Quizzes

Questions

1. You have six grapefruit in a special gift box, and there are half a dozen people in the room. Is there any way to give each person a grapefruit and have one remain in the special container?
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2. Raking the lawn, I heap up 22 big piles of leaves in the front yard and 39 in the back yard. If I put them all together, how many piles will I have?
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3. Two runners race towards each other, starting from 10 miles apart. The faster one runs at 12mph, the other at 8mph. At the same time, a bird fascinated by the whole procedure flashes back and forth between them until they meet. Assuming the bird flies at an average of 22mph. How for does it travel in all?
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4. If 3 cats can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes, how long will it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats?
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5. I have 2 current coins in my hand. Together they total 55 cents. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?
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6. A little Indian and a big Indian are walking down a path. The little Indian is the big Indian’s son. The big Indian is not the little Indian’s father. Who is it?
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7. Which is correct: 8 and 8 are 15 or 8 and 8 is 15?
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8. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
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9. A monkey 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 the monkey reach the top of the well?
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10. Take two apples from three apples and what have you got?
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11. I have two minutes in which to catch a train, and two miles to go. If I go the first mile at the rate of 30 miles per hour, at what rate must I go the second mile in order to catch the train?
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12. The number of eggs in a basket doubles every minute. The basket is full of eggs in an hour. When was the basket half full?
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13. A shepherd had 17 sheep. All but nine died. How many did he have left?
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14. A customer hands a cigar clerk a five-dollar bill for two dollars’ worth of cigars. The latter has no change, but gets some next door from a drug clerk, who gives him five one-dollar bills for a five-dollar bill. The customer leaves with the cigars and three dollars in change. An hour later the drug clerk rushes in, saying the five-dollar bill was counterfeit. The cigar clerk gives him a good five-dollar bill. How much did the cigar clerk lose in money and cigars?
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15. What is the smallest number of ducks that could swim in this formation: two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck between two ducks?
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16. We all know there are 12 one-cent stamps is a dozen, but how many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen?
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17. A boat will carry only 200 pounds. How may a man weighing 200 pounds and his two sons, each of whom weighs 100 pounds, use it to cross a river?
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18. A set of ten books is arranged in orderly fashion on a shelf. Each books has 100 pages, making 1000 pages in all. A worm starting on the first page of the first book eats through the last page of the last book. How many pages has he eaten?
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19. A king, wishing to get rid of his Prime Minister, puts two pieces of paper in a hat. He tells a judge present that if the Prime Minister draws out a scrap marked "STAY" he may remain in the kingdom, but if he draws the scrap marked "GO" he must scram. The hitch is, the king wrote "GO" on both scraps of paper. But when the crafty Prime Minister showed the judge one piece of paper, the judge decided in his favor. How did the Prime Minister outwit the King?
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20. Which would you prefer, a truckload of nickels, or half a truckloads of dimes?
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21. Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice are sitting around a table discussing their favorite sports.

    Bob sits directly across from the jogger

    Carol sits to the right of the racquetball player

    Alice sits across from Ted

    The golfer sits to the left of the tennis player

    A man sits on Ted’s right.

    What sport does each of the four prefer?
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22. There are two jars of equal capacity. In the first jar is one amoeba; in the second, two. An amoeba reproduces itself in three minutes. It takes the two amoebas in the second jar three hours to fill the jar to capacity. How long does it take the amoeba in the first jar to fill that jar to capacity?
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23. Is it physically possible for you to stand behind your spouse and your spouse to stand behind you, at the same time?
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24. Visualize six drinking glasses in a row; the first three full of water, the next three empty. Touching only one glass, can you arrange it so that no full glass stands next to another full one, and no empty next to another empty.
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25. A painter needed three days to paint the walls of a room. How long would it take him, working at the same rate, to paint a room twice as long, twice as wide and twice as high?
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26. Express the number 100 by using the same figure six times
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27. Your grandfather, determined to start the year 1900 off right, went to bed at 7pm on December 31, 1899, setting his alarm clock to wake him at 8 the next morning. He slept like a log. How many hours’ sleep did he get?
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28. If three days ago was the day before Friday, what will the day after tomorrow be?
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