- Jun 28, 2011
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I only got one right
But I cheated and peeked at the answers!
1. Where can anybody but you sit?
2. Why would a cleaning person prefer to wash a mirror than a window of the same size, assuming both are easily accessible?
3. How can you throw a ball so it will reverse direction and return to you without the ball bouncing against or touching any solid object?
4. Your bed and a light switch are 5 metres apart. Without using any object or mechanical device - no pole or remote switch - how can you turn off the light and get into bed before the room is dark?
5. Rusty has a cottage in the mountains where the temperature is freezing. Rusty's eyes move from the single match he has in his hand to a candle, an oil lamp and a fireplace with kindling - all ready to be lit. Which does he light first?
6. What common mechanised transports in New York (120 000 of them) carry three times as many passengers daily as all the city's subways, trains, buses, cars and taxis combined?
7. What did Catherine the Great, Attilla the Hun and Ivan the Terrible have in common?
8. What is cowhide chiefly used for?
9. Can you rearrange these letters into one long word: doornonegwl?
10. If Olive Schreiner were living today, what would she be most noted for?
1. Your lap
2. A mirror usually only has one side
3. Throw the ball straight up
4. Go to bed during daylight
5. The match
6. Lifts
7. The same middle name
8. For holding cows together
9. One long word
10. Her age
1. Where can anybody but you sit?
2. Why would a cleaning person prefer to wash a mirror than a window of the same size, assuming both are easily accessible?
3. How can you throw a ball so it will reverse direction and return to you without the ball bouncing against or touching any solid object?
4. Your bed and a light switch are 5 metres apart. Without using any object or mechanical device - no pole or remote switch - how can you turn off the light and get into bed before the room is dark?
5. Rusty has a cottage in the mountains where the temperature is freezing. Rusty's eyes move from the single match he has in his hand to a candle, an oil lamp and a fireplace with kindling - all ready to be lit. Which does he light first?
6. What common mechanised transports in New York (120 000 of them) carry three times as many passengers daily as all the city's subways, trains, buses, cars and taxis combined?
7. What did Catherine the Great, Attilla the Hun and Ivan the Terrible have in common?
8. What is cowhide chiefly used for?
9. Can you rearrange these letters into one long word: doornonegwl?
10. If Olive Schreiner were living today, what would she be most noted for?
1. Your lap
2. A mirror usually only has one side
3. Throw the ball straight up
4. Go to bed during daylight
5. The match
6. Lifts
7. The same middle name
8. For holding cows together
9. One long word
10. Her age
