Test Your Smarts
Hey! Get out a piece of paper and pencil/pen. Take this test and see how good of a thinker and figurer you are. Write down your answers, and then click the link to the answers page and see how many you get correct. Have fun!
1. A man lives in a house with four walls. Each wall has a window. Each window has a southern exposure. A bear walks by. What color is the bear?
2. Your sock drawer contains ten pairs of white socks and ten pairs of black socks. If you're only allowed to take one sock from the drawer at a time and you can't see what color sock you're taking until you've taken it, how many socks do you have to take before you're guaranteed to have at least one matching pair?
3. How far can a man run into a forest?
4. After working three straight 24-hour shifts, a man goes home exhausted, crawls into bed at 11:00 PM, and sets a wind up alarm clock for an intended 1:00 PM alarm (early afternoon of the next day). If he is able to sleep the entire time, how many hours sleep will he get?
5. You have in your hand two U.S. coins, which total fifty-five cents. One is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
6. How many cubic feet of dirt is in a hole 2 feet wide, 2 feet deep, and 2 feet in length?
7. Three fat people crowd under one small umbrella, but nobody gets wet. How is this possible?
8. If you take two apples from three apples, how many do you have?
9. How many outs in an inning?
10. How many birthdays does the average man have?
11. An archeologist claims he found some gold coins dated 46 B.C.; is he correct?
12. If a doctor gave you three pills and told you to take one every 30 minutes, how long would it take you to take all three pills?
13. Is it legal for a man living west of the Mississippi River to be buried east of the Mississippi River?
14. Do they have a 4th of July in Afghanistan?
15. How many animals of each gender did Moses take aboard the ark?
16. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
17. In North Carolina, is it possible for a man to marry his widow's sister?
18. Some months have 30 days, and some have 31 days. How many have 28 days?
19. What word is misspelled in the quiz?
20. An electric train is traveling northwest at 95 miles per hour, and the wind is blowing southwest at 95 miles per hour. In which direction does the engine smoke blow?
21. You are a bus driver. At the first stop of the day, eight people get on board. At the second stop, four get off, and eleven get on. At the third stop, two get off, and six get on. At the fourth stop, thirteen get off, and one gets on. At the fifth stop, five get off, and three get on. At the sixth stop, three get off, and two get on. What color are the bus driver's eyes?
22. If eggs can be laid at the rate of eight every seven days, how many can a rooster lay in ten days?
23. All of my flowers except two are roses. All of my flowers except two are tulips. All of my flowers except two are daises. How many flowers do I have?
24. A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at a crossroads in a totally black-painted town. All of the streetlights in town are broken. There is no moon. A black-painted car without headlights drives straight toward him, but turns in time and doesn't hit him. How did the driver know to swerve?
25. A mountain goat attempts to scale a cliff sixty feet high. Every minute, the goat bounds upward three feet but slips back two. How long does it take for the goat to reach the top?
26. A farmer had nine sheep, and all but seven died. How many did he have left?
27. What two words have the most letters in it?
28. On what day(s) of the year does the sun rise and set at the same time of day?
29. A certain five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is the word?
30. You have two cups, on containing orange juice and one containing and equal amount of lemonade. One teaspoon of the orange juice is taken and mixed with the lemonade. Then a teaspoon of this mixture is mixed back into the orange juice. Is there more lemonade in the orange juice or more orange juice in the lemonade?
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