Transcript A boy and his father are injured in a car accident. Both

A boy and his father are injured
in a car accident. Both are
taken to a hospital. The father
dies at arrival, but the boy lives
and is taken to surgery. A greyhaired, bespectacled surgeon
looks at the boy and says, "I
cannot operate on this boy -- he's
my son.
A husband coming home hears
his wife call "Bill, don't kill me!".
He walks in and finds his wife
dead. Inside are a postman, a
doctor, and a lawyer, none of
whom the husband knows. The
husband immediately realizes the
postman killed his wife.
A man called to a waiter in a
restaurant, "There's a fly in my
tea!" "I will bring you a fresh cup
of tea," said the waiter. After a
few moments, the man called
out, "This is the same cup of tea!"
How did he know?
A man was walking along
some railroad tracks when he
noticed that train was coming.
He ran toward the train before
stepping aside.
An Arab sheikh tells his two sons
that are to race their camels
to a distant city to see who will
inherit his fortune. The one
whose camel arrives last will win.
The brothers, after wandering
aimlessly for days, ask a wise
man for advise. After hearing the
advice they jump on the camels
and race as fast as they can to
their destination.
A man lives on the tenth floor of a
building. Every day he takes the
elevator to go down to the ground
floor to go to work or to go
shopping. When he returns he
takes the elevator to the seventh
floor and walks up the stairs to
reach his apartment on the tenth
floor. He hates walking so why
does he do it?
A man is lying dead in a field.
Next to him there is an
unopened package. There is
no other creature in the field.
How did he die?
Anthony and Cleopatra are
lying dead on the floor of a
villa in Egypt. Nearby is a
broken bowl. There is no
mark on either of their bodies
and they were not poisoned.
How did they die?
A woman had two sons who
were born on the same hour
of the same day of the same
year. But they were not twins,
and they were not adopted.
How could this be so?
A man went to a party and
drank some of the punch. He
then left early. Everyone else
at the party who drank the
punch subsequently died of
poisoning. Why did the man
not die?
A blind beggar had a brother
who died. What relation was
the blind beggar to the brother
who died? (Brother is not the
answer).
The 22nd and the 24th
Presidents of the USA had
the same father and the same
mother, but were not brothers.
How can this be?
Deep in the forest was found the
body of a man who was wearing
only swimming trunks, snorkel
and facemask. The nearest lake
was 8 miles away and the sea
was 100 miles away. How had he
died?
This is supposedly based on a true
incident. Does this make it an urban
legend? Many urban legends can be
restated as lateral thinking puzzles. This is
a very good one of this type.
One day Kerry celebrated her
birthday. Two days later her
older twin brother, Terry,
celebrated his birthday. How
come?
A man lay dead in a field.
Next to him was a gun. One
shot had been fired and
because of that shot the man
had died. Yet the man was
not shot; in fact, there was no
wound or mark on the body.
A man tells his boss, "Don't
take your planned flight today!
I had a dream last night that if
you do, your plane will crash
and you'll die." The boss fires
the man.
A man is sitting in bed. He
makes a phone call, saying
nothing, and then goes to
sleep.
A man is born in 1972 and
dies in 1952 at the age of 25.
Amy drives her car due west
for a quarter mile, without
turning. When she stops, the
car is facing east.
A boy goes up to the counter in a
shop, puts down 50p and asks for a
lemonade. He is asked by the
shopkeeper whether he wants a diet
lemonade or a normal lemonade. A
second boy comes in a few minutes
later, also goes up to the counter,
puts 50p on the counter, asks for a
lemonade and is immediately given a
normal lemonade.
How could you cut a cake into eight
equal parts with just three cuts of a
knife?
Imagine that there is a shortage of
London taxi-drivers. However,
currently it takes five years to train
each driver, who has to know all the
streets and routes of London to be
able to find any destination in London
from any other point in London. How
could you increase the number of
effective taxi-drivers immediately? A
taxi still needs to be able to go to any
destination in London, starting from
any other point in London.
A man is standing by a full-length
window seven floors up in a block of
flats. The window is fully open.
Suddenly, on an impulse, he jumps
straight through the window. He lands
safely, on his feel, unhurt. There were
no rivers, swimming pools or any
other water for him to land in, no
trampolines or suchlike to bounce on
and he has no parachute or similar
device. How did this happen?
If a man goes from A to B at 30 km/h,
how fast does he have to travel back
from B to A to average 60 km/h for
the total journey from A to B and back
again?
If you are organizing tennis knock out
tournament in which there are 128
entrants. How can you simply
calculate the number of matches you
will need to arrange in total counting
every round?
Two trains start out 80 miles apart
and move towards each other at 40
miles/h. A bird sitting on the front of
one train flies off at 50 miles/h in the
direction of the other train. When it
reaches it, it immediately flies back to
the first train, which of course has
now come closer. It immediately turns
around flies back to the other train
and continues like this until the two
trains meet. Adding up all these
journeys, how far will the bird have
travelled by the time the trains meet?
There are two bottles filled to the
same level, one with oil, the other
with vinegar. Take a spoonful of oil,
put it into the vinegar bottle and stir.
Then take a spoonful of the resultant
mixture and put it back in the oil
bottle. Will there be more oil in the
original vinegar bottle or more vinegar
in the original oil bottle?
Move only one coin in the following
arrangement to make 2 lines of 3
coins each.
A man has a swimming pool in his
garden situated between four
splendid oak trees as shown below.
He wants to double its size but keep it
square, and doesn’t want to cut down
any of the trees. Possible?
There are five matches here, forming
two triangles. Use just one more
match to form four triangles, each the
same size as the two shown here.
Name three consecutive days
without using the words Monday,
Thursday and Saturday.