MIND SPARK

A prisoner is told:
"If you tell a lie, we will hang you. If you tell the truth, we will shoot you."
What should the prisoner say to survive?

• • "You will hang me."

• • "I will be hanged."

• • "You will shoot me."

• • "I will die today."

A town has 30,000 residents. The town census says that exactly half the population has the same number of friends in town. What is the maximum number of friends any resident can have?

• • 29,999

• • B) 15,000

• • 14,999

• • 30,000

What comes next in this sequence?
O, T, T, F, F, S, S, ?

• E

• N

• T

• I

There are three identical boxes labeled Gold, Silver, and Empty, but all labels are incorrect. You can open only one box. Which one should you open to correctly relabel them all?

• • The Gold-labeled box

• • The Silver-labeled box

• • The Empty-labeled box

• • It doesn’t matter

A man needs to get to the 100th floor of a building. The elevator only stops on every 3rd floor when going up and every 7th floor when coming down. What is the minimum number of stops required?

• 14

• 15

• 16

• 17

Two people are born at the same time, on the same day, in the same year, but they are not twins. How is this possible?

• • They were born in different countries

• • They were born in different years due to a time zone shift

• • They are triplets

• • D) They are clones

A man was born in 2000 and died in 2020, but he was only 25 years old when he died. How is this possible?

• • He lived in a different time zone

• • He was born on February 29th

• • He was in a coma for several years

• • His birth certificate was wrong

If you rearrange the letters in "NEW DOOR," you get one word. What is it?

• • WONDER

• • ONE WORD

• • RENEWED

• • WOODERN

A farmer has a fox, a chicken, and a bag of grain. He must cross a river but can only take one item at a time. How does he do it?

• • Takes the fox first, then the grain, then the chicken

• • Takes the chicken first, then the fox, then the grain

• Takes the grain first, then the fox, then the

• • Leaves the fox behind, takes the grain, then the chicken

A man builds a house with all four walls facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?

• • Brown

• • Black

• • White

• • Impossible to determine