Lateral Thinking Skills
30 Questions
| Attempts: 585
The following questions will test your ability to think laterally. If you get more than 50% of these right you're certainly strong on your lateral thinking skills.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
A graduate applying for pilot training with a major airline was asked what he would do if, after a long-haul flight to Sidney, he met the captain wearing a dress in the hotel bar. What would you do?
Explanation
The captain was of course a woman. Many airlines are now hot on equal opportunities and a candidate who had difficulty envisaging that an airline captain might be female would not go very far.Rate this question:
- 2.
What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?
- 3.
If you have two coins totaling 11p, and one of the coins is not a penny, what are the two coins? (answer in the format of ?, ?)
Explanation
the other one can be the pennyRate this question:
- 4.
How many animals of each species did Moses take into the Ark?
Explanation
moses didnt built the ark, noah didRate this question:
- 5.
A man built a rectangular house, each side having a southern view. He spotted a bear. What colour was the bear?
Explanation
Only at the North Pole can all four walls be facing SouthRate this question:
- 6.
If you were alone in a deserted house at night, and there was an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match, which would you light first?
- 7.
What can you put into a wooden box that would make it lighter? The more of them you put in the lighter it becomes, yet the box stays empty.
- 8.
Which side of a cat contains the most hair?
- 9.
The 60th and 62nd British Prime Ministers of the UK had the same mother and father, but were not brothers. How do you account for this?
Explanation
Churchill was Prime Minister twice, from 1940 to 45 and from 1951 to 55.Rate this question:
- 10.
How many birthdays does a typical woman have?
Explanation
BIRTH daysRate this question:
- 11.
Why can't a man living in Canterbury be buried west of the River Stour?
- 12.
Divide 40 by half and add ten. What is the answer?
Explanation
Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.Rate this question:
- 13.
To the nearest cubic centimetre, how much soil is there in a 3m x 2m x 2m hole?
Explanation
its a holeRate this question:
- 14.
Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
Explanation
because he's deadRate this question:
- 15.
If you drove a coach leaving Canterbury with 35 passengers, dropped off 6 and picked up 2 at Faversham, picked up 9 more at Sittingbourne, dropped off 3 at Chatham, and then drove on to arrive in London 40 minutes later, what would the name of the driver be?
Explanation
because YOU are the drivrRate this question:
- 16.
A woman lives on the tenth floor of a block of flats. Every morning she takes the lift down to the ground floor and goes to work. In the evening, she gets into the lift, and, if there is someone else in the lift she goes back to her floor directly. Otherwise, she goes to the eighth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to her flat. How do you explain this?
- 17.
A window cleaner is cleaning the windows on the 25th floor of a skyscraper, when he slips and falls. He is not wearing a safety harness and nothing slows his fall, yet he suffered no injuries. Explain.
- 18.
The band of stars across the night sky is called the "...... Way"?
- 19.
Yogurt is made from fermented ........
- 20.
What do cows drink?
- 21.
A farmer has 15 cows, all but 8 die. How many does he have left?
- 22.
If a red house is made of red bricks, and a blue house is made of blue bricks, what is a green house made of?
- 23.
In what sport are the shoes made of metal?
- 24.
If a plane crashes on the Italian/Swiss border, where do you bury the survivors?
Explanation
you dont bury survivorsRate this question:
- 25.
If the hour hand of a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute, how many degrees will it move in an hour?
Explanation
It moves 1/60th 60/60th is equal to 1Rate this question:
- 26.
How many hands does the clock of Big Ben have?
Explanation
there are four faces on Big BenRate this question:
- 27.
How many degrees are there between clock hands at 3.15 pm?
Explanation
27.Not zero degrees as you might at first think. The minute hand will be at 15 minutes (90 degrees clockwise from vertical) but the hour hand will have progressed to one quarter of the distance between 3 pm and 4 pm. Each hour represents 30 degrees (360 / 12), so one quarter of an hour equals 7.5 degrees. So the minute hand will be at 97.5 degreesRate this question:
- 28.
John's mother has 3 children, one is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?
- 29.
A cowboy rode into town on Friday, spent one night there, and left on Friday. How do you account for this?
- 30.
How can you throw a ball as hard as you can, and make it stop and return to you, without hitting anything and with nothing attached to it?
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