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13 April Answers to the The Brain Teasers!
 Brain Teasers
1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it? Ans:
The word "incorrectly." {Almost cracked your brain, didn't you?}
2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
Ans:
1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two. 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?
Ans:
None, the boat rises with the tide. Duh. 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?
Ans:
White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear. 5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
Ans:
Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed before addition. So... half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is 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?
Ans:
Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him. {Poor Sloppy.}
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?
Ans:
None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt. (And those of you who said 36 cubic feet are wrong for another reason, too. You would have needed the length measurement too. So you don't even know how much air is in the hole.) 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?
Ans:
Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down... 9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
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The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78. 10. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up? (hint... chim chimminy)
Ans:
An umbrella. 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 the center field?
Ans:
One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack. 12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
Ans:
The temperature.
Only three people decided to give my Brain Teasers try. But to make a long blog short I am going to just give their answers:
 CallieHuggles:
1. Incorrectly = right
2. It didn't say = wrong
3. 3 rungs = wrong
4. NO House has all four walls facing south duhh, so who who colors what color a bear it, He better be making sure the it don't fall on him... WHITE = right
5. 3 = wrong
6. Sloppy was a fish and the shutters knocked his bowl over and it broke leaving sloppy demised. = right
7. It's a HOLE the Dirt is OUT of the hole now. = right
8. Well the 30 degree bucket would keep it from hitting the bottom at all..
if it was in canada? Ummm how do you get the water the same Temp? Same answer Can't hit a frozen bucket of water BOTTOM... = wrong
9. 12-6-1978 12:34 ?? = right
10. umbrella = right
11. one BIG stack = right
12. the tempurature = right
Callie has 8 answers right and 4 wrong.
 Friends
songfairy:
1. incorrectly = right
2. a quarter to two. = right
3. no answer = wrong
4. White = right
5. 3 = wrong
6. no answer = wrong
7. No dirt in a whole it's empty. = right
8. no answer. = wrong
9. No answer. = wrong
10. umbrella = right
11. 1 = right
12. No answer. = wrong
Songfairy has 6 answers right and 6 answers wrong.
thatannagirly:
1. Incorrectly (wednesday is another option, btw) = right
2. 12:55 = wrong
3. none, the ladder is on a boat, and boat float. = right
4. White. if all four walls face south, then the house must be built on the north pole, and any bear up there is a polar bear. = right
5. multiplication comes before addition, so it's equal to three. = right
6. my guess is that poor Sloppy is a fish whose bowl was broken and died of all the water draining from the bowl. = right
7. a hole, by definition, has no dirt in it. = right
8. 30 degree F water is frozen, so the bowling ball wouldn't reach the bottom, thus it would reach the bottom of the 45 degree water bucket first.
in Canada? frozen water is frozen water = wrong
9. 12:34 5/6/78 = right
10. No answer. = wrong
11. if he combined all the haystacks he would have only one haystack. = right
12. temperature, pressure, but I'm thinking that you're looking for the sun. = right
thatannagirly has 9 answers right and 3 answers wrong.
And the winner with 9 right answers ( drum roll please!LOL) is: thatannagirly!
A BIGGGGGGGG Congratulations to you!
I truely hope that you enjoyed our little brainer and will come around for the next one.
Pleasel visit each of the participates wonderful sites:
thatannagirly = Chloroform the one you love...
CallieHuggles = Let Positive Voices be Heard
The songfairy = India's Den Of Iniquity
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