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1. 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? Should be never as the boat would keep rising with the water level
2. Joe and Tom and the boys in the bar were exchanging old war stories. Joe offered one about how his grandfather led a battalion against a German division during World War I. Through brilliant maneuvers, he defeated them and captured valuable territory. After the battle he was awarded a medal that was inscribed with: "For Bravery, Daring and Leadership. World War I. From the Men of Battalion 8." Tom looked at Joe and said, "You really don't expect anyone to believe that yarn, do you?" What's wrong with the story? World War I wasn't known as World War I until World War II happened... who would have known at the time of WWI that there would be another one?
3. There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word- from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? (I'm working on this one)
4. Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen;
The first of all letters, the first of all figures, take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring, before you the name of an eminent king. DAVID
5. A man bumps into his mathematician friend on the street that he hasn't seen in 5 years. The man asks the mathematician how old his children are. The mathematician, who always replies in riddles said, "I now have three children. The sum of their ages is equal to the number of windows on the building in front of you and the product of their ages equals 36." The friend then says "I need one more piece of information." The mathematician then replies "My youngest child has blue eyes." What are the ages of the mathematicians three children?
6. What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now nearly everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library?
7. There is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. "This barrel of wine is more than half full," said Curly. "No it's not," says Mo. "It's less than half full." Without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?
8. What fastens two people yet touches only one?
9. What six letter word in the English language contains ten other words without rearranging any of its letters?
10. If you divide thirty by 1/2 and add 10 what would you have? 70
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