Brain Teaser # 1:
Imagine a bottle recycling skip, empty other than one lonely bottle. Every hour,
on the hour, people come and put bottles into the skip. The first hour, at Noon,
one person came and put a bottle in. One hour later, two people placed a bottle
each into the skip. An hour later four people placed a bottle each into the
skip. This doubling of people continued until 11pm, when the skip was finally
full.
At what time was the skip exactly half full?
Brain Teaser # 2:
Which Noun?
Language brain teaser are those that involve the english language. You need to
think about and manipulate words and letters.
Which noun, from group B, belongs in group A?
Why?
Group A
Man,
Foot,
Child,
Tooth,
Mouse.
Group B
Girl,
Hand,
Adult,
Toe,
Goose.
Answer # 1:
10pm, the number of bottles in the skip is doubling every hour.
Answer # 2:
Goose.
The others in group B, can be pluralised by adding an S.
The nouns in group A have the word changed to a different word to make a plural.
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