Logic Test
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1. How can you arrange for two people to stand on the same piece of newspaper
and yet be unable to touch each other without stepping off the newspaper?
2. How many 3-cent stamps are there in a dozen?
3. A rope ladder hangs over the side of a ship. The rungs are one foot apart
and the ladder is 12 feet long. The tide is rising at four inches an hour.
How long will it take before the first four rungs of the ladder are
underwater?
4. Which would you rather have, a trunk full of nickels or a trunk half full of
dimes?
5. Steve has three piles of sand and Mike has four piles of sand. If they put
them all together, how many do they have?
6. In which sport are the shoes made entirely of metal?
7. If the Vice-president of the United States should die, who would be
President?
8. How can you throw a golf ball with all your might and -- without hitting a
wall or any other obstruction -- have the ball stop and come right back to
you?
9. When examining planets in our solar system, we usually find characteristics
shared by multiple planets. Taking this into account, how many planets in
our solar system have earthquakes?
10. Find the English word that can be formed from all these letters:
PNLLEEEESSSSS
Answers:
1. Slide the newspaper half way under a closed door and ask the two people to
stand on the bit of newspaper on their side of the door.
2. There are twelve (not four).
3. Actually, the ladder will rise with the ship!
4. Dimes are smaller than nickels, so choose the dimes!
5. If they put them all together, there will be one pile.
6. Horse racing.
7. The President.
8. Throw the ball straight up.
9. One. Only the earth has earthquakes.
10. Sleeplessness
Score:
10 right : You're a master of logic.
8 - 9 right : You're good... really good.
6 - 7 right : Not bad...
4 - 5 right : You need to practice.
2 - 3 right : You did terrible. But there is still hope that you "might" be
able to improve with a lot of practice and hard work.
0 - 1 right : Uh oh...someone's pet is walking across the keyboard again...
(we sincerely hope)
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