Brain teasers

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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 it's highest, how many rungs are under

water?

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces

south. There

is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the

windows.

What color is the bear?

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

6. 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. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy

die?

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6

feet wide

that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a

bucket of

water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball

of the same

weight, mass,and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F,

both of them

at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of

the bucket

first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?

9. What is the significance of the following: The year

is 1978,

thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

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

chimney

up? (hint... chim chimminy)

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4

haystacks in

the other field, how many haystacks would he have if

he combined

them all in the center field?

12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not

move?

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" Answers To Brain Teasers "

1. The word " incorrectly. " {Almost cracked your

brain, didn't

you?}

2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He

divided it

between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to

two.

3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Duh.

4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at

the North

pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.

5. 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.

6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters

in, which

knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke,

killing

him. {Poor Sloppy.}

7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a

hole: the

absence of dirt. (And those of you who said 36 cubic

feet are

wrong for another reason, too. You would have needed

the length

measurement too. So you don't even know how much air

is in the

hole.)

8. 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...

9. The time and month/date/year American style

calendar are

12:34, 5/6/78.

10. An umbrella.

11. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all

become one

big stack.

12. The temperature.

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