Brainteasers

[Reasonable Doubt]

Keep the grey matter active !!


1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

8. What was the President's Name in 1975?

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

11. 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 another field?

 

[Reasonable Doubt]

Here are the Answers

1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

Answer: Johnny of course

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

Answer: Meat.

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet. [You're not very good at this are you?]

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

Answer: There is no dirt in a hole.

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?

Answer: Incorrectly

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.

8. What was the President's Name in 1975?

Answer: Same as is it now - Barack Obama [Oh, come on ...]

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]

11. 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 another field?

Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

You can go back to sleep now ...

 

[Citizen X]

answers?

 

[kranky]

6, 7 and 11 had me for a couple of minutes but I did get them.

 

[Thebobo]

Without googleing

1. Johnny
2. 198?~
3. Mt Everest
4. 24 Sq feet? (I hate math)
5. Smegba? (I hate english)
6. He lives in Australia (or anywhere south of the equator)
7. ?
8. Ford
9. First
10. Is
11. Um 9?

 

[Arcadio]

Without googling:

1. Johnny
2. Meat.
3. Mt. Everest.
4. None.
5. Incorrectly
6. Australia
7. Can't take a pic with a wooden leg.
8. ?
9. 2nd Place
10. is
11. 1

 

[BAMAVOO]

1. Johnny
2. Meat
3. Mt. Everest
4. NONE
5. incorrectly
6. Australia (lives there)
7. Camera's take pictures not wooden legs
8. Same as today PRESIDENT
9. Where you are at the moment, I am in my chair.
10. Yolk is YELLOW
11. 1, if they are combined

 

[calvinbiss]

10 . Neither is correct. Yolk is yellow.

 

[lxskllr]

1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

Johnny

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

meat

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Everest

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

none

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?

dunno

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

southern hemisphere

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

dunno

8. What was the President's Name in 1975?

Obama

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

second

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

I'd say "is" but I suspect the answer is "are"

11. 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 another field?

9?

 

[allisolm]

1. Johnny
2. Meat
3. Mt. Everest
4. None
5. Incorrectly
6. He lives in the southern hemisphere.
7. Because cameras take pictures not wooden legs.
8. Same as today - Barack Obama
9. 2nd
10. Neither - yolk is yellow
11. 1

 

[Arcadio]

lol... I completely missed the one about the yolk...

 

[JimKiler]

How about another one:

A scientist finds two bodies perfectly encased in ice and just by looking at them declares he has found Adam and Eve. Other scientist confirm this statement again just by looking at the bodies. How did they know?

you can ask me yes or no questions.

 

[pelov]

Nametags that say Adam and Eve?

Yes or no.

 

[kranky]

Lack of navels?

 

[xBiffx]

How about another one:

A scientist finds two bodies perfectly encased in ice and just by looking at them declares he has found Adam and Eve. Other scientist confirm this statement again just by looking at the bodies. How did they know?

you can ask me yes or no questions.

They are wearing nametags?

 

[Arachnotronic]

Got 'em all. Nice little brainteasers!

 

[CPA]

A rooster lays an egg on a pitched roof. Which side of the roof does the egg roll down - left or right?


A plane crashes on the US/Canada border. Which country do they bury the survivors?

 

[JimKiler]

Nametags that say Adam and Eve?

Yes or no.

They are wearing nametags?

Nope, no name tags, it was only their bodies encased in ice.

 

[chitwood]

A rooster lays an egg on a pitched roof. Which side of the roof does the egg roll down - left or right?


A plane crashes on the US/Canada border. Which country do they bury the survivors?

roosters dont lay eggs, chickens do

you bury survivors? OH THE HUMANITY

 

[Arachnotronic]

A rooster lays an egg on a pitched roof. Which side of the roof does the egg roll down - left or right?

Roosters don't lay eggs.

A plane crashes on the US/Canada border. Which country do they bury the survivors?

You don't bury survivors.

 

[SirStev0]

These are kiddy word games.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

How about another one:

A scientist finds two bodies perfectly encased in ice and just by looking at them declares he has found Adam and Eve. Other scientist confirm this statement again just by looking at the bodies. How did they know?

you can ask me yes or no questions.

This one always bothered me. What are these, creation scientists?

 

[Sentrosi2121]

Not much of a brainteaser if answers are freely given.

 

[JimKiler]

Lack of navels?

Correct

This one always bothered me. What are these, creation scientists?

i think they would have to be converts.

Not much of a brainteaser if answers are freely given.

google makes all the answers a given.

 

[DrPizza]

Yes, of course I got them all correct, but I also realized that there is another interpretation for #11: If the farmer and a field and "the other field" - then he has two fields. If he combines them all in "another" field, then some other farmer would have his one giant stack of hay.

i.e. A farmer I know had 3 wagons full of hay in *his* barn. If he put one of those wagon loads of hay in another barn, how many wagon loads of hay does he have? Answer: 2. And now I have one.