I got 16 out of 20 correct.
Get a pencil and write down your answers.
Scoring guide:
20 Correct – Genius
17 Correct – Above Normal
15 Correct – Normal
8 Correct – Nincompoop
6 Correct – Moron
3 Correct – Idiot
Questions:
1. Do they have a 4th of July in England?
2. How many birthdays does the average man have?
3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
4. A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar’s sister, but the beggar is not the woman’s brother. How come?
5. Why can’t a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
6. How many outs are there in an inning?
7. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow’s sister? Why?
8. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no ties. Explain this.
9. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
10. A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have southern exposure. A big bear walks by, what color is the bear? Why?
11. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
12. I have two US coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?
13. If you have only one match and you walked into a room where there was an oil burner, a kerosene lamp, and a wood burning stove, which one would you light first?
14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
15. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last?
16. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?
17. How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5′ 10” tall. What does he weigh?
19. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
20. What was the President’s name in 1950?
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Answers: (Click and drag between the lines to see the answers)
1. Yes.
2. One.
3. All of them (12).
4. The beggar is her sister.
5. He can’t be buried if he isn’t dead.
6. 6
7. No — because he is dead.
8. They aren’t playing each other.
9. 70
10. White. The house is at the North Pole so it is a polar bear.
11. 2
12. 50 cent piece and a nickel. (One is a nickel, the *other* one isn’t.)
13. The match.
14. Half-way, then he’s running out of the woods.
15. 1 hour.
16. 9
17. None — Noah took them on the ark, not Moses.
18. Meat.
19. 12
20. The same as it is now.
How’d you do?
The answers don’t appear!!
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19 MISSED #9
LOL… Looks like Boca Dude failed the test since he couldn’t find the answers.
Jonco
I’m a friggin IDIOT !!
Only 10 correct !! I over analized the questions…. 🙁
100%. I used to teach critical thinking to my students, and used many of these as exmples.
examples
16
Hmmm, good one!
Didn’t get No6, which I guess is about baseball? Being a Brit don’t know about that.
Didn’t get No9 and still don’t, can someone explain?!
No14 I said that as soon as the dog has entered the woods he is ‘in’ and not going into…..same idea I suppose.
Got the rest….enjoyed that thanks!
HMHB
#4: The woman was a nun at the beggar’s church.
#8: Both men won two games. The remaining game was a draw. The men wore open collars so, of course, there were no ties.
#15: The clock stops after the one pill was taken because you can’t take the one pill more than once.
20?
only 7 right,but I am a blonde
I missed #6, because I just didn’t know. Otherwise, I figured them out.
That last one might have to be changed this fall. Obama was born in 1961. Doesn’t THAT make you feel old?
HMHB,
I didn’t get No. 9 either. But it’s right.. somehow. You’re not dividing it by 2, but .5. Get out your calculator and do the math. It’s correct.
Jonco
for HMHB dividing by 1/2 is the same as multiplying by 2
for Bunk i agree on 4 and 20 it was George W Bush
for number 15 i didnt get it i can guess 1.5 hours total or each pill is 1/2 an hour but how do you get an hour? unless you count the time it takes to obsorb the next one.
can someone explain?
Maybe Boca Dude failed because of a typo
Answers: (Cick and drag between the lines to see the answers)
I missed one
Cick click…whatever.
Tanks….errr Thanks!
hmm,
Question # 15: A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last?
Lets say you take the first pill at 2 pm., the second at 2:30 and the third at 3 pm. That’s one hour from 2 to 3 pm.
Jonco
19, damn!!!!!
There are two answer for #20 depending if your answering who was the president at the time, 1950, or the way they explained it.
20 out of 20, but I rekonized some of them.
I am kind of geenious.
I got 18 out of 20, missed 14, and 17 (doh!)
17.
I missed 10, 14, and 20.
Didn’t really think long enough on 10. Didn’t answer it.
For 14, I answered, “He can run all the way thru.”
For 20, “Mr. President.”
Just started it, and I already found an error.
Q: How many birthdays does the average man have? A: Just one.
Incorrect, smartass. The average man has only one BIRTH DATE. A birthday is universally accepted to mean a day on which someone’s birth is celebrated, NOT someone’s date of birth.
FAIL
Open collars, no ties. Nice one. Maybe in competition checkers they wear ascots. :^)
19 right, I said the dog runs through the woods while he is in there …
Fun quiz, I remember taking it in the 6th grade. (1969)
Jamie– You gave no answer, only critique. FAIL.
I got 19, I missed 14…
I kinda got 6 right, I wrote (6), because it’s the 6th one, and it was right. I know not of the bases or the balls.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/birthday
This website defines birthday as both the anniversary of the day of one’s birth as well as the actual day of one’s birth. So, the wording of question # 2 is correct.