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1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die. 2. An old friend who once saved your life. 3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about. Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose?
What is The old lady of course! After helping the old lady into the car, you can give your keys to your friend, and wait with your perfect partner for the bus?
Service S6 buses leave Orton every hour on the hour and Casford every hour to travel to the other town 150 km away. The journey takes 3 hours and the buses then wait for half an hour at each terminus before returning. While Dennis is driving the bus to Casford, how frequently, on average, does he pass a bus going the other way?
What is every 45 minutes?
Would you be richer if you had a bucket of 10cent coins or half a bucket of 5 cent coins ?
What is neither?
How long will it take a km-long train going 20 km per hour to get completely through a 2-km long tunnel?
What is 1 minutes?
Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don't know what he looks like but they know his name is John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they've got their man?
What is The fireman is the only man in the room. The rest of the poker players are women?
TRIPLE POINTS !!!!!
A group of five men are able to load a pile of logs onto a truck in 15 minutes. How long would it take 3 men to load 120 logs, if they load them at the same rate?
What is 33 minutes?
If 3 bananas are worth 2 oranges, how many oranges are 24 bananas worth?
What is 16 bananas?
FIVE TIMES POINTS !!!! WORTH 1000 POINTS !!!
A snail starts at the bottom of a well 10 metres deep and crawls up 3 metres each day. Each night, however, the poor thing slips back 2 metres. How long will it take the snail to reach the top of the well?
What is 6 days?
TRIPLE POINTS !!!!
A man lives in the penthouse of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. Upon his return, however, he can only travel halfway up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way - unless it's raining. What is the explanation for this?
What is The man is a dwarf. He can't reach the upper elevator buttons, but he can ask people to push them for him. He can also push them with his umbrella.
Arrange the four numbers 2,3,4, and 5, along with one plus sign (+) and one equals sign(=), into a true mathematical equation.
What is 3^2 = 4 + 5 ?
DOUBLE POINTS !!
Five years ago, I planted a four-metre-tall tree in my front yard. It has grown the same amount each year, and last year it was twice as tall as it was at the end of the first year. How tall is the tree now?
What is 14 metres?
How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live?
What is The baby fell out of a ground floor window?
Each of Bork's bags contains the same number of marbles. He has twice as many bags as he has marbles in each bag. If he has 32 marbles in all, how many are in each bag?
What is 4?
DOUBLE POINTS!!!!
A tree grows 5 metres every year. A boy carves his name half way up the tree when it is 1 metre high. After 5 years how tall is the tree?
What is 26 metres?
Leather shoes are worn in bowling and rubber-soled sneakers in tennis. In what sport are all metal shoes worn?
What is horse racing?
Borox is loading a freight elevator with 12 boxes: 4 small,5 medium, and 3 large. A small box and a medium box together weigh 28 kg; and a large box and a small box together weigh 24 kg. What is the total weight of the 12 boxes?
What is 140 kgs?
DOUBLE POINTS !!! If you divide 30 by half and add ten, what do you get?
70. Half is .5. If you divide 30 by 0.5, you get 60. Add ten and you have 70.
If you have 20 coins worth $1.35, and the coins are all 10cent and 5cent, how many do you have of each kind of coin?
What is What is 13x 5 cent coins, and 7x 10 cents?
At the golf course where Lee works it costs $11 for most people to have a game of golf, but senior citizens only have to pay $9. Golfers who arrive early put the fee in an honestly box that Lee opens when he arrives at 9 am. This morning there was $124 in the box. How many golfers playing early were senior citizens?
What is 4?
How was it possible that every single person in an airplane crash died, but two people survived? ?
They were married (or a couple)?
Construct an eight-digit number using the digits 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, and 4 arranged so that the 1's are separated by one digit, the 2's are separated by two digits, the 3's are separated by three digits, and the 4's are separated by four digits.
What is 2 3 4 2 1 3 1 4 ?