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Logic Puzzles
100
Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the …
4th Thursday in November
100
What is a kilt?
100
What literary character the museum on Baker Street in London is devoted to?
Sherlock Holmes
100
Who invented the first practical telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
100
Mr and Mrs Haines have three daughters and each daughter has two brothers. How many children do Mr and Mrs Haines have?
5-three daughters and two sons.
200
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
200
Tell the name of the Frenchwoman who lived two centuries ago in England. She is famous for her waxworks and opened gallery from them.
Madame Tussauds
200
The author of books about Harry Potter
Joanne Rowling
200
What medicine was discovered by the English scientist Alexander Fleming?
Penicillin
200
As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?
One, only I was going to St. Ives.
300
The capital of Wales is ...
Cardiff
300
What well-known cathedral in London was constructed by sir Christopher Wren?
St Paul's Cathedral
300
What English writer was born in the city of Stratford - on Avon?
William Shakespeare
300
What English scientist opened the law of physics?
Sir Isaac Newton
300
What has a neck, but no head?
400
Where does the President of the USA live and work?
In the White House
400
What of the museums of London has the biggest collection of books?
The British Museum
400
Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
Lewis Carroll
400
What English scientist wrote the evolutionary theory of origin of a man?
Charles Darwin
400
What occurs twice in a lifetime, but once in every year. Twice in a week but never in a day?
The letter E
500
What do Americans celebrate on the 4-th of July?
Independence Day
500
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
500
What is a national musical instrument of Scotland?
bagpipe
500
English theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Stephen William Hawking
500
Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and floor are all red. All of this clothes are red, his shoes are red, even his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his stairs?
He doesn't have any stairs because he lives in a bungalow!