A magician recently claimed that he had been to New Delhi performing a feat that no one else had accomplished. He boasted that he had walked on his hands for a mile and a half down a typical cement sidewalk before he lost his balance and fell. What is wrong with the magician’s claim? AnswerThere […]
It is a well-known fact that if you drop a feather and a bowling ball at the same time, the bowling ball will hit the ground first. But this is only because it has less air resistance than the feather. So, if you are in a rocket that is in outer space (where there is
Sarah has a new boyfriend, who is perfect in every way, apart from the fact that he is extremely jealous and is always worried that Sarah is going to fall for other guys. Normally, he will get really upset if Sarah even says hello to another guy on the street. However, one day, Sarah introduces
Our favourite superhero (Super Turtle) did a great job as a superhero today. Here is what happened— 9:14 A.M.- Super Turtle saved 48 out of 48 people in the plane crash this morning. 12:38 P.M.- Super Turtle was able to save 2,945 people out of 2,947 people when the giant robot attacked 59th street. 7:09
Let’s say, hypothetically, that a basketball is twice the size of a volleyball. And, a volleyball is three times the size of a baseball. So, if a basketball has 12 pounds of air pressure, how much air pressure will a baseball have? AnswerA baseball doesn’t need any air pressure. It has cork and rubber in
A man went into a bar and bet $20 to the person sitting next to him that he could dip part of his hand into a glass of water without his fingers getting wet. The man sitting next to him agreed. But yet the man who agreed lost, and the other man won. How? AnswerHe
It’s something that’s always with you, wherever or whenever…But almost all of us are scared of it…And many of us don’t want to see it, especially on our own body…What is it? AnswerBlood
There is an extremely long wall stretching for miles and miles in a distant world that you are on. It would take a thousand years to go around it, and by that time you would be dead. This amazing wall is indestructible and cannot be blown up by any explosive ever known. In fact, in
How can you make 77 into 1 by adding just one line? AnswerYou put a line in between them to make it a fraction that equals 1: 7/7 = 1
Four men took one day to pick all the apples from the tree. How long would it take for eight men to take all the apples from the same tree? AnswerThe eight men wouldn’t have any apples to pick because the four men already picked all the apples.
A man was in trouble due to an arrest. However, he didn’t break the law in any way and he was not falsely accused of doing so! How is this possible? AnswerHe had a cardiac arrest!
Clumsy Fred dropped a book and it fell open to two pages. If the product of the two page numbers is 90, then what are the pages showing? AnswerEither Fred can defy perspectives and see both sides of a single sheet of paper or the book was made wrong. The answer would be pages 9
This is a great pub/bar trick!How do you hold six pint glasses in such a way that you can pour a perfect pint into one of them, without stacking them, or getting your fingers wet? AnswerTurn one glass upside down and put it on a table. Put five glasses around it in a circle, right
There was a table with 4 different kinds of fruit—3 apples , 6 oranges, 2 mangos and 5 pears. Each kind of fruit was in a different coloured bowl—red, blue, green and yellow.You know that :The blue bowl does not have apples.The red bowl does not have 5 pieces of fruit.The green bowl does not
Alexa and Maria never agree on anything. One day their mothers told them to eat out together. Alexa sees that there are five restaurants near by. In less than a minute, they decide. How did they decide so quickly?The answer is not because they like the same restaurant. AnswerOnly one was open.