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Brain Teasers
Questions
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. 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. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
6. 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, them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?
- Same question, but the location is in Canada?7. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
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 it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to dig half a hole?
12. What is the beginning of eternity. The end of time and space. The beginning of every end. And the end of every place
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Answers1. Incorrectly.
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. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the north pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
4. 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.
5. 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.)
6. 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...
7. The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.
8. An umbrella.
9. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
10. The temperature.
11. It's impossible to dig a half of a hole. Either you have a hole or you don't.
12. The letter E.