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(original) BRAIN TEASERS

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

You are in a 1- story house. Your bed is pink. Your bathroom is pink. Your kitchen is pink. What color is your stairs?

a)

Blue

b)

Red

c)

There is no stairs

d)

Pink

2.

An escape happened last night. Suspect A said " I was brushing my teeth." Suspect B said "I was playing candy crush on my phone." Suspect C said "I was sleeping." which is wrong?

a)

Suspect A

b)

Suspect B

c)

Suspect C

d)

None

3.

What is the different letter?

a)

E

b)

L

c)

F

d)

I

4.

Look :^

a)

1

b)

None of these

c)

3

d)

0

5.

^:^

(a)  

6.

A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells the owner he’s bankrupt. Why?

(a)  

7.

You are in a room that has three switches and a closed door. The switches control three light bulbs on the other side of the door. Once you open the door, you may never touch the switches again. How can you definitively tell which switch is connected to each of the light bulbs?

a)

Turn on the first two switches. Leave them on for five minutes. Once five minutes has passed, turn off the second switch, leaving one switch on. Now go through the door. The light that is still on is connected to the first switch. Whichever of the other two is warm to the touch is connected to the second switch. The bulb that is cold is connected to the switch that was never turned on.

b)

Turn on the first light on. Leave them on for five minutes. Once five minutes has passed turn the other two on. Now go through the door. The lights that is still on is connected to the first switch. Whichever of the other two is warm to the touch is connected to the second switch.

c)

This is impossible.

d)

Call your parents

8.

I left my campsite and hiked south for 3 miles. Then I turned east and hiked for 3 miles. I then turned north and hiked for 3 miles, at which time I came upon a bear inside my tent eating my food! What color was the bear?

a)

White

b)

Black

c)

Brown

d)

None of these

9.

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?

(a)  

10.

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

a)

A big clock

b)

An hourglass

c)

A compass

d)

None of these

11.

What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it

a)

glass

b)

clock

c)

short

d)

shorter

12.

Your parents have six sons including you and each son has one sister. How many people are in the family?

a)

eight

b)

nine

c)

twelve

d)

twenty-one

13.

I am the beginning of sorrow and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

a)

letter M

b)

letter N

c)

letter S

d)

letter C

14.

A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?

a)

He had an umbrela

b)

He had dry hair

c)

He was bald

d)

None of these

15.

Fourteen of the kids in the class are girls. Eight of the kids wear blue shirts. Two of the kids are neither girls or wear a blue shirt. If five of the kids are girls who wear blue shirts, how many kids are in the class?

a)

18

b)

20

c)

19

d)

None of these

16.

You’re escaping a maze, and there are three doors in front of you. The door on the left leads to a pit of lava. The door in the center leads to a room filled with deadly gas. The door on the right leads to a lion that hasn’t eaten in three months. Which door do you choose?

a)

The left

b)

The right

c)

the middle