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quick quiz

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:47 pm
by mozoke
5 Minute Quiz
You have 5minutes to complete this test, therefore work as quickly as you can, making sure you attempt to answer all the questions.
Good luck!
1. If a doctor gave you three pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last?

2. Divide 30 by half. Add 10. What is the answer?

3. If you only had one match and entered a dark room where there was an oil lamp, an oil heater and some kindling wood, which would you light first?

4. Take two apples from three apples. What do you have?

5. Some months have 30 days, some have 31. How many have 28?

6. Imagine you built a house with four sides, and each wall had a southern exposure. If a bear went past one of the windows, what colour would the bear be?

7. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the Ark?

8. If you went to bed at eight o’clock in the evening, wound up the alarm clock and set it to get up at nine o’clock the following morning, how many hours sleep would you get?

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:05 pm
by dutchman
mozoke wrote:5 Minute Quiz

You have 5minutes to complete this test, therefore work as quickly as you can, making sure you attempt to answer all the questions.
Good luck!

1. If a doctor gave you three pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last?
Spoiler:
One hour. One to start, one after half an hour and one after one hour


2. Divide 30 by half. Add 10. What is the answer?
Spoiler:
30 has 60 halfs + 10 = 70


3. If you only had one match and entered a dark room where there was an oil lamp, an oil heater and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
Spoiler:
The match


4. Take two apples from three apples. What do you have?
Spoiler:
You would now have the two that you took


5. Some months have 30 days, some have 31. How many have 28?
Spoiler:
All have ay least 28


6. Imagine you built a house with four sides, and each wall had a southern exposure. If a bear went past one of the windows, what colour would the bear be?
Spoiler:
White, since you would be at the north pole


7. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the Ark?
Spoiler:
None, it was Noah's Ark


8. If you went to bed at eight o’clock in the evening, wound up the alarm clock and set it to get up at nine o’clock the following morning, how many hours sleep would you get?
Spoiler:
Only one hour because a 12 hour clock can't tell the difference between night and day!

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:26 am
by pollyanna
Well done Dutchy - saved me trying to work the answers out :thumbsup:

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:38 pm
by dutchman
pollyanna wrote:Well done Dutchy - saved me trying to work the answers out :thumbsup:
Youre supposed to try it yourself Polly and only then look at the answers. I only needed to look up one answer myself :mrgreen: This is pretty much the same as the "intelligence test" we had before which I had to delete because the site it linked to was so unreliable.

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:29 pm
by pollyanna
dutchman wrote:
pollyanna wrote:Well done Dutchy - saved me trying to work the answers out :thumbsup:
Youre supposed to try it yourself Polly and only then look at the answers. I only needed to look up one answer myself :mrgreen: This is pretty much the same as the "intelligence test" we had before which I had to delete because the site it linked to was so unreliable.



How could I resist not peeking at the answers - :rolling:

I'll take your word for the fact you only had to look up one answer :roll:

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:25 pm
by mozoke
i got this off a training day I did for some light relief :)
mind you dutchy how did you turn 3 pills into 6 :?
I aked If a doctor gave you three pills.... you said ..Two to start, two after half an hour and two after one hour = 6 :rolling:

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:36 pm
by dutchman
mozoke wrote:i got this off a training day I did for some light relief :)
mind you dutchy how did you turn 3 pills into 6 :?
I aked If a doctor gave you three pills.... you said ..Two to start, two after half an hour and two after one hour = 6 :rolling:
:oops!: :booboo: I was quoting from the previous quiz we had where the doctor gave six pills and asked you to take two every half hour :oops:
Have corrected it now.

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:57 pm
by rebbonk
Sadly must admit the Ark question caught me. Moses indeed!

Re: quick quiz

PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:33 pm
by mozoke
dutchman wrote:
mozoke wrote:i got this off a training day I did for some light relief :)
mind you dutchy how did you turn 3 pills into 6 :?
I aked If a doctor gave you three pills.... you said ..Two to start, two after half an hour and two after one hour = 6 :rolling:
:oops!: :booboo: I was quoting from the previous quiz we had where the doctor gave six pills and asked you to take two every half hour :oops:
Have corrected it now.

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