The following quiz, originally, came from Arthur Andersen.
Please see if you are smart enough to think and answer them correctly.
The quiz consists of 4 questions, and tells whether you are qualified to be a professional.
According to statistics of Andersen Worldwide, around 90% of the
professionals failed the exam. Review each question, answer it and Scroll down for the correct answer.
The questions are not too difficult.
You just need to be a bit.............
QUESTIONS:
Q1. How do you put a Giraffe into a refrigerator?
The correct answer is : open the refrigerator, put the Giraffe in and close the door. (Simple enough ?)
This question tests whether you are doing simple things in a
Complicated way.
Q2. How do you put an Elephant into a refrigerator?
Incorrect Answer : open the refrigerator, put in the Elephant and close the door.
Correct Answer : open the refrigerator, take out the Giraffe, and put in the Elephant and close the door.
This tests your prudence.
Q3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference, all the animals
attend except one. Which animal does not attend and why?
Correct Answer: The Elephant ! (Why ?, Scroll Down!)
The Elephant is in the refrigerator!
This tests whether you have a comprehensive thinking.
OK, if you did not answer the last three questions correctly, this
One may be your last chance to testify your qualification to be a professional.
Q4. There is a river, which is filled with Crocodiles. How do you
manage to cross it?
Correct Answer ! : Simply swim through it. All the Crocodiles are too busy on their way to attend the Animal’s Conference!
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Additional Lateral Thinking Questions - - - - -
Please answer the questions in sequence
Answers Follow....
Q1. There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why?
This is probably the best known and most celebrated of all lateral thinking puzzles. It is a true classic. Although there are many possible solutions which fit the initial conditions, only the canonical answer is truly satisfying.
Q2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be?
Q3. A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time.
How did the driver see the man?
Q4. One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How?
Q5. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?
This is logical rather than lateral, but it is a good puzzle that can be solved by lateral thinking techniques. It is supposedly used by a very well-known software company as an interview question for prospective employees.
Q6. 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?
Q7. A man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked as they did at the age of 21. He looked around to see if there was anyone he recognised. He saw a couple and he knew
immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?
Q8. 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. How could this be so?
Q9. A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'Thank you' and walks out.
This puzzle claims to be the best of the genre. It is simple in its statement, absolutely baffling and yet with a completely satisfying solution. Most people
struggle very hard to solve this one yet they like the answer when they hear it or have the satisfaction of figuring it out.
ANSWERS:
A1. The man is very, very short and can only reach halfway up the elevator buttons. However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and
can press the higher buttons with it.
A2. The surgeon was his mother.
A3. It was day time.
A4. At the time she went into labour, the mother of the twins was travelling by boat. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her
older brother.
A5. A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for safety
and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.
A6. The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning the punch.
A7. He recognised Adam and Eve as the only people without navels. Because they were not born of women, they had never had umbilical cords and therefore they never had navels. This one seems perfectly logical but it can sometimes spark fierce theological arguments.
A8. They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets, etc.). This puzzle stumps many people. They try outlandish solutions involving test-tube babies or
surrogate mothers. Why does the brain search for complex solutions when there is a much simpler one available?
A9. The man had hiccups. The barman recognised this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured the hiccups-so the man
no longer needed the water.
Please see if you are smart enough to think and answer them correctly.
The quiz consists of 4 questions, and tells whether you are qualified to be a professional.
According to statistics of Andersen Worldwide, around 90% of the
professionals failed the exam. Review each question, answer it and Scroll down for the correct answer.
The questions are not too difficult.
You just need to be a bit.............
QUESTIONS:
Q1. How do you put a Giraffe into a refrigerator?
The correct answer is : open the refrigerator, put the Giraffe in and close the door. (Simple enough ?)
This question tests whether you are doing simple things in a
Complicated way.
Q2. How do you put an Elephant into a refrigerator?
Incorrect Answer : open the refrigerator, put in the Elephant and close the door.
Correct Answer : open the refrigerator, take out the Giraffe, and put in the Elephant and close the door.
This tests your prudence.
Q3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference, all the animals
attend except one. Which animal does not attend and why?
Correct Answer: The Elephant ! (Why ?, Scroll Down!)
The Elephant is in the refrigerator!
This tests whether you have a comprehensive thinking.
OK, if you did not answer the last three questions correctly, this
One may be your last chance to testify your qualification to be a professional.
Q4. There is a river, which is filled with Crocodiles. How do you
manage to cross it?
Correct Answer ! : Simply swim through it. All the Crocodiles are too busy on their way to attend the Animal’s Conference!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Additional Lateral Thinking Questions - - - - -
Please answer the questions in sequence
Answers Follow....
Q1. There is a man who lives on the top floor of a very tall building. Everyday he gets the elevator down to the ground floor to leave the building to go to work. Upon returning from work though, he can only travel half way up in the lift and has to walk the rest of the way unless it's raining! Why?
This is probably the best known and most celebrated of all lateral thinking puzzles. It is a true classic. Although there are many possible solutions which fit the initial conditions, only the canonical answer is truly satisfying.
Q2. A man and his son are in a car accident. The father dies on the scene, but the child is rushed to the hospital. When he arrives the surgeon says, "I can't operate on this boy, he is my son!" How can this be?
Q3. A man is wearing black. Black shoes, socks, trousers, jumper, gloves and balaclava. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards him with its light off but somehow manages to stop in time.
How did the driver see the man?
Q4. One day Kerry celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Terry, celebrated his birthday. How?
Q5. Why is it better to have round manhole covers than square ones?
This is logical rather than lateral, but it is a good puzzle that can be solved by lateral thinking techniques. It is supposedly used by a very well-known software company as an interview question for prospective employees.
Q6. 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?
Q7. A man died and went to Heaven. There were thousands of other people there. They were all naked and all looked as they did at the age of 21. He looked around to see if there was anyone he recognised. He saw a couple and he knew
immediately that they were Adam and Eve. How did he know?
Q8. 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. How could this be so?
Q9. A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'Thank you' and walks out.
This puzzle claims to be the best of the genre. It is simple in its statement, absolutely baffling and yet with a completely satisfying solution. Most people
struggle very hard to solve this one yet they like the answer when they hear it or have the satisfaction of figuring it out.
ANSWERS:
A1. The man is very, very short and can only reach halfway up the elevator buttons. However, if it is raining then he will have his umbrella with him and
can press the higher buttons with it.
A2. The surgeon was his mother.
A3. It was day time.
A4. At the time she went into labour, the mother of the twins was travelling by boat. The older twin, Terry, was born first early on March 1st. The boat then crossed a time zone and Kerry, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her
older brother.
A5. A square manhole cover can be turned and dropped down the diagonal of the manhole. A round manhole cannot be dropped down the manhole. So for safety
and practicality, all manhole covers should be round.
A6. The poison in the punch came from the ice cubes. When the man drank the punch, the ice was fully frozen. Gradually it melted, poisoning the punch.
A7. He recognised Adam and Eve as the only people without navels. Because they were not born of women, they had never had umbilical cords and therefore they never had navels. This one seems perfectly logical but it can sometimes spark fierce theological arguments.
A8. They were two of a set of triplets (or quadruplets, etc.). This puzzle stumps many people. They try outlandish solutions involving test-tube babies or
surrogate mothers. Why does the brain search for complex solutions when there is a much simpler one available?
A9. The man had hiccups. The barman recognised this from his speech and drew the gun in order to give him a shock. It worked and cured the hiccups-so the man
no longer needed the water.
