MENTAL GYMNASTICS

Okay folks, this is a good one-just a little mental gymnastics... try it,
it's pretty cool. You will be surprised by how many you miss. Good luck!
There are 10 questions, so you should be able to answer them all in 10
minutes. DO NOT cheat! Write each of your answers down, it makes a
difference!

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

2) 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?

3) 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 awoken by the alarm?

4) Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?

5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?

6) 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?

7) 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?

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

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

10) 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?

ANSWERS BELOW
1) All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2) 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o'clock, then another at 1:30 and the
last at 2 o'clock, they will be taken in 1 hour.
3) 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm clock which cannot discriminate between
a.m. and p.m.
4) 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.
5) 9 live sheep.
6) The match.
7) White. If all walls face south, the house must be on the North Pole.
8) 2 apples.
9) None. It was Noah, not Moses.
10) YOU are the driver.

GRADING SCALE (out of 10)
10 Genius
9 Mensa Member
8 Engineer
7 Student
6 High school pupil
5 Primary school pupil
4 Teacher
3 College lecturer
2 University lecturer
1 Member of Congress
0 C'mon!