Exercise your Brain LT

Lateral Thinking - Exercise your Brain

1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus

a) An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
b) An old friend who once saved your life.
c) The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose?

2. Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected criminal. They don't know what he looks like but they know his name is John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a mechanic and a fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or communication of any kind, they immediately arrest one of them who was it?

a) Carpenter
b) Lorry driver
c) Mechanic
d) Fireman

3. Cathy has six pairs of black socks and six pairs of white socks in her drawer. In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match?

a) 2

b) 3

c) 5

d) 7

4. Assume there are approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) people on Earth. What would you estimate to be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person's left-hands? (For the purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, hence five fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the number then try to guess how long the number would be.

a) 1 digit

b) 11 digits

c) 22 digits

5. Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on a hill near a remote house. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?

a) They were thrown by the scavenging crows
b) Children playing with snow
c) The dogs scattered it

Answer all these questions ( do lateral thinking) to arrive at solutions, ill post the answers in 7 days time.