Intelligence Quotient !?!!? (Fun Questions)

[riaz]

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it? Incorrectly

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it? A quarter to two That is the punster in me waking up - 25 cents = a quarter, to two (sons) Hello Emma!

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water.
The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water? The boat will rise with the tide, so no rungs will go under water

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear? White

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three? Using BODMAS (brackets, of, divide, multipy, add, subtract in that order), the answer should be three

6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die? Sloppy is a goldfish, asphyxiated

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel? There is no dirt in a hole

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? 30° F is below freezing, so dropping a ball in ice will slow it down, the ball dropped into 45° water will touch bottom first.

Same question, but the location is in Canada ? Same answer, water freezes at the same temp whether in Hawaii or in Canada (height above sea level ignored for the purposes of this question)

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th. ? Can be written as 12:34 5/6/78

10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field? One great big haystack

11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move? Temperature; stairs; ladies' ages - take your pick.

Just googled question 2. That is a joke worthy of Riaz!

Emma, I'll have to think up a special just for you - in another thread lest I be accused of hijacking.

 

[cornflakegirl]

It's about convenience. Most people would rather have 2 quarters than a half dollar. Because the half dollar is quite large and can't be used in vending machines.

I just googled half dollar. Wikipedia says that during the late sixties, people hoarded the Kennedy half dollar (for sentimental reasons, and because it had more silver in it), and so businesses stopped stocking it in their change drawers. By the time supply caught up with demand, everyone was used to not using it.

Allegedly!

 

[riaz]

I once received a pair of Kennedy half dollars AND a Churchill crown, fortunately both in presentation cases - I forget what its called, but it looks like it is in a block of plastic and can be used as a paperweight.

I wonder what they are worth now?

 

[Stormseed]

over 40 posts ! wow

I posted this stuff the reason being, I wanted you guys to enjoy I realize that the thread is now hijacked and I like the way it is at the moment.

Well, I would be posting my answers with relevant & respective detail for each question in a while. Everyone's way of thinking and perspective to understand things is different, hence everyone who posted are correct in respect to their logic.

I am a bit busy nowadays, not with work but family & relatives & parties & dancing & music and enjoying life. To everyone on this Board:

MAY THIS DIVINE LIGHT OF DIWALI SPREAD INTO YOUR LIFE, PEACE, PROSPERITY, HAPPINESS & GOOD HEALTH. HAPPY DIWALI TO YOU ALL AND ALL YOUR LOVED ONES !!

Thank you

Cool Regards
Stormseed

 

[riaz]

Happy Diwali to you too, Nimit, and to all users of this great board, may the light be with you.

 

[Stormseed]

My LOGIC:

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

• INCORRECTLY

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

• 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water.

The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?

• None, the boat rises with the tide.

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?

• White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

• Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition.

Hence, half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.

6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?

• Sloppy is a (gold) fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

• None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt.

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?

Same question, but the location is in Canada ?

• Both the questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again

The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down !

Joe, that was good thinking

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th ?

• The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.

10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?

• One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

• TEMPERATURE.

STAIRS is a also a good guess but that would be static. In other words, Stairs would not move to or from a specific position !

 

[Pugster]

The last one could be pointing to what the test is all about. IQ.

 

[schielrn]

And people wonder why the U.S. government has money problems:

The penny (one-cent piece) costs 1.26 cents to make.
The nickel (five-cent piece) costs 7.7 cents to make.

When will they realize that they need to make a change?

 

[Jonmo1]

I have 2 reasons to disagree with the Haystack question.

1. The farmer has 2 fields according to the question. 4 stacks in 1 filed, 5 in "The Other" - that indicates only 2 fileds. Therfor there is no Center Field, you have to have an odd # to have a center. That's a thin argument, I know. But whatever.

2. These questions are about thinking logically, right? There is no logical reason for the farmer to combine them all into 1 stack. Farmer has them in seperate stacks to begin with for a reason. The 1st field has the hay in 5 stacks because it's too much hay to put into 1 stack. Same applies for the 2nd field. So why in the world would all 9 stacks of hay be put into 1 stack ?? Therefor, the farmer still has 9 stacks when they are combined into 1 field.

 

[riaz]

Hi Jonmo

Are you clutching at straws?

(Oops, I did say I wasn't going to do that - how naughty of me)