Lateral Thinking

Week 6 Questions

Question 1:

 If you were alone in a deserted house at night, and there are an oil lamp, a candle and firewood and you only have one match, which would you light first?

Answer: 

I would light up the oil lamp first, then light up the candle before the oil lamp runs out and light up the firewood before the candle finishes. This is so that i would be able to have the light on for as long as possible.

Question 2: 

What can you put in a wooden box that would make it lighter? The more of them you put in the lighter it becomes, yet the box stays empty.

Answer: 

I would drill some holes onto the box as the holes would take away and reduce the weight of the wooden box itself and lighten the weight of the box. Also, the more holes that are drilled onto the box, the more weight of the box is reduced. Thus the weight of the box would be lighter by drilling holes onto it. 

Question 3: 

Which side of a cat contains the most hair?

Answer:

The outside.

Exercise 1: 

You have a neighbour who raises chickens for a living. He lets his chickens run freely in his back garden, but as there is a hole in the fence, the chickens are always wandering into your garden where they damage your beautiful plants and flowers. You have asked your neighbour many times to fix his fence but he won't listen.

What would you do to solve this problem without offending you neighbour?

Answer:

1. Cut or take away my own plants and let the chickens into my fence
2. Let the chickens into my fence and let them lay eggs. Then return the chickens back to my neighbour and keep the eggs to myself.
3. Fix the fence and make a hole at the other side of my neighbour's fence so that the chickens run out of the house or neighbourhood.

Exercise 2: 

Imagine this room: the window at the back is open. In the front of the window there is a table and a vase, in which a fresh rose stands. A painting of flowers hangs on the opposite wall (at the whiteboard area). A bee flies into the room through the open window, straight to the painting and not the rose. 

WHY?!?!?!

Answer:

1. There seemed to be more flowers on the painting, therefore the bee went over to the painting instead of the fresh rose.

2. The bee had difficulty flying towards the fresh rose and therefore could only fly in a straight direction towards the painting which was higher and right opposite the window where the bee came in from.

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