Brain Teasers FEB 2017

Last month's Brain Teaser and the winning response are posted at the bottom of the Brain Teasers page.

Please try to solve the problems below. Let your mind go and use your creative thinking skills!

Email the right answer to learn@fymc.co.in and top 10 winners will get exciting prizes.

We will publish their names on the next NewsLetter.

To test your mental acuity, answer the following questions

1. A man was walking in the rain. He was in the middle of nowhere. He had nothing and nowhere to hide. He came home all wet, but not a single hair on his head was wet. Why is that?
2. 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?
3. What are the next three letters in the following sequence? J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __
4. A plane crashes on the border of the U.S. and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
5. Imagine that you are in a boat, in the middle of the sea. Suddenly, you are surrounded by hungry sharks, just waiting to feed on you. How can you put an end to this?
6. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
7. When you have me, you immediately feel like sharing me. But, if you do share me, you do not have me.
8. First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside. What did I eat?

January Month Winner

The winner(s) of the January month Brain Teasers

Mr. Anandh from Thambaram

January Month Brain teasers with answers

1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?

2. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

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

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?

7. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

8. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

9. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?”

10. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?

Answers

1. Johnny.

2. Meat.

3. Mt. Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.

4. There is no dirt in a hole.

5. Incorrectly (except when it is spelled incorrecktly).

6. Billie lives in the southern hemisphere.

7. You can’t take a picture with a wooden leg. You need a camera (or iPad or cell phone) to take a picture.

8. You would be in 2nd place. You passed the person in second place, not first.

9. Neither. Egg yolks are yellow.

10. One. If he combines all his haystacks, they all become one big stack