Take up the challenge. Here’s some fodder for your grey matter to feed on. The questions may look straightforward but the answers will surprise some.
Q1. There is a man that lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it’s raining! WHY?
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Q2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, “I can’t operate on this boy, he is my son!” How can this be?
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Q3. A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off too but somehow manages to stop in time. How did the driver see the man?
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Q4. One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How’s that possible?
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Q5. A man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked as they did at the age of 21. He looked around to see if there was anyone he recognised. He saw a couple and he knew immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?
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Q6. 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?
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Q7. Bill met an old friend whom he hadn’t seen for years! “How are you?” exclaimed Bill. “Wow, you look great!” “I am married now, to somebody you don’t know,” said the friend. “This is my daughter.” Bill smiled down at the little girl. “hi, young lady. What’s your name?” “It’s the same as my mama’s,” said the girl. “Is that so,” said Bill, winking at his friend. “Then your name must be Cindy!”
How could he possibly know this?
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Q8. Once there was a tennis player.
In the tennis game, she played very well and won great fame.
Jane was her first name,
What was her last name.
Find Jane’s last name.
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Q9. A man lived in a town where people make so many creative rules, one of which was that only women had the right to sing songs. He was told one day by his wife not to leave the town for 4 years. Then, 3 years later, he wrote on a piece of paper to give to his wife, “I am going to check and see how good of a singer I am.” He did what he said he was going to do, but he did not break the rules that they had in the town. How is this possible?
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Disclaimer: The above questions are not my original but interesting ones I came across in other publications.Webmaster
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Answers to Puzzles – 2
A1. The man is very, very short and so can only reach half way up the lift buttons! However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and so can press the higher buttons with it.
A2. The surgeon is the boy’s mother.
A3. It was daytime.
A4. At the time she went into labour, the mother of the twins was travelling by aeroplane flying westwards. The older twin, Terry, was born first in the first minutes of March 1st. The aircraft then crossed the International Dateline and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother on a leap year.
A5. He recognised Adam and Eve as the only people without navels because they were not born of women, they had never had umbilical cords and therefore they never had navels. This one seems perfectly logical but it can sometimes spark fierce theological arguments
A6. They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets etc.)
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A7. Bill knew the little girl’s name because it was the same as his friend’s name. His old friend, to whom he was talking, was named Cindy, and she was the little girl’s mother.
A8. The first and last names are given in the last two lines of the poem.
Jane was her first name,
What was her last name.
The two lines make one complete sentence, and there is a period at the end of the sentence, not a question mark.
So the sentence doesn’t ask a question. It tells you that Jane was the first name and that What was her last name.
Her name was Jane What.
A9. The man meant a completely different word that is spelled the same way as “singer = one who sings” but pronounced differently. The word he meant was formed from “to singe” and means “one who singes”.
Contributed by: “Jimmy Lowell”