1) Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days.
How many months have 28 days?
2) If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take
one pill every half hour, how long would it be
before all the pills have been taken?
3) I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and
wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at
nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep
would I get before being awoken by the alarm?
4) Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?
5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many
live sheep were left?
6) If you had only one match and entered a COLD and
DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil
lamp and a candle, which would you light first?
7) A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular
construction, each side having a southern exposure.
A big bear comes along. What color is the bear?
8) Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?
9) How many animals of each species did Moses take
with him in the Ark?
10) If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from
Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up 7
more people and drop off 5 passengers and at
Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4
more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20
hours later, what's the name of the driver?
Answers:
1) All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2) 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o'clock, then
another at 1.30 and the last at 2 o'clock, they
will be taken in 1 hour.
3) 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock which cannot
discriminate between am & pm.
4) 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by
2.
5) 9 live sheep.
6) The match.
7) White. If all walls face south, the house must be
on the North Pole.
8) 2 apples. I HAVE 3 APPLES, YOU TAKE 2, WHAT DO YOU
HAVE?
9) None. It was Noah, not Moses.
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