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JonLP24

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Tue Nov 5, 2013, 05:59 PM Nov 2013

10 Brainteasers to Test Your Mental Acuity [View all]

1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?

2. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?

7. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

8. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

9. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?”

10. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/05/15/10-brainteasers-to-test-your-mental-sharpness/

I got 3-6, 8 & 10 correct and felt like an idiot for not figuring out the others.

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Not very trickey. The wooden leg one got me though. OffWithTheirHeads Nov 2013 #1
Same sakabatou Nov 2013 #5
Yeah, me too! hamsterjill Nov 2013 #16
That's because it's lame. pink-o Nov 2013 #28
Got 'em all lame54 Nov 2013 #2
Pretty fun! #8 was the trickiest, I think - easy to 'think' too quickly... (nt) petronius Nov 2013 #3
Got 'em all. Iggo Nov 2013 #4
My answers (I didn't peek!): The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2013 #6
I also answered all of them correctly... Callmecrazy Nov 2013 #7
I got all but #7. Incitatus Nov 2013 #8
8/10! UrbScotty Nov 2013 #9
I missed #10. Semantics. trof Nov 2013 #10
Missed 7&8 Boom Sound 416 Nov 2013 #11
A passenger plane crashes.... lastlib Nov 2013 #12
One would hope you would not bury the survivors anywhere. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2013 #13
Unless it's the band, "Survivor" Yavin4 Nov 2013 #18
Eye of the Tiger - had the album ConcernedCanuk Nov 2013 #22
What if the survivors were all teabaggers? ConcernedCanuk Nov 2013 #23
Did you hear about the Cessna 180 that crashed in Jenoch Nov 2013 #21
I missed 6, 7 and 10 MissMillie Nov 2013 #14
Do they have the 4th of July in England? Kingofalldems Nov 2013 #15
Yes, it's keeps July 3rd and 5th from slamming together... Wounded Bear Nov 2013 #20
I got them all correct. Yavin4 Nov 2013 #17
Johnnie, tell us what Yavin4 has won! Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #34
I got all but #7 right. a la izquierda Nov 2013 #19
You have 12 blue marbles, 10 green marbles, and 5 red marbles in a bowl. Dash87 Nov 2013 #24
To be honest Xyzse Nov 2013 #25
I missed #6. I blame it on the rampant hemispere-centrism in the public schools. Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2013 #26
I got them all correct pintobean Nov 2013 #27
10 out of 10. Vashta Nerada Nov 2013 #29
I think I may have seen these before, too, because I got 9 out of 10 very easily. Still Blue in PDX Nov 2013 #31
Thanks! Vashta Nerada Nov 2013 #33
I missed #9 and feel quite stupid. nt Still Blue in PDX Nov 2013 #30
Got 'em all Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #32
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