Another Quiz for Thinkers

 

 

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 its highest, how many rungs are under water?

 

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

 

5. 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. How did Sloppy die?

 

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

 

7. I am in Hawaii and drop a bowling ball into a bucket of water, which is 45 degrees F. At the same time, I drop another ball, of the same weight, mass and size, into a bucket at 30 degrees F. Which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? ... Same question, but the location is in Canada?

 

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

 

9. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?

 

10. A farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in another field. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?

 

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

 

12. Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?

 

13. What can have four legs, but only one foot?

 

14. Kindly old Grandfather Lunn
Is twice as old as his son
Twenty-five years ago
Their age ratio
Strange enough was three to one.

How old is Grandfather Lunn?

 

15. Said a certain young lady named Gwen
Of her tally of smitten young men
"One less plus three more
Divided by four
Together give one more than ten."

How many boyfriends does Gwen have?

 

16. A team's opening batter named Nero
Squared his number of hits, the big hero!
After subtracting his score
He took off ten and two more
And the final result was a "zero."

How many hits did Nero make?

 

17. Some freshman from Trinity Hall
Played hockey with a wonderful ball.
Two times its weight
Plus weight squared, minus eight,
Gave "nothing" in ounces at all.

What was the weight of the ball?

 

18. The Bar Z ranch was a dude ranch. One day a new "dude" asked one of the stable hands how many men were tending the horses in the corral. Having a mischievous sense of humor, he replied, "I saw eighty-two feet and twenty-six heads." He then walked away, leaving the dude scratching his head trying to figure it out. How many men were tending the horses?

 

19. One morning as Paul was getting his newspaper, he noticed something that needed to be fixed, on his new house. At the hardware, he described his problem to the manager. The manager said, "I know just what you need." He led Paul down some aisles and stopped in front of some bins. Digging down into some of the bins, he set something up on the shelf.

"I saw your house when it was built," the manager said. "Here's all that you'll need and how much it'll cost ... five will be 15 cents, while fifty will be 30 cents. 250 will be 45 cents, while 2507 will only cost you 60 cents. One lady, about 20 blocks from your house, bought 30247 and only paid 75 cents! These are black, but they also come in gold and silver."

What was the manager selling?

 

20. If it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to dig half hole?

 

21. What is the beginning of eternity? The end of time and space? The beginning of every end? And the end of every place?

 

 

ANSWERS:

 

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

“Incorrectly”

 

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

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

 

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 its highest, how many rungs are under water?

“None, the boat rises with the tide. Duh.”

 

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

“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. 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. How did Sloppy die?

“Sloppy is a goldfish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish bowl off the table and it broke, killing him.”

 

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

“None”
No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole -- the absence of dirt.

 

7. I am in Hawaii and drop a bowling ball into a bucket of water, which is 45 degrees F. At the same time, I drop another ball, of the same weight, mass and size, into a bucket at 30 degrees F. Which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?

“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.

 

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

“The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.”

 

9. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?

“An umbrella”

 

10. A farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in another field. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?

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

 

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

The temperature

 

12. Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?

“The years are in B.C., not A.D. as you probably assumed.” Based on the system we use to number the years, the years counted down in B.C. (but they weren't counting backwards back then).

 

13. What can have four legs but only one foot?

“A bed”

 

14. Kindly old Grandfather Lunn
Is twice as old as his son
Twenty-five years ago
Their age ratio
Strange enough was three to one.

How old is Grandfather Lunn?

“He is 100 and his son is 50.”

 

15. Said a certain young lady named Gwen
Of her tally of smitten young men
"One less plus three more
Divided by four
Together give one more than ten."

How many boyfriends had she?

“Gwen had 42 boyfriends.”
42-1=41. 41+3=44. 44/4=11. 11-1=10.

 

16. A team's opening batter named Nero
Squared his number of hits, the big hero!
After subtracting his score
He took off ten and two more
And the final result was a "zero."

How many hits did Nero make?

“4” If you square it, you get 16. Subtract his number of hits and you get 12. Subtract 10 and then 2 more and you get 0.

 

17. Some freshman from Trinity Hall
Played hockey with a wonderful ball.
Two times its weight
Plus weight squared, minus eight,
Gave "nothing" in ounces at all.

What was the weight of the ball?

“2 ounces” (Beach ball or ping-pong ball?) 2x2=4. 4+2^2=8. 8-8=0.

 

18. The Bar Z ranch was a dude ranch. One day a new "dude" asked one of the stable hands how many men were tending the horses in the corral. Having a mischievous sense of humor, he replied, "I saw eighty-two feet and twenty-six heads." He then walked away, leaving the dude scratching his head trying to figure it out. How many men were tending the horses?

“11 men (and 15 horses)” 11 (men) x 2 (feet per man)=22, 15 (horses) x 4 (feet per horse)=60, and 22 (men's feet) + 60 (horse's feet) = 82 feet. Also, 11 (men) + 15 (horses) = 26 (total heads).

 

19. One morning as Paul was getting his newspaper, he noticed something that needed to be fixed, on his new house. At the hardware, he described his problem to the manager. The manager said, "I know just what you need." He led Paul down some aisles and stopped in front of some bins. Digging down into some of the bins, he set something up on the shelf.

"I saw your house when it was built," the manager said. "Here's all that you'll need and how much it'll cost ... five will be 15 cents, while fifty will be 30 cents. 250 will be 45 cents, while 2507 will only cost you 60 cents. One lady, about 20 blocks from your house, bought 30247 and only paid 75 cents! These are black, but they also come in gold and silver."

What was the manager selling?

“House numbers” Each digit costs 15 cents.

 

20. If it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to dig half a hole?

“It's impossible to dig a half of a hole. Either you have a hole, or you don't.

 

21. What is the beginning of eternity? The end of time and space? The beginning of every end? And the end of every place?

“The letter E”

 

 

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