THE TUESDAY BUSINESS CORNER - CHRISTMAS QUIZ ANSWERS:

Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to yesterdays Christmas Quiz! 
So, how did you get on?

Question 1

Tom’s mother has three children. One is called April; one is called May. What’s the third one called?

Tom

Question 2

How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?

None. It was Noah who took animals on the ark

Question 3

A man buys rice for £1 per kilogram and sells it for 20p per kilogram.  He does this every day for many years. As a result, he becomes a millionaire.  How is this possible?

He used to be a billionaire

Question 4

A Liverpool-based hairdresser recently said that he would rather cut the hair of three Londoners than one Liverpudlian.  Why?

He’ll get more money if he has three customers instead of one

Question 5

You’re riding a horse.  A lion is chasing you. Unfortunately, there’s an elephant in front of you moving at the same pace as you, and you can’t overtake it.  There’s a hippo to the left running at the same speed, and there’s a wall on your right. How do you get to safety?

Get off the carousel

Question 6

The letters “ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways.  For instance, in the word “rough” they are pronounced “uff”. What are the other seven?

oo, as in ‘through’
ow, as in ‘bough’
or, as in ‘thought’
off, as in ‘cough’
u, as in ‘thorough’
o, as in ‘dough’
up, as in ‘hiccough’

Question 7

Fred is lying dead in the middle of a room.  He is surrounded by a pool of water and broken glass.  The only furniture in the room is a table, which is next to Fred.

The room has one door and one tiny window. The door is locked; the window is one metre above the ground.

Fred didn’t drown, nor are there any cuts on his body. He didn’t commit suicide. How did he die?

Fred is a fish. A cat jumped through the window, landed on the table and knocked Fred’s fishbowl off the table, breaking the glass. The noise scared the cat, who jumped back out of the window

Question 8

Four men want to marry a princess.  The king devises a contest to see who should win her hand in marriage.

He puts her in the middle of a square, carpeted room. Each wall is 10m long.  One man stands in each corner of the room, each on their own small box.  The first one to touch the princess’s hand will marry her.  The only rules are that the men can’t walk on the carpet, or use anything but their body – no ladders, rope swings etc.

One man figured out a way to touch her hand in less than five seconds.  What did he do?

He asked her to walk over to him and hold his hand

Question 9

A boat has a ladder hanging over the side of it.  It has six rungs, each 10cm apart.  The bottom rung is 10cm above the water.  The tide rises at 20cm every 15 minutes.  High tide peaks in one hour.  When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs will be under water?

None. As the water rises, the boat rises, so the ladder stays above the waterline.

Question 10

A man was killed on a Sunday morning.  His wife found the body and called the police.  When they arrived, they questioned the four people who work in the house, who said:

The chef: ‘I was making breakfast’
The maid: ‘I was getting the mail’
The butler: ‘I was setting the table’
The gardener: ‘I was watering the plants’
The wife had a cast-iron alibi. The police immediately knew who the murderer was.  Who was it, and how did they know?

The maid. Mail doesn’t come on a Sunday

Question 11

Two fuses each take exactly one hour to burn. Neither burns at a steady rate.  For example, one could take 59 minutes to burn the first centimetre, then burn the rest of the fuse in the last minute.

How could you use these two fuses to measure 45 minutes?

Light both ends of Fuse One, and one end of Fuse Two. When Fuse One burns out, you know 30 minutes has passed. The second this happens, light the other end of Fuse Two. It will take Fuse Two a further 15 minutes to burn out – 45 minutes in total.

Question 12

Once upon a time, there was a recluse who never left home.  His only visitors were people who brought him food and supplies, but they never came inside.

One stormy night, he had a nervous breakdown, went upstairs and turned off all the lights and went to bed.  Next morning, he found he’d caused the deaths of hundreds of people.  How?

He owned a lighthouse

Question 13

Assume there are approximately six billion people on the earth.  If you were to multiply together the number of fingers on every person’s left hand, what would you guess the total would be? (If you can’t guess the number, estimate how long the number would be).

Zero. Since at least one of the six billion people has no fingers on their left hand, the total will be zero (since anything multiplied by zero equals zero)

Question 14

A man leaves home, turns left, goes straight, turns left again, goes straight again and then turns left once more before returning home.  When he gets there, there’s another man with a mask on.  What’s going on?

He’s playing baseball

Question 15

This is an unusual paragraph.  I’m curious as to how quickly you can find out what’s so unusual about it.  It looks so ordinary that you could think nothing was wrong with it.  In fact nothing is wrong with it.  But it is highly unusual.  Study it.  Think about it.  Try to work it out. Any thoughts?

It doesn’t contain the letter ‘e’

I hope you enjoyed the quiz. :)

The next two Tuesdays are Christmas Day and New Years Day, so our next post for 'The Tuesday Business Corner', will go out on Tuesday 8th January 2013... that's provided the world doesn't come to an end this Friday 21 December 2012 ;)

Have a fantastic break and we'll see you back in the new year all relaxed, with your batteries recharged and ready to dominate the business world in 2013!

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  

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