1. A woman was sitting on a window sill on the 35th floor of a building.
She was about to commit suicide. The police surrounded the bottom of the
building telling her NOT to jump. Her husband was in the room with her and
kept trying to stop her. She got nervous and fell, yet she did not get or
hurt
or even a scratch. Why?
1. She fell INTO her room instead of out the window
2. A boat will carry only 200 pounds. How can a man weighing 200 pounds
and his 2 sons, each weighing 100 pounds, use the boat to cross a river?
2. First the 2 sons cross the river together. 1 son then re-crosses the
river
to take
the boat back to the man. The man then crosses the river
The other son then re-crosses river. Both sons then cross the river,
and everyone is now on the other side.
3. Looking at a picture a man says "Brothers and sisters I have none
but that man's father is my father's son." Whose picture is it?
3. His son.
4. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks
would
hatch?
4. None. Roosters don't lay eggs.
5. There are three errers in the statement of this problem. You must
detect all
of them to recieve full credit.
5.Errors is spelled incorrectly (spelled "errers" in the problem).
Receive is spelled incorrectly (spelled "recieve" in the problem).
The third error is that there are only two errors, not three.
6. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on
Earth?
6. Mount Everest
7. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?
7. Only the last one.
8. Bill's parents have three sons. The first is named Tom, the second is
named
Dick. What is the third son named?
8. Bill
9. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a
thousand
years?
9. The letter M.
10. A patient is rushed into the emergency ward of the Conundrum National Hospital after a horrific road crash, and is in urgent need of an operation to save His life.
The surgeon on duty walks into the room and says "Oh my god! I can't
operate on
this boy.
He is my SON!" but the surgeon was not the boy's father. How could this
be?
10. The surgeon is the boy's mother.
11. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of
the
same year.
But they were not twins. How could this be so?
11.There are more than two babies. It could be triplets, quadruplets,
etc.
12. A bottle and a cork together cost $1.50. the bottle costs $1.00 more
than
the cork.
How much does each cost?
12.The bottle costs $1.25 and the cork costs $0.25.
13. A woman with no driver's license goes the wrong way on a one-way
street
and turns left at a corner with a no left turn sign. A policeman sees her
but
does nothing. Why?
13.She's a pedestrian or bicyclist.
14. The one who makes it, sells it.
The one who buys it, never uses it.
The one that uses it never knows that he's using it.
What is it?
14. A coffin.
15. Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what have you got?
15. 2 apples.
16. Which common English word is most often pronounced incorrectly?
16. incorrectly
17. A barbecue grill holds two steaks at a time. It takes ten minutes to
grill
one side of a steak.
What is the shortest amount of time it will take to grill three steaks on
both
sides?
17. 30 minutes. First grill one side of two steaks for 10 minutes.
Then flip over the first steak. Set aside the second steak for now,
and grill one side of the third steak. Grill them for 10 minutes.
Now the first steak is done. Put the second steak back on and grill the
other
side,
and flip over the third steak. Grill for 10 more minutes. All 3 steaks
will be
grilled in 30 minutes.
18. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you
don't
want to use it?
18. An anchor.
19. A horse is tied to a five meter rope, six meters away from it was a
bail of
hay.
Without breaking the rope, the horse was able to get to the bail of hay.
How isthis possible?
19. The other end of the rope is tied to nothing.
