Pick a group from 2 to 6 students You can move my desk or sit on the floor but if you move my desk you will put them bac

1. Pick a group from 2 to 6 students • You can move my desk or sit on the floor but if you move my desk you will put them back before the end of the period • This is a competition between all classes and each other

2. A milkman has two empty jugs: a three gallon jug and a five gallon jug.  How can he measure exactly one gallon without wasting any milk?

3. The milkman filled the three gallon jug, and then emptied the contents into the five gallon jug.  He then filled the three gallon jug again, and continued to fill the five gallon jug until it was full.  The milk remaining in the three gallon jug was precisely one gallon.

4. You are in the dark, and on the floor there are six shoes of three colors, and a heap of twenty-four socks, black and brown.  How many socks and shoes must you take into the light to be certain that you have a matching pair of socks and a matching pair of shoes?

5. Three socks and four shoes would guarantee that you would have a matching pair of each.  Since there are only two colors of socks, it doesn't matter how many are in the heap, as long as you take at least three, you are certain to have two of the same.  As for the shoes, you must pick four, because selecting only three could result in one shoe in each of the three colors!

6. There are three playing cards lying face up, side by side.  A five is just to the right of a two.  A five is just to the left of a two.  A spade is just to the left of a club, and a spade is just to the right of a spade.  What are the three cards?

7. OR

8. A. The number of false statements here is one. B. The number of false statements here is two. C. The number of false statements here is three. D. The number of false statements here is four. Which of the above statements is true?

9. Option "C" is the answer: three statements are false.  Since each statement concludes that there is a different number of false statements, that proves that only one statement can be correct (hence the object is to decide which statement is true).  Given that one statement is true, by definition, the other threemust be false!

10. What is the four-digit number in which the first digit is one-third the second, the third is the sum of the first and second, and the last is three times the second?

11. 1349

12. Today little Frederick and his mother visited a school and a family. While they were there, they saw a band, checked out the litter, and noticed a sleuth standing nearby. Later that day, they watched an army and a troop for quite a while, and noticed they were standing beside a battery. As they were leaving to go home that day, Frederick and his mother saw a party just near the den and were indeed very happy.What was happening here?

13. Frederick and his mother were at the zoo.'school' of whales 'family' of otters 'band' of gorillas 'litter' of puppies 'sleuth' of bears 'army' of herrings 'troop' of dogfish 'battery' of barracuda 'party' of rainbow fish 'den' of snakes

14. What one subject is not being taught in your school that you would love to see added to your learning experience?

15. Assume 9 is twice 5; how will you write 6 times 5 in the same system of notation?

16. The answer is 27.  Once you assume that 9 is twice 5, you conclude that 5 = 4.5 (9/2).  Therefore, 6 times 4.5 is 27.

17. Adam scored 24 points in a game of basketball. He shot 4 three pointers but scored nothing from the free throw line. How many scoring shots did he have altogether?

18. 10 • 4 three pointers • 6 baskets

19. What number comes next? 20, 28, 40, 56, ______ 8, 26, 56, 100, 160, 238, ______

20. 76

21. The number of water lilies on the small lake doubles every day. When there is one water lily on the lake, it takes 60 days for the entire lake to be covered with water lilies. If it starts with 2 water lilies it takes 59 days to cover. If the lake is half covered how many days until it is completely covered?

22. 1 Day, If the lake doubles everyday and the lake is half covered the next day it will be covered

23. What is the next letter in the sequence? • D F G H

24. J, they are in order just all vowels are removed

25. If you were in charge of planning something really special that could cheer up a group of sick kids at a nearby hospital, what would you plan?

26. Change one letter at a time, making a new word at each step. FOOT _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ LIMP

27. Amy needs to connect her TV and DVD using 5 cables. For it to work properly Amy must get the connections exactly right. How many ways are there that won’t work for Amy

28. 119, there are 120 ways to plug it in but only one is correct

29. Name as many prime number as you can in 1 minute.

30. One father said to another: “If you multiply the ages of my four children, you get 39.” How old are the children? • Come up with as many scenarios as you can

31. 1, 1, 1, 39 • 1, 1, 3, 13

32. LIVE is to VILE as • 3162 is to _____

33. 6132

34. Which is the odd one out? • Wrestling • Football • Cricket • Ping Pong • Volleyball • Golf • Rugby • Polo

35. Wrestling it doesn’t use a ball

36. The man and his son have ages whose digits are the reverse of each other. The difference between their ages is 27. How old are they? • Come up with as many scenarios as possible

38. If you could carve any image you wanted into the side of a mountain, what would you sculpt out of the stone?

39. Is the blue on the inner left back or the outer left front?

40. Jenny and Yemini each started out with the same numbers of marbles. After Jenny bought 35 more, and Yemini lost 15, they now have 100 marbles between them. How many marbles did they each have initially?

41. They each had 40

42. Change one letter at a time, making a new word at each step. • Clip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Stay

43. A little wooden man is on top of an old clock. Every time clock strikes once the man jumps twice. The clock strikes every hour, striking the number of the hours. How many times does the little man jump in 24 hours? • 12 am starts a new day!

44. 288

45. Frank weighs half as much as John, and Hubert weighs three times as much as Frank. Their combined weight is 720 pounds. How much does each man weigh?

46. If John weighs twice as much as Frank, and Hubert three times as much, dividing their total weight by six gives us Franks weight (think x + 2x + 3x = 720). 720 divided by 6 tells us that Frank weighs, 120 pounds, so John weighs 240 pounds and Hubert 360.

47. What if a banana tasted like a pineapple? If you choose any fruit at all and make it taste like another fruit, which fruit would you choose and which fruit would it now taste like?

48. What is so delicate that it breaks if you even mention its name?

49. Silence

50. You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls. He then says, "Divide these 100 marbles into these 2 bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the marbles. Then I will blindfold you and mix the bowls around. You then can choose one bowl and remove ONE marble. If the marble is WHITE you will live, but if the marble is BLACK... you will die." How do you divide the marbles up so that you have the greatest probability of choosing a WHITE marble? • It won’t be 100% full proof but your chances are better