ANSWERS to my TRICKY QUESTIONS QUIZ
1. No. If he has a widow, he is dead, and therefore in no shape to marry anyone.
2. Three errors:
- 'is' should be 'are'
- 'errers' should be 'errors'
- There are only two errors in grammar, so the statement is also incorrect.
3. Light the match first, of course.
4. The answer is not five, but six. He will make five cigars from the twenty-five butts. Then, after he smokes the five cigars he made, he'll have five butts left with which to make another cigar.
5. All the words have a series of three letters that are alphabetically sequential.
def, rst, lmn, nop, ghi, stu, abc, hij, def, nop, ghi
6. Cut the cake into two levels first by slicing through the cake parallel to the table. Then cut the cake in four quarters in the normal way.
7. The men did not pay a total of $27 for the room, but $25 ($30 minus the $5 the desk clerk sent back). Then the bellboy took $2, and each of the men got back $1. So we have $25 for the room, plus $2 for the bellboy, plus $3 for the men. $25+$2+$3=$30
8. If the lilies double every day in area, and on day sixty the lake is fully covered, then the lake is half covered on day fifty-nine.
9. There are three answers to this one.
- Draw one curvy line in front of the figure: SIX
- Draw a 'I' in front of the figure (IIX) and turn the paper upside down (XII).
- Draw a straight line horizontally through the center of the IX. You end up with IV on one side of the line and VI on the other side.
10. The letter T. These are all the letters immediately preceding or following the five vowels.
11. These are the letters H to O. H2O is commonly known as WATER.
12. He could get a 4 ft by 3 ft box and put the fishing pole diagonally inside.
13. N, T. The letters represent the numbers One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight; the next two are Nine and Ten.
14. Queue and 'Q' are pronounced the same.
15. Moses didn't take any animals onto the ark, Noah did.
16. Greenhouses are all made of glass, of course!
17.Of course there is, right after the Third of July.
18. Only one, even if he celebrates the date every year.
19. Twelve - every month has 28 days; most have more
20. There are six outs per inning - three for each side.
21. 70. 30 divided by 2 is 15, but 30 divided by 1/2 is 60.
22. You have 2 - the two you took away. I only have one.
23. Nine. The other 8 dropped down and died.
24. Two hours. You’ll take the first one immediately, and the others at 30 minutes, 1 hour, 90 minutes, and 2 hours from now.
25. There are 12 stamps in a dozen, regardless of their denomination.
26. A pound of bricks and a pound of feathers both weight exactly one pound.
27. Roosters don’t lay eggs.
28. The coin that is not a nickel is a quarter. The other coin is a nickel.
29. Lee is the fifth child of his parents.
30. You’re the pilot; state your name.
31. If the Vice President dies, the President still remains in office.
32. There is no dirt in the hole – the dirt has been removed to create the hole.
33. Light three ends of rope. When one rope has burnt out, light the fourth end.
34. There are 6 F’s in the sentence. Only get three? You’re probably skipping the word ‘of’.
35. 116 years
36. Ecuador
37. Sheep and Horses
38. November
39. Squirrel fur
40. Dogs
41. Albert
42. Crimson
43. New Zealand
44. Grey. All white horses are officially considered grey.
45. German
46. One brick. The last brick finished the courtyard.
47. You overtook the second runner and took their place; you are now running in second place.
48. The answer is not 5000, but 4100.
49. The letter is 'e', and the words are: degree, exceed, sentence, eleven, cheese, evergreen, needle, element, reserve, and reelect.
50. D for December. July, August, September, October, November, December.
51. Nine times. 1:23, 2:34, 3:45, 4:56, 9:10, 10:11, 11:12, 12:13, and 12:34
52. Nine coins - four pennies, 1 nicket, 2 dimes, 1 quarter, and 1 half-dollar.
53. Eight darts. There are two combinations that will add to 84. Five 9s and three 13s, OR six 9s, one 17, and one 13.
54. Cut four apples into three pieces each. Cut the three remaining apples into four pices each. Distribute one third and one quarter portion to each person.
55. Twenty. These numbers all start with the letter 't' when written out - two, three, ten, twelve, thirteen, twenty, and twenty-one.
56. The beggar is female, and thus is the woman's sister.
57. The women are not playing each other.
58. Fill the 3-liter jug three times, each time dumping the water from it into the 8-liter jug. The third time, this will leave one liter of water in the 3-liter jug, and the 8-liter jug will be filled. Dump the water from the 8-liter jug down the drain, and then empty the one liter of water from the 3-liter jug into the 8-liter jug. Now fill the 3-liter jug again and dump the water into the 8-liter jug. The 8-liter jug now contains 4 liters of water. Various answers are possible.
59. There were originally six oranges in the bag.
60. By gradually pouring sand into the hole. The bird will keep moving so that it is not buried in the sand, forcing it higher until it comes out.
61. The two of you must stand back to back.
62. Art made a $200 profit each time he sold the car, for a total of $400 profit.
63. Windows.
64. The name of the ship.
65. There are nine people in the Plum family - the two parents, six daughters, and one son (who is a brother to each of the girls).
- Nine of those marbles are the same color, so 9/39 chance (or 3/13 chance) gives you slightly over a 23% chance of being the same color.
- Three of those marbles are the same number, so 3/39 (1/13 chance) gives you approximately a 7.7% chance of being the same number.
- Eliminating the 9 marbles that share a color and the 3 marbles that share a number, there are 27 marbles left that share neither a number nor a color with the first marble. That's 27/39 (or 9/13 chance), about a 69% chance that the second marble won't share either factor with the first.
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