Lateral thinking Quiz

Ok this i a quiz where you sometimes have to think out of the box!
Read the questions carefully and answer as many as you can (i don't mind if its only 1!)
I will give you an example!

Q1. Andy ran Halfway into a forest in half an hour. Martin claimed he had gone two thirds of the way into the forest at the same time, but Andy said that was impossible! Why?
A. You can only run halfway into the forest. After that you are running out of the forest!

ok here are the questions! If you could put the number of the question first e.g. Q2 followed by your answer!

Q2. When asked who a certain photograph was of, the owner replied: "I have neither sister nor brother, but my mother's daughter is that man's mother"- Who was in the photograph?

Q3. If it rained 40 days and 40 nights, and the animals entered in pairs at a rate of 30 pairs an day, how many days did it take Moses to get all 360 animals onto the ark?

Q4. What occurs once in June, once in July, but twice in August?

Q5. 2 Scrabble champions played 5 games of Scrabble. Each won and lost the same number of games and there were no draws. How is this possible?

Q6. Add 2 to 171 and make it less than 18.

Q7. You enter a deserted house late at night. Inside there is an oil lamp, a gas fire and a stove full of wood. You only have one match however, so which should you light first?

Q8. 2 fathers and 2 sons enter a shop and spend £1.50 each. The shopkeeper takes £4.50. What happened to the rest?

Q9. An aircraft carrying 60 Mexican lawyers to a convention in Rio, crached and landed directly on the border between Columbia, Venezuela and Brazil. Under International law, where should the survivours be buried?

Q10. When a boat is at anchor, 5 of the rungs on the rope ladder over its side are underwater. If the rungs are 30cm apart and each one is 3cm thick, how many rungs would be underwater 4 hours later, if the tide rises at 35cm per hour?

I will display the answers when i feel there has been enough time for people to look at the questions and answer them or if you ask after a couple of days after the last person to have a go post his/her answers!

good luck!

Q2 her son
Q3 ummm moses? ..... he didn't put any animals on an ark, it was Noah!
Q4 u
Q5 they were playing other people and not each other
Q6 17 1/2
Q7 the match of course
Q8 grandad, father, son .... 3 people ... 2 fathers grandad, father; 2 sons , father, son

ooops got to go to work

Q9. You don't bury survivors !!

Q10.The boat rises with the tide as it comes in !!

dam.. came to this too late. The woman win. Nice post James!

more more more!

lol ill try and find some more questions!

Q In the hi street there were 38 ladies shoue shops and only 1 for the gentelman. Why did Peter go into 247 shoue shops?

because his wife / girlfriend dragged him into every shop in the country

because the missus couldn't decide what pair 2 buy?

He lost his wife

A. To avoid asking map directions.

Mrs. Meier has three children, two sons and a daughter. On the market she buys a melon, seven apples, eight pears, and three oranges. How can
she spread these fruits to their children without a child gets disadvantaged?

Mrs Meier wants to find a knife. But good luck getting her children to eat all that fruit.

Q. Ok your stuck on some crazy Death Island modded by Gemma. Its a long thin island with death trap cliffs all around and a sea of fire all around the island. You are stood in the center. The wind is blowing in your face and to your horror you can first smell then see the dry vegitation at one end of the island is on fire!. The fire is coming straight for you. How can you avoid being burnt to death.... No hogs, shee, tanks or health packs. The whole Island is quickly becoming one of Gemmas fire pits, what can you do?

Call me 2 pick u up in a pelican!