Brain Teasers trivia questions
134 multiple-choice Brain Teasers trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- The rancid meat attracted flies and maggots and wafting from it was a FETID odor. What is the meaning of fetid?
- The king required FEALTY from all his vassals. What does the word fealty mean?
- The siblings were complete opposites. Tom was pedantic and read all the time and Lucy was LUDIC. She was always getting mud on her clothes. What is the meaning of ludic?
- The vegetable rhubarb is delicious but its leaves are poisonous. What did rhubarb originally mean?
- What modern slang term once meant a carnival worker who performed disgusting tasks such as biting off the heads of live chickens?
- What is heavier a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?
- A farmer had 20 sheep. All but 8 died. How many are still alive?
- There is a branch with 10 birds on it. I shot 2 of them and then 1 more. How many birds are left on the branch?
- If you have in your suitcase 6 white socks, 4 red socks, 8 green socks, and 2 brown socks, how many socks would you have to pull out (without looking at them) to be sure you have a matching pair?
- Joe had 29 pairs of socks. How many socks did he have?
- One camera could take 350 pictures and Bob bought 3 cameras of the same type. How many pictures could he take?
- One iPod can hold 950 songs and 3 movies. How many iPods of this model would one person have to buy to have 27 movies and 8550 songs?
- A monster had double the amount of eyes he had ears, triple the amount of ears he had legs, and had six legs. How many eyes did he have?
- If I had $654,987, how much change is that?
- Five years ago the sum of the age of a sister and a brother was 8. What will be the same sum in 5 years?
- A woman once said about a man, I am not his wife but this mans mother is the mother-in-law of my mother. What were the man and the woman?
- A cowboy was looking after 100 animals (oxen, cows and calves). For his job he was paid $100 (for every ox he received $10, for every cow $5 and for every calf $0.5). How many were the oxen, the cows and the calves?
- In a lake there were lilies. The strange thing about them was that they doubled their number once per day. If on the 15th day half of the lake was covered with lilies, on which day will the whole lake be covered with them?
- A peasant buys a pregnant sheep, which gave birth to a lamb. At the age of 3, the lamb gives birth to another lamb. After that it starts bearing a lamb per year. How many sheep will the peasant have 9 years after the birth of the first lamb if all the lambs are female and none of them ever dies?
- Marsha dug her FUNEREAL attire out of the closet. It consisted of a black dress and a black overcoat. What does funereal mean?
- The newly blooming lavender was a HARBINGER of spring. It was beautiful and fragrant. What does harbinger mean?
- Her passion for art bordered on pathological MONOMANIA. Shes a sculptor, studies medieval art in night classes, frequents galleries and is often caught doodling in a notebook. What does monomania mean?
- It wasnt accidental it was pure KISMET that Joey fell in love with Laura. What does kismet mean?
- Because Ben travels to many countries for business, he has written a POLYGLOT lexicon for himself. It contains quick references on phrases he might need in any given situation. What does polyglot mean?
- The fortune teller persuaded Anna that she needed a PHILTER to gain the attention of her beau. She only needed to apply the elixir and think of him. What does PHILTER mean?
- Jack grabbed Janets hand and they began to GAMBOL in the sunshine. They felt like children, not a care in the world. What does gambol mean?
- After a long walk, two sons and two fathers find three apples. Each of them has an apple and they all go their way. How is that possible?
- The name of what is coded in the following: 86,smopuim?
- Five girls are sitting next to each other on a train. Ann and Betty are as close to each other as Ann and Kate are. Dana and Ann are sitting as close to each other as Dana and Kate are. Between which two of her friends is the fifth girl, Jane, sitting?
- What number multiplied by 10 equals the square of the same number, times 5?