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1.
A certain
large animal lives happily and thrives here on Earth.
One day, every single one of these critters is wiped out by a
mysterious disease which affects only this particular animal.
There are none left anywhere on earth -- they are all gone.
About a year or so later, they begin to reappear on Earth again.
How can this be?
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2.
Some
months have 30 days, some have 31;
how
many months have 28 days?
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3.
What
is represented by this BrainBat?
EEGVTABLES
EGVETABLES
GEEVTABLES
VEEGTABLES
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4.
I dig
out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them.
I also build bridges of silver and make crowns of gold.
They are the smallest you could imagine. Sooner or later
everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to
let me help them.
Who
am I?
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5.
Sitting
at a square table are a smuggler, a mafia boss, a bootlegger and a contract
killer.
Only two of these men, Mama and Kalia, are genuine criminals. The other
two are CID officers posing as criminals.
Mama is sitting opposite the Mafia boss; the junior CID officer is sitting
to the left of the smuggler and the senior CID officer is sitting opposite
the bootlegger. If the senior officer is not playing the role of a smuggler
what is the junior officer disguised as ?
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6.
Look
at the picture below.
Count the number of men that appear, wait for about 15 seconds
and when it changes count the number of men again.
How is this possible?
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7.
I am
never the first to speak
but I am always the last to be heard.
Who am I?
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8.
Leather shoes are worn in bowling
and rubber-soled sneakers are worn in tennis.
In what sport are all metal shoes worn?
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9.
a) Re-arrange
the following letters to form one English word:
P N L L E E E E S S S S S
b) What 8 letter word has 7 consonants and 1 vowel?
hint: Tower
c) What 5 letter word has 4 vowels and 1 consonant?
hint: Chain
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10.
A young boy
comes from school. He lives in a high-rise building.
Some days, he gets off the elevator at the eighth floor
and walks up four flights to his family's apartment on the 12th floor.
On other days, he goes right up to the 12th floor. Why the difference?
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11.
Two fathers
and two sons were seated round a table.
There were four apples on the table.
Each of them took one apple and ate it entirely
yet there was still one apple left on the table. How was this possible?
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12.
How close a
relative would the sister-in-law
of your father's only brother be?
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13.
Jack was piloting a plane behind a car
but was never able to overtake it.
Why?
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14.
There is a
common English word that is 9 letters long.
Each time you remove a letter from it,
it still remains an English word -
from nine letters right down to a single letter.
What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
HINT??
S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ G
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15.
Here
everything is not always in order.
For example, Friday comes before Thursday, the cart comes before the horse,
and Mars is nearer to the moon than the earth is !
Where are we?
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16.
What do these
words have in common:
age, blame, curb, dance, evidence, fence, gleam, harm, interest, jam,
kiss, latch, motion, nest, order, part, quiz, rest, signal, trust, use,
view, win, x-ray, yield, zone?
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17.
A woman from
New York married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break
any laws. None of these men died, and she never divorced. How was this
possible?
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18.
Of all the
numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only
of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), only one number has a value
equal to the number of segments used to write it.
Which
number has this property?
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19.
Standing on
a hard floor,
How
can you drop an uncooked, unpickled egg, a totally fresh untampered with
egg, 3 feet without breaking it?
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20.
A newspaper
is supposed to have 60 pages
but pages 24 and 41 are missing
Which
other pages won't be there?
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21.
Study this
paragraph and all things in it. What is vitally wrong with it? Actually,
nothing in it is wrong, but you must admit that it is most unusual. Don't
just zip through it quickly, but study it scrupulously. With luck you
should spot what is so particular about it and all words found in it.
Can you say what it is? Tax your brains and try again. Don't miss a word
or a symbol. It isn't all that difficult?
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22.
Every day,
a cyclist crosses the border between France and Germany carrying a bag.
No matter how much customs officials investigate him, they do not know
what he is smuggling. Do you? ?
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23.
What belongs
to you
but others use it more than you do?
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24.
Who spends
the day at the window,
goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
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1.
A
certain large animal lives happily and thrives here on Earth.
One day, every
single one of these critters is wiped out by a
mysterious disease which affects
only this particular animal.
There are none left anywhere on earth -- they
are all gone.
About a year or so later, they begin to reappear on Earth again.
How can this be?
The
animal is the Mule. Since all Mules are born sterile, you can only get a Mule
by crossing a donkey with a horse. That is how the species is able to repopulate
itself.
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2.
Some
months have 30 days, some have 31;
how
many months have 28 days?
all
12 months have 28 days
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3.
What is represented by this BrainBat?
EEGVTABLES
EGVETABLES
GEEVTABLES
VEEGTABLES
MIXED VEGETABLES
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4.
I
dig out tiny caves, and store gold and silver in them.
I also build bridges
of silver and make crowns of gold.
They are the smallest you could imagine.
Sooner or later
everybody needs my help, yet many people are afraid to
let me help them. - Who
am I?
A DENTIST
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5.
Sitting
at a square table are a smuggler, a mafia boss, a bootlegger and a contract killer.
Only two of these men, Mama and Kalia, are genuine criminals. The other two
are CID officers posing as criminals.
Mama is sitting opposite the Mafia boss;
the junior CID officer is sitting to the left of the smuggler and the senior CID
officer is sitting opposite the bootlegger. If the senior officer is not playing
the role of a smuggler what is the junior officer disguised as ?
THE BOOTLEGGER
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6.
Look at the picture below. Count the number of men that appear, wait for about 15 seconds and when it changes count the number of men again.
The 13th man is made up of the "remains" of the other 12. Notice that in the second image the men are smaller and the first one is missing some hair.
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7.
I
am never the first to speak
but I am always the last to be heard.
Who
am I?
AN ECHO
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8.
Leather
shoes are worn in bowling
and rubber-soled sneakers are worn in tennis.
In what sport are all metal shoes worn?
Horse Racing
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9.
a)
Re-arrange the following letters to form one English word:
P N L L E E E E
S S S S S
b) Re-arrange the letters of NEW DOOR
to make one word.
c)
What 8 letter word has 7 consonants and 1 vowel?
hint: Tower
d)
What 5 letter word has 4 vowels and 1 consonant?
hint: Chain
a) SLEEPLESSNESS.
b) NEW DOOR
c) STRENGTH.
[There may be others]
d)
QUEUE.
[Queueing has five vowels in a row!]
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10.
A
young boy comes from school. He lives in a high-rise building.
Some days,
he gets off the elevator at the eighth floor
and walks up four flights to
his family's apartment on the 12th floor.
On other days, he goes right up
to the 12th floor. Why the difference?
He
is too short to reach buttons 9 to 12.
Sometimes no one else is on the elevator.
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11.
Two
fathers and two sons were seated round a table.
There were four apples on
the table.
Each of them took one apple and ate it entirely
yet there was
still one apple left on the table. How was this possible?
There
were only three persons at the table
comprising a grandfather, his son and
his grandson.
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12.
How
close a relative would the sister-in-law
of your father's only brother be?
Your
Mother
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13.
Jack
was piloting a plane behind a car
but was never able to overtake it. Why?
He was on a merry-go-round
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14.
There
is a common English word that is 9 letters long.
Each time you remove a letter from it,
it still remains an English word -
from nine letters right down to a single letter.
What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
HINT??
S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ G
The
base word is :
Startling -
starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in - I
(second
could be starling)
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15.
Here
everything is not always in order.
For example, Friday comes before Thursday, the cart comes before the horse,
and Mars is nearer to the moon than the earth is !
Where are we?
In a dictionary.
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16.
What
do these words have in common:
age, blame, curb, dance, evidence, fence, gleam,
harm, interest, jam, kiss, latch, motion, nest, order, part, quiz, rest, signal,
trust, use, view, win, x-ray, yield, zone?
all
the
words can be used as both
VERBS & NOUNS.
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17.
A woman from New York married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of these men died, and she never divorced. How was this possible?
The lady was a justice of the peace (or a minister).
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18.
Of all the numbers whose literal representations in capital letters consists only of straight line segments (for example, FIVE), only one number has a value equal to the number of segments used to write it.
Which
number has this property?
TWENTY-NINE
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19.
Standing on a hard floor,
How
can you drop an uncooked, unpickled egg, a totally fresh untampered with
egg, 3 feet without breaking it?
Start it four feet above the floor.
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20.
A
newspaper is supposed to have 60 pages
but pages 24 and 41 are missing.
Which
other pages won't be there?
Pages
19, 20, 23, 37, 38, & 42
will also be missing
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21.
Study this paragraph and all things in it. What is vitally wrong with it? Actually, nothing in it is wrong, but you must admit that it is most unusual. Don't just zip through it quickly, but study it scrupulously. With luck you should spot what is so particular about it and all words found in it. Can you say what it is? Tax your brains and try again. Don't miss a word or a symbol. It isn't all that difficult?
The
paragraph does not contain an E,
it does contain all of the other
letters of the alphabet though.
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22.
Every day, a cyclist crosses the border between France and Germany carrying a bag. No matter how much customs officials investigate him, they do not know what he is smuggling. Do you? ?
BYCYCLES
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23.
What
belongs to you
but others use it more than you do?
Your name
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24.
Who
spends the day at the window,
goes to the table for meals and hides at night?
A fly
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