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☆☆☆☆☆ CHALLENGE ☆☆☆☆☆


Can you find the answers before looking at the hint?


It doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time. This little test should help you get started.

During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria is that defines if a patient should be institutionalized.

"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask the patient to empty the bathtub."

Okay, here's your test:
1. Would you use the spoon?
2. Would you use the teacup?
3. Would you use the bucket?

"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would choose the bucket, as it is larger than the spoon."
What was the director's response?

Answer




A man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover it.
"If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you $100," the man said. "You can use the match and lemon to do this."
A few minutes later, the waiter walked away with $100 in his pocket. How did the waiter get the water into the glass?

Hint
Answer





You will know that I am coming
From the jingle of my bell,
But exactly who I am is not an easy thing to tell.

Children, they adore me
for they find me jolly,
but I do not see them when the halls are decked with holly.

My job often leaves me frozen,
I am a man that all should know,
But I do not do business in times of sleet or ice or snow.

I travel much on business,
But no reindeer haul me around,
I do all my traveling firmly on the ground.

I love the time of Christmas,
But that's not my vocational season,
And I assure that is because of a sound economic reason.

Answer




A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.

The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.

The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.

The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?

ANSWER




Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you'll make a familiar phrase. For example, "Thighbone/Swallowtail" conceals "High & Low."

1. Skyrocketing/Trolleyman
2. Thermometer/Apoplexy
3. Delaware/Bordering
4. Surprised/Trashiness
5. Throughout/Stumblebum

ANSWER




A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of £50 notes out of his wallet.
He turns to the rich man and says to him,
"I have an amazing talent: I know almost every song that has ever existed."
The rich man laughs.
The poor man says, "I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it."
The rich man laughs again and says, "OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?"
The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich.

What song did he sing?

HINT
ANSWER




Emperor Akbar once ruled over India. He was a wise and intelligent ruler, and he had in his court the Nine Gems, his nine advisors, who were each known for a particular skill. One of these Gems was Birbal, known for his wit and wisdom. The story below is one of the examples of his wit. Do you have it in you to find out the answer?

One day a scholar came to the court of Emperor Akbar and challenged Birbal to answer his questions and thus prove that he was as clever as people said he was.

He asked Birbal: "Would you prefer to answer a hundred easy questions or just a single difficult one?"

Both the emperor and Birbal had had a difficult day and were impatient to leave.

"Ask me one difficult question," said Birbal.

"Well, then tell me," said the man, "which came first into the world, the chicken or the egg?"

"The chicken," replied Birbal, very confidently.

"How do you know?" asked the scholar, a note of triumph in his voice.

What did Birbal answer to this?

ANSWER




Find out what the animals are! (for example, "To run away or escape" could be a "flea")

1. hair-control foam
2. very exposed
3. tellin' falsities
4. a lamenting cry
5. a dull person
6. a precious or loved one
7. first you get a parking ticket, then you get this
8. these make up a chain

ANSWER



Three brothers share a family sport:
A non-stop marathon
The oldest one is fat and short
And trudges slowly on
The middle brother's tall and slim
And keeps a steady pace
The youngest runs just like the wind,
Speeding through the race
"He's young in years, we let him run,"
The other brothers say
"'Cause though he's surely number one,
He's second, in a way."

ANSWER




A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same, if it's turned back-to-front. The names Bob, Eve, and Otto are all palindromes. So is the name of the pop group Abba. Try to identify palindromic words from the following clues. Good luck!

Example: Part of the body
Answer: Eye

1. Midday
2. A young dog
3. Flat
4. Word for addressing a lady
5. An Eskimo canoe
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc.
7. An action
8. Pieces of music for one person
9. Grass that grows on the seashore
10. In music, half a semibreve
11. Doctrine
12. Restorer

ANSWER

[n3rdfu3l]

those were awesome lol

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Thank you.

[dood gone krazee]

Those were pretty sweet.
Laughed at the asylum one, I would have used the bucket. xD
One thing, with the lemon wedge-match trick, Would you put the lemon wedge on the plate, put the match in the lemon, light it, then put a glass over it? How would the glass suck in the water>

[Xandertrax]

Except that the water/match one never would suck up that much water.

[I_like_keys]

If the man poured enough water over the plate to cover it, wouldn't placing any object upon said plate make the water overflow?

The bathtub one doesn't make sense, since it doesn't tell you what solution the bathtub is filled with.
It could have been filled with ice cream for all we know.

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Originally Posted by I_like_keys

If the man poured enough water over the plate to cover it, wouldn't placing any object upon said plate make the water overflow?

I forget what it's called, but water "sticks together" in a sense. That's why if you have a cup of water all the way to the top, it makes a dome instead of instantly spilling over.

[TD_lonewolf01]

Those were cool. The only one I guessed right was the ice cream man one lol

[Xandertrax]

Hydrogen Bonding.

[I_like_keys]

The water is sticking together, but because the plate is completely filled with water, anything big enough added to it will make it spill.

[TD_boredom]

I lol'd at the 1st one.

That is the best riddle ever. =)

[pntballa18]

i kinda had the right idea for the asylum. i said use the teaspoon to wedge out the plug

[JKPolk]

Are you asking for a....


CHALLENGE!?

[SethSquall]

The first one was especially stupid as it gave you a multiple choice then said "LOL NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!"!VW<JHVJV"

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

Missed the last one straight out. Got the second one. I wouldn't empty the tub, I would have just left it, so take that as you will.

[tha Guardians]

First one, he would unplug the drain?


Edit: =)

[MystictheHedgehog]

lol at the people getting mad because they couldn't get the first one...

[chidori!]

Originally Posted by ☆☆☆

I forget what it's called, but water "sticks together" in a sense. That's why if you have a cup of water all the way to the top, it makes a dome instead of instantly spilling over.

surface tension?

[Kekeb]

My post was deleted : (

[zunited]

The first one was great..

Look forward to seeing more if you have them.

AMF