1. You're the pilot of an airplane that travels from New York to Chicago, a distance of 800 miles. The plane goes 200 miles per hour, and it makes one stop for 30 minutes. What is the pilot's name?
2. Can your arrange for Jane to stand behind Lee and Lee to stand behind Jane at the same time?
3. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
4. There are 10 black stockings and 10 white stockings in a drawer. If you reach into the drawer in the dark, what is the least number of stockings you must take out before you are sure of a pair of matches?
5. A kangaroo is at the bottom of a 30-foot well. Each day he jumps up three feet and slips back two. At that rate, when will he reach the top?
6. A Rope ladder is hanging over the side of a ship. The ladder is 12 feet long, and the rungs are one foot apart. The lowest rung is resting on the top of the ocean. The tide rises four inches an hour. How long would it take before the first four rungs of the ladder are underwater?
7. A man and his two sons must cross a stream. The man weighs 200 pounds and his sons each weigh 100 pounds. There is a boat that can carry only 200 pounds. How will they cross?
8. Which would be worth more, a trunk full of nickels or half a trunk full of dimes?
9. A young boy comes home from school. He lives in a high-rise building. Some days, he gets off the elevator at the eighth floor and walks up four flights, to his family's apartment on the twelfth floor. On other days, he goes right up to the twelfth floor. Why the difference?
10. A child playing on the beach had 6 - 1/6 sandpiles on one place and 3 - 1/3 in another. If he put them all together, how many sandpiles would he have?
11. Leather shoes are worn in bowling and rubber soled sneakers in tennis. In what sport are all metal shoes worn?
12. A pound of gold weighs more than a pound of feathers. Right or wrong?
13. It takes 4 - 1/2 hours for a jet plane to fly coast to coast. One plane leaves Los Angeles for New York at 4:40 O'clock, kwhile another plane leaves New York for Los Angeles at 6 O'clock. Which plane will be closer to New York when they pass each other?
14. A country squire living on his farm is served two freshly laid eggs for breakfast every morning. He does not own any hens; he does not buy, beg or steal the eggs; he does not trade for them or find them, and he is not presented with them. Where do the eggs come from?
15. On a college exam, a student was asked the following question: "Using a sextant, how would you determine the height of a building?" The student's matter-of-fact answer was: "Lower the sextant with a string and measure the string." (No answer to this one, just a funny)
16. In the Hope family there are seven sisters, and each sister has one brother. Including Mr. and Mrs. Hope, how many are in the family?
17. If the Vice President of the United States should die, who would be President?
18. How many times can you subtract 2 from 21?
19. Would it be cheaper for you to take one friend to the movies twice or two friends at the same time?
20. On a farm in Malaya is the world's most perfect plum tree. The main trunk has exactly 24 branches, each branch exactly 12 boughs, each bough exactly 6 twigs and each twig bears 1 fruit. How many apples on the tree?
21. Cleopatra was a pure-blooded Egyptian queen - yes or no?
22. When you take two apples from three apples what do you have?
23. How close a relative would the sister-in-law of your father's only brother be?
24. On an average day, what mode of transportation carries more passengers than any other? |
