Sunday 11 May 2014

Fun and tricky questions

                          

Puzzle 1

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?



Puzzle 2


Can you name four days which start with the letter "T"?


Puzzle 3

If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp.

You only have one match, so what do you light first?

Puzzle 4

There are 6 mangoes in a basket and 6 kids eagerly waiting to get one. Each kid is given 1 mango, yet there is one mango in the basket, how?

Puzzle 5

If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?

Puzzle 6

What goes up but never comes down?

Puzzle 7

After teaching his class all about the Roman numerals (X=10, IX=9 and so on) the teacher asked his class to draw a single continuous line and turn IX into 6. The only stipulation the teacher made was that the pen could not be lifted from the paper until the line was complete.

Puzzle 8

What is yours but your friends use it more than you do?

Puzzle 9

What kind of words are the following: Level, civic, madam and eye?


Puzzle 10

I have holes, yet I am full of water. What am I?

Puzzle 11

How can a man go eight days without sleep?




Answers will be posted tomorrow...

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