Trivial Puzzles

1. Two men are going to have a race. Each of them start and end at the same place as the other. They are running at the same speed in the begining. Neither of them speed up or slow down. The result is not a tie. How is this possible?

Answer:
They each took separate routes and one route was longer than the other.

2. One day Jenny celebrated her birthday. Two days later her older twin brother, Jerry, celebrated his birthday. How is this possible?

Answer:
At the time she went into child labor, the mother of the twins was traveling by boat. The older twin, Jerry, was born first early on March 1st. The boat then crossed the International Date Line from east to west and therefore Jenny, the younger twin, was born on February the 28th. Therefore, the younger twin celebrates her birthday two days before her older brother come every leap year.

3. A doctor has a brother who is an attorney in Alabama, but the attorney in Alabama does not have any doctor- brother. How can this be?

Answer:
The doctor is his sister.

4. Last week, it took me three days to go from A to B, but then four days to go from B to A. What are A and B?

Answer:
Sunday and Wednesday.

5. They don't touch when you say TOUCH but when you say SEPARATE, they do touch. What are they ?

Answer:
Our lips.

6. Two people enter opposite ends of a sewer pipe wide enough to fit only one person, yet they both come out the other end. How do they do it?

Answer:
At different times.

7. A man and a boy who are walking together step out with their right feet. The boy walks three paces while the man walks two. When will they both put their left feet forward together?

Answer:
Never. Every second cycle their right feet will go forward together, but never their left.

8. There was an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for the movies. One of them was the father of the other one's son. How could this be?

Answer:
They were husband and wife.

9. The servant reached the first gate and said, "May I go through to show the king my wonderful apples?" The guard replied, "You may if you give me half of your apples." The servant then said, "Fine but you have to give me back one apple." The guard agreed. The servant did this to the rest of the guards and finally met the king. The servant still had the same amount of apples that he had started with. How is this possible?

Answer:
He had 2 apples.

10. Natives lie and visitors tell the truth. I was having lunch with a salesman and I needed to know if he was a native or a visitor. Instead of asking him, I saw a women beside us. I said "Go ask the women if she's a native or a visitor". When he came back he said that she was a visitor. From the answer I knew if he was a visitor or a native. Who is he?

Answer:
He is a visitor. If she's a visitor, she would be honest and say so. If she's a native, she'd lie and say she's a visitor. So no matter what, we know that she'll say that she's a visitor. Now for the man, we know that he says that she's a visitor, therefore he MUST be telling the truth and be a visitor. If he were lying, his response (regardless of what the woman is) would be that she is a native.

11. Which of the following statements is true?
1. One of these statements is true.
2. Two of these statements are true.
3. Three of these statements are true.
4. Four of these statements are true.
5. Five of these statements are true.
6. Six of these statements are true.

Answer:
Statement 1 is true.

12. A man is stuck inside a room with nothing to write with except his pencil. He is not allowed out until he has written his name on his pencil. How does he do this?

Answer:
He breaks in half and writes his name on it.

13. A man decided to go fishing and went to the sea. He used the best bait and best rod, but caught nothing for hours. Another man walked by and said, " That is a pretty useless spot to fish, nothing lives in there. "Where was the man fishing?

Answer:
He was fishing in the Dead Sea, the sodium content is so high inside the Dead Sea, no marine life can live in it.

14. In a world where everything is possible, what is impossible?
Answer: For something to be impossible.

15. A smart Executive of a multi-national company went out to a grand dinner and a show wearing pants that had three large holes which he did not notice with concern. He was neither kicked out or ridiculed. Why?

Answer:
All pants have three large holes. Your legs go out two of them and the other one is where your waist is.

16. What is the next number in this sequence?
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, pi
The sequence is not arbitrary. Create a mathematical function that generates this sequence.

Answer:
Like most questions, there is more than one possible answer. One solution is to define the 'n' th term of this sequence as
n^2 + (pi-36)(n-1)(n-2)(n-3)(n-4)(n-5)/5!
For n=1 to 5, the second term equals zero. For n=6, the expression simplifies to 36 + (pi-36)*5!/5! = pi. The next term in this sequence (n=7) is
36 + (pi-36)6!/5! = 6*pi - 180.