Super+Genius+Test

Mark Unruh 1. A man filled an empty barrel.It was then lighter than when he started.What did he fill it with?
 * The Super Genius Test **

2. Ben was twenty years old in 1980 but was only fifteen years old in 1985.How come?

3. Two men were playing tennis.They played five sets and each man won three sets.How did they do this?

4. Take two apples from five apples.How many do you have?

5. Do they have a Fourth of July in England? Yes/no explain

6. If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, a newspaper, and some kindling wood, what would you light first?

7. A farmer had seventeen sheep. All but nine died.How many did he have left?

8. How many animals of each kind did Moses take into the ark?

9. A plane full of English tourists flies from Holland to Spain.It crashes in France.Where should the survivors be buried?

10. If a redhouse is made of redwood and a whitehouse is made of white wood, what is a greenhouse made of?

11. If Mr. Jones’s peacock laid an egg in Mr. Smith’s garden, who is the rightful owner of the egg?

12. Mrs. Taylor’s ranch house is decorated completely in pink.Her lamps, walls, carpets, and ceilings are all pink.What color is her spiral stair case?

13. If you drive a bus with forty-two people on board from Boston to Washington, D.C., and drop off three people at each of six stops and pick up four people at half the stops, when you arrive in Washington, D.C. ten hours later what is the name of the bus driver?

14. Write down this number:15 thousand, 15 hundred, and 15.

15. What do Kermit the Frog, Alexander the Great, and Attila the Hun have in common?

16. What do you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?

17. How many times can you take 3 from 25?

18. To enter the water, why do scuba divers sit on the edge of the boat and fall out backwards?

19. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister? Yes/ no Why?

20. If folk is spelled **folk** and joke is spelled **joke,** how do you spell the word for the white of an egg?

21. What would you be sure to find right in the middle of Toronto?

22. A daddy bull drinks ten gallons of water an hour and a baby bull drinks four gallons of water an hour, how much would a mommy bull drink an hour?

23. How many grooves are there on the average long-playing record?

24. Some months have 30 days and some have 31 days.How many have 28 days?

25. A rope ladder over the side of a ship has rungs which are 1 foot (.3 meters) apart.Exactly 11 rungs are showing above the water level.The tide rose 8 feet (2.4 meters); how many rungs would now be showing?

26. A man who was not wearing a parachute jumped out of a plane.He landed on hard ground yet he was unhurt.Why?

27. A man flew into Los Angles on Saturday.He stayed for three nights at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and then spent one night at the Santa Monica Hilton.He then flew out again on Saturday.Between the two flights he never left the Los Angles area and he did not stay anywhere except those two hotels.How could he arrive and leave on Saturday, yet stay only four nights?

28. A man woke up one morning to find that one of the wheels on his car was completely flat.Despite this, he set off in his car and drove 100 miles to visit a costumer.He then drove the 100 miles home.He did not repair or inflate the flat tire.How did he manage to make the journey?

29. Four college students party all night before their 9:00 AM final exam in math.The students arrive at 10:00 AM and explain to the professor that they had had a flat tire on their way to class.The professor takes each of the students individually into a separate room and asks each of the students the same question.After asking each student the same question, the professor tells the students that they are lying and gives all of them a zero.What was the question the professor asked each student?

30. Farmer Bob has three black pigs, two brown pigs, and one pink pig.How many of Farmer Bob’s pigs could say that they are the same color as another of Farmer Bob’s pigs?

31. Write the **shortest** complete sentence in the English language.

32. How many sides does a stop sign have?

33. What’s the first thing you know?

34. Farmer Bob wants to plant five rows of trees with four trees in each row.However, he has only ten trees.After a few minutes ofthought, Farmer Bob completes his task exactly as planned.Draw a diagram showing how he did it.

35. If Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six daughters and each daughter has one brother, how many people are in the Smith's family?

36. Therein lies the secret. There is a seven-letter word that contains eleven words without rearranging any of the letters. What is the word?

37. At a party, everyone shakes hands with everyone else. There were sixty-six handshakes. How many people were at the party?

38. Mary's mom has four children. The first child is named April. The second child is named May. The third child is named June. What is the name of the fourth child?

39. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives, the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be true?

40. How far can a dog run into the woods?

41. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose his type of execution from between three rooms. The first room is filled with raging fires. The second room is full of assassins with loaded guns. The third room is full of lions that haven't eaten for three years. Which room should the condemned man choose?

42. Name three consecutive days without using Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday.

43. Rearrange the letters in "new door" to make one word.

44. A man says his dog can jump over his house. No one believes him. How is this possible?

45. A man leaves home. He goes straight and then turns left. He goes straight again and then turns left again. He again goes straight and again turns left. He goes straight once more, and when he gets home, a man in a mask is waiting for him. What is ging on?