[Bumper]

Tough Test 5

1. A block of wood in the form of a cuboid 4" X 8" X 14" has all its six faces painted pink. If the wooden block is cut into 448 cubes of 1" X 1" X 1", how many of these would have pink paint on them?

2. Who is Columbia’s most famous bean picker?

3. There are three playing cards face-up on the table. A diamond is on the left of a spade. An eight is on the right of a king. A ten is on the left of a heart. A heart is on the left of a spade. From left to right, what are the three playing cards?

4. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

5. An inventor offered a new artillery piece to the army for consideration. He declared that once loaded it would fire sixty shots at the rate of a shot a minute. The military put it to the test and found that it fired sixty shots in an hour, but rejected it, “As it did not fulfil the promised level of performance.”

“Absurd,” said the gun’s inventor, “for you have shown it clearly does all that we claimed it would do.”

“Nothing of the sort,” said the evaluation committee. “It has failed.”

Who is correct, the inventor or the appraisers?

6. Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind it, in the same order, to form a common English word.

7. Sun Seekers brought a big box of his favourite cerveza to a PlayaInfo get together for his chums to share. Cuffedlinks took one third, Lil G took one quarter, Critter took one fifth, and Tex took one sixth. That left six beers as McKinzie’s share. How many Dos Equis Ambar were there altogether?

8. What river is the city of Baton Rouge on?

9. Bumper has lived one fourth of his life as a boy, one fifth as a youth, one third as a man and has spent 13years as a senior citizen. How old is he?

10. What segment of an Iron Man competition is staged second?