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Q.1...A man stopped his car opposite a hotel and immediately knew that he was bankrupt. How?
Q.2...You enter a deserted house late at night. Inside there is an oil lamp, a gas fire and a stove full of wood. You have only one match however, so which should you light first?
Q.3...Can a man marry his widow's sister?
Q.4...What is the next letter in this series? O T T F F S
Q.5...A man lies dead in a field. Next to him is an unopened package. There is nobody else around. How did he die?
Q.6...Mrs Smith loved the colour yellow. All the walls in her new bungalow were primrose yellow. The carpets, curtains and all the soft furnishings were a golden yellow. What colour were her stairs?
Q.7...An airplane full of Mexicans crashed and landed directly on the boarder between Colombia and Venezuela. Where should the survivors be buried?
Q.8...Mr Robinson wanted a house where the windows in all the rooms faced south. How did he manage this?
1) If a rumour was started at midnight and repeated within 2 seconds by everyone who knew about it to 2 people and those 2 people told 2 people and those 2 people told another 2 people...everyone on earth would know about it by 6.30 in the morning.
2) The women of Ancient Greece used to count their ages from the day they were married rather than the day they were born. It was considered that life only began for women after they were married!
3) Albert Einstein, one of the most formidably clever men of this century, failed the entrance exam for Zurich Polytechnic when he was 16.
4) When cats hear a dog barking, the soles of their paws very often perspire.
5) The Japanese words for "four" and "death" sound almost identical. So, too, do the words for "nine" and "suffering". Because of any unfortunate confusions resulting from this, many hospitals in Japan do not have any wards numbered 4 or 9.
6) An elderly American couple set out to drive to the doctor's three miles away - and ended up driving 800 miles.
7) One in three men say their female partner is the nicest person they know. One in six women say the same thing about their men.
8) An active brain has 40,000 thoughts a day.
The following words have had their letters rearranged. Can you discover what each word is?
HINT...They are all related to the computer world!!
1) T R I N T E E N
2) I S T O I C E G E
3) R E V E R S
4) T R U E C O M P
5) W A F S T R O E
6) L O A N W O D D
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