Thinking Technique Quiz Answers

Lateral Thinking Quiz

Answers:

  1. The captain was of course a woman. Many airlines are now hot on equal opportunities and a candidate who has difficulty envisaging that an airline captain might be female will not go very far!
  2. Your left hand, forearm or elbow.
  3. 10p and 1p - the other coin can be a penny!
  4. None. NOAH built the Ark
  5. White. Only at the North Pole can all four walls be facing South.
  6. The match!
  7. The outside
  8. Churchill was Prime Minister twice, from 1940 to 45 and from 1951 to 55.
  9. One
  10. Because he is still alive .
  11. 90. Dividing by half is the same as multiplying by 2.
  12. None - it's a hole!
  13. No - because he's dead
  14. YOU are the driver!
  15. 8
  16. The woman is of small stature and couldn't reach the upper lift buttons.
  17. Milky Way
  18. Milk
  19. Water. After the previous two questions, did you answer milk?
  20. Glass
  21. You don't bury survivors!
  22. One
  23. John
  24. His horse was named Friday
  25. Not zero degrees as you might at first think. The minute hand will be at 15 minutes (90 degrees clockwise from vertical) but the hour hand will have progressed to one quarter of the distance between 3 pm and 4 pm. Each hour represents 30 degrees (360 / 12), so one quarter of an hour equals 7.5 degrees, so the minute hand will be at 97.5 degrees: a 7.5 degree difference between the hands.