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IQ Questions With Answers and

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IQ Questions With Answers and
Explanations
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and explanations which can be used to
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1. You are in a dark room with a candle,
a wood stove, and a gas lamp. If you
only have one match, what do you light
first?

The Match
Explanation: The match must be lit
before anything else can be lit.
2. You answer me although I never ask
you questions. What am I?

Your Telephone
Explanation: When your telephone
rings, you answer it.
3. The capital of Turkey is a strange
word. Would you please spell “it”?

I-T
Explanation: The question asks you to
spell the word, “it.”
4. Your mother’s brother’s only brother-
in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is
asleep on your couch?

Your Father
Explanation: You mother’s husband
(aka your father), is your mother’s
brother’s(aka your uncle’s) brother-in-
law.
5. Bob’s father has four Mom, Meme,
and Mumu is three of them. Who’s the
fourth?

Bob
Explanation: BOB’s father.In other
words, Bob is also his kid.
6. Some months have 31 days. Some
have 30. How many have 28?
12
Explanation: All months have at least 28
days.
7. I have three apples. If you take away
two from me, how many do you have?

2
Explanation: If YOU take two apples,
YOU have two
8. Which is greater: six dozen or half a
dozen?

Six Dozen
Explanation: Six Dozen = 6 x 12 x 12 is
greater than Half a Dozen = 0.5 x 12 x
12
9. An electric train is traveling SW at
60mph. The wind is blowing from the
NE at 10mph. Which way is the smoke
blowing?

It’s not blowing OR What smoke?

Explanation: Electric trains don’t give
off smoke.
10. A plane crashes on the United
States/Canada border. Where are the
survivors buried?
They aren’t
Explanation: You don’t bury survivors.
11. How can 2 and 2 make more than 4?

Place them side by side

Explanation: If you place 2 and two next
to each other, you get 22 (twenty-two).
12. If I dig 3 feet by 10 feet by 20 feet
holes at a rate of 5 holes per day, how
much dirt will be in the holes on the 3rd
day of digging?
0 feet cubed
Explanation: Holes have nothing inside
them.
13. What would you have to add to the
Roman Numeral, IX, to make “six”?
Add on an S
Explanation: Adding an S to the front of
IX gives you SIX.

14. The day before yesterday, Suzie was

17. Next year, she will be 20. What day
is her birthday?

December 31
Explanation: You’re speaking on
January 1st. On December 30th, she
was 17. The next day was her 18th
birthday. She’s turning 19 on the last
day of THIS YEAR, so she’s turning 20 on
the LAST DAY of NEXT YEAR.
15. I am greater than God and more evil
than the devil. The poor have me, the
rich need me, and if you eat me, you
will die. What am I?

Nothing
Explanation: Nothing is greater than
God and nothing is eviler than the devil.
The poor have nothing, the rich need
nothing, and if you eat nothing, you will
die.
16. There was an evergreen tree in the
dark, ugly forest where ghosts, witches,
and even Frankenstein’s lived. All of a
sudden, a great gust
Of wind flew through the forest. Which
way did the leaves on the tree fall?

It is a pine tree. It doesn’t have leaves.

17. There once was a lady who liked
pink. In her cozy, little one-story house,
everything was pink. Even her dog was
pink. Her hair, her carpet, everything.
What color are her stairs?

She didn’t have stairs. It was one story.

18. How many two cent stamps are
there in a dozen?

12
19. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5’10”
tall. What does he weigh?

Meat
20. A farmer has 17 sheep; all but nine
dies. How many are left?

9
21. A doctor gives you three pills telling
you to take one every half hour. How
long would the pills last?

1 hour.
22. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What
is the answer?
70
23. Is it legal for a man in California to
marry his widow’s sister? Why?

He’s dead.
24. Why can’t a man living in the U.S. be
buried in Canada?

He can’t be buried if he isn’t dead.

25. A woman gives a beggar 1 dollar
and 32 cents; the woman is the beggar’s
sister, but the beggar is not the
woman’s brother. How come?
The beggar is her sister.
26. In a year, some months have 30
days, while some have 31. Guess which
month has 28 days?

All months have 28 days!

27. If a peanut falls from a tree when
the wind is blowing north, where will it
land?

North for sure!

On the ground?
Peanuts don`t grow on trees!
28. Even though it belongs to you,
usually others use it, what?

Your name.
29. What is taken from you before it is
given to you?

Your Photo
30. There were six apples in a basket
and six girls in the room. Each girl took
one apple, yet one apple remained in
the basket how?
The first five girls each took an apple.
The sixth girl took the basket as well as
the apple in it.
31. Men were playing tennis. They
played five sets, and each man won
three sets. How did they do this?

The two men were partners playing

doubles.
32. I’m a male. If Albert’s son is my
son’s father, what is the relationship
between Albert and me?
He is my brother
He is my uncle
He is my father
He is my sister
I am Albert
33. You are my son, but I’m not your
father. Who says that?

The mother.
34. & Mrs. Smith have five children. Of
these five, half are boys. How is this
possible?
All of them are boys. Then half of them
must be boys, too.
35. Farmer Black came to town with
some watermelons. He sold half of
them plus half a melon and found that
he had one whole watermelon left.
How many melons did he take to town?

Three watermelons.
36. What fruit has its seeds on the
outside?

37. Is half of two plus two equal to two

or three?
Three
38. What is the beginning of eternity?
The end of time and space. The
beginning of EVERY END? And the end
of EVERY PLACE?

The letter E
39. Where is the only place in the
world, where Friday comes before
Thursday?

In dictionary.
40. Seven is an odd number. How can it
be made even?

Alphabet “s.”
41. Which letter of the English alphabet
flies, sings, and sings?

‘B’ (bee).
42. You have a cup placed on a table.
You are pointing towards the North,
and the cup is facing towards the South.
On which side is the cup’s handle?
No matter in which position the cup is,
its handle will always be on the outside!
43. Name all the numbers from 1 – 100,
which have the letter ‘An’ in their
spellings?

None!
44. Which one is correct? “Penguins
flies” or “A Penguin flies.”

Penguins don’t fly.

45. What gets wetter the more it dries?
(A Towel)
46. What would you have to add to the
Roman numeral, IX, to make “six”?

(Add on an S)
47. Some months have 30 days, some
months have 31 days, and how many
months have 28 days?

All of them, every month have at least

28 days.
48. If a doctor gives u three pills and
tells u to take one pill every half hour,
how long would it be before all the pills
had been taken?

1 hour, if you take a pill at one o clock

then another at 1:30 and the last at two
o clock, they will be taken in one hour.
49. I went to bed at eight o clock in the
evening, and wound up my clock and
set the alarm to sound at nine, how
many hours sleep would get before
being awoken by the alarm?
1 hour, is the wind-up alarm clock
which cannot discriminate between am
and p.m.
50. Divide 30 by half, and add ten. What
do you get?

Dividing by half is the same as

multiplying by 2
51. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9
died, how many live sheep were left?

9 sheep
52. A man builds a house with four
sides rectangular construction, each
side having a southern exposure. A big
bear comes along. What color is the
bear?

White
53. Take 3 apples from three apples.
What do you have?

2 apples
54. How many animals of each species
did mosses take with him in the Ark?
It as Noah, not mosses
55. If u drove a bus with 43 people on
the board from Chicago and stopped at
Pittsburgh to pick up seven more
people and drop off five passengers at
the Cleveland to drop off eight more
people and pick up 4 and eventually
arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later,
what’s the name of the driver?

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General Knowledge Questions with
Answers for ESL Students
The largest bird alive is the
(Ostrich)
Who invented the television
(John Logie Baird)
The smallest bird alive is the
(Hummingbird)
Which company is owned by Bill Gates
(Microsoft)
Who discovered radium
(The Curies)
An animal doctor is called a
(Veterinarian)
How many arms an octopus has
(Eight)
What animal lives in a dry
(Squirrel)
Which country do Sinologists study
(China)
The arms of the octopus are called
(Tentacles)
The fastest moving land snake in the
world is the (Black
Mamba)
A group of lions is called a
(Pride)
In which country would you find the
Negev desert (Israel)
Animals having backbone (vertebra) are
known as (Vertebrates)
Albatross is a large
(Seabird)
What animal lives in a drey
(Squirrel)
A small fish having a head like that of a
horse is known as (Seahorse)
The bird which lays more than 100 eggs
in one nest is the (Ostrich)
The largest Kangaroo in the world is the
(Red Kangaroo)
The only mammal that can fly is the
(Bat)
Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz is
famous for (Study
on Geese)
Bharatpur bird sanctuary is situated in
(Rajasthan)
The fish which is known as the king of
fishes is the (Shark)
The world’s largest aquarium is the
(Sydney Aquarium)
The tallest living animal is the
(Giraffe)
The largest living animal is the
(Rorqual or blue whale)
The continent which is known as the
land of Kangaroo is (Australia)
The first forest show was established in
Mexico in the year (1898)
The country in which Yak is found is
(Tibet)
The country in which kiwi is found is
(New Zealand)
What is the staple food of one-third of
the world’s population (Rice)
A two-humped camel is called
(A Bacteria camel)
The fastest land animal is the
(Cheetah)
The largest land animal is the
(African bush elephant)
Rat snakes are found in
(South-East Asia)
A common domesticated animal which
cannot taste sweet is the (Cat)
The world’s smallest animal is the
(Skunk like gorilla of Africa)
The mammal that lives at the greatest
altitude is the (Hog-
nosed bat)
The smallest member of the cat family
is the (Yak)
The only flying mammals are the
(Rusty-spotted cat of south India)
The largest flying mammal is the
(Bats)
The world’s largest deer is the
(Mouse-eared bat)
The world’s heaviest flying bird is the
(Alaskan moose)
The bird which has the largest wingspan
is the (Great
Bustard)
The largest of all lizards is the
(Albatros)
The largest known frog is the
(Ora)
The longest known frog is the
(Goliath Grog)
The longest insect in the world is the
(Giant Stick Insect)
The fastest moving insect in the world is
the (Tropical
cockroach)
The animal known as the river horse is
the
(Hippopotamus)
The only ape found in India is the
(Hoolock’s Gibbon)
The number of known species of
mammals is
(4230)
The fish that can taste with its whole
body is the
(Catfish)
The average weight of a blue whale is
(1,20,000 kg.)
The most widely eaten fish in India is
the
(Pomfret)
The only fish that makes nest is the
(Stickleback)
A female rabbit is called a
(Doe)
A female horse is called a
(Mare)
A female pig is called a
(Sow)
The whale believed to be a fish is a
(Mammal)
The organ which is missing in the Camel
is the
(Gallbladder)
The smallest known fish is the
(Draft pygmy goby)
A bird which lays only one egg in two
years is the
(Albatross)
The size of a newly born kangaroo is
(2.5 cms)
The only animal that sleeps on its back
is (Man)
The only animal which has four knees is
the
(Elephant)
An animal which is dumb is the
(Giraffe)
A frog catches insects with its
(Tongue)
The number of teeth a Fox has is
(Forty-two)
The smallest dog on earth is the
(Chihuahua)
The largest seabird is the
(Albatross)
A group of eagles are called
(a Convocation)
A group of hares are called a
(Husk)
A group of quail are called
(a Bevvy)
A group of sheep are called a
(Flock)
A group of wolves are called a
(Pack)
A group of cattle are called a
(Herd)
A group of gorillas are called a
(Band)
A group of elephants are called a
(Herd)
The male of a cow is called a
(Bull)
The young of an elephant is called a
(Calf)
The young one of a goat is called a
(Kid)
The cat belongs to the family called
(Validate)
A group of fish are called a
(Shoal)
The largest member of the cat family is
the (Tiger)
A camel can remain without water for
(30 days)
The oldest domestic Cat on record lives
for how many years (Thirty-six)
How many teeth has a horse?
(Forty)
Snow leopards are found in
(Himalayas)
The insect which has the largest
population on earth is the
(Wasp)
Fishes evolved in which era
(Silurian)
Elephant fish are found in
(Tropical Africa)
How many arms a giant squid has
(Ten)
The whale’s nostrils are situated on the
(Top of its head)
The largest Indian deer is the
(Sambar)
The average pregnancy period of a
female dog is (63
days)
Penguins are found in the
(South pole)
The largest division of the animal
kingdom is the
(Arthropoda)
The first animal to go into space was
(Dog)
How many teeth a turtle has
(Eight)
The number of bones in the giraffe’s
neck is (Seven)
A fox’s tail is called a
(Brush)
The young once of a tiger are called
(Ligon)
A squirrel’s home is called a
(Drey)
A group of snakes is called a
(Den)
A group of foxes is called a
(Skulk)
The word hamster means
(Hoarder)
A group of cats is called a
(Clutter)
The word langur means
(Long-tailed)
A young kangaroo is called a
(Joey)
A young pigeon is called a
(Swab)
The word reptile means
(To creep)
Who was the first man to fly across the
channel (Louis
Bleriot)
In the song Waltzing Matilda – What is
a Jumbuck (Sheep)
What does ring a ring roses refer to
(The Black Death)
Which country grows the most fruit
(China)
What kind of animal is a lurcher?
(Dog)
What are Munroes
(Mountains in Scotland)
Which car company makes the Celica
(Toyota)
Which country had the guns of
Navarone installed
(Turkey)