3.18.2010

IQ Question Answers

Here are the answers to the IQ questions from the previous post:

1. Some months have 30 days, some have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
A. All of them. Every month has at least 28 days.
2. If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken?
A. It would take 1 hour. Take one pill at 2:00, then take one at 2:30, then at 3:00.
3. I went to bed at 8 o'clock in the evening and wound my clock and set the alarm to sound at 9 o'clock in the morning. How many hours of sleep would I get before being awoken by the alarm?
A. You would get one hour of sleep. A windup clock can't differentiate between A.M. and P.M.
4. Divide 30 by half and add 10. What do you get?
A. 70. When you divide 30 by .5 it's like multiplying it by 2 (60) then add 10 (70).
5. A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?
A. All but 9 of them died, so there are 9 sheep left.
6. If you only had a match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first?
A. You light the match. You're in a DARK room, so you would light the match first do you can see.
7. A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What color is the bear?
A. The bear is white. His house is built in the Arctic.
8. Take 2 apples away from 3. What do you have?
A. 2 apples. If there are three apples in a bowl and you take two, then you have two.
9. How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?
A. None, Moses didn't take any animals on an Ark.
10. If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburgh to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually arrive in Philadelphia 20 hours later. What's the name of the driver?
A. Insert your own name. The sentence says "you" are the driver.

Hopefully you were entertained by this :)

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