How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. I don't know. Now, go to work and try your luck. Answer
Name the most
recent year in which New Year's preceded Christmas. Answer
Why are 1968
pennies worth more than 1967 pennies? Answer
A 10 foot rope
ladder hangs over the side of a boat with the bottom rung on the surface of the water. The
rungs are one foot apart, and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long
will it be until three rungs are covered? Answer
What is the eleven letter word that all Yale graduates spell incorrectly? Answer
What can go up
a chimney down but not down a chimney up? Answer
Find 4 letters
to complete the analogy: H is to
GRAM as D is to ? Answer
I asked the
assistant in the hardware store, "How much will one cost?" "Twenty
cents" she replied. "And how much will twelve cost?"
I asked. "Forty cents." she replied. "OK, I'll take one hundred and
twelve." How much did I pay? Answer
If you had
only one match, and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some newspaper,
and some kindling wood, which would you light first? Answer
If Mr Smith's peacock lays an egg in Mr
Jones' yard, who owns the egg? Answer
Mrs Brown's
bungalow is decorated entirely in pink. The carpte,
lampshades, ceiling, walls etc are all pink. What colour are
her stairs? Answer
You've seen a
map of
A sophisticated computer is fed this knotty problem. Between two clocks, one which is broken and doesn't run at all, while the other loses one second every 24 hours, which is more accurate? Answer.
What was the
(American) President's name in 1960? Answer
Is
Who had the title role in the 1931 movie Frankenstein? Answer
What is the
number eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven divided by three? (no
fractions). Answer
If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have? Answer
Exactly how many slices of 1.5 cm each can you cut from a whole bread which is 22.5 cm long? Answer
There are two
coins which total 55 cents (read: $0.55). One of them is not a nickel. What are the two
coins? Answer
What is the
maximum number of times a normal sheet of (news)paper can be
folded in half by hand? Answer
What do you
call a person who doesn't have all of his/her fingers on one hand? Answer
Compute: 3 + 4
times 5 + 2 Answer
Who's bigger:
Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger or their baby? Answer
How many
animals of each sex did Moses take with him on the ark? Answer
When travelling from the
If a plane
crashes on the border between the
How much dirt
is there in a hole 3 ft deep, 6 ft long and 4 ft wide? Answer
An electric
train is moving north at 100kph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10kph. Which way does
the smoke blow? Answer
Start with
three coins: a penny, a nickel and a quarter. Say, "Tommy's mother has three
children. The first child's name is Penny." (Hold up the penny while saying this.)
"The second child's name is Nick." (Hold up the nickel.) What is the third
child's name? (Hold up the quarter.) Answer
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Count the
words in the above sentence. Now count the Fs in the above sentence. Add the number of
words with the number of "Fs". What do you get? Answer
A farmer had
15 sheep, and all but 8 died. How many are left? Answer
Imagine you
are driving a bus. When you start your trip there are an old lady named Johnson and a
long-haired kid on the bus. At the first stop the lady leaves and a businessman enters. At
the next stop Frankie, a young boy, enters with his little sister. Then three old ladies
who have been shopping in the mall get on. After a short trip the long-haired kid leaves
the bus and a man and lady enter. Paul with his dog Blue gets on, while Frankie and his
sister get off, and, finally, the bus arrives at the bus station. What is the name of the
bus driver? Answer
Do you say
"Loo-iss-vill" is the capital of
If you spell
"sit all day in the tub" S-O-A-K, and you spell
"a funny story" J-O-K-E, how do you spell "the white of an egg"? Answer
Is it legal
for a man to marry his widow's sister? Answer
If water going
down the drain/toilet goes counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in
the Southern Hemisphere, in which direction would a toilet go on the equator? Answer
One day after
dinner, my uncle sat me down and began to tell me a tall tale. It seemed that there was
once a minister who often fell asleep during Sunday services. One such Sunday, he nodded
off and dreamt that he was in the middle of the French Revolution. In this dream he was
one of the revolutionaries awaiting execution. His head was placed in the guillotine, and
the blade was dropped. But just as it was about to hit, the minister's wife, noticing that
he was asleep, stuck him in the back of the neck with a sewing needle to awaken him. The
minister was so startled by this, he jolted awake and promptly died of a heart attack. So
I ask you, was my uncle telling me the truth, or was he lying? Answer
What is the
difference between Illegal and Unlawful? Answer
In a large
western city, 80% of the phone numbers are listed, 20% of the phone numbers are
businesses, and 20% of the phone numbers start with the numeral "2". If you were
to take a random sample of 1000 phone numbers from the city's phone book, how many numbers
would you expect to be unlisted, non-business phone numbers that start with a numeral
other than "2"? Answer
A pilot is
flying a helicopter around a large equilateral triangular course, with way-points labelled A, B and C. To fly from point A to point B takes him one
hour and twenty minutes. To fly from point B to point C takes him another one hour and
twenty minutes. However, to fly from point C back to point A ONLY takes him eighty
minutes. Since the pilot maintained a constant speed all the way, how did he achieve this?
Answer
There once was
a race horse
That won great fame
What-do-you-think
Was the horse's name.
How many birth
days does the average person have? Answer
A man lives in
a normal house, but the four sides each face south. From inside the man sees a bear. What colour is the bear? Answer
What familiar
word starts with IS, ends with AND, and has LA in the middle? Answer
How many
bricks does it take to complete a building made entirely of bricks? Answer
How many legs
does an elephant have if you count his trunk as a leg? Answer
What do you
sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with? Answer
A man left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home there were two masked men. Who were they? Answer
Why is it
against the law for a man living in
There was an airplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible? Answer
That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother. Who is lying? Answer
Before
The peacock is
a bird that does not lay eggs. How do they get baby peacocks? Answer
Eskimos are
very good hunters, but they never hunt penguins. Why not? Answer
What is the
tallest mountain in the world? Answer
Which is
heavier: a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? Answer
Why is George Washington's official birthday celebration held on February 22 when he was actually born on February 11? Answer
A man and his
son were in an automobile accident. The man died on the way to the hospital, but the boy
was rushed into surgery. The emergency room surgeon said "I can't operate, that's my
son!" How is this possible? Answer
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Answer
How far can you walk into the woods? Answer
What is the
longest word in the English dictionary? Answer
Some months
have 31 days, others have 30 days. How many have 28 days? Answer
Mr & Mrs Van Uden have 5 children. Of these
five, half are boys. How is this possible? Answer
The 22nd and
the 24th
Imagine a duck
in a glass bottle. The neck of the bottle is too small to allow the duck through. The
bottle is perfectly formed and has no trick bottoms or other openings. How do you get the
duck out of the bottle without damaging either the duck or the bottle? Answer
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 kittens.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St Ives? Answer
Where does
A child
playing on the beach had 6-1/6 sand piles in one place and 3-1/3 in another. If he put
them together, how many sand piles would he have? Answer
If a duck came
floating down the
In the
Massacre of the Innocents under Herod, a number of poor little children were buried in the
sand with only their feet sticking out. How might you distinguish the boys from the girls?
Answer