INGİLİZCE ZEKA SORULARI

Put a coin in a bottle and then stop the opening with a cork. How can you get the coin out of the bottle without pulling out the cork or breaking the bottle?



YANIT: Push the cork into the bottle, and shake the coin out.

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Can You Explain?
To answer these questions, you have to let your brain think in different ways than you may be used to. Here's an example:
Question:A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law. How come?

Answer:She was walking.
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How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't hit anything, there is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it?

Yanıt: Throw the ball straight up in the air.
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Two students are sitting on opposite sides of the same desk. There is nothing in between them but the desk. Why can't they see each other?

The two students have their backs to each other.

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There are only two T's in Timothy Tuttle. True or false?

Yanıt: True. There are only two T's (upper case). There are also three t's (lower case).

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Crossing the River
Jake was standing on one side of the river, and his dog Scruffy was standing on the other side. "Come on Scruffy, come, boy!" shouted Jake. Scruffy crossed the river, ran to Jake, and got a treat for being a good dog. The amazing thing was that Scruffy didn't even get wet! How did Scruffy do that?



There are two possible answers:
The river was frozen.
There was a bridge over the river, and Scruffy crossed the bridge.

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Digging Dirt

How much dirt is in a round hole that is 9 feet deep with a diameter of 3 feet? (Hint: You don’t have to do any math to get the answer. Just use your head!)



None. You make a hole by digging out the dirt, so the hole is empty.

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Getting Younger?
In the year 1201, a woman was 35 years old. In the year 1206, the same woman was 30. How is this possible?



The dates are B.C. rather than A.D.

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Home
Regina left home one afternoon. She turned to the right and started running straight ahead. Then she turned to her left, ran, turned to her left again, ran, turned to her left one more time, and ran even faster. She headed for home. Then she saw a masked boy waiting for her. Who was he?



The masked boy was the catcher. Regina played on a coed baseball team.
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Lateral Thinking

Name the Dog
Once a dog named Nelly lived on a farm. There were three other dogs on the farm. Their names were Blackie, Whitey, and Brownie. What do you think the fourth dog’s name was?



YANIT: Nelly. (If there are only four dogs on the farm, the fourth one must be Nelly!)

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New Shoes
One day, two mothers and two daughters went shopping for shoes. Their shopping spree was successful — each bought a pair of shoes, and all together, they had three pairs. How is this possible?



YANIT: Only three people went shopping: a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter — but remember that the mother was the grandmother's daughter!


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One for Each

You have a bag with four candy bars in it. You promised to give each of your three friends a candy bar, and you want one for yourself. How can you accomplish this, and still have one candy bar left in the bag?



YANIT: Take a candy bar for yourself. Then take out two more and give them to two of your friends. Give your third friend the bag with the third candy bar still in it. Or, give each friend a candy bar and keep the candy bar in the bag for yourself.

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Outsmarting the Donkey

Amir tied two sacks of salt to the back of his donkey and headed for the market to sell the salt. On the way, Amir and the donkey passed a stream. The donkey jumped in to cool himself. As a result, much of the salt dissolved into the water, ruining the salt for Amir but improving matters for the donkey because his load became much lighter. Amir tried to get to the market on the following days, but the donkey always ruined the salt. Finally, Amir decided to teach the donkey a lesson. He once again set out with the donkey and the two sacks.
What did Amir do differently this time so that after that day the donkey stopped taking a swim?

YANIT: Amir loaded the sacks not with salt but with sand. When the donkey jumped in the stream and got the sacks wet, they became much heavier.
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The Last Three
Each letter below stands for the name of something. What should the last three letters be?
M V E M J S ? ? ?




U for Uranus, N for Neptune, and P for Pluto

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Regular or Diet?

One teenager goes up to a food booth at a fair and says, "A cola, please." The man working the booth asks, "Regular or diet?" The teenager asks, "What's the difference?" and is told that the regular costs 90 cents but that the diet soda costs $1. The teenager says, "Give me a diet cola, please" and places a dollar on the counter.
Next, another teenager comes up to the booth and says, "A cola, please," placing a dollar on the counter. The man in the booth gives him a diet cola.

How did the man in the booth know which soda-regular or diet-the second teenager wanted?




YANIT : The second teenager put a dollar in change on the counter: 2 quarters and 5 dimes. If the teenager had wanted a regular cola, he would have put only 2 quarters and 4 dimes on the counter.

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Rising Tide
The rope ladder of a boat hangs over the side of the boat and just reaches the water. Its rungs are 8 inches apart.
How many rungs will be under the water when the tide rises 4 feet?




YANIT: When the tide rises 4 feet, the boat and its ladder will also rise. So no rungs will be under the water.

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Time to Tell
A sundial is said to be the timepiece with the fewest moving parts. What is the timepiece with the most moving parts?




An hourglass—filled with many grains of sand or other granular material.

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Athletes in Place
Five athletes were returning from a cross-country race. Athlete C placed third, and athlete E placed second. From the following information, can you tell how athletes A, B, and D placed in the race?
Athlete A was not last. Athlete A came in after E. Athlete D was not first.




Since C was third and E was second, A could only be first or fourth. Since A was behind E, A could not be first; therefore A must be fourth. D could not be first, second, third, or fourth, so D must be fifth. If D is fifth, A fourth, C third, and E second, then B must be first.
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Beach Ball
Marina, her sister, her daughter, and her son are playing volley ball on the beach. Marina's sister is directly across the net from her son. Marina's daughter is diagonally across the net from the best player's sibling. The best player and the worst player are on the same side of the net. Who is the worst player?



The worst player is Marina's sister. Draw a diagram, putting Marina's sister and son directly across the net from each other. It doesn't matter whether they're on the left or the right side of the diagram.
Now, try putting Marina's daughter on the same side as the sister. The daughter will be diagonally across from the son (the best player's sibling), meaning that the best player is the daughter. Since the daughter (the best player) is on the same side as the sister, the sister must be the worst player. Try putting Marina's daughter next to the son. The Marina will be the best player, but the sister will still be the worst.

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Here are the backs of three cards from an ordinary deck of cards.


A ---B ----C



You have to identify each card as a queen or king and as a heart or spade based on the following four pieces of information.

There's at least one queen to the right of a king.
There's at least one queen to the left of a queen.
There's at least one heart to the left of a spade.
There's at least one heart to the right of a heart.


Card A = king of hearts
Card B = queen of hearts
Card C = queen of spades

Cat and Mice
Five mice — Mindy, Marty, Muriel, Mabel, and Mike — were nibbling the cheese on the kitchen table, but Whiskers the cat chased them back into their hole. Muriel Mouse made it back third, and Mike Mouse was fourth. Mabel Mouse was after Mike, and Marty Mouse was not second. Which mouse was first, and which was last?



Marty Mouse was first and Mabel Mouse was last.
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Logic

Catching the Bus
Every morning when Aldo, Brenda, and Cory line up at the bus stop, they can choose between two busses — one yellow and one blue.
Whenever Aldo takes the yellow bus, Brenda and Cory take the same bus as each other.
If Brenda takes the yellow bus, Aldo and Cory take different busses from each other.
If Cory takes the blue bus, Aldo takes the same bus as Brenda.
Which of the three kids always takes the same bus? What color is it?




Aldo always takes the blue bus.
STRATEGY: Make a table that shows the choices for Aldo. He can either take yellow or blue. If he takes yellow, there are two options for Brenda and Cory. If he takes blue, there are four choices for Brenda and Cory.


Aldo Brenda Cory
A yellow yellow yellow
B yellow blue blue
C blue blue blue
D blue yellow yellow
E blue yellow blue
F blue blue yellow

Now go back to the information in the problem and eliminate the impossible cases. Number 2 makes case A and E impossible, so cross them out. Number 3 makes case B impossible, so cross that out. That leaves only cases D and F. Aldo takes the blue bus in both.


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Four women, Louise, Lise, Carole and Lily are seated at a table.

They are chatting about their holidays.

They went to California, Texas, Florida and Arizona riding a lion, tiger, zebra and a pony.

Hints : 1- The woman riding the zebra did not smoke.
2- Carole declared that she loved Miami.
3- The woman riding the tiger had a cigarette with Lily.
4- Louise said :" Buy your pony a new saddle, Carole. I saw some during ourtrip to California?"
5- The woman riding the tiger mentioned that she had seen the Alamo in Texas.
6- Lise was a chain-smoker.

Question : What are the destination and method of transportation for each woman ?















Answer :

Louise - zebra - California, Lise - tiger - Texas, Carole - pony - Florida, Lily - lion - Arizona

A man transports a fox, a duck and corn in a boat.

The boat is only capable of transpoting himself and one of the other three with each crossing.

Question: How did he succeed in crossing them all without letting the fox eat the duck or the duck eat the corn?













Answer :

He transports the duck.
He returns to get fox, transports fox but brings back duck.
He leaves duck on shore and crosses with corn.
He leaves corn with fox and returns to get duck.

Two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, one duck in the middle.


Question : How many ducks are there?















Answer :

3 (X X X)

Burlington is part French and part English.

If 70% of the population speaks English and 60% of the population speaks French...

Question : What is the minimum percentage of French speaking persons that also speak English?











Answer :

30%

An army general wanted ten soldiers to cross a river.

There was no bridge and the soldiers could not swim.

The general saw a row boat in which were two children.

The boat could only hold two children or one soldier at once.

Question : How did the soldiers cross the river in the boat?















Answer :

Start with 2 children crossing.
One child gets out of boat, other returns.
Child gets out, soldier crosses.
Soldier gets out, child returns.
Both children cross...etc...

A man ate an egg each day.

He did not have any chickens at home.

He never bought, borrowed or stole chicken eggs.













Answer :

They were ostrich, goose, fish, quail ..etc...eggs

Three women each have two daughters.

They are having lunch at a restaurant .

There are only seven chairs in the restaurant.

All the women are seated.




















Answer :

Grand-mother + her 2 daughters + their 2 daughters (1+2+4=7)

Grand-mother + her 2 daughters + their 2 daughters (1+2+4=7)

A woman has two dogs, three rabbits and lettuce.

She must cross a river.

The dingy is unable to transport all in one crossing.

If she transported the dogs, the rabbits would eat the lettuce.

If she transported the lettuce, the dogs would eat the rabbits.

Question: How is she able to transport them all safely?






























Answer :

Rabbits cross.
She returns to get dogs.
She crosses dogs and returns with rabbits.
She leaves rabbits and crosses with lettuce.
She returns to get rabbits.

Mister Black , Brown and Green are eating at a restaurant.

Each is wearing a coloured tie.

The ties are black, brown and green in colour.

Suddenly the man wearing the green tie says : " Did you notice that our ties are the same colour as our names but no one is wearing a tie similar to his name ?

"Strange, indeed", says Mr Black.

Question : What colour tie was each man wearing ?























































Answer :

Black = brown, Brown = green, Green = black

There are twelve socks in a drawer : six red socks and six blue socks.

The room is completely dark, you can not see.

Question : How many socks must you take from the drawer before ABSOLUTELY having either a pair of
red socks or a pair of blue socks in hand?

























































3 SOCKS

A group of ten people are being photographed.

The photographer places them into ten different positions.

He continues to shuffle them until he has taken pictures of the ten persons in all possible groupings.

Question : How many pictures will he take?























































3 628 800

Monique is 24 years old.

She is twice the age that Valerie had when Monique was the same age that Valerie is now.























































Answer :

18 years old

In 28 days, the lilypad will cover the entire pond.

Question : In how many days will the pond be half covered?
















































27

Marc's father says: "I will pay you $6.00 per hour for the 6 seconds you took to wash your hands before dinner."

Question : How much money will Marc receive?



















































1 CENT

John, his wife and their daughter wish to cross a river.

The row boat can only hold 100 kilos.

John weighs 80 kilos.

His wife and daughter weigh 40 kilos each.

Question: How do all three cross the river?










































































Family


Answer :

Mom and daughter cross first.
Daughter gets out of boat, mom returns.
Mom gets out of boat, dad crosses.
Dad gets out and daughter goes back to get mom.

Bells


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In a school, three rings of a bell indicate recess time.

Most of the students try to get from their classroom to the school yard before the third ring of the bell.

There is a ten second interval between each ring.

If two seconds are used to store their books...

Question : How much time is available to reach the school yard before the third bell ?












































































Bells


Answer :

18 seconds

Michel, Louis et Lisette are members of a club.

The treasurer, who has little work, is an only child.

Michel, who dates Lisette's sister, does more than the president of the club.

Question: What are their jobs ?





















































The club


Answer :

Michel = secretary, Lisette = president, Louis = treasurer

Anne has blond hair, Josée has red hair and Claire has brown hair.

They are dating Denis, Aurel and Jack.

Hints: Claire hates Denis.
Josée dates Denis' brother.
Jack dates Josée's sister.

Question : Who are dating ?













































































Answer :

Anne + Denis, Josée + Aurel, Claire + Jack

Serge, Chris et Marc are married to Lise, Monique and Lily.

Hints : 1) Serge loves golf but hates boating.
2) Chris is Lise's neighbour and loves boating.
3) Marc's daughter babysits one of Lily's children.
4) Lily's husband is the only one who can walk to the train station.
5) Lise has two daughters.
6) Monique can't make knots.

Question : Who are the married couples?
























































































Spouse


Answer :

Serge + Lily, Chris + Monique, Marc + Lise

Gilles, Robert et Michel are married to Louise, Carole et Lily.

Hints: 1) Louise's sister is married to Michel.
2) Gilles has never met Lily who is an only child.

Question : Who are the couples?








































































Couples


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Answer :

Gilles + Louise, Robert + Lily, Michel + Carole

Two fathers and two sons go hunting.

Each shoot one rabbit.

Question : How many rabbits were shot ?











































































3 = grand-father + his son + his grand-son

Rose-Anne, Claude et Jocelyne are in a competition. Here are their results:

1) The youngest person received the least points.
2) Claude got half of the points of the eldest.
3) Jocelyne received as many points as both others combined.

Question: Who is the eldest ?
























































Answer :

Rose-Anne