2. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A man pushes his car until he reaches a
hotel. When he arrives, he realizes he’s
bankrupt. What happened?
3. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• He’s playing Monopoly and his piece is
the car. He lands on a space with a hotel
and doesn’t have the money to pay the fee.
4. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• A woman enters a room and presses a
button. Within seconds she instantly loses
20 pounds. How did she lose the weight?
5. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• Answer: The room is actually an elevator.
When she gets inside to go down, the
elevator accelerates downward, making her
weight temporarily lower.
6. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A man is condemned to death. He has to
choose from three rooms to accept his
punishment. The first room has a firing
squad with guns loaded. The second room
has a blazing fire. The third room is full
of tigers that haven’t eaten for six
months. Which room should he choose?
7. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• The room of tigers. If the tigers haven’t
eaten in six months, they’d be dead.
8. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A woman opened a door, screamed, and then
was found dead a few minutes later. No
gunshots were heard in the area. What
happened to her?
9. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• She was on an airplane and opened the door
while the plane was in flight, falling to
her death.
10. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• Sam’s dad couldn’t keep his son from
playing video games. To keep Sam from
playing video games all the time, the dad
grabbed a hammer and solved the problem.
Now he can play video games but Sam
cannot. What did the dad do
11. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• The dad built a shelf out of Sam’s reach
and put the video game console up there.
The dad can still reach it to play but Sam
cannot.
12. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• After a night of partying with her
friends, a woman arrives home and finds
that she cannot enter the house. She’s
sure that she’s at the right home, but she
cannot get inside. What happened that
makes entering her home impossible?
13. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• Her friends took her keys away from her
the night before because she had too much
to drink. They called her a cab to get
home and kept her keys, which meant she
didn’t have her house key.
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14. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• Every two weeks a woman sits down and
writes two words on 60 sheets of paper.
Why does she do this?
15. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• The woman owns her own business with 60
employees. Every week she signs her name
on their paychecks.
16. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A woman enters a large metal tube. She’s
terrified and holds her husband’s hand for
comfort. He soothes her but is fine
himself. A few hours later, the torment
ends, and the woman is fine. What
happened?
17. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• They were on an airplane and she’s scared
of flying. Her husband, who isn’t scared
of flying, tried to comfort her during the
flight. She was fine once they landed.
18. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• On a Sunday afternoon, a woman spotted a
bear in the distance. Rather than be
afraid, she ran toward it excitedly. Why
wasn’t she afraid?
20. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• Six pieces of coal, a carrot, and a scarf
are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on
the lawn but there is a perfectly logical
reason why they should be there. What is
it?
21. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• A snowman was built in the yard, and the
snow has since melted, leaving the eyes,
nose, mouth, and scarf on the ground.
22. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• Three people enter a room but only two
walk out. The room is empty. Where is the
third person?
24. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A man is in a grocery store and fills a
shopping cart. He walks out of the store
without paying but no one stops him and no
one calls the police. Why?
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25. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• The man is an employee of the store and
was filling the cart with trash to take
out to the Dumpster.
26. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A man walks into a bar and asks the
bartender for a glass of water. The
bartender pulls out a gun and points it at
the man. The man says, “Thank you” and
walks out.
27. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• The man had hiccups and the gun scared
them out of him, to which he said, “Thank
you.”
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28. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• If you were alone in a dark room, with
only one match and an oil lamp, a
fireplace, and a candle to choose from,
which would you light first?
29. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• The match. You can’t light any of the rest
of the objects without first lighting the
match
30. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• You are driving a bus. The bus is empty
when you begin your route. At the first
stop, three people get on. At the second
stop, nine people get on and two get off.
At the third stop, four people get off and
two get on. What color are the bus
driver’s eyes?
32. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A boat has a ladder that’s 10 feet long,
and hangs off the side of the boat, with
its last three feet submerged in water. If
the ocean tide rises five feet, how much
of the ladder will be underwater?
33. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• Still three feet. When the tide rises, the
boat will rise with it, bringing the
ladder along. No matter what, there will
still be three feet submerged.
34. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• There are a dozen eggs in a carton.
Twelve people each take a single egg, but
there is one egg left in the carton. How?
35. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Answer
• The 12th person takes the egg and the
carton, leaving the egg inside.
36. AMITY GLOBAL
BUSINESS SCHOOL Bhubaneswar
Question
• A woman had two sons. They were born at
the same hour on the same day of the same
month in the same year. However, they were
not twins. How could this be?
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