Tricky Questions
Some tricky questions to try on your youth group. I didn’t make them up but could tell you where I got them from. Answers are below.
- Where can anybody but you sit?
- Why would a cleaner prefer to wash a mirror than a window of the same size, assuming both are easily accessible?
- How can you throw a ball so it will reverse direction and return to you without the ball bouncing against or touching any solid object?
- Your bed and a light switch are five metres apart. Without using any object or mechanical device – no pole, no remote switch – how can you turn off the light and get into bed before the room is dark?
- A hiker’s cabin is almost buried in snow, and the temperature is 25 below zero. The hiker’s eyes move from the single match he has in his hand to a candle, an oil lamp and a fireplace with kindling – all ready to be lit. Which does he light first?
- What common mechanised means of transport in London carry more passengers daily than all the city’s Tube lines, trains, buses, cars and taxis combined?
- Why are 2003 pennies worth more than 2002 pennies?
- What is sealskin chiefly used for?
- Can you rearrange these letters into one long word: doornonegwl?
- If Florence Nightingale were living today, what would she be most noted for?
Answers
- Your lap
- A mirror has one side
- Up in the air
- Go to bed before it is dark
- The match
- Lift/Escalator
- 2003 of them
- Covering seals
- One Long Word
- Her age
