10 Brainteasers to Test Your Mental Sharpness

[Lumi]

I will leave this up for a couple of hours to give members a chance to answer, then post.

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?

 

[Lumi]

I got 7 out of 10

 

[UGA12]

10/10:0008

 

[DZ]

1 johnny (duh)
2 meat (haha)
3 everest (jesus)
4 24 ft^3
5 incorrectly
6 she lives in the southern hemisphere
7 his leg isn't a camera :shrug:
8 first (but clearly that's too obvious)
9 niether, yolks are yellow
10 one big haystack

i'm guessing 8 or 9 out of 10

 

[DZ]

1 johnny (duh)
2 meat (haha)
3 everest (jesus)
4 24 ft^3
5 incorrectly
6 she lives in the southern hemisphere
7 his leg isn't a camera :shrug:
8 first (but clearly that's too obvious)
9 niether, yolks are yellow
10 one big haystack

i'm guessing 8 or 9 out of 10

oh crap I get #8 now! :facepalm:

 

[TON]

If you pass the person in 2nd place, your now in 2nd place kurby

 

[DZ]

yea, i felt like an idiot as soon as i realized that

 

[Lumi]

yea, i felt like an idiot as soon as i realized that

like you are the only idiot here?

It's an exclusive club, so exclusive there are many members :toast:

I did the Homer Simpson as well :lol:

 

[hedgehog]

10/10 :kiss:

 

[Agent 0659]

4 24 ft^3

:0002 :facepalm:

 

[UGA12]

1 johnny (duh)
2 meat (haha)
3 everest (jesus)
4 24 ft^3
5 incorrectly
6 she lives in the southern hemisphere
7 his leg isn't a camera :shrug:
8 first (but clearly that's too obvious)
9 niether, yolks are yellow
10 one big haystack

i'm guessing 8 or 9 out of 10

There is no dirt in a hole.:0008

 

[UGA12]

:0002 :facepalm:

:mj07:

Beat me to it.

 

[DZ]

There is no dirt in a hole.:0008

right, that too :sadwave:

 

[Agent 0659]

right, that too :sadwave:

You were all serious too:mj07:

 

[DZ]

You were all serious too:mj07:

whatever, I said i'd get 8 out of 10. I didn't see you posting answers :thefinger

 

[Aces High]

johnny

meat

mt everest

zero, there's no dirt in a HOLE

incorrectly

southern hemisphere

no men with wooden legs anymore???

2nd place

neither, yolks are yellow

1 haystack

 

[fatdaddycool]

johnny

meat

mt everest

zero, there's no dirt in a HOLE

incorrectly

southern hemisphere

no men with wooden legs anymore???

2nd place

neither, yolks are yellow

1 haystack

You can't take a picture with a wooden leg....you need a camera.
You could take a picture of a man with a wooden leg with a camera....get it?



10/10


Hope that helps,
FDC

 

[hedman]

If these are the "brainteasers" that the Preppers are using to stay mentally sharp. I like my chances if "doomsday" ever does come.

Holy shit!!

Glad I'm on the other side.

 

[hedgehog]

1) Johnny
2) meat
3) Mt Everest
4) none
5)incorrectly
6) South Hemisphere
7) cant take a pic with a wooden leg, need camera
8) 2nd place
9) neither yolk is yellow
10) one haystack

:0074