Conundrums II

31. Tom Sawyer was asked to paint a square window (4' by 4'). He painted half the area of the square window, and yet the clear unpainted part remained a square, measuring 4' from top to bottom and 4' from side to side. How is this possible?	Answer 19
32. I can be flat, all four standing straight and the odd one standing by, I can be round, all four tucked away tight and the odd one covers all, I can pound and kill, I can contain and heal. What am I?	Answer 19
33. A policeman is walking past a house when he hears from within " NO JOHN, YOU MEAN MAN, DON'T SHOOT ME" quickly followed by a gunshot. He runs into the house and finds four people, a doctor, a lawyer and priest standing over the dead body. He goes directly to the priest and arrests him for murder. How come ?	Answer 19
34.This is puzzling - Without using any symbols, arrange the digits 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 to equal the digits 2, 4, 6, 8.?	Answer 19
35. Three very able marksmen simultaneously shoot and hit a rapidly spinning spherical target. What is the probability that the three points of impact are on the same hemisphere?	Answer 19
36. In a local greengrocer shop, the grocer sets his prices according to a certain logic. A Pear costs $ 0.16, a Pseudocarp $0.42 and a Cardoon $0.29. By the same logic, how much will a Gourd cost??	Answer 19
37. You are having another algebra exam. You fail to see that one question asks for addition, and instead you multiply the three different integers given in the question. Surprisingly, you end up getting full credit for the answer as the result from both addition and multiplication were the same. Is this a freak occurrence? Is it unique? What was the actual exam question?	Answer 19
38. If a chicken and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take to lay a dozen eggs?	Answer 19
39. A sweater worn in the normal way has a label on the inside of the collar. Assume that the sleeve through which we normally slide our left arm is called the left sleeve and the other, the right sleeve. Question: Where will the label be, if the sweater is turned inside out, and the right arm is put through the left sleeve and the left arm through the right sleeve? (If you try it with a real sweater, where's the fun?)	Answer 5
40. What is the fair amount that should be charged for a game for allowing the player to choose (while blindfold) 2 bills from a bucket containing five $5 bills, ten $10 bills, and twenty $20 bills?	Answer 5
41. I have an A4-size sheet. My room-mate draws an irregular closed curve on this sheet. I have with me only a pair of scissors and a very precise weighing balance. How will I find out the area enclosed by my room-mate's drawing?	Answer 5
42. Add one line to IX to make six.	Answer 5
43. Six normal drinking glasses are standing in a row. The first three are full of water; the next three are empty. By handling and moving only one glass, change the arrangement so that no full glass is next to another full glass, and no empty glass is next to another empty one.	Answer 5
44. I have six cards, labelled A, B, C, D, E, and F. I pick four cards, one by one, and turn them up as I pick them. What is the probability that the word turned up is DEAF? (Note: The first card reads D, the second E, ...)	Answer 5
45. You are working out some estimates for your boss. You can come up with a very good package for your nice little widgets, but the packaging may be too expensive. The cost of the widget and the packaging is $1.10, and the widget is $1.00 more than the package. How much will you have to tell your boss that the package for each widget will cost?	Answer 5
46. Which name does not belong in the followinglist? Don't resort to contrived rules (like, "the only one that doesn't start with a vowel or end with either k,m, or t, etc."). 1. Athena 2. Amelia 3. Marion 4. Michel 5. Hannah 6. Hanny	Answer 5
47. Show how this is possible:- From six you take nine; And from nine you take ten; Then, from forty take away fifty And six will remain.	Answer 5
48. Prove that 8 is always a factor of the product of two consecutive even numbers. (This can be done in a dead simple way, or in an involved way - which way will you go?)	Answer 5
49. A man turns some of the ice trays in his freezer upside-down when he goes on vacation. Why?	Answer 5
50. At a family reunion, it was found that the following relationships existed between the people present : Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, Uncle, Aunt, Brother, Sister, Cousin, Nephew, Niece. However, there are only four people there. How could this be so?	Answer 5
51. (a). Every direction is south, except up and down. Where am I? (b). Two men start from the same place at the same time, and go in the same direction for the same length of time at the same rate of speed. When they have gone 1/2 the journey, they find that they are about 8000 miles apart, and yet they complete their journeys at the same time. How is this possible?	Answer 5
52. Kali buys 100 litres of gin and stores it in his garage, thinking no one will find it. Unfortunately, Bora, his neighbour, observes this sneaky exercise. When Kali is away from his house, Bora goes into the garage and draws off 30 litres of gin. However, every time he draws a litre of gin, he replaces it with a litre of pure water before drawing the next litre. How much gin did Bora actually steal?	Answer 5
53. There are at least two substances on Earth that expand when cooled. What are they?	Answer 5
54. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one. Michael J. Fox has a small one. Madonna doesn't have one, and the Pope has one but doesn't use it. What is it?!	Answer 5
55.When Dolly Parton turned 69 on the 22nd day of the 2nd month, she wasn't feeling very well and went down to the pharmacist and bought $51 worth of pills, which she took 8 times a day and she came out ?	Answer 5
56. If seven maids with seven mops can wipe seven floors in seven hours, how many hours will it take three maids with three mops to wipe seven floors?	Answer 5
57. From the exact north pole point, you go 5 miles south, 5 miles east and 5 miles north, and you will end up in the same place. There is another place on Earth where you can do the same thing. Where and how?	Answer 5
58. A 21-quart-capacity car radiator is filled with an 18 percent alcohol solution. How many quarts must be drained and then replaced by a 90 percent alcohol solution for the resulting solution to contain 42 percent alcohol?	Answer 5
59. If today is Tuesday, what is the day after the day before the day before tomorrow?	Answer 5
60. The engineering department went out for a meal to bid farewell to their retiring colleague. One engineer saw the bill total, and calculated that it would cost each person £30. Then he remarked, "It's lucky that there aren't five fewer of us to split the total amount or it would have cost us each £10 more." How many engineers split the bill and how much did the dinner cost?	Answer 5

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