ll tell you what. The pigeon and I had a little tête-à-tête, and this is what we came up with. He’s not really ready to be tied down to one nest and one bird yet. He feels like he just left the shell himself and what with this trans-Atlantic trip and all, he is realizing there maybe other horizons out there.
So, he wants to stay here, get a job, get a nest together, get a couple of earthworms he can call his own, and then send for the rest of the family once he is established. He could fly all the way back and continue his life there, but there is so much to experience here in America. GW is almost out of office, and you can feel the potential in the air.
He typed up a little note, if you could pass it on to the misses, he would appreciate it.
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