Tricky  Questions 16-30
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16. You are driving a suburban bus from the Redline Bus Company and at the first stop you pick up Susan, George, Andrew and his two sons. At the second stop you pick up Lisa, Margaret, Carol and her son and daughter and also Mike, You also drop off Andrew, one of his sons and Susan. At the third stop you pick up Peter who is carrying a chicken and you drop off Carol's son and daughter and George.
What is the bus driver's name?
As you were driving the bus it is your name.
17. You have two bowling balls and suspend each of them over a bucket of water. The buckets are large enough to fit the bowling balls. The first bucket of water has a temperature of 64 degrees farenheit and the second bucket of water has a temperature of 32 degrees farenheit.
If dropped simultaneously, which bowling ball will hit the bottom of a bucket first?
The one that's not frozen.
18. In what year of the Second World War did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?
Happened every year.
19. For the sake of the puzzle, read the following out aloud:
                                    God
                                  save the
                                the Queen
Note the two 'the's'.
20. There are 3 words in 'Astronomical' use that end in 'n', 'a' and 'r'. The first is 'lunar' the secong is 'perilunar' and the third occupies the front position and can be the brightest of all.
What are the three words?
Moon, Corona and Star.
21. Do they have a 4th of July in England?
Of course.
22. A young boy, injured  from a recent accident is rushed into the operating theatre where the doctor in charge is forbidden from performaing the operation because the doctor is the boy's parent. But the bot does not have a father, how is this so?
The doctor was his mother.
23. As I was going tp St Ives I met a man with seven wives,every wife had seven cats and every cat had seven rats, every rat had seven mice. Me, husbands, wives, rats cats and mice, how many were going to St Ives?
Only one.
24. The street-lights are off and a person dressed in black is walking across the street. A drunk driver with the headlights off and with no moonlight manages to see the person and swerve to miss. How is this so?
It was daylight.
25. Alex, Bernie and Clive sat in a pub and drank beer all day, yet Alex and Bernie never went to the men's room. How did they do it?
Alex and Bernie are women.
26. Three people check into a hotel room paying $10 each. The manager, realising that the room is only $25 gives $5 to the porter to give back to the guests. The porter, unable to split the $5 into three gives each of the guests $1 in change and pockets the other $2.
The $2 the porter has and the $9 paid by each guest only totals $29, so who got the other dollar.
Nobody, the total amount spent was $27, being three lots of $9; comprised of $25 for the room and $2 that the porter has.
27. A bookworm eats in a straight line through a set of neatly arranged encyclopedia. It eats from the first page of volume 1 right through to the last page of voume 10. Each volume has 1,000 pages.
Ignoring covers and non text pages, how many pages does it eat through?
8004
28. A sailor is sailing down a river that is going at 3 kilometres per hour. There is no wind. Should the sailor raise the sail in order to go faster.
Yes, unless it is a square rigger, the boat is now going against a 3 KPH head wind that he can cut through.
29. Five doctors at a conference each book a hotel room but the manager apologises that only four rooms are available. He solves the problem by putting two doctors in the first room and tells one that it is only a temporary arrangement. The manager then puts the third doctor in the second room, the fourth doctor in the third room and then gets the temporary doctor as the fifth doctor puts him into the fourth room. Problem solved.
The second doctor has been counted twice and one doctor has not been counted.
30. The two rules for success are:
1: Never tell them everything you know.





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