Lateral thinking quiz

Concentrate and write down your answers

· A graduate applying for pilot training with a major airline was asked what he would do if, after a long-haul flight to Sidney, he met the captain wearing a dress in the hotel bar.

· What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?

· If you have two coins totaling 11p, and one of the coins is not a penny, what are the two coins?

· How many animals of each species did Moses take into the Ark?

· A man built a rectangular house, each side having a southern view. He spotted a bear. What colour was the bear?

· If you were alone in a deserted house at night, and there was an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match, which would you light first?

· Which side of a cat contains the most hair?

· The 60th and 62nd British Prime Ministers of the UK had the same mother and father, but were not brothers. How do you account for this?

· How many birthdays does a typical woman have?

· Why can't a man living in Canterbury be buried west of the River Stour?

· Divide 40 by half and add ten. What is the answer?

· To the nearest cubic centimetre, how much soil is there in a 3m x 2m x 2m hole?

· Is it legal more a man to marry his widow's sister?

· If you drove a coach leaving Canterbury with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at Faversham, picked up 9 more at Sittingbourne, dropped off 3 at Chatham, and then drove on to arrive in London 40 minutes later, what would the name of the driver be?

· A farmer has 15 cows, all but 8 die. How many does he have left?

· A woman lives on the tenth floor of a block of flats. Every morning she takes the lift down to the ground floor and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the lift, and, if there is someone else in the lift she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the eighth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to her flat. How do you explain this?

· The band of stars across the night sky is called the "...... Way"

· Yogurt is made from fermented ........

· What do cows drink?

· If a red house is made of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a green
house made of?

· If a plane crashes on the Italian/Swiss border, where do you bury the survivors?

· If the hour hand of a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute, how many degrees will it move in an hour?

· John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?

· A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent one night there, and left on Friday. How do you account for this?





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1. The captain was of course a woman.
2. Your left hand, forearm or elbow.
3. 10p and 1p - the other coin can be a penny!
4. None. NOAH built the Ark
5. White. Only at the North Pole can all four walls be facing South.
6. The match!
7. The outside
8. Churchill was Prime Minister twice, from 1940 to 45 and from 1951 to 55.
9. One
10. Because he is still alive .
11. 90. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.
12. None - it's a hole!
13. No - because he's dead
14. YOU are the driver!
15. 8
16. The woman is of small stature and couldn't reach the upper lift buttons.
17. Milky Way
18. Milk
19. Water. After the previous two questions, did you answer milk?
20. Glass
21. You don't bury survivors!
22. One
23. John
24. His horse was named Friday