Brain Teasers & Riddles

[ks8829]

Enter your brain teasers and riddles:

1) What 5 letter words contains 4 personal pronouns?

2) Can you see farther in the day time or night time?

3) Why are man holes round?

4) What is heavier a ton or lead or a ton of feathers? best to ask while riding an elevator

5) Say "shop" 5 times and then spell "shop" . What do you do when you get a green light?

6) Say "ten" 5 times and then spell "ten". What are aluminium cans made out of?


















Answer
1) usher, us, her, she he
2) night time, you can see as far as the stars.
3) so they will not fall in the hole and you can easily roll them around.
4) both are a ton, different when you hear it rather than read the questions
5) most people will say stop because they just repeated shop.
6) most people will say tin because they just repeated ten.

[ks8829]

3 gallon contain and a 5 gallon contain with unlimited supply of water, how do you get 4 gallons of water?
































Answer:
1) fill 3 gallon
2) pour into empty 5 gallon
3) fill empty 3 gallons container with the water filled 5 gallon container with only 3 gallons
4) you are left with one gallon in the 5 gallon container
5) fill the 3 gallon contain with water and pour it into the 5 gallon contain with 1 gallon already in the container and you have 4 gallons total.

[MSU Fishing]

Answer:

If you did that, you would just be moving the water from the 3 to the 5 and back to the 3.

You fill up the 3 gallon container and pour the 3 gallons into the 5 gallon container. You fill the 3 gallon container back up, and pour it into the 5 gallon container again, but only using 2 gallons to fill it. You empty the 5 gallon container and pour the 1 gallon left in the 3 gallon container into the five gallon container. Then you fill the 3 gallon container back up and pour it into the 5 gallon container and you have 4 gallons.

[iacas]

You fill up the 3 gallon container and pour the 3 gallons into the 5 gallon container. You fill the 3 gallon container back up, and pour it into the 5 gallon container again, but only using 2 gallons to fill it. You empty the 5 gallon container and pour the 1 gallon left in the 3 gallon container into the five gallon container. Then you fill the 3 gallon container back up and pour it into the 5 gallon container and you have 4 gallons.

That works.

Or, you fill the five gallon container and pour it into the three, so you have 3/3 and 2/5. Dump the three out. Put the two gallons into the three so you have 2/3 and 0/5. You fill the five gallon jug again and use it to top off the 3 - leaving 3/3 and 4/5. The four gallons is in the 5 container.

[microcrayfish]

And then you put the four gallons on the scales to defuse the bomb with 5 seconds left on the timer, high five Samuel L. Jackson and talk on the phone to a crazy German guy.

[Varsity_Golf]

What is as big as an elephant, the same size as one, but weighs much less?
A man sees an ostrich egg float down a river. Where did it come from?




































Its shadow
An ostrich......duh

[Erasmus354]

A chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half. How long does it take 2 chickens to lay 32 eggs?

[ks8829]

If a plane crashed on the border of Nevada & California where do you bury the survivors in California or Nevada?



























Answer: you do not bury survivors

[Naterater]

Man goes into a hardware store to buy an item for his house. He sees that he ca buy 1 for $1, 10 for $2, or 100 for $3. What was he buying?

























Answer: Address number plates for the outside of your house.

[Rexx]

A chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half. How long does it take 2 chickens to lay 32 eggs?

24 days? Unless this is some kind of joke I don't get.

[double_j]

24 days? Unless this is some kind of joke I don't get.

The joke either got me or you...

Why not 16 days? Also - what's half an egg? Egg beaters?

[atthepin]

Some of these are pretty funny

[Grahaman]

1. How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky? Looeeville or Luuuvul?

2. A rooster lays an egg on a peak of a roof, which side does it roll off on?
















1. Frankfurt is the capital of Kentucky
2. Neither side, roosters can't lay eggs

[Bug Bunny]

How many cubic feet of dirt is on a hole 3' x 3' x 3'???
























NONE, it's a hole!!

[sacm3bill]

What is as big as an elephant, the same size as one, but weighs much less?

Or, an elephant on the moon.

[Rexx]

The joke either got me or you...

What's a chicken and a half?

Anyways, assuming it means 1.5 chickens, then 1.5 chickens can lay 1 egg in 1 day. That's because 1.5 eggs/1.5 days = 1 egg/1 day = rate that 1.5 chickens can lay eggs. So 2 chickens would lay 1.333 eggs a day (1.5/1 = 2/1.333), and thus take 24 days (32/1.333 = 24). Well... this is how I figured it.

[double_j]

What's a chicken and a half?

A chicken and a half is a 12 piece from Popeye's.

Since there's no such thing as half a live chicken (nor are there fractional eggs), the going rate is 1 egg per day per chicken. 2 chickens would take 16 days to lay 32 eggs in total. Also - I'd imagine that an elephant sized balloon would also be lighter than a real elephant.

[double_j]

How many cubic feet of dirt is on a hole 3' x 3' x 3'???

I realize it's a minor typo, but 'on' and 'in' makes a pretty big difference with this one. For example, the dirt that used to be 'in' said hole could now be sitting 'on' top of a piece of plywood covering the hole.

In which case, I believe the answer would be 27.