ANDY BOUNDS - CHRISTMAS QUIZ

WITH ANDY BOUNDS

IT'S TUESDAY EVERY DAY

Each Tuesday, Andy provides us with a gentle tip to improve our business, but did you know that each Christmas his tradition is a brain-teasing quiz, and here it is:

Q1 The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Q2 What English word has three consecutive double letters? Q3 What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?

Q4 When you have me, you feel like sharing me. But if you do share me, you don’t have me anymore. What am I?

Q5 What has a forest but no trees, cities but no people, and rivers but no water?

Q6 What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s alive, and runs when it’s dead?

Q7 What goes back and forth constantly, but never in a straight line?

Q8 A woman was sitting in her hotel room. There was a knock at the door. She opened it, to see a man who she’d never met before. He said “I’m sorry, my mistake – I thought this was my room”. He then went down the corridor and into the lift.

She went back into her room and phoned security. What made her suspicious of him?

Q9 What common three-letter English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?

Q10 You throw away the outside, eat the inside, and then throw away the inside of that. What am I?

Q11 Which word does not belong in the following list – STOP COP MOP CHOP PROP SHOP OR CROP?

Q12 If you eat me, then my sender will eat you. What am I?

Q13 Name an English word of more than two letters that both begins and ends with the letters ‘HE’ (in that order).

Q14 Where is this possible: when you add three to eleven, and get two?

Q15 A farmer owns a pear tree. Her main customer calls, to ask how much fruit is available to buy. The farmer knows that the trunk has 20 branches. Each branch contains exactly 10 boughs, and each bough has exactly 5 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to sell?

Q16 Two mothers and two daughters are fishing. Between them, they caught a big fish, a small fish, and a fat fish. Since they only caught three fish, how’s it possible they each took home one fish?

Q17 How can you physically stand behind your dad, while he is standing behind you?

Q18 What side of a cat contains the most hair?

Q19 You’re running a race. If you overtake the last person, what position are you in?

Q20 What’s unusual about this paragraph? How quickly can you find what’s so odd about it. It looks so ordinary and plain, that you might think nothing’s wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is curious though. Study it. Think about it. You still may not find anything. But if you work at it a bit, you could just find out. I hope you enjoyed the quiz.

IN HERE ARE THE ANSWERS.

How did you get on? Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Cheers, Andy

Q1 Footsteps

Q2 Bookkeeper

Q3 Queue

Q4 A secret

Q5 A map

Q6 A snowflake

Q7 A pendulum

Q8 You don’t knock on your own hotel door – and the man did

Q9 Eat and ate

Q10 Corn on the cob

Q11 OR

Q12 A fish hook

Q13 Headache or heartache

Q14 On a clock. When you add three hours to 11 o’clock, you get 2 o’clock

Q15 None, you don’t get plums from a pear tree

Q16 It’s only three people – a granny, a mother and a daughter. The mother is both a mother to the daughter; and a daughter to the granny!

Q17 Stand back to back

Q18 The outside

Q19 It isn’t possible – you can’t be after the last person… or they wouldn’t be last!

Q20 It doesn’t contain the letter ‘e’

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