Brain Teasers #1 - start easy
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:16 pm1) In the year 1201, a woman was 35 years old. In the year 1206, the same woman was 30. How is this possible? BC not AD
2) How can you throw a ball as hard as you can so that it comes back to you? The ball should have nothing attached to it, it shouldn't hit anything, and no one else should catch it or throw it
throw it straight up in the air so that gravity brings it back down to you
3) A man and his son were in a car accident. The man was killed but the son was rushed to the emergency ward. The Doctor on call took one look at the boy and exclaimed "I can't opperate on this boy. He's my son". How is this true? Doctor was the boys mother
4) An archaeologist came across two perfectly preserved and naked bodies at her dig. One was male and the other was female. Immediately she knew they were Adam and Eve. How? They had no belly buttons
5) A train pulls into a station, but none of the waiting passengers move. Why? It was a model train, so the passengers were plastic figurines
6) A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of $50 notes out of his wallet. He turns to the rich man and says to him, "I have an amazing talent: I know almost every song that has ever existed." The rich man laughs. The poor man says, "I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it." The rich man laughs again and says, "OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?"
The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich. What song did he sing?
Happy Birthday
7) A man worked for a high-security institution, and one day he went in to work only to find that he could not log in to his computer terminal. His password wouldn't work. Then he remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he went to his boss and they had this conversation:
Man-"Hey boss, my password is out of date."
Boss-"Yes, that's right. The password is different, but if you listen carefully you should be able to figure out the new one: It has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same."
Man: "Thanks boss."
With that, he went and correctly logged into his station.
A - What was the new password? different
B -What was his old password? out of date
2) How can you throw a ball as hard as you can so that it comes back to you? The ball should have nothing attached to it, it shouldn't hit anything, and no one else should catch it or throw it
throw it straight up in the air so that gravity brings it back down to you
3) A man and his son were in a car accident. The man was killed but the son was rushed to the emergency ward. The Doctor on call took one look at the boy and exclaimed "I can't opperate on this boy. He's my son". How is this true? Doctor was the boys mother
4) An archaeologist came across two perfectly preserved and naked bodies at her dig. One was male and the other was female. Immediately she knew they were Adam and Eve. How? They had no belly buttons
5) A train pulls into a station, but none of the waiting passengers move. Why? It was a model train, so the passengers were plastic figurines
6) A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of $50 notes out of his wallet. He turns to the rich man and says to him, "I have an amazing talent: I know almost every song that has ever existed." The rich man laughs. The poor man says, "I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it." The rich man laughs again and says, "OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?"
The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich. What song did he sing?
Happy Birthday
7) A man worked for a high-security institution, and one day he went in to work only to find that he could not log in to his computer terminal. His password wouldn't work. Then he remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So he went to his boss and they had this conversation:
Man-"Hey boss, my password is out of date."
Boss-"Yes, that's right. The password is different, but if you listen carefully you should be able to figure out the new one: It has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same."
Man: "Thanks boss."
With that, he went and correctly logged into his station.
A - What was the new password? different
B -What was his old password? out of date