Head Scratchers 16
1. What kind of running means walking?
2. Four people are sitting around a campfire after a long day of recreation, when one man comments: "Do you realize that around this campfire, the four of us include a mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, niece, nephew, aunt, uncle and a couple cousins"?.
If everyone is related by blood (with no unusual marriages) how is this possible?
3. What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You can't buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library.
4. What popular board game for both adults and children is played on a star-shaped board?
5. On September 17, 1961, in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia), a Douglas DC-6 crashed, taking the life of the then UN Secretary General. Who was that person?
Trygve Halvdan Lie
Dag Hammarskjold
U Thant
Kurt Waldheim
6. Which does not belong in this group: Apple, Grape, Banana, Cherry, Pear.
7. If you like pretty gems that sparkle and shine, I invite you to dig in my virtual mine. My first is purple, fit for a king, My second is green where Dorothy did her thing. My third is red, July's birthstone as well, My fourth is seen in strings and is found inside a shell. My fifth is hard, pure Carbon and expensive to buy, My sixth is Crocodolite, striped like the big cat's eye. Seventh is two words, a man-made fake of April's stone, Eighth is very dark and found at Lightning Ridge alone. Now take from each gem, one letter in its turn, And you will find the stuff for which even the god's yearn.
8. The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?
9. You are facing three switches downstairs, one of which controls a lightbulb in a room upstairs whose doors are closed (no light escapes from it). Find the correct switch without ever going up the stairs.
10. I am a window, I am a lamp, I am clouded, I am shining, and I am coloured; set in white, I fill with water and overflow. I say much, but I have no words. What am I?
Last edited by Bumper; 01-03-2007 at 09:25 AM.
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