Shields

Answer:

D; so that one dot is in the small circle only and the other dot is in the circle with the line above it.

Which set of circles comes next?

Answer:

D: the single larger circles are getting smaller.The smaller circles in between are increasing in number by one each time and getting larger from the bottom.

Gossip

Mrs Gossip was telling her friends the latest. The woman at 5 or 9 had run off with the milkman; the couple at 5, 7 or 11 were holding a pyjama party, but without the pyjamas; the skinhead at 5, 7 or 9 had assaulted the vicar; and the hippy at 9 or 11 was high again (in fact, he was sitting on the roof). They live in separate houses and the couple live next door to the hippy. What numbers do they occupy?

Answer:

The woman is at 5, the skinhead at 7, the hippy at 9, and the couple at 11.

How many winged cats?

Gareth collects winged cats for his menagerie of strange Pymmian creatures. One day, a friend asked him, "How many winged cats do you have now, Gareth?" Gareth answered, "I have two-thirds of their number plus two-thirds of a winged cat." How many winged cats does Gareth have?

Answer:


2 winged cats.

Friend or Foe?

Among the inhabitants of Mars were various kinds of creatures. One type was friendly to visitors from Earth and always told the truth. Another was hostile and always lied to Earthlings. But the astronauts couldn't tell the difference between them. 'Are you a truth-teller?" astronaut John Armstrong asked a striped Martian he met on the way to the dig. "He'll say, 'Yes,' " commented a spotted Martian who was nearby. "But he'll be lying." Who was the truth-teller, the striped Martian or the spotted one?

Answer:

The spotted Martian. Truth-teller or not, the striped Martian would answer yes. Why? If he were a truth-teller, obviously he would tell the truth and say yes. If he were a liar, he would lie and say yes. Therefore, since the spotted Martian said that the striped Martian would say yes, he must be the truth-teller, and the striped Martian must be the liar.

751694 is to ?

473982 is to 1419
and
329684 is to 1418
therefore
751694 is to ?

Answer:


1319 (7 + 5 + 1 = 13, 6 + 9 + 4 = 19)

X=? Y=?

Two numbers, x and y, are such that if x gets 77 from y they will be in the ratio 4 to 1, but if y receives 42 from x, their ratio will be 1 to 2. What are x and y?  

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Answer: 


x=127 and y=128

Which tile is missing?

Which tile is missing?

ANSWER

In each row and column, every ring is shaded black once.

Dreary

Which word is most opposite in meaning to dreary?

practical, joyful, interested, alert, vivid

Answer:

joyful

Least like

Which of the five is least like the other four?


a) NICKEL

b) TIN

c) STEEL

d) IRON

e) COPPER

Answer:


(steel) The others are simple metals; steel is an alloy (combination of two metals).

Odd one out

Which is the odd one out?

ISTHMUS, FJORD, ATOLL, POLDER, ARCHIPELAGO

Answer:

Fjord; it is a stretch of water. The others are all land.

Create a triangle

Three of these five figures fit together to create a triangle. Which ones are they?

Answer:


B, C, and D:

How many different 10-digit numbers, such as 7,829,034,651, can be written by using all 10 digits? Numbers starting with zero are excluded.

Answer:

Ten digits can be permuted in 10! = 3,628,800 different ways. A 10-digit number cannot start with zero, so that we must subtract 3,628,800/10 = 362,880 to obtain the answer: 3,265,920.

Missing Section

Answer:

D: lines across proceed +1, +2, +3. Lines down proceed +3, +2, +1.

Isobar

Isotherm is to temperature as isobar is to:

atmosphere, wind, pressure, latitude, current

Answer:

pressure

What number should replace ...

What number should replace the question mork?

Answer:

Number 3. So that all lines across and down total 10.