Logic Test #1
Scroll down after you make you guess to see anwser.
What is 5 divided by 1/2 plus
3?
13. 5 divided by .5 = 10 + 3
= 13
I have two coins making 55 cents but one
is not a nickel. How can that be?
Only one is not a nickel, because it is a 50 cent piece. The
other is a nickel.
Why are 1977 dollars worth more than 1976
dollars?
Because $1977.00 is more than $1976.00.
What word in the English language does
nearly everyone pronounce incorrectly?
incorrectly
In the United States is it legal for a
man to marry his widow's sister?
No. If he has a widow, then the man is dead and cannot legally
marry anyone.
How much dirt is there in a hole that
measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
There is no dirt in a hole.
Some months have 30 days, some months
have 31 days; how many have 28?
All the months.
Which is correct - eight and eight IS
fifteen or eight and eight ARE fifteen?
Neither. Eight and eight equals
SIXTEEN.
A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side
of a boat with the bottom rung at the surface of the water. There is one foot
between rungs and the tide goes up at the rate of 6 inches per hour. How long
until three rungs are covered?
The rungs will never be covered because the boat rises with the
tide.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six
daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people in the
family?
9 family members total. 6 daughters, 1 brother, Mr. Smith and
Mrs. Smith.
Test #2
Two planes leave Chicago and New York at
the same time. Assume a 1000 mile distance. The east bound plane travels 240
miles per hour but due to headwinds the west bound plane can only make 80 miles
per hour. When they meet, which is nearest to Chicago?
Neither. When they meet they will be equally
near.
Take 2 apples from 3 apples and what have
you got?
2 apples.
How many of each animal did Moses take on
the Ark?
Moses didn't take any animals onto the Ark. Noah
did.
Amoebas reproduce by splitting in two. An
amoeba which does so every minute is placed in a jar at exactly ten o'clock in
the morning. At 12:00 noon the jar is full. At what time is the jar half
full?
11:59
There is a clerk in a butcher shop that
is 6 foot 5 inches tall, wears size 15 sneakers, and really loves to eat
steak. What does he weigh?
A clerk in a butcher shop weighs meat.
A farmer had seventeen sheep, all but
nine died, how many did he have left?
9
A plane is flying from Canada to America
and it crashes on the border. What side will the survivors be buried
on?
Survivors are still alive, they aren't
buried.
In California, you cannot take a picture
of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera
to take pictures.
If you only had 1 match and were in a
dark room with a candle, a woodstove and a gas lamp, which do you light
first?
The match.
Which is
correct:
A: The Second Millennium began Jan. 1,
2000.
B: The Second Millennium will begin Jan. 1,
2001.
Neither is correct. The Second Millennium began Jan. 1,
1001.
Test #3
A doctor gives you 3 pills and
tells you to take 1 each half hour. How long before all 3 pills are
taken?
1
Hour.
How far can a dog run into the
woods?
Halfway through the woods. After halfway the dog would be
running out of the woods, not "into the woods."
How many bricks does it take to complete
a 50x50x10 feet brick house?
Only the "last one."
Is there a 4th of July in
England?
Yes. They just don't celebrate the American day of
Independence on it.
The capital of Turkey is a long
word. Can you spell it?
it
An electric train is traveling at 100
kilometers per hour. The wind is blowing in an easterly direction at 25
kilometers per hour. Which way is the smoke from the train
blowing?
There is no smoke with an electric train.
A man builds a house with all 4 sides
facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the
bear?
White. If the house has four southern exposures, it must be at
the very top of the North Pole.
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what
was the highest mountain on Earth?
Mount Everest.
Clara Clatter was born on December 27th,
yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this
possible?
Clara lives in the Southern hemisphere where the seasons are
reversed.
If a rooster laid a brown egg and a
white egg, what kind of chicks would hatch?
Roosters don't lay eggs.
Test #4
In baseball, how many outs are there in
an inning?
6 outs per inning. 3 outs for each
team.
Two men play 5 games of checkers and each
win the same numbers of games. There are no ties. How is this
possible?
We never said the men were playing each
other.
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.
If I 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?
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...
If a doctor gave you 3 pills and
told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last
you?
1 hour. You take the first pill
immediately, the second in a half hour and the third a half hour
later.
An archaeologist claimed he found some coins of gold with a
date reading 46 B.C. Do you think he did?
How can coins be dated B.C. if the designation
didn't exist until A.D.
How is it that a person born in
Massachusetts, whose parents were both born in Massachusetts, is not a U.S.
Citizen?
The reason: Prior to 1789, when the constitution
was ratified, Massachusetts was an English colony and the United States didn't
exist
How many times can you subtract 5
from 25?
Once. Once you subtract 5 from 25, you no
longer have 25!
In a criminal trial, what is the
relationship of the defendant to the trial judge, if the defendant's
brother-in-law's only sister's husband is the father of the son of the
judge?
He is married to the female
judge.
Which weighs more, a pound of
pennies or a pound of dimes?
Neither. A pound is a pound, the world around, 16
oz!
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