10 Brainteasers to Test Your Mental Acuity

[JonLP24]

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. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and 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. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?

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

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

9. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?”

10. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2012/05/15/10-brainteasers-to-test-your-mental-sharpness/

I got 3-6, 8 & 10 correct and felt like an idiot for not figuring out the others.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Not very trickey. The wooden leg one got me though.

[sakabatou]

5. Same

[hamsterjill]

16. Yeah, me too!

I didn't get that one.

[pink-o]

28. That's because it's lame.

And you don't REALLY need a camera. You can use your phone.

Gotta update 'em for the 21st century.

[lame54]

2. Got 'em all

[petronius]

3. Pretty fun! #8 was the trickiest, I think - easy to 'think' too quickly... (nt)

[Iggo]

4. Got 'em all.

Just had to put my mind in Trick Question Mode.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. My answers (I didn't peek!):

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. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? Meat

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

6. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible? She lives in the southern hemisphere.

7. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? You need a camera.

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

9. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?” Neither, it's yellow.

10. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field? One.

[Callmecrazy]

7. I also answered all of them correctly...

It's all in the wording of the questions.

[Incitatus]

8. I got all but #7.

I had to read some a few times.

[UrbScotty]

9. 8/10!

[trof]

10. I missed #10. Semantics.

[Boom Sound 416]

11. Missed 7&8

[lastlib]

12. A passenger plane crashes....

...by a weird coincidence, exactly on the U.S.-Canadian border. There are many fatalities. Under international law, where would you bury the survivors?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. One would hope you would not bury the survivors anywhere.

[Yavin4]

18. Unless it's the band, "Survivor"

They sucked.

[ConcernedCanuk]

22. Eye of the Tiger - had the album

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Even had a 45 of the song Eye of the Tiger - on my jukebox (yep, a real jukebox) decades ago.

But then I like Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, The Beatles, ELO, The Moody Blues, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Gordon Lightfoot, Dean Martin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Johnny Cash, The Carpenters, The Monkees, Fleetwood Mac and dozens of others . .

I'm sort of a music slut - not loyal to any one venue.

If I like the tune, I like the tune

That simple.

CC

ps: got 'em all correct except the "incorrectly" one - silly me . . . . should have thought for 5 seconds on that one.

[ConcernedCanuk]

23. What if the survivors were all teabaggers?

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CC

[Jenoch]

21. Did you hear about the Cessna 180 that crashed in

a Green Bay cemetery?

There were 1,458 bodies recovered from the wreckage.

[MissMillie]

14. I missed 6, 7 and 10

and yeah, once I saw the answers I felt silly.

[Kingofalldems]

15. Do they have the 4th of July in England?

[Wounded Bear]

20. Yes, it's keeps July 3rd and 5th from slamming together...

They just don't have fireworks.

[Yavin4]

17. I got them all correct.

What do I win?

[Art_from_Ark]

34. Johnnie, tell us what Yavin4 has won!

Yavin4! Congratulations on winning these fabulous prizes:

A year's supply of press-on nails
and bragging rights on DU

[a la izquierda]

19. I got all but #7 right.

[Dash87]

24. You have 12 blue marbles, 10 green marbles, and 5 red marbles in a bowl.

You grab 7 blue marbles and 5 green marbles and throw them to the side. How many marbles are left in the bowl?











5 red marbles

[Xyzse]

25. To be honest

I only got 1, 3, 5, 8 and 9 right.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

26. I missed #6. I blame it on the rampant hemispere-centrism in the public schools.

[pintobean]

27. I got them all correct

Probably because I fell for a few of them when I was a kid. The butcher shop question took a little more thought than the rest, though.

[Vashta Nerada]

29. 10 out of 10.

But I saw these many years ago.

[Still Blue in PDX]

31. I think I may have seen these before, too, because I got 9 out of 10 very easily.

Love your username!

[Vashta Nerada]

33. Thanks!

[Still Blue in PDX]

30. I missed #9 and feel quite stupid. nt

[Blue_Tires]

32. Got 'em all

As a child my dad bought me a bunch of riddle books...