Thursday, March 20, 2008

Logic Quiz

Questions:

  1. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
  2. 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?
  3. How far can a dog run into the woods?
  4. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last?
  5. Why do you always find something in the last place you look?
  6. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no ties. Explain this.
  7. A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have southern exposure. A big bear walks by. What color is the bear? Why?
  8. What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end, and the end of every race?
  9. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
  10. 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?

Answers:

  1. 2
  2. The match
  3. Halfway
  4. 1 hour (Other exceptable answer: not long enough.)
  5. You would not continue searching other places after you found the item, therefore finding it in the last place you look.
  6. The men were not playing together or The men played a total of 10 games against each other and each won 5.
  7. The bear is white, a polar bear. The house in on the North Pole.
  8. The letter "E"
  9. 70
  10. The begger is the woman's sister.

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