| Logic Quiz 2 |
| 1. How can you throw a golf ball with all your might and, without hitting a wall or other obstruction, have it stop and come right back to you? 2. Your car is facing South on a straight road. How can you drive it 100 yards and, without making a turn, find yourself 100 yards North of where you started? 3. Standing on a hard floor, how can you drop an egg three feet without breaking it? 4. How do you pronounce V O L I X? 5. In which book of the Bible do you read about Abel slaying Cain? 6. How can you put your left hand in your right-hand pants pocket and your right hand in your left-hand pocket at the same time? 7. According to the law of most states, the attempt to commit a certain crime is punishable, but committing the crime is not. What is the crime? 8. Read the following sentence once, slowly, counting the number of F's. How many are there? FINAL FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. 9. How many cubic feet of earth are there in a hole 2 yeards wide, three yards long and 4 yards deep? 10. If you drop a steel ball, would it fall more rapidly through water at 20 degrees or water at 60 degrees? 11. When somebody says, "I'll break every bone in your body," approximately how many bones would that be? 12. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. How many can you name? 13. This is a two-part question. (a) What word of eight letters has seven consonants and one vowel? (b) What word of five letters has one consonant and four vowels? 14. What character played by Boris KArloff brought him the greatest success? 15. Who was Shakespeare's favorite actress? 16. A single English word can be formed from these letters. What is it? You must use all the letters. PNLLEEEESSSSS 17. The amount of water flowing into a tank doubles every minute. The tank is full in an hour. When was the tank half full? 18. Two highway patrol officers concealed themselves behind a large billboard to apprehend speeders. One cop was facing up the road, the other down it to cover both approaches. "Mike," said one without turning his head, "What are you smiling about"? How did he know Mike was smiling? 19. There are two 5-gallon containers. One has 4 gallons of red fluid and the other 4 gallons of blue. One gallon of the blue is poured into the red container, and then one gallon of the now mixed 4-red to 1-blue is poured back into the blue container. Is there more red in the blue or more blue in the red container? 20. You've seen a map of Italy. Is the toe on the east or west side of the boot? 21. By what fractional part does four-fourths exceed three-fourths? 22. Starting out with $32 you bet 6 times. Each time you bet one-half of what you have. Suppoose you win three times and lose three times. would you come out ahead, behind or even? 23. A sophisticated computer is fed this problem: Between two clocks, one of which is broken and doesn't run at all while the other loses one second every 24 hours, which is more accurate? 24. Here is a practical joke you can play on your friends. Give them this brain teaser: A bus starts at the depot with six passengers. It proceeds a few blocks and stops. Twopassengers get off and five get ojn. It continues a short distance and stops. Three get off and seven board. It starts again, continues, then stops and four get off and four get on. It proceeds on its route, stops and five get on, three leave, then two more get on. On the next stop, 14 tet on and no one gets off. How many stops did the bus make? |
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