Puzzles | Brain Teasers | Aptitude Questions

1. What are the only English words with three consecutive repeated letters. For example, sweet-toothed would be one (ee,tt,oo) if it weren't for the hyphen.

Answers:

Bookkeeper and the related forms of the word, such as bookkeeping.

 

2. A man is six feet tall, is a clerk at a butcher shop, and wears size 11 shoes. What does he weigh?

Answers:

He weighs meat

 

3. 75% can be written as 3/4. How would 58 1/3% be written as a fraction (when reduced to the lowest denominator)?

Answers:

7/12. The easiest way to do this? 58 1/3% is 58.333.. out of 100. Multiply both the denominator and numerator by three to make them both whole numbers, and you have 175/300. Now just reduce this.

 

4. How can you arrange four ordinary wineglasses on an ordinary table so that "foot" (center of the bottom of the stem) of each is the same distance from all the others?

Answers:

Place the first three in an equilateral triangle so that the foot of each is the same distance from the others as the height of a wineglass. Then place the fourth wineglass in the middle of the triangle, upside down.

Further explanation:

The 4 foots have to form a regular tetrahedron. Therefore the areas of the triangles have to be the same.

Area of triangle = (1/2)*b*h

Area of equilateral triangle = 0.433*b^2

h = 1 (the height of 1 wineglass)

Therefore: 0.5*b*1 = 0.433*b^2

b = 1.1547 ( 1.1547 times the height of 1 wineglass)

 

5. If measured from the center of the planet, which mountain on Earth is the highest?

Answers:

Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador. Everest is the highest above sea level, but because of the way the Earth bulges at the center, Chimborazo (6010 meters, or 20,600 feet above sea level) is the highest when measured from the center of the planet. To put it another way, it is the furthest out into space or the closest to the sun

How To Increase Brain Power | Tricky Puzzles

1. Where did Chinese gooseberries originally come from?

Answer:

New Zealand - "Chinese gooseberry" is another name for the kiwi fruit. Its fuzzy exterior reminded somebody of a gooseberry.

 

2. Where are Panama hats made?

Answer:

Ecuador - Panama hats have always been made in Ecuador, from the leaves of the panama-hat palm. The origin of the name is uncertain, but made popular when Teddy Roosevelt wore his while visiting the Panama canal.

 

3. How many years did the "Hundred Years War" last?

Answer:

116 years - It was a conflict between England and France, from 1337 to 1453.

 

4. What color is the "black box" in jet airplanes?

Answer:

Orange - The term "black box" means a device that is viewed primarily in terms of its input and output characteristics (you can't see inside it). On planes these are orange to make them easier to find after a crash.

 

5. What was the first name of King George the sixth?

Answer:

Albert - (Albert Frederick Arthur George) He was King of the United Kingdom (1936- 1952), the last Emperor of India until 1947, and the last King of Ireland until 1949.

 

6. Which animals do we get catgut from?

Answer:

Horses and Sheep - A tough cord used for musical strings, surgical stitching and more, it has never been made from cats. The intestines of horses, sheep, goats, mules, pigs and donkeys have been used.

 

7. When do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

Answer:

November - It refers to the events of late October, 1917, but the anniversary of the October Revolution is November 7, and was an official holiday in the Soviet Union. This is due to the different calendars used at the time. The Julian calendar was still used in Russia but western countries used the Gregorian calendar, which was later adopted by the Soviet Union.

 

8. What is used for the bristles of a "camels hair brush?"

Answer:

Squirrel Hair - The hair of goats, ponies, bears, and sheep are also used, alone or in combinations. Hair from camels is considered too woolly for brushes, and is never used.

 

9. What animal is thought to be the source of the name "Canary Islands?"

Answer:

Dog - Insula Canaria, a Latin name meaning Island of the Dogs, was applied originally to the island of Gran Canaria. Apparently there were wild dogs that populated many of the islands when they were first visited by ancient Romans.

 

10. What color are purple finches?

Answer:

Red and Brown - Males (adult) are normally red on the head, breast, and back. Females are light brown above, white below, and with dark brown streaks throughout.

Riddles And Puzzles

1. Animal Numbers

If cat + dog = 7, and rat + mouse = 31, what does alligator + bird equal?

 

Answer:

3. In each equation the numerical position in the alphabet of the first letter of each word is used. Thus alligator + bird is 1 + 2, or 3 (the "a" in alligator is the 1st letter of the alphabet and "b" in bird is the 2nd).

 

2. I Am Six Yet One

What English word has the letter "i" in it six times?

 

Answer:

Indivisibility.

 

3. Und Then What?

What five letters can you add "und" to - at the beginning and end - to create a common English word? (und_____und)

 

Answer:

ERGRO. Put the three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form "underground."

 

4. A Backwards Tongue

There is a palindrome (a word that is spelled the same forward and backwards) which is also the name of a language. What is it?

 

Answer:

Malayalam, spoken in parts of India.

 

5. Aeouarrgh!
Name an English word with five consecutive vowels.

 

Answer:

The word "queueing" may be the only one.

 

6. The Gift Of No Sunrise

In the middle of the night a man gets out of bed, walks to the yard and puts something in a bag. He then gets in his car, drives across town to his friend's house and rings the doorbell. His friend answers and the man says, "Here, you wanted it, so its yours." The man then smiles and drives home. As a result of all this, though, he never sees another sunrise in his life (but yes, he is alive). How can you explain this?

 

Answer:

The man put his rooster in the bag and gave it to the friend who had admired it. Now he could sleep in peace at last until well after sunrise.