Quote from: Devlyn Marie on December 11, 2012, 09:22:58 PM
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and will tell you whether you are qualified to be a professional. The questions are NOT that difficult.

1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door.
This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.

2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator? Wrong Answer.
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door.
This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.

3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend.... except one. Which animal does not attend?
Correct Answer: The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there. This tests your memory.

Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.

4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?
Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting.
This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.

By the way most offices are run, I am assuming that if you get them all wrong, then you're qualified to be a professional; and if you get them all correct then you're smart enough to stay clear of professional life.

A Cowboy rides into a town on Friday. He stays for five days then leaves on Friday. How is this possible...?

His horse is named Friday.

What has hands but no arms?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on December 12, 2012, 07:54:09 AM
His horse is named Friday.

What has hands but no arms?

A clock.


You're in a dark room. You have a candle, an oil lamp and a woodburning stove... but you only have one match. Which do you light first?

The match.

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

Bookkeeper

What English word has four consecutive double letters?

Subbookkeeper.

Say my name and I disappear. What am I?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on December 12, 2012, 10:12:21 AM
Say my name and I disappear. What am I?

Silence.

Quote from: LearnedHand on December 11, 2012, 09:08:13 PM
I am guessing she drove into a lake....? I am horrible at riddles, so it's probably something else.

Yep, that's it.

This makes me sad. I used to have a huge book of old riddles from when my gran was young, but it's nowhere to be found. Le sigh How about:

What can you keep even after you've given it to someone else?

Your word.

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

My xbox...

Your name.

The more you take away, the larger it becomes.

Quote from: LearnedHand on December 10, 2012, 07:01:35 PM
A school teacher must schedule seven sessions, which are abbreviated M, N, O, P, S, T, and U, during a day. Seven different consecutive time periods are available for the sessions, and are numbered one through seven in the order that they occur. Only one session can be schedules for each period. The assignment of the sessions to the periods is subject to the following restrictions:

Ten points to anyone who can correctly say what kind of test this is from.

i found this extremely amusing

1.c
2.a
3.b
4.e
5.e

im going to go IQ test.

liger
fish
ice
lion

so he will take a lift!

guess the profession of this person-
i am not a fisherman, rescue person or a diver. i jumped in the middle of water. who am i

Quote from: av1 on December 13, 2012, 04:25:05 AM
i am not a fisherman, rescue person or a diver. i jumped in the middle of water. who am i

Waiter?

Quote from: anibioman on December 12, 2012, 11:47:21 PM
i found this extremely amusing

1.c
2.a
3.b
4.e
5.e

im going to go IQ test.

Correct answers, but wrong test-- close enough though so 9 points.

Isaac and Albert were discussing the results of the Science Fair. There were three contestants, Louis, Rene, and Johannes. Isaac reported that Louis won the fair, while Rene came in second. Albert, on the other hand, reported that Johannes won the fair, while Louis came in second.

In fact, neither Isaac nor Albert had given a correct report of the results of the science fair. Each of them had given one correct statement and one false statement. What was the actual placing of the three contestants?

This seems to be more a 'riddle thread' than 'random fun'...

That's puzzling......

Are the horizontal lines parallel or do they slope down?