Brain Teasers For You
Brain Teasers……
These are some interesting questions asked to students during recruitment.
Try to Answer the following questions in the comment section. I will post the answers here tomorrow.
1. There is one word in the English language that is alway pronounced
incorrectly. What is it?
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time
is it?
3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The
bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15
minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it’s highest, how
many rungs are under water?
4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a
window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the
bear?
5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on
the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor.
Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?
7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has
been dug with a square edged shovel?
8. If I were in Hawaii and 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?
9. What is th e significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four
minutes past noon on May 6th.
10. 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?
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

November 16th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
1. incorrectly
2. currently it’s 11:23am
3. zero
4. white
5. three
6. Sloppy is the person who built the shutters to be the same size (or smaller) than the window. A storm came,
the shutters went through the window and the shattered glass killed him
7. none
8. The first bucket, both times.
9. 12:34 5/6/78
10. one
11. temperature
How did I do???