Brain Teasers trivia questions
134 multiple-choice Brain Teasers trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Bob has a book of 100 pages and in 10 seconds he can count out 10 pages. What is the shortest time in which Bob can define where the 60th page is?
- Two people get to a river and find a boat capable of accommodating only one person. Using this boat, both of them manage to cross the river. If they crossed without any of the them swiming the river which of the following is true?
- Which term refers to a king or prince in India?
- Complete the Latin term for an unacceptable person: persona non _____.
- There are 15 birds sitting on the branches of a tree. A hunter goes by and shoots 3 of them. How many birds are left on the tree?
- A man walked by an old fisherman and asked him how many fish he had caught. The fisherman replied: The half of the eight, the nine without its tail, and the six without its head. How many fish did the fisherman caught?
- A tree is 20 meters tall. An ant is climbing it. Every day the ant climbs 5 meters, and each night it descends 4 meters. In how many days will the ant reach the top of the tree?
- A bar of soap is placed on one of the sides of a pair of scales. On the other side there is 3/4 of a bar of the same soap and а 3/4 kg metal weight. The scales are in balance. How much does a bar of soap weigh?
- There are three sorts of apples in a basket. How many apples have to be taken from the basket, without looking, to be sure that there are at least 2 apples of the same sort?
- A boy and a pig weigh as much as 5 crates. The pig weighs as much as 4 cats. 2 cats and the pig weigh as much as 3 crates. How many cats weigh as much as the boy?
- A fish costs a dollar and half a fish. How much do 5 fish cost?
- A father has seven sons, and each son has one sister. How many children does the father have?
- 10% of all the people living in a certain town in Georgia have unlisted phone numbers. If you selected 100 names at random from the towns phone book, on average, how many of these people would have unlisted phone numbers?
- You are on a ship and over the side hangs a rope ladder with one foot rungs. The tide rises a one foot per hour. At the end of five hours, how much of the ladder will remain above the water assuming that 12 rungs were above the water when the tide began to rise?
- This is a gun dog breed which is subdivided into Springer, Cocker, Cavalier King Charles, etc.
- What family of animals has species called Oryx, Duiker, Dik-dik and Impala?
- What is the only venomous snake native to the British Isles?
- This majestic bird can be golden, bald and tawny. One of the species is a symbol of the United States of America.
- What is the name of the white crystalline sugar found in wood and straw?
- What is the name of the characters that have appeared in Brian Herberts Legends of Dune universe, Disneys Aladdin and the video game System Shock 2?
- What X-word means a colourless, flammable liquid ingredient used to make synthetic resins, dyes and insecticides?
- What plant tissue conducts water and mineral salts from its roots to other parts of the plant and also provides mechanical support?
- Which word refers to a colourless, odourless gaseous element that occurs in trace amounts in air?
- When you add 55 and 45 the sum is 100. When you add 65 and 35 the sum is also 100. But which is greater: 55 multiplied by 45 or 65 multiplied by 35?
- My grandson is about as many days as my son is weeks, and my grandson is as many months as I am in years. My grandson, my son and I together are 120 years. Can you tell me my age in years?
- It was Emilys first day at school. The teacher suggested that it would be a good idea for each child to meet every other child in the class. The teacher said, When you meet, please shake hands and introduce yourself by name. If there were 10 children in the class, how many were the total handshakes?
- Paul designs food displays for the local Supermarket. For one of his displays, he wants to set up soup cans in the form of a square pyramid. Hes decided to use 10 cans for each side of the square base of the pyramid. If each carton holds 25 soup cans, how many cartons will Paul need to open to build the pyramid?
- A firefighter stood on the middle rung of a ladder, spraying water on a burning house. He then climbed up 6 rungs before the heat of the flames caused him to come down 10 rungs. After some minutes he was able to climb 18 rungs to the very top of the ladder. How many rungs did the ladder have?
- The stubs obtained by burning ten candles will yield one extra candle if you melt them all together. If you burned 100 candles, how many extra candles could you make?
- How long did the Hundred years war last?