QUESTIONS
NAME A REASON A PERSON MIGHT WAKE UP AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING
BATHROOM -- 24 // BABY/CHILD -- 19
BAD DREAM -- 16 // HEARD A NOISE -- 13
HOT/COLD -- 12 // HUNGRY/THIRSTY -- 6
WORK -- 4 // ITCHY -- 2 // IN THE MOOD-- S
if there were no vowels at all, what would be the 13th letter of the alphabet?
the letter Q
What two letters can be placed in front of the following five words to create five new common words?
__APED __INK __ONE __OWNED __OUGHT
D and R. [Adding ‘DR’ to these words becomes DRAPED, DRINK, DRONE, DROWNED, and DROUGHT.
In the puzzle below, what four words replace the question mark?
Shatter the frozen water = Break the ice
You can’t access a novel by its dust jacket = You can’t judge a book by its cover
Illustrious intellects imagine identically = ?
GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE
You have a pack of 52 playing cards in your hand and decide to sort them into alphabetical order. The ACE of CLUBS, ACE of DIAMONDS, ACE of HEARTS and ACE of SPADES are the first four cards you place on the table. If you carried on this sequence, what would be the LAST card you would place down?
TWO OF SPADES
NAME SOMETHING YOU MIGHT EAT WITH A HAMBURGER
FRENCH FRIES -- 60 // SOUP -- 12
SALAD -- 9 // ONION RINGS -- 5
TATER TOTS -- 5 // PICKLES -- 3
Which of the following words is still a recognized word if you substitute the first letter for the next letter in the alphabet and the last letter for the previous letter in the alphabet?
(A) BRINK
(B) CROWN
(C) CREST
(C) CREST
If even numbers are blue and odd numbers are red, what colour is red + red?
(A) Blue
(B) Red
A: Blue. Two odd numbers always make an even number so two red make a blue.
Starting at 1, the first 10 odd numbers add up to 100. What do the first 10 even numbers add up to?
110.(2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 18 + 20 = 110) OR you could just add 10 to 100 as each even number is 1 higher than the previous odd number.
Without reordering any letters, how many animals appear in the sequence below?
P H E A S A N T O R T O I S E A L I O N
6 --PHEASANT, SEALION, ANT, SEAL, TORTOISE and LION. [Yes, ants are animals.]
NAME A FAMOUS WIZARD
HARRY POTTER -- 37 // MERLIN -- 26
GANDALF -- 11 // DR. STRANGE -- 9
WIZARD OF OZ -- 8 /VOLDEMORT -- 3
NEWT SCAMANDER -- 2
Which of these does not make a word when the letters are placed in reverse order?
(A) STUN, (B) DUST, (C) SNUB
B: DUST. [DUST reversed is TSUD, which isn’t a word.]
Without reordering any letters, what fruit appears in the sentence below?
I’D MAKE MY OWN JUICE WHILE MONEY ROLLS IN
LEMON. [It’s found between WHILE and MONEY.]
What one word do these three phrases all have in common?
Loud unpleasant noise
Tennis equipment
Fraudulent activity
Racket. They are all different definitions of the word ‘racket’.
Each of the gaps below can be filled by a different three-letter sequences that goes after the first word and before the second word to make two new words. What nine-letter word is made when you put the three sequences together, in order?
HANDLE _ _ _ BELL
FORGOT _ _ _ ANT
SHRED _ _ _ BY
BARTENDER. [BAR completes HANDLEBAR and BARBELL. TEN completes FORGOTTEN and TENANT. DER completes SHREDDER and DERBY.]
NAME SOMETHING YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO KEEP PLUGGED ON
TV-- 33 // PHONE -- 25
COMPUTER -- 24 // LAMP -- 11
HEADPHONES -- 2 // COMPUTER MOUSE -- 2
Jim is 6 ft 3 inches tall and when his friend Erica stands on a stool which is one foot tall, she becomes 2 inches taller than him. How tall is Erica?
5 ft 5 inches. 6 ft 3 plus 2 inches = 6 ft 5, then take away one foot for the stool = 5 ft 5 inches.
Which of the following words includes a number in it which is NOT the same as the number of letters in the word?
(A) WEIGHTED
(B) HORNINESS
(C) EXTENSION
C. WEIGHTED has 8 letters. HORNINESS has 9 letters. EXTENSION does not have 10 letters.
In a new word game, you score one point for every letter in the word. Then you take off two points if the word contains the letter E. Finally, double the points if the word contains a double letter. Which of these words would score the highest
(A) QUIZ
(B) FITTING
(C) CORRECT
(D) QUICKSAND
?
B. [FITTING will score 14 points. Meanwhile, QUIZ will score 4 points, CORRECT 10 points, and QUICKSAND 9 points.]
If you remove all the words in this sentence that contain recurring letters within them, which becomes the ninth word in this sentence?
word. [‘Recurring letters’ here means letters that occur more than once in a word.]
NAME A PLACE YOU MIGHT NOT GET CELL PHONE RECEPTION
WILDERNESS/MOUNTAINS -- 26 // BASEMENT -24
TUNNEL -- 16 // BOAT/OCEAN -- 14
WORK/OFFICE BLDG -- 13 // SCHOOL -- 3
Nicole is trying to think of a new password for her email account. She is going to use her middle name, an animal and a colour in a random order. Which of the following passwords must be hers?
(A) Sarah SharkStick
(B) Olivia OrangeOlga
(C) Purple ParrotPaula
C: Purple ParrotPaula. A doesn’t have a colour and B has no animal.
Which of the following words cannot have a letter removed to leave a real word that sounds exactly the same as before?
(A) Chord, (B) Boarder, (C) Source, (D) Mourning
C. [Chord can be turned into Cord, Boarder into Border, and Mourning into Morning.]
You roll three standard dice to find a three-digit number, e.g. 235. What is the highest number you can roll where all digits add up to 10?
631
Which three different whole numbers – all lower than 10 – give you the same total whether you add them together or multiply them together?
1, 2, and 3.
1 + 2 + 3 = 6 and 1 x 2 x 3 = 6.