Critical Thinking

If you were alone in a dark cabin, with only one match and a lamp, a fireplace, and a candle to choose from, which would you light first?

There are ten birds perched on a fence. A farmer aims his rifle and shoots one. How many birds are left?

Which countries have the 4th of July out of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, NZ, and Canada?

Think of words ending in ‘gry’. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have read this very carefully, I have already told you what it is.

What weighs more – 100 pounds of feathers, or 100 pounds of quarters?

A boat has a ladder that’s ten feet long, and hangs off the side of the boat, with its last two feet submerged in water. If the ocean tide rises five feet, how much of the ladder will be underwater?

If you have six fish and half of them die from drowning, how many do you have?

A house takes eight hours to be built by four men. How much time would it take one man to build it?

My hands move but I can’t clap. What am I?

In a year, how many seconds are there?

What can you catch but cannot throw?

What word starts with `e` ends with `e` and only has one letter in it?

How many birthdays does the average man have?

What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __

A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have southern exposure. A big bear walks by, what color is the bear? Why?