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Originally Posted by Bumper
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?
They can be all of the above, but not necessarily to each other.
6. Which does not belong in this group: Apple, Grape, Banana, Cherry, Pear.
Grape, because it grows on a vine, the others grow on trees. Or what MWC said.
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.
Flip the switches to eliminate two that control downstairs lights.
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?
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