Thinkquickly!

1. If an average hens egg is 5cm long and weighs 300 grams and an average
peacocks egg is exactly twice the length and twice the weight, which egg
has the greater circumference?

2. You can use three identical digits in a simple addition sum so that the total is
12. You cannot use the digit 4 so what is the answer?

3. In a hot air balloon off the coast of Ireland, Ben dropped two bottles of soda
over the side, one empty and one full. Which smashed to the ground first?

4. The caretaker is raking leaves in the playgrounds. In the front playground,

there are 7 piles of leaves and in the back playground, there are 3 piles of
leaves. How many piles will he have when he puts them all together?

5. Read this out loud:

11 was a racehorse
12 was 12
111 a race
12112

6. Divide 40 by half and add ten. What is the answer?

7. Assume there are approximately 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) people on Earth. What would you estimate to
be the result, if you multiply together the number of fingers on every person's left-hands? (For the
purposes of this exercise, thumbs count as fingers, for five fingers per hand.) If you cannot estimate the
number then try to guess how long the number would be.

8. There was once a recluse who never left his home. The only time anyone ever visited him was when his
food and supplies were delivered, but they never came inside. Then, one stormy winter night when an
icy gale was blowing, he had a nervous breakdown. He went upstairs, turned off all the lights and went
to bed. The next morning, he had caused the deaths of several hundred people. How?

9. A man holidaying abroad fell off a yacht into deep water. He could not swim and he was not wearing
anything to keep him afloat. It took 30 minutes for the people on the yacht to realise someone was
missing. The missing man was rescued two hours later. Why didn't he drown?

10. Rearrange the letters of NEW DOOR to make one word. You are not allowed to leave any letters out or
put in any extra letters.
11. Joe has 4 white rabbits, 6 brown rabbits and 5 black rabbits. How many rabbits could say that they are
the same colour as another of Joes rabbits?

12. The Roman numeral for 9 is IX. Add one character to this to make it an even number.

13. Read this out loud:

YYURYYUBICURYY4ME

14. A man is dozing during mass. He is dreaming about the French revolution and the guillotine. His wife,
seeing that he is nodding off taps him on the back of the neck. He has a heart attack and dies instantly.
True or false? Give a reason.

15. A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy. Why?

16. If
1=5,
2 = 25 ,
3 = 325 ,
4 = 4325
Then 5 = ?

17. What 3 letters change a girl into a woman?

18. There is a man who guesses the score of every football game before kickoff. How can he do this?

19. 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?

20. The rope ladder of a boat hangs over the side of the boat and just reaches the water. Its rungs are 8
inches apart. How many rungs will be under the water when the tide rises 4 feet?

HOW DID YOU DO?

 Answers to Lateral Thinking exercise:

1. Peacocks dont lay eggs only peahens do.

2. 11 + 1 = 12

3. Neither. Ben was over the sea.

4. 1 pile!

5. One one was a racehorse

One two was one too

One one won a race
One two won one too
6. 90

7. 0 (If only one person has no fingers on the left hand, the answer will be 0 because any number multiplied
by 0 = 0)

8. He was a lighthouse keeper.

9. It was the Dead Sea.

10. one word

11. None! Rabbits cant say anything because they cant talk.

12. Add an S = SIX

13. Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me.

14. False. If he had died, how would we know what he was dreaming of?

15. He is the priest.

16. 5 = 1 (the first line states this)

17. Age

18. Before kick-off the score is always 0-0.

19. The poison was in the ice cubes which would only have melted later in the evening / other creative

answers possible!

20. The boat will rise too so the ladder will just reach the water, as before.
Answers to Rebus puzzles:

1)falling temperatures 2) mixed wedding 3) burning the candle at both ends 4) last chance 5) capital
punishment 6) giant steps 7) fat cat 8) repeat 9) inbox / boxed in 10) dancing with the stars 11) lost in
space 12) gun point

Listening exercise (paper folding)

Give everyone a sheet of paper.

Tell everyone to close their eyes and follow your instructions.

Start giving instructions about what to do with the piece of paper examples:

1. fold it in half

2. fold the lower left corner over the upper right corner

3. turn it 90 degrees to the left

4. fold it again

5. rip a half-circle in the middle of the right side

6. make a small tear on the left hand side

7. tear off a small piece from the bottom

8. tear a small straight piece off the top

9. fold it in half

10. tear a small piece off on the left hand side in the middle

Once you have given quite a few instructions (more than 10 at least for a great success), tell
everyone to open their eyes and unfold their piece of paper.

Even though they all received the same instructions and had the same starting material, pretty much
everyone will have a different result.
Which shape are you?
People Bingo (Rules available on the Internet or play it your own way!)

Is left- Likes poetry Plays a Uses Twitter Watches

handed musical football
instrument

Owns an Is wearing Reads a Likes Eats out at

Apple white socks daily rollercoasters least once a
computer newspaper week

Speaks a Has a sat FREE Has done a Has seen a

foreign nav SPACE first aid ghost
language course

Has never Likes Does own Goes to the Doesnt

been to country ironing movies at wear
Burger King music least once a jewellery
month

Has been to Rides a Was born in Has bought Wears

a ballet bicycle August something glasses or
regularly on Ebay contact
lenses