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out and read out for students to guess. These questions all have
logical answers and must be physically possible. |
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this problem. |
There
is a man who was in a terrible plane crash, he has had all his legs
and arms amputated and he can not speak. He must find a way to communicate
with other people. Can you find a solution? |
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this problem. |
A
woman is cooking a meal but she is holding her baby at the same
time, the phone is ringing and if she picks up the phone the food
will burn and she can't let go of her baby. What should she do? |
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this problem. |
A
man was driving his car along a highway and has broken down, it
is in the middle of the night and there are no cars around. The
motor is broken and he doesn't know how to fix it also the mobile
phone cannot get a signal. What can he do? |
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this problem. |
It
is night time and the electricity in the house has been shut off,
there are no lights and it is very dark. A boy is reading a book
even though it is pitch black, how is it possible for him to read
a book? |
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this problem. |
A
woman has guests coming to visit her in twenty minutes and she has
forgotten to prepare a meal. She has many vegetables in her fridge
but it will take a long time to cook the food or to order out, what
should she do? |
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this problem. |
A
doctor has a patient who is going to die but he can't tell that
patient that they're going to die. No matter what the doctor does
to communicate the patient just won't understand. Why can't the
patient understand? |
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this problem. |
A
very old married couple have never had a quarrel in their relationship,
people say that it is impossible that married couples never quarrel.
What possible reason why an old married couple have never had a
quarrel? |
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this problem. |
An
air plane crashed into a building but for some reason there was
no damage to the building, no explosion, nobody was hurt or killed.
Why was there no problems when the air plane hit the building? |
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this problem. |
This
house has no electricity but the occupants are able to keep their
milk and food very cold without using a refrigerator. How can people
have a house without electricity that a refrigerator won't work
but still are able to store food cold and keep it frozen as well? |
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this problem. |
This
man drinks wine all day long and he never gets drunk, what type
of person drinks wine all day but never has the affect of being
drunk? |
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this problem. |
An
astronaut landed his rocket and he doesn't know where he is, the
people who found him think he is very strange and became frighten
so they killed him, what planet did he land on? |
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this problem. |
A
room has broken windows and the shattered glass is inside the room
which means the windows were broken from the outside. There is no
rocks inside the room that could have smashed the window but there
is a lot of water in the room, How did the windows get broken? |
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this problem. |
A
car is traveling at 1000 kilometres an hour but a ball is traveling
at 1010 kilometres an hour. How is it possible for a ball to travel
faster than the car? |
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this problem. |
A
woman had just given birth to a baby but she is not the mother,
how can she have a baby but not her own child? |
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this problem. |
A
man is inside four concrete walls and the floor is also made out
of concrete but there is no door and no windows. How can he get
out and he doesn't have tools to dig or break the walls and floor? |
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| These
are possible answers. |
1:
he
can blink or write using a pen in his mouth. |
2:
she
doesn't need to answer the phone. |
3:
he
can walk home. |
4:
the
boy is blind and is reading brail. |
5:
she
can make salad. |
6:
he
is a vet and the patient is an animal. |
7:
the
old couple are newly weds. |
8:
it
was a paper plane. |
9:
it
is an igloo. |
10:
he
is a wine taster so he spits out the wine. |
11:
earth
and the people lived on an isolated island. |
12:
someone
threw ice. |
13:
the
driver threw the ball while the car was moving. |
14:
she
is a surrogate mother. |
15:
there
is no roof. |
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