Logic Trivia for August

Its time to test your Intelligence.  All you have to do is put your thinking cap on, read the questions, and answer as many as possible.  The person who gets the most right will receive a $50 Gift certificate . Please send all answers to leasing@oig.biz. Good luck!

1. There are 2 different colors of socks in a drawer.                     Without being able to see inside the drawer, how many socks must you remove from the drawer to ensure that you will have a pair that match? _________________________________________

2. A snail is at the bottom of a well and wants to get out. He manages to crawl up the wall 3 feet each day, but at night he must rest so he slips back down 2 feet. If the well is 30 feet deep, How long will it take him to get out? ______________________

3. On a shelf in the library, there is a 3-book set of almanacs labeled volume 1, volume 2 and volume 3. Each book is 2 1/2 inches thick, the pages being 2 inches thick and each cover is 1/4 inch thick. A bookworm starts eating it's way from the 1st page of volume 1 and stops at the last page of volume 3. How far did the bookworm travel? __________________________________

4. An Old friend of the family left $666,666 to 2 fathers and 2 sons to be split equally. After careful consideration they each happily received $222,222. Why and how was this possible? ____________________________________________________

5. If a snail crawls halfway around a circle then turns around and crawls halfway back, is it now back where it started? _________

6. What day of the year has 25 hours in it? _________________

7. Can you tell what we are: Half of Four of us are Two of us, Twice Two of us are Six of us, Twice Eight of us are Ten of us, and Twice Five of us are Eight of us? ______________________

8. What belongs to you, but is mostly used by others? ____________________________________________________

9. You are attending a party with some friends when one of them states that there is something in the room that everyone can touch with either of their hands, but you can only touch it with your left hand. What is it? ______________________________________

10. Is it legal in South Dakota for a man to marry his widow's sister? ______________________________________________

11. How many grooves does the average 12 inch 33 1/3 LP have on it? _______________________________________________

12. What common chemical compound is represented by the letters H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O? ____________________________

13. Water lilies double in area every 24 hours. In spring, there is one water lily on a lake. In sixty days the lake is completely covered with lilies. How many days did it take to cover half of the lake? ____________________________________________

14.  I have 2 coins totaling .55¢ one is not a nickel. What are the 2 coins? __________________________________________________