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Thursday 19 December 2013

The Tuesday Business Corner: Christmas quiz 2013 - ANSWERS

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And here are the answers for you.

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. The next Tuesday Business Corner post will come out early January.

All the best,
James



1.What is the opposite of “not in”?

IN


2.If you’re running in a race and overtake the person in second place, what position are you now in?
SECOND

3.A defendant testified, "The lawyer is my brother". But the lawyer then took the stand immediately afterwards and denied - under oath - having a brother. Both were telling the truth. How is this possible?

THE DEFENDANT WAS THE LAWYER’S SISTER

4.How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
NONE – IT WAS NOAH

5.What do cows drink?
WATER (THEY MAKE MILK!)

6.A zebra was going to a river. On the way, he met five giraffes coming the other way. Each giraffe had five monkeys on their neck. How many animals were going to the river?
ONE – THE ZEBRA. THE GIRAFFES AND MONKEYS WERE COMING THE OTHER WAY

7.Which is the odd one out? STRAYING, RAPTOR, HARKS, LEE, LOSE (clue: the answer isn't that HARKS only has one vowel)
RAPTOR. EACH OF THE OTHERS IS AN ANAGRAM OF A SEA CREATURE (STINGRAY, SHARK, EEL AND SOLE); WHEREAS RAPTOR IS AN ANAGRAM OF PARROT

8.A farmer had seventeen sheep. All but nine died. How many live sheep does she have left?
NINE (SINCE ‘ALL BUT NINE’ DIED, THERE MUST BE NINE LEFT ALIVE)

9.What do all these words have in common: defend, first, canopy, hijack, sighing?
EACH HAS THREE LETTERS THAT APPEAR CONSECUTIVELY IN THE ALPHABET - DEFEND, FIRST, CANOPY, HIJACK, SIGHING

10.Nineteen people enter a singles tennis knock-out tournament. If a player doesn’t have an opponent to play in a round, she gets a bye to the next. How many games will there be in the tournament? (clue: the easiest way to solve this takes only a few seconds)
EIGHTEEN (IF THERE ARE NINETEEN ENTRANTS, ONE WINNER MEANS EIGHTEEN HAVE TO LOSE. SO EIGHTEEN MATCHES ARE NEEDED)

And let’s finish with a real head-scratcher…

Three men are going for the same job. The employer couldn’t choose between them, so said to them: 

“I have three blue hats and two orange hats. I will put a hat on each of your heads, so that you can see the other two people’s hats, but not your own, nor the other two hats I didn’t use. The first person who tells me what colour their hat is will get the job”

Person 1 looks at the other two, and says “I don’t know what colour my hat is” 

Person 2 then says “I don’t know either”

But Person 3, who is blind so couldn’t see the other two hats, said: “In that case, I do know what colour my hat is”

So, what colour was it? And how did he know?


BLUE.
THE ONLY DEFINITE THING WE KNOW: IF SOMEONE SEES TWO ORANGES, HE’D KNOW HIS HAT WAS BLUE.
BUT PERSON 1 COULDN’T TELL, SO HE CAN’T HAVE SEEN TWO ORANGES.
PERSON 2 THEREFORE KNOWS PERSON 1 DIDN’T SEE TWO ORANGES. HE LOOKS AT PERSON 3, BUT STILL CAN’T TELL WHAT COLOUR HIS HAT IS.
THAT MEANS PERSON 3 MUST BE WEARING A BLUE HAT (AFTER ALL, IF IT HAD BEEN ORANGE, PERSON 2 WOULD KNOW HIS COULDN’T BE ORANGE BECAUSE OF WHAT PERSON 1 HAD SAID)

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