Puzzles

In about 982 a Norseman, Eric the red, discovered Greenland. He wanted to encourage people to settle there so he called it Greenland to make it sound attractive. It is a very early example of deliberately misleading labelling.

No man threw a punch because the boxing match was between two women boxers.

The man filled the barrel with with holes! Since there was now less barrel it weighed less.

The girl was listening to the radio in her father's car. He drove through a tunnel and reception was temporarily interrupted.

The brothers were siamese twins, joined at the side. They lived in Birmingham, Albama. Because they drove on the right hand side of the road the steering wheel was on the left hand side of the car. The brother who sat on the left always drove. When they were in London, England, the other drove because the steering wheel was on the right hand side of the car.

Although the guards were looking in opposite directions, they were not back to back. They were facing each other.

The deaf man says to the storekeeper, " I would like to buy a saw, please.

Ben was born in the year 2000 B.C. So in 1985 B.C. he was 15 and in 1980 B.C. he was 20.

The hospital dressed all their teddy bears with bandages. Then they explained to the little children that the poor teddies had to say at the hospital for their own health and recovery. The children reluctantly but sympathetically agreed.

The girl filled the jar with water at the school. When she reached the appropriate point at the city center she poured all the water out. What replaced it was a true sample of the surrounding air.

One of the most important tasks for the golf club professional is giving lessons. Most players are right handed. They can stand opposite a left-handed teacher and watch and copy him more easily. It is just like looking in a mirror, so it makes learning the correct style of swing easier.

She was born on February 29, 1986. The year 1900 was not a leapt year (only centuries divisible by 400 are leap years), so the next February 29 fell in 1904 when she was eight. She was twelve on her second birthday.

He reasoned that she would have called her lover so he simply pressed the redial button on their telephone. When the man answered with his name the husband told him that he had won a prize draw and asked for the address to which it should be sent.

The two men were in a restuarant. The Argentinian fan had a fishbone stuck in his throat and was chocking. The other man was quick-witted enough to give him a strong blow on the back, thereby dislodging the bone and saving his life .

The man who refused to be searched was an aristocrat who had fallen on very hard times but was trying to keep up appearances. He was so poor, however, that he could scarcely afford to eat. So, while at the dinner, he secretly lined his pockets with food from the table to keep him going for the next few days. Obviously if he was searched his secret would be revealed and he would be humiliated.

The teacher instructed her pupils always to raise their hands when a question was asked whether they knew the answer or not. If they did not know the answer they should raise their left hand. If they were sure they know the answer they should raise their right hand. The teacher chose a different child each time, but always one who had raised his or her right hand.

It is equally likely that one couple will have all the trumps as that they will have no trumps between them. For if they have all the trumps if must mean that the other pair has none and vice versa.

The man was a circus lion tamer who had unfortunately forgotten his chair when he had to face a bad-tempered lion!

He challenged the Olympic champion to run up a ladder. Since he was the fastest window cleaner in Ireland he won easily!