1) Some months have 30 days,some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
All of them do
2) If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long would it be before all the pills had been taken?
one at the whole hour, one at the whole plus a half, one at the next hour... so one hour total.
3) I went to bed at eight o'clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o'clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get before being awoken by the alarm?
don't really understand the question... My answer as an insomniac would be: depends on what time you actually fall asleep.
4) Divide 30 by half and add ten. What do you get?
70
5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many live sheep were left?
9... doh, if these are supposed to be trick questions they're sort of transparent
6) If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and a candle, which would you light first?
which of those three? Lemme guess, the correct answer is "the match"? That's lame 
7) A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What color is the bear?
White, house is on North Pole
8) Take 2 apples from 3 apples. What do you have?
One, right? ... probably a trick in the phrasing again or something [img]tongue.gif[/img]
9) How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?
That would be Noah
10) If you drove a bus with 43 people on board from Chicago and stopped at Pittsburg to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers and at Cleveland to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more and eventually arrive at Philadelphia 20 hours later, what's the name of the driver?
Whatever my name is... lame again
Oh... just saw the answers in the quote.... well that didn't go too bad I guess.
Edit: and the grading scale... that's even lamer. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Baaaaah.
I dunno who made this test, but almost all of my teachers, lecturers and professors were erudite and clever, thanks very much.
[ 02-02-2003, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]