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1. Tom and Ella emerged from playing in the cellar. Tom’s face was clean, but Ella had a dirty smear on hers. Why was it only Tom who went to wash his face?
They looked at each other. Tom saw Ella’s dirty face, so thought his must be dirty, too. Ella saw Tom’s clean face and didn’t know hers was dirty.
2. A man looked out of a window. He was desperate to open it, but knew that doing so would kill him. Why?
He was in a submarine and suffering from claustrophobia.
3. Why are 1984 bottles of whisky more valuable than 1977 bottles?
There are seven more of them.
4. Use three identical digits to make a simple addition for which the answer is 12. You cannot use the digit 4. What is the answer?
11+1=12
5. The fire alarm sounded in a ten-storey building. Chris, working in the building, did not make for the stairs, but jumped out of the window. How did he survive?
It was a ground floor window.
6. Kate loved the colour yellow. All the walls in her bungalow were primrose yellow. The doors and skirting boards were a darker yellow. The carpets and soft furnishings were daffodil yellow. Her plates and mugs were lemon yellow. Even her bath towels and kitchen towels were golden yellow. What colour were her stairs?
Bungalows don’t have stairs
.7. You enter a deserted house late at night. Inside you find an oil lamp, a gas fire and a stove full of wood. You only have one match. Which should you light first?
The match.
I did get a few. But I assumed Tom was a cat, so of course he'd wash after playing in the cellar!
ReplyDeleteoops - bungalows don't have stairs....
ReplyDeleteWell, that was fun! I'm not very good at these things but I did get a couple.
ReplyDeleteI got #1 and #5 right but I would never have thought of submarines!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these fun little brain teasers. They’re a great way to relax and enjoy a bit of humor in the day
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend
Heavens to Betsy. Who'd have thought of that 😅
ReplyDeleteEasier reading the answers than working them out.
ReplyDeleteI thought the window was in an aeroplane, and assumed but didn't check 12 could be added up using binary arithmetic, but got the others!
I had no idea about No. 1, and for No. 2 I thought the man was on a plane; opening a window while you're travelling at a height of 10,000 feet or more is a pretty sure way to die.
ReplyDeleteGroan!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was right about the three I thought I knew the answers to. After reading all the answers I should have gotten them all right.
ReplyDeleteI had the man in a plane rather than a sub, got the other's correct
ReplyDelete1, 3, 5, 6, 7 correct.
ReplyDeletethey are all simple DUH! answers that I should have known. I do not do well with questions like this until the no duh moment of reading them
ReplyDeleteI've had fun reading these last 2 days. Thanks. I hope you had a great weekend as yours is starting to wind down and my Sunday morning is just now starting.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of a submarine, I thought the man was on a plane.
ReplyDeleteReally fun quiz!
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to say I did slightly better than last time.
ReplyDeleteHope your weekend is going well.
All the best Jan
After the match, the whole house, as it is old with the insurance company's money you can built a new one !
ReplyDeleteFun!
ReplyDeleteMy brain is not programmed for this sort of thinking... (lol)
ReplyDeleteI got a few but the submarine failed me!!
ReplyDeleteLots of groaners here. I think anyone with naval experience (i.e. not me) would dispute the idea that submarines have windows. And someone needs to tell Tom and Ella to talk to each other!
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