Straight Questions with Straight Answers

1.

Which is the most shocking city in the world?

Electricity

2.

What are the largest ant in the world?

Elephant

3.

Which sea has waves but no water?

BBC

4.

What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

Strawberry

5.

Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the winner until the contest ends?

Boxing

6.

What are only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw'?

7.

Which part of London in France?

N

8.

Which is the hardest key to turn?

Donkey

9.

There were ten sparrows sitting on a tree. A hunter fired and two of them fell dead.
How many sparrows were left on the tree?

None
(other flew away)

10.

What always goes to sleeps wearing its shoes?

Horse

11.

I am like a ribbon, tied by nature, across the sky, what am I?

Rainbow

12.

What can fly but has no wings?

Time

13.

If three cats kill three rats in three minutes, how long will it take hundred cats to kill hundred rats?

Three minutes

14.

What comes down but never goes up?

Rain

15.

Where was the first potato found?

In the ground

What is the only vegetable never sold frozen, canned, processed or cooked, but fresh?

QUESTIONS

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1.

You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

2.

If you overtake the last person, then you are?

3.

Take 1000 and add 40 to it.. Now add another 1000 . Now add 30. Add another 1000 . Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10 . What is the total? (This must be done in your head only)

4.

Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the ! name of the fifth daughter?

5.

A mute person goes to a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does he indicate what he wants?

6.

Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?

7.

If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken?

8.

I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being awaken by the alarm?

9.

If you had only one match and entered a cold and dark room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first?

10.

A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What color is the bear?

11.

Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?

12.

How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?

13.

If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what's the name of the driver?

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Answers:

01- Second Position (If you overtake the second person, you take his place, so you are second)

02- Not possible (You cannot overtake the last person)

03- 4100 (if you got 5000, it's wrong. If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator.)

04- Mary. (Read the question again)

05- He just has to open his mouth and ask...

06- All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.

07- 1 hour: If you take a pill at 1 o'clock, then another at 1:30 and the last at 2 o'clock = 3 pills in 1 hour.

08- 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock, cannot discriminate a.m. from p.m.

09- The match!

10- White. If all walls face south, the house must be on the North Pole.

11- 2 apples.

12- None. It was Noah, not Moses.

13- You are the driver!

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