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Lateral Thinking answers No. 1 Question Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days.

How many months have 28 days? 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 are taken? Answer All of them. Every month has at least 28 days. 1 hour. If you take a pill at 1 o'clock, then another at 1.30 and the last at 2 o'clock, they will be taken in 1 hour.

I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set 1 hour. It is a wind up alarm the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the clock which cannot discriminate morning. How many hours sleep would between a.m. and p.m. I get before being woken by the alarm? Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get? 70. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.

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A farmer had 17 sheep and all but 9 die. 9 sheep. How many are left? If you had only one 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? The match.

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A man builds a house with four sides of White. If all walls face south, rectangular construction, each side the house must be on the North having a southern exposure. A big bear Pole.

comes along. What colour is the bear? 8 9 If you take 2 apples from 3 apples, what do you have? How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark? If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from London and stopped at Liverpool to pick up 7 more people, what's the name of the driver? Do they have a 4th July in England? How many birthdays does the average man have? Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister? How many two pence stamps in a dozen? 2 apples. You took them remember. None. It was Noah, not Moses.

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YOU are the driver. Yes, it comes after 3rd July. 1, just 1. No, because he's dead. 12.

An assistant in a butcher's shop is 5'10" Meat. tall. What does he weigh? What do you put in a toaster? Say "Silk" 5 times, now spell "Silk". What do cows drink? Bread. Water.

If a red house is made of red bricks and a blue house is made of blue bricks, Glass. what is a green house made of?

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A plane crashes on the Canadian - US border. Where would you bury the survivors? If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute, how many degrees will it move in an hour?

You don't bury survivors.

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1 degree.

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Johnny's mother has 3 kids, one is named April, one is named May. What is Johnny. the other one named? In a one storey house the floor is blue and the walls and ceiling are white. What colour are the stairs? There are no stairs.

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A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent the night, and left on Friday. How His horse is called Friday. can this be? I have two coins which add up to 15 pence and one of the coins is NOT a 10 pence piece. What are the two coins? A 10 pence piece and a 5 pence piece. Only one coin is NOT a 10 pence piece.

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If a rooster laid an egg on the apex of a slanted barn roof, which way would the Roosters don't lay eggs. egg roll, left or right?

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