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Lateral Thinking Quiz
The following questions will test your ability to think laterally. If
you get more than 50% of these right, like Sherlock Holmes,
you're certainly strong on your lateral thinking skills (or maybe
you're just good at quizzes!)
1.
One month has 28 days. Of the
remaining 11 months, how many have 30
days?
2.
Two fathers and two sons shot three
pigeons. Yet each took home one pigeon.
How is that possible?
3.What can you hold in your
right hand, but not in your left?
4.
If you have two coins totaling Rs.6, and one of the coins is not a 1 Re coin, what are the
two coins?
5.Raja's mother has 3
children, one is named April, another is named May. What is the third
one named?
6.If a red house is made
of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a
green house made of?
7.If you were alone in a
deserted house at night, and there was an oil lamp, a
candle and firewood and you only have one match,
which would you light first?
8.
Which side of a cat contains the most hair?
9.If you drove a bus leaving
Kanniyakumari with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at
Madurai, picked up 9 more at Trichy, dropped off 3 at Villupuram,
and then drove on to arrive in Chennai 16 hours later, what would
the name of the driver be?
10.
Why can't a man living in Meenambakkam airport
quarters cannot be buried west of Adayar River ?
11.
Divide 40 by half and add ten. What is the
answer?
12.To the nearest cubic
centimeter, how much soil is there in
a 3m x 2m x 2m hole?
13.
Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's
sister?
14.
A farmer has 15 cows, all but 8 die. How many does he
have left?
15.
The band of stars across the night sky is called the
"...... Way”
16.
Yogurt is made from
fermented ........
17.
What do cows drink?
18.If an Indian aeroplane hit a mountain along
the Indo-Pakistan border and fell into the Pakistan area, where will the survivors be
buried?
19.
A horseman rode into town on Friday, spent
one night there, and left on Friday. How do you
account for this?
20.A farmer has 4 7/9
haystacks in one corner of his land and 5 2/9
haystacks in another corner of his land. If he puts them all together,
how many haystacks will he have?
The Answers
1.One month has 28 days. Of the remaining 11
months, how many have 30 days?
All the 11 months have 30 days
2.Two fathers and two sons shot three
pigeons. Yet each took home one pigeon. How is that possible?
Grandfather, father and son
3.What can you hold in your right
hand, but not in your left?
Your left hand, forearm or
elbow.
4.If you have two coins totaling Rs.6, and one of the coins is not a 1 Re
coin, what are the two coins?
Rs 5 and Re 1- the other coin can be a
Re 1 coin!
5.Raja's mother has 3 children, one is named April, another is named May.
What is the third one named?
Raja
6.If a red house is made of red bricks, and
a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a green house made of?
Glass
7.If you were alone in a deserted house at
night, and there was an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match,
which would you light first?
The match!
8.Which side of a cat
contains the most hair?
The outside
9.If you drove a bus leaving Kanniyakumari with 35
passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at Madurai, picked up 9 more at Trichy, dropped off 3 at Villupuram, and
then drove on to arrive in Chennai 16 hours later, what would the name of the driver be?
YOU are the driver!
10.Why can't a man living in Meenambakkam airport quarters cannot be buried west of
the Adayar River ?
Because he is still alive.
11.Divide 40 by half and add ten.
What is the answer?
90. Dividing by half is the same as
multiplying by 2.
12.To the nearest cubic centimeter, how much soil is there in a 3m x
2m x 2m hole?
None - it's a hole!
13.Is it legal for a man to
marry his widow's sister?
No - because he's dead
14.A farmer has 15 cows, all but 8 die.
How many does he have left?
8
15.The band of stars across the night
sky is called the "...... Way”
Milky Way
16.
Yogurt is made from fermented ........
Milk
17.
What do cows drink?
Water. After the previous two questions,
did you answer milk?
18.If an Indian aeroplane hit a mountain along the Indo-Pakistan border and
fell into the Pakistan area, where will the survivors be buried?
You don't bury survivors!
19.A horseman rode into town on Friday,
spent one night there, and left on Friday. How do you account for this?
His horse was named Friday
20.A farmer has 4 7/9 haystacks in one corner of
his land and 5 2/9 haystacks in another corner of his land. If he puts them all
together, how many haystacks will he have?
ONE