10 Brainteasers
by Holly Green
Forbes
To test your
mental acuity, answer the following questions (no peeking at the
answers!):
1. JohnnyÂ’s
mother had three children. The first child was named April. The
second child was named May. What was the third childÂ’s name?
2. A clerk
at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size
13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
3. Before Mt.
Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
4. How much
dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by
four feet?
5. What word
in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?
6. Billie was
born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer.
How is this possible?
7. In British
Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why
not?
8. If you were
running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place
would you be in now?
9. Which is
correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The
yolk of the egg are white?”
10. A farmer
has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How
many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?
May
22, 2011
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