 The IQ Test
1. A woman was sitting on a windowsill on the 35th floor of a building. She was about to commit suicide. The police surrounded the bottom of the building telling her NOT to jump. Her husband was in the room with her and kept trying to stop her. She got nervous and fell, yet she did not get or hurt or even a scratch.
2. A boat will carry only 200 pounds. How can a man weighing 200 pounds and his 2 sons, each weighing 100 pounds, use the boat to cross a river?
3. Looking at a picture a man says "Brothers and sisters I have none but that man's father is my father's son." Whose picture is it?
4. If a rooster laid a brown egg and a white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
5. There are three errers in the statement of this problem. You must detect all of them to recieve full credit.
6. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
7. How m! any bricks d! oes it take to complete a building made of brick?
8. Bill's parents have three sons. The first is named Tom, the second is named Dick. What is the third son named?
9. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
10. A patient is rushed into the emergency ward of the Conundrum National Hospital after a horrific road crash, and is in urgent need of an operation to save his life. The surgeon on duty walks into the room and says "Oh my god! I can't operate on this boy. He is my SON!" but the surgeon was not the boy's father. How could this be?
11. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?
12. A bottle and a cork together cost $1.50. the bottle costs $1.00 more than the cork. How much does each cost?
13. A woman with no driver's license goes the wrong way on a ! one-way street and turns left at a corner with a no left turn sign. A policeman sees her but does nothing. Why?
14. The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The one that uses it never knows that he's using it. What is it?
15. Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what have you got?
16. Which common English word is most often pronounced incorrectly?
17. A barbecue grill holds two steaks at a time. It takes ten minutes to grill one side of a steak. What is the shortest amount of time it will take to grill three steaks on both sides?
18. What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
19. A horse is tied to a five meter rope, six meters away from it was a bail of hay. Without breaking the rope, the horse was able to get to the bail of hay. How is
this possible?
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ANSWERS...
1. She fell INTO her room instead of out the window
2. First the 2 sons cross the river together. 1 son then re-crosses the river to take the boat back to the man. The man then crosses the river The other son then re-crosses river. Both sons then cross the river, and everyone is now on the other side.
3. His son.
4. None. Roosters don't lay eggs.
5.Errors is spelled incorrectly (spelled "errers" in the problem).
Receive is spelled incorrectly (spelled "recieve" in the problem).
The third error is that there are only two errors, not three.
6. Mount Everest
7. Only the last one.
8. Bill
9. The letter M.
10. The surgeon is the boy's mother.
11.There are more than two babies. It could be triplets, quadruplets, etc.
12.The bottle costs $1.25 and the ! cork costs $0.25.
13.She's a pedestrian or bicyclist.
14. A coffin.
15. 2 apples.
16. incorrectly
17. 30 minutes. First grill one side of two steaks for 10 minutes. Then flip over the first steak. Set aside the second steak for now, and grill one side of the third steak. Grill them for 10 minutes. Now the first steak is done. Put the second steak back on and grill the other side, and flip over the third steak. Grill for 10 more minutes. All 3 steaks will be grilled in 30 minutes.
18. An anchor.
19. The other end of the rope is tied to nothing. |
