Once More Its Quiz Time: Questions Part -1
A Man works on the 10th floor and always takes the elevator down to ground level at the end of the day.
Yet every morning he only takes the elevator to the 7th floor and walks up the stairs to the 10th floor, even when is in a hurry.
Why?
2.
You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
After a few minutes each of your friends has one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?
3.
A man is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.
There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.
How can the man survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire).
4.
In the middle of an otherwise empty field there lies a man wearing a pack.
He is dead.
There are no other clues visible.
How did he die?
5.
A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a glass of water.
But the bartender takes out a gun and aims it at the man's head.
The man says "Thank You" and walks out.
Why?
6.
A farmer wants to cross a river and take with him a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage. There is a boat that can fit himself plus either the wolf, the goat, or the cabbage. If the wolf and the goat are alone on one shore, the wolf will eat the goat. If the goat and the cabbage are alone on the shore, the goat will eat the cabbage.
How can the farmer bring the wolf, the goat, and the cabbage across the river?
7.
Four adventurers (Alex, Brook, Chris and Dusty) need to cross a river in a small canoe.
The canoe can only carry 100kg.
Alex weighs 90kg, Brook weighs 80kg, Chris weighs 60kg and Dusty weighs 40 kg, and they have 20kg of supplies.
How do they get across?
8.
Two boys wish to cross a river. The only way to get to the other side is by boat, but that boat can only take one boy at a time. The boat cannot return on its own, there are no ropes or similar tricks, yet both boys manage to cross using the boat.
How?
9.
A man on a park bench is looking at a small portrait. You ask him, "Who is that in the picture?"
The man says, "Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father, is my father's son."
Can you tell what person is in the picture?
10.
Two fathers took their sons fishing.
Each man and son caught one fish, but when they returned to camp there were only 3 fish. How could this be, where is the missing one fish?
(None of the fish were eaten, lost, or thrown back.)
11.
You are about to leave for holiday, but you forgot socks! You race back to your room, but all the lights are off, so you can't see the color of the socks.
Never mind, because you remember that in your drawer there are ten pairs of white socks, ten pairs of black socks, and eleven pairs of blue socks, but they are all mixed up.How many of your socks do you need to take before you can be sure to have at last one matching pair?
~HVBARI~
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