I am an English word with five letters. If you remove my last four I am still pronounced the same. What am I?
Queue.
I can generate fear and some say I come out of your ears. I’m quiet as a mouse but not welcomed in the house.
Smoke.
If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance that you will be correct?
a) 25%
This is becomes a self-referential paradox. Both A and D would be correct if there were four unique answers, but since A and D are the same answer, the chance that you would choose a correct answer is 50%, which makes B correct. But if there’s only one correct answer, the odds of choosing the correct one at random goes back to 25%. And around and round you go.
There’s a lot of discussion at Richard Wiseman’s blog and more at Lifehacker , where I first saw this.
This is becomes a self-referential paradox. Both A and D would be correct if there were four unique answers, but since A and D are the same answer, the chance that you would choose a correct answer is 50%, which makes B correct. But if there’s only one correct answer, the odds of choosing the correct one at random goes back to 25%. And around and round you go.
There’s a lot of discussion at Richard Wiseman’s blog and more at Lifehacker , where I first saw this.
When you went into the woods you got me.
What was it?
A splinter.
What type of house weighs the least?
A lighthouse.
Made of ten but two we make,
What are we?
A fist.
Malcolm is the number of weeks of his father’s age treated as days and his grandfather’s age in months. All three of their ages add up to 120 years. How old is Malcolm, his father and his grandfather?
Malcolm is 6.
Malcolm is 6.
Select the number that is midway between the lowest number and the highest number.
35 5 52 36 67
69 4 51 37 71
55 68 3 53 39
53.
37 is midway between 3 (the lowest number) and 71 (the highest number).
53.
37 is midway between 3 (the lowest number) and 71 (the highest number).
What happens four times in every week, twice in every month and once in a year?
The letter ‘e’. There are four ‘e’s in ‘every week’, two ‘e’s in ‘every month’ and one ‘e’ in ‘year’.
The letter ‘e’. There are four ‘e’s in ‘every week’, two ‘e’s in ‘every month’ and one ‘e’ in ‘year’.
I am one of very few, perhaps the only one, to look like what I represent. What am I?
The word ‘bed’, which looks like an actual bed. The ‘b’ is the headboard, the ‘e’ is the mattress and the ‘d’ is the foot board.
If you know of another word that looks like the object it represents, add it in the comments.
The word ‘bed’, which looks like an actual bed. The ‘b’ is the headboard, the ‘e’ is the mattress and the ‘d’ is the foot board.
If you know of another word that looks like the object it represents, add it in the comments.