Lateral Thinking Trivia: Think Outside the Box!
1.
What number of the alphabet in alphabetical order is the letter "S"?
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19
2.
What number of the alphabet in alphabetical order is the letter "W"?
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23
3.
What word can you get by unscrambling "uauersanrlpt"?
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Answer:
Supernatural
4.
What word can you get by unscrambling "sdcisinteo"?
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Dissection
5.
What word can you get by unscrambling "tinernceas"?
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Transience
6.
What word can you get by unscrambling "ogepcaidg"?
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Pedagogic
7.
What word can you get by unscrambling "evttnboicrlnoeri"?
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Incontrovertible
8.
What word can you get by unscrambling "aeeenctd"?
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Antecede
9.
What word can you get by unscrambling "ocaoscni"?
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Occasion
10.
What word can you get by unscrambling "asveiggers"?
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Aggressive
11.
What word can you get by unscrambling "ncmautcltariis"?
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Circumstantial
12.
What word can you get by unscrambling "rcneordoesncpe"?
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Correspondence
13.
What word can you get by unscrambling "oherepsbmniincel"?
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Incomprehensible
14.
What's the most pieces of pizza that can be made by cutting it three times without moving the pieces?
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Seven Pieces
15.
All but two ties are black, all but two are grey, all but two are red; how many ties are there?
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Three
16.
If you have a 128 MB flash drive, how many 2 MB files can you store on your flash drive?
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64
17.
Bill eats one third of a pie, Bob eats one half of the same pie--how much pie is left?
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One Sixth
18.
I've spent 1/8 of my day eating,1/2 sleeping,1/4 reading and the rest playing. How long did I play?
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3 Hours
19.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
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A Towel
20.
Ruby is to red as citrine is to what?
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Yellow
21.
What number do you get if you divide 40 by half and add ten?
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90
22.
If a plane crashes on the border of South and North Carolina, who buries the survivors?
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No One
23.
Pig is to pork as deer is to what?
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Venison
24.
Murder is to crows as school is to what?
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Fish
25.
What suffix fits all these words: "advance, base, battle, fig, pig"?
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Ment
26.
Curiosity is to cat as vinegar is to what?
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Flies
27.
If 16 teams play in an single elimination tournament, how many games will the winner have to win?
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4
28.
How many tablespoons of butter are in one pound of butter?
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32
29.
How many cards with hearts are in a deck of playing cards?
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13
30.
The younger prince of England shares a first name with what character at Hogwarts?
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The First Name Of President Truman
31.
If Sam travels 6 miles south, and Jen travels 8 miles east, how far away are they from each other?
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10 Miles
32.
What's the average speed of an officer leaving at 7:12 AM and arriving 180 miles away at 10:57 AM?
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48 Miles Per Hour
33.
What day is two days before the day after the day three days after the day before Tuesday?
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Wednesday
34.
Which word would be in the middle of an alphabetic list: Abound, Abscond, Abalone, Abdomen, Abdicate?
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Abdomen
35.
If A's three years older than B, and B's three years older than C, how old are they if their ages add to 57?
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16, 19, 22
36.
If Ted scored 20% better than Tom on an exam, and Tom scored 80%, what did Ted score?
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96%
37.
If each of a rectangle's two dimensions is increased by 100%, by what percentage does area increase?
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300%
38.
At noon a clock's hands point in the same direction; at what time after noon do they do so again?
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1:05
39.
Which number is two times the result of multiplying the number's individual digits?
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36
40.
How much do ten bullets cost if one thousand of them cost $10.00 and there are no discounts?
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$0.10
41.
If a train travels a loop of 25 stations, how many different combinations of start and end point exist?
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600
42.
If two men are in front of one, two are behind one and one is between two, how many men are there?
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Three
43.
How old is a boy who is three times the age of a girl but in three years will be twice her age?
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9
44.
If each member of a four-person family gives a present to each person, how many gifts are there?
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12 Presents
45.
If you have six shirts and four pairs of pants, how many different outfits can you make?
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24 Outfits
46.
If Dan drove 62 miles and Jan drove two and a half times as far, how many total miles did they drive?
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217 Miles
47.
If there were 1024 matches in a single-elimination tournament, how many players were there?
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1025
48.
If two friends each bring you two gifts, and you give two away, how many gifts do you have?
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Two
49.
What times is it now, if 4 hours 15 minutes ago it was 7:15 A.M.?
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11:30 A.M.
50.
The letters from climber, monitor and niece can be used to form what three synonyms?
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Imbecile Moron Cretin
51.
If seven analysts input 1001 logs in 429 minutes, how many do three analysts input in 1001 minutes?
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1001
52.
Which word of this group: "ten, pig, can, are" is the odd one out?
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Are
53.
Which letter comes next in the series "A, C, F, J, O"?
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U
54.
How many steps does it take to turn the word "nose" into "chin" by changing only one letter at a time?
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Six
55.
The name of which human body part is a palindrome?
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Eye
56.
Which last name of a U.S. president can be rearranged to spell an ordinary English word?
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Franklin Pierce
57.
Which state would come next in this pattern: Ohio, Idaho, Hawaii, Indiana?
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Arkansas
58.
What's the fewest possible cars: two cars in front of a car, two cars in back of one, a car between two cars?
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Three
59.
Gesundheit is to blessyou as mazel tov is to what?
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Congratulations
60.
Fleming is to James Bond as Burroughts is to what?
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Tarzan
61.
Stylish is to Fashionable as Chicanery is to what?
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Trickery
62.
Anorexia is to eating disorder as lymphoma is to what?
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Cancer
63.
Oil is to frying as water is to what?
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Poaching
64.
Which two words in the list "glucose, diabetes, kidney sugar" are most similar in meaning?
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Glucose And Sugar
65.
What series shows how many U.S. state names start with the first six letters of the alphabet?
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4-0-3-1-0-1
66.
PP is to pianissimo as FF is to what?
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Fortissimo
67.
Michelangelo is to David as Donatello is to what?
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David
68.
If a 40-inch wire is cut in two, how long is the shorter piece if it's 2/3 as long as the other?
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16 Inches
69.
A jet flies 930 miles in 75 minutes; how many miles does it fly in 4 hours 45 minutes?
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3534 Miles
70.
Which letters, in any order, can make a word by filling in the missing letters in _ _ C K J _ _ ?
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W A L O
71.
In which decade of the 20th century were none of the years divisible by 11?
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1980's
72.
If A's probability of winning is twice B's, and B's is twice C's, what's the probability of A winning?
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04/Jul
73.
What is the smallest integer greater than 1 that is both a perfect square and a perfect cube?
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64
74.
75% are red, 75% are flat and 75% are soft; what's the minimum percentage that are red, flat and soft?
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25%
75.
What is the probability of throwing a seven with two regular six-sided dice?
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1 out of 6
76.
70% like red and 60% like blue; what's the smallest possible percentage that likes both?
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30%
77.
Which word contains eight other words without moving any letters?
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Herein
78.
If you drive to the store at 20 mph and return at 30 mph, what was your average speed?
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24 Mph
79.
What letter completes the sequence: "Z, X, U, Q, L"?
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F
80.
A is five times as old as B; in two years, A will be three times as old; how old will A be in seven years?
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17
81.
If a salary is $22702.68 after a 5% raise followed by a 2.5% cut in pay, what was it initially?
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$22176.00
82.
What letter, inserted twice into "erriblewos", will make a two-word English phrase?
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T
83.
What letter, inserted twice into "umboets", will make a two-word English phrase?
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J
84.
What letter, inserted twice into "renchry", will make a two-word English phrase?
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F
85.
How many 99% fat-free potato chips can be eaten for the same amount of fat as one regular chip?
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100
86.
If March = 43 and May = 39, then, by the same logic, what does July equal?
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68
87.
What state would come next in this pattern: "Ohio, Oregon, North Carolina, Alaska"?
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Alabama
88.
What letter comes next in this sequence "T T T F F S S"?
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E
89.
What letter comes next in this sequence "Z X C V B N"?
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M
90.
What letter comes next in this sequence "F S T F F S"?
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S
91.
What letters removed from the words flour, tern and thirsty make new words with something in common?
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L, R, S
92.
Diana is to William as Barbara is to whom?
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George
93.
What number comes next in the series 11, 12, 26, 79, 81, 163, 491, 492?
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986
94.
What letter follows in this series of presidential last names: "w a j m m a"?
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J
95.
What is the next number in this time-related sequence: 100 365 24 60?
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60
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