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Brain Teasers

Total questions: 54

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many blocks?

a)

7

b)

8

c)

9

d)

19

2.
a)

Yes!

b)

No!

3.

What is the answer?

a)

65

b)

55

c)

35

d)

45

4.
a)

32

b)

38

c)

40

d)

50

5.

What piece goes there?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

e)

E

6.
a)

78

b)

18

c)

89

d)

87

7.
a)

7

b)

8

c)

9

d)

12

8.

How many triangles are there?

a)

8

b)

12

c)

16

d)

18

9.
a)

Right

b)

Left

10.

There are 5 apples and you take 3. How many apples do you have?

a)

5

b)

3

c)

2

d)

0

11.

How many months have 28 days?

a)

all of them

b)

1

c)

February

d)

What about leap years?

12.

What is heavier 100kg of gold or 100 kg of feathers?

a)

gold

b)

feathers

c)

they are both the same

d)

What if the scale is incorrect?

13.

What will you write in place of question mark in the picture?

a)

18

b)

14

c)

50

d)

30

14.

How many squares are there?

a)

9

b)

10

c)

14

d)

18

15.

What comes next in this pattern: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ?

a)

15

b)

17

c)

19

d)

21

16.

How many books are on the shelf if the 16th book is the middle one?

a)

16

b)

31

c)

36

d)

46

17.
A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?
a)
None
b)
8
c)
9
d)
17
18.

Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?

a)

Thursday

b)

Friday

c)

Jimmy

d)

Jim

e)

Bob

19.

Divide 30 by ½ and add 10. What’s the answer?

a)

25

b)

35

c)

70

d)

80

20.

What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __ (2 minutes) Clue, Months

a)

J, A, M

b)

N, O, D

c)

S, O, N

d)

O, N, D

21.

a)

1

b)

5

c)

3

d)

7

22.

Can you identify the Apple Logo?

a)

Top right

b)

Bottom right

c)

Top left

d)

None of them

e)

Bottom left

23.

A rooster laid an egg on the top of a roof. Which way did it roll?

a)

north

b)

down

c)

when do roosters lay eggs?

d)

it didn't roll, it stayed on top

24.

What goes up but never comes down?

a)

age

b)

clouds

c)

basketball

d)

Christmas tree

25.

How much dirt is there in a hole 3 feet deep, 6 feet long and 4 feet wide?

a)

one grain of dirt

b)

5kg

c)

roughly 10 kg

d)

none. How is there dirt in a hole?

26.

There are 5 apples and you take 3. How many apples do you have?

a)

5

b)

3

c)

2

d)

0

27.

How many months have 28 days?

a)

all of them

b)

1

c)

February

d)

What about leap years?

28.

What is always coming but never comes?

a)

the past

b)

the future

c)

traffic

d)

tomorrow

29.

What is heavier 100kg of gold or 100 kg of feathers?

a)

gold

b)

feathers

c)

they are both the same

d)

What if the scale is incorrect?

30.

There are 14 fish and 8 drown, how many fish are there?

a)

6

b)

8

c)

14

d)

none, since the rest swam away

31.

Before Mt Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

a)

Mt Fuji

b)

Mt Aconcagua

c)

Mt Rainier

d)

Mt Everest

32.

A clerk at a butcher is 161.8cm tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

a)

meat

b)

71 kg

c)

there's not enough information given

d)

212 pounds

33.

If you throw a red stone into a blue sea, what will it become?

a)

its still a red stone

b)

a sea with a stone

c)

purple

d)

wet

34.

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

a)

towel

b)

water

c)

sea

d)

wind

35.

Imagine you are locked in a dark room with no windows. How do you escape?

a)

call for help

b)

search for a hidden message

c)

do a barrel roll

d)

stop imagining

36.

What gets broken without being held?

a)

a promise

b)

a vase

c)

silence

d)

air

37.

How many of each species did Moses take on the arc with him?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

0

d)

a male and a female

38.

If you take off my skin I won't cry, but you will. What am I?

a)

a bandaid

b)

an animal

c)

a human

d)

an onion

39.

There are 10 lit candles on a cake, you blow out 3. How many candles are on the cake?

a)

10

b)

3

c)

7

d)

13

40.

There are three houses. One is red, one is blue, and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, where is the white house? (2 minutes)

a)

In the middle

b)

On the left

c)

On the right

d)

Other

41.

You are in a cabin and it is pitch black. You have one match on you. Which do you light first, the newspaper, the lamp, the candle, or the fire? (1 minute)

a)

Match

b)

Newspaper

c)

Lamp

d)

Candle

e)

Fire

42.

Who is bigger: Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, or their baby? (30 seconds)

a)

Little Bigger (Baby)

b)

Mr.Bigger

c)

Mrs.Bigger

43.

A farmer has 17 sheep and all but nine die. How many are left? (10 seconds)

a)

8

b)

7

c)

9

d)

17

44.

How far can a rabbit run into the woods? (30 seconds)

a)

Half Way

b)

All the Way

c)

A quarter of the way

d)

None

45.

What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __ (2 minutes) Clue, Months

a)

J, A, M

b)

N, O, D

c)

S, O, N

d)

O, N, D

46.

Jimmy’s mother had four children. She named the first Monday. She named the second Tuesday, and she named the third Wednesday. What is the name of the fourth child?

(10 seconds)

a)

Thursday

b)

Friday

c)

Jimmy

d)

Jim

e)

Bob

47.

A family lives in a large tower apartment building, 10 floors high. Every day their son takes the elevator from the family’s apartment on the 10th floor to the ground floor and goes to school. When he returns in the afternoon, he uses the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and then uses the stairs for the remaining five floors. Why? (1 minute)

a)

Because it broke

b)

Because it is his favorite number

c)

Because he wanted a workout

d)

Because he could only reach 5

48.

A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors? (10 seconds)

a)

Yes

b)

No

49.

You are driving a bus. At the first stop, two women get on. The second stop, three men get on and one woman gets off. At the third stop, three kids and their mom get on, and a man gets off. The bus is grey, and it is raining outside. What color is the bus driver’s hair? (20 seconds)

a)

Blond

b)

Brown

c)

Black

d)

Green

50.

Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I? (20 seconds)

a)

Sponge

b)

Fire

c)

You

d)

Someone who is allergic to water

51.

Which travels faster? Hot or Cold? (10 seconds)

a)

Hot

b)

Cold

52.

When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you do not have me. (20 seconds)

a)

Candy

b)

Secret

c)

Food

d)

Money

53.

What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands? (10 seconds)

a)

A secret

b)

Your Breath

54.
What is so fragile that sound can destroy it?
a)
the sound barrier
b)
a flower
c)
silence