Mock Quiz

1. What word looks the same upside down and backward?

Ans.: SWIMS

2. What flies without wings?

Ans.: Time

EASY

1. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

Ans.: None. Mount Everest was the tallest mountain even before it was
discovered

2. What gives you tan when it's not summer?

Ans.: SIN÷COS (trigonometry)

3. What is the 13th fruit mentioned in the song “Bahay-Kubo”?

Ans.: None. The 11th item is not a fruit.

4. A truck drove to a village and met 4 cars. How many vehicles we're going to the village?

Ans.: Only 1. The truck only (Only the truck is going to the village)

5. Why can’t a man living in the Philippines be buried in China?

Ans.: You cannot bury a living man

6. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are
white”?

Ans.: Neither. Egg yolks are yellow

7. What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?

Ans.: Incorrectly

8. Where will you find roads without vehicles, forests without trees, and cities without
houses?

Ans.: Map
 9. What are two things you cannot eat for dinner?

Ans.: Breakfast and Lunch

10. What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?

Ans.: Chicago

AVERAGE

1. If Mrs. Lee's bungalow is decorated completely in pink, with the walls, carpet, and
furniture all shades of pink, what color are the stairs?

Ans.: None. There are no stairs because bungalows do not have a second floor.

2. A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies,
“Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who was in
the photograph?

Ans.: His son

3. Two boxers are in a match scheduled for 12 rounds. (Pure boxing only. There is no
kicking or takedowns). One of the boxers gets knocked out after only six rounds, yet no
man throws a punch. How is this possible?

Ans.: Both the boxers were female

4. The Bible slipped from a girl's hands and fell on the floor with a loud noise. 20 eyes
looked at her. How many people were in the Church?

Ans.: 11 people. (10 people have pair of eyes, so 20 eyes.

So we have 10 people in addition to the man who dropped the book. She cannot look at
herself, but she is still in the Church.)

5. A family lives in a sky rise building on the tenth floor. Every day their daughter takes the
elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to
school. When she returns later that day, she uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and
then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why?

Ans.: She can’t reach the buttons higher than five.

DIFFICULT

1. A man stands on one side of a river, his dog on the other. The man calls his dog, who
immediately crosses the river without getting wet and without using a bridge or a boat.
How did the dog do it?

Ans.: The river was frozen.

2. A clever robber breaks into a closed bank where he finds a clerk. He asks password of the
safe from the clerk while pointing a gun on his forehead. Out of fear, the clerk manages
to blurt out, “Every day, the password of the safe is changed. I can help you but please
point away the gun as if you kill me, you will never be able to crack the password.
The robber ties the clerk on a chair and inserts a cloth in his mouth. He then easily opens
the safe after inserting the code and takes all the money before he flees.
How did he know the password?

Ans.: The clerk said that every day the password is CHANGED. Changed is
the password.

3. You are in a place called Wally’s World and there is only one law. There is a mirror, but
no reflection. There is pizza with cheese, but not sausage. There is pepper, but no salt.
There is a door, yet no entrance or exit. What is the law?

Ans.: Each word in Wally’s World must contain double letters.

4. A woman is sitting in her hotel room when someone knocks at the door. She opened the
door to find a man she’s never seen before. He says, “Oh I’m sorry, I made a mistake and
thought this was my room.” He then ran away and got into an elevator so the woman shut
her door and phoned security. What made the woman so suspicious?

Answer: You don’t knock on your own hotel room door.

5. You leave home and go to your right. You reach a corner and turn left. You reach another
corner and turn left again. You reach another corner and turn left again and go home.
When you get there, there is a person with a mask there waiting for you. What’s
happening?

Ans.: You are playing baseball

CLINCHER

1. I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

Ans.: A barber

2. If your hands are big, what is bigger?

Ans.: Hand gloves

3. What's broken every time it's spoken?

Ans.: Silence

4. In some months there are 31 days, in other there are 30, but how many months have 28
days?

Ans.: 12 months have 28 days

5. I exist only when there is light, but direct light kills me. What am I?

Ans.: Shadow