BRAINTEASERS
Questions
1.
Which one of the five words below is spelled incorrectly?
MILIEU
COMMITMENT
OCCASION
SILHOUETTE
CONCILLIATION
2.
There were six apples in a basket and six girls in the room. Each girl took one apple, yet one apple
remained in the basket. How come?
3.
How do the publishers of dictionaries or atlases protect themselves from pirates who would copy their
work?
4.
Using any math symbols you like, can you make four 8s equal 2?
8
8
8
8
5.
I have four wings, but cannot fly,
I never laugh and never cry;
On the same spot I'm always found,
toiling away with little sound.
What am I?
6.
A milk man has two empty jugs consisting of a 3 gallon jug and a 5 gallon jug. How can he measure out
exactly one gallon of milk using only the two jugs he has, without wasting any milk?
Answers
1. CONCILLIATION is spelled incorrectly. It should be spelled CONCILIATION.
2. The first five girls each took an apple. The sixth girl took the basket as well as the apple in it.
3. Publishers normally include a nonexistent word or a nonexistent island in a dictionary or atlas,
respectively. If it then appears in somebody else’s work, they have clear evidence of copying.
4. 8/8 + 8/8 = 1+1 or 2
5. A windmill
6. The milkman filled his 3 gallon jug with milk and poured it into the 5 gallon jug. Then he filled the 3
gallon jug again, and started to pour the milk into the 5 gallon jug. When it reached the top of the 5
gallon jug, he had precisely one gallon left in his 3 gallon jug.