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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Quick Test

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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