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10 Brainteasers to Test Your Mental Sharpness

I found this link on Lew Rockwells site...enjoy and don't forget to read the column after the excersize.

To test your mental acuity, answer the following questions (no peeking at the answers!):

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?

Answers linked below....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/05/15/10-b...




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Heh

I got all but one due to grammar. Man with a wooden leg. Man who has a wooden leg?

I couldn't figure that one so I skipped it.

1 Johnny 2 Meat 3 The highest

1
Johnny
2
Meat
3
The highest mountain in the world
4
None
5
Incorrectly
6

I had to skip to 10, then try going back through

10
1
9
neither
8
No place now, not running yet
7
Wooden legs are not cameras, they don't take pictures
6
It is not possible?

I gave up on 6

Joe

3

#3 would be Mount Everest. It is just not discovered yet!

Nice stab at it

Better than most

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What is 6?

I went to the link but the commercial got in the way. I turn off the commercials as a routine. I still have not figured out 6.

Joe

Southern Hemisphere - where

Southern Hemisphere - where seasons are reversed.

I missed that one

Too

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The World is my country, all mankind is my brethren, to do good is my religion.