A room is only filled with 100% hydrogen gas. Someone is attempting to kill you by making you walk into the room. Is there a way you can save your life? How?
Answer: Any takers?
Today at lunch, a friend of mine comes up to me and says, "I have a riddle I think you might just be able to figure out. Two men are racing in boats. The race starts when the driver sees the sun as it rises. One man climbs up the 10 foot high mast, and sees the sun 5 seconds earlier. What is the circumfrance of the earth?" I walk up to the board in the French room, and begin scribling numbers all over the board. I ask, "How tall are the men?" They are 6 feet tall each.
Answer: 8640 miles
Simplify: (x-a)(x-b)(x-c)...(x-z)
Answer: 0
There are two doors, and a man. One door leads to certain death, and the other to paradice. The man will answer one yes or no question, and only one. But, he will choose to lie or tell the truth. What do you ask him? (He decides to lie/tell truth before you speak.)
Answer: "What would you answer if I asked you if the northern door leads to paradice?"
Two cars, A and B, start driving toward each other. They are 10 km apart when they start, A starting from the north and B from the south, and they both drive with a constant speed of 50 km/h. A swallow starts together with A and flies toward B. When it meets B, it turns around and flies back to A, and so on to and fro between A and B. The swallow flies with a constant speed of 100 km/h, and we assume that it takes zero time at turning each time it meets A or B. Which way is the swallow facing when A meets B?
Answer: Undifined :D It takes no time to turn, so it is already turned one way when A is very very close to B, and when A meets B, it will have, a moment before, be turning at an almost infinite rate. When A meets B, the swallow is spinning at an infinte rate, thus the way it is facing is undefined.
Four people, Mr A, Mrs B, Mr C, and Mrs D have recently lost their memories slightly. Each one of them is a Business Man, an engineer, a doctor, or a maid, own a fish, a bird, a dog, or a cat, drink milk, wine, water, or soda, like the number 1, 2, 3, or 4, and are of the ages 28, 37, 42, or 70. Both the Doctor and his wife are 42 years old. The woman who owns a dog is not the maid. The favorite numbers of the men go evenly into their ages. Mr A owns a cat, yet he dislikes the favorite drink of Mrs B, unlike his pet. Mrs D is a 70 year old woman who keeps no company but her fish. The woman who's favorite number is two likes to drink water. Mr C is older than 30. The person who owns a bird drinks wine. What are the jobs, pets, drinks, numbers, and ages of these people?
Answer: A-Business, Cat, Soda, 4, 28. B- Engineer, Dog, Milk, 1, 37. C- Doctor, Bird, Wine, 3, 42. D- Maid, Fish, Water, 2, 70.
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