1. You are in a room that has three switches and a closed door. The switches control three light bulbs on the other side of the door. Once you open the door, you may never touch the switches again. How can you definitively tell which switch is connected to each of the light bulbs?
2. A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in the photograph?
3. What is special about these words: job, polish, herb?
4. Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?
5. A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat. How did the dog do it?
5-1. In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?
6. A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?
7. What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?
8. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a long one. Michael J. Fox has a short one. Madonna does not use hers. Bill Clinton always uses his. The Pope never uses his. What is it?
9. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
10. Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?
11. I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
12. An Arab sheik is old and must leave his fortune to one of his two sons. He makes a proposition: Both sons will ride their camels in a race, and whichever camel crosses the finish line LAST will win the fortune for its owner. During the race, the two brothers wander aimlessly for days, neither willing to cross the finish line. In desperation, they ask a wise man for advice. He tells them something; then the brothers leap onto the camels and charge toward the finish line. What did the wise man say?
13. A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
14. Fourteen of the kids in the class are girls. Eight of the kids wear blue shirts. Two of the kids are neither girls or wear a blue shirt. If five of the kids are girls who wear blue shirts, how many kids are in the class?
15. Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
~ adapted from the Reader's Digest
solutions:
Answer 1: Turn on the first two switches. Leave them on for five minutes. Once five minutes has passed, turn off the second switch, leaving one switch on. Now go through the door. The light that is still on is connected to the first switch. Whichever of the other two is warm to the touch is connected to the second switch. The bulb that is cold is connected to the switch that was never turned on. Answer 2: His son Answer 3: They are pronounced differently when the first letter is capitalized. These are the hardest words to pronounce in the English language. Answer 4: The catcher and the umpire Answer 5: The river was frozen. Answer 5-1: The person was born in 2005 BC. Answer 6: An hourglass—It has thousands of grains of sand. Answer 7: It has each number, zero through nine, listed in alphabetical order. Answer 8: Their surname Answer 9: Short Answer 10: Nine—two parents, six sons, and one daughter Answer 11: The letter S Answer 12: The rules of the race were that the owner of the camel that crosses the finish line last wins the fortune. The wise man simply told them to switch camels. Answer 13: The man was bald. Answer 14: 19 Answer 15: Meat
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