1. You have to choose between three rooms.

The first is full of raging fires

The second is full of tigers that haven’t eaten in 3 years.
The third is full of assassins with loaded machine guns.
Which room should you choose?

2. How many birthdays does a typical woman have?

3. What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?

4. How many animals of each species did Moses take into the Ark?

5. 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?

6. If you drove a coach leaving Canterbury with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at
Faversham, picked up 9 more at Sittingbourne, dropped off 3 at Chatham, and then drove on to
arrive in London 40 minutes later, what would the name of the driver be?

7. A window cleaner is cleaning the windows on the 25th floor of a skyscraper, when he slips and
falls. He is not wearing a safety harness and nothing slows his fall, yet he suffered no injuries.
Explain.

8. 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?

9. You are running in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

10. I n the same race, if you overtake the last person, then you are in what position?

11. A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent one night there, and left on Friday. How do you
account for this?
12. You have to choose between three rooms.
The first is full of raging fires
The second is full of tigers that haven’t eaten in 3 years.
The third is full of assassins with loaded machine guns.
Which room should you choose?

13. Name three consecutive days in English without using the words Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday

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

15. A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of
the same day of the same year. But they were not twins.
How could this be so?

16. A man is lying dead in a field. Next to him there is an unopened package. There is no other
creature in the field. How did he die?

17. A man is replacing a wheel on his car, when he accidentally drops the four nuts used to hold the
wheel on the car, and they fall into a deep drain, irretrievably lost. A passing girl offers him a
solution which enables him to drive home. What is it?

18. A landlord is threatening to evict a father and his beautiful young daughter, unless she agrees to
marry him. In a false gesture of sincerity, he offers her an opportunity for her and her father to
remain in the house, without marrying him. He has a silk bag in which he says he has placed a
white and a black stone from the footpath on which they're standing. If she picks the white
stone from the bag, without looking, she wins; if she picks the black, she loses. However, the
young girl saw him place two black stones in the bag. She can't expose him in front of the
witnesses without angering him and making things worse. How does the clever girl win?

19. A truck is stuck at a road under a bridge. It's just a couple of inches too high to pass under. Any
other route, avoiding the bridge would add a couple of hours to the journey. A young boy comes
along and again saves the day. How?

20. A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the
ground floor to go to work. When he returns he takes the elevator to the 7th floor and walks up
 the stairs to reach his apartment on the 10th floor. He hates walking so why does he do it? Clue:
on rainy days he goes up in the elevator to the tenth floor

21. A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but
didn't break the law. How come?

22. How much dirt is in a round hole that is 9 feet deep with a diameter of 3 feet?

23. How many times can you subtract the number 2 from the number 32?

24. The rope ladder of a boat hangs over the side of the boat and just reaches the water. Its rungs
are 8 inches apart.How many rungs will be under the water when the tide rises 4 feet?

25. A traveler arrives in a small town and decides he wants to get a haircut. According to the
manager of the hotel where he's staying, there are only two barbershops in town — one on East
Street and one on West Street. The traveler goes to check out both shops. The East Street
barbershop is a mess, and the barber has the worst haircut the traveler has ever seen. The West
Street barbershop is neat and clean; its barber's hair looks as good as a movie star's.Which
barbershop does the traveler go to for his haircut, and why?