Lateral Thinking: Ten To Tackle

[surkdidat]

How can the following be true?

For the FIRST person to answer each question, the points will go as follows:

1 answer: 10 tokens
2 answers: 25 tokens
3 answers: 50 tokens
4 answers: 75 tokens
5 answers: 100 tokens
6 answers: 150 tokens
7 answers: 250 tokens
8 answers: 500 tokens
9 answers: 1000 tokens
10 answers: 2000 tokens

Now, if someone just chose to answer ONE question and provide the correct answer, then the top prize left will automatically revert to 9 answers as the top prize, (and obviously the other 9 answers!! and so on.
GOOD LUCK!!!

Last week I turned off the light in my room and jumped into my bed that was 15 feet away from the switch before the room got dark.

One night my uncle was reading a book when my aunt turned off the light. The room was pitch black, but he kept on reading anyway.

My wife dropped her wedding ring into a full cup of water, but it didn't get wet.

A man found a dead fly in his soup and asked the waiter to get him a different bowl. The waiter obliged him and returned with a bowl of soup. A moment later the man angrily called out to the waiter "This is the same bowl of soup!" How did he know?

An eccentric billionaire offered a prize of 1 million dollars to the race car driver whose car came in last in a race. One driver wodered how the race could be run - each driver would go slower and slower and the race would never end. Another driver suddenly said he had a solution. What was it?

I can make a match burn under water. A man took his wife to a theater that was showing an action movie. During one of the gun fighting scenes, he shot his wife. When the movie was done, he took his wife's body from the theater and no one stopped him.

My friend can put a soda bottle in the middle of a room and crawl into it.

A man who lived in a small town legally married twenty different women. None of the women died, and the man never got a divorce.

The pet shop owner told a customer that the parrot would repeat every word it heard. A week later, the customer angrily returned the bird and said it would not say a word, but the pet shop owner had not lied about the bird's ability.

How can you drink the remaining wine from a half-filled, corked bottle without removing the cork from the bottle?


(ALL QUESTIONS IN ITALICS ARE ALREADY ANSWERED CORRECTLY!

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!

[Hyno]

Last week I turned off the light in my room and jumped into my bed that was 15 feet away from the switch before the room got dark.

It was day time.

One night my uncle was reading a book when my aunt turned off the light. The room was pitch black, but he kept on reading anyway.

Your uncle is blind

I can make a match burn under water.

The match is inside an upturned container. ie there is an air pocket.

A man took his wife to a theater that was showing an action movie. During one of the gun fighting scenes, he shot his wife. When the movie was done, he took his wife's body from the theater and no one stopped him.

His wife was in a wheel chair.

My friend can put a soda bottle in the middle of a room and crawl into it.

He crawls into the room not the soda bottle.

A man who lived in a small town legally married twenty different women. None of the women died, and the man never got a divorce.

The man is actually a priest who performs the ceremony.

The pet shop owner told a customer that the parrot would repeat every word it heard. A week later, the customer angrily returned the bird and said it would not say a word, but the pet shop owner had not lied about the bird's ability.

The parrot is deaf.

I'll leave the rest for someone else. ;-)

[Alaizabel]

Some of these Hyno already answered, however I got different answers for some of them.

A man found a dead fly in his soup and asked the waiter to get him a different bowl. The waiter obliged him and returned with a bowl of soup. A moment later the man angrily called out to the waiter "This is the same bowl of soup!" How did he know?
He heavily salted his soup because he found it too bland, and so when he got the "new" bowl of soup he found it also heavily salted, not bland.

An eccentric billionaire offered a prize of 1 million dollars to the race car driver whose car came in last in a race. One driver wodered how the race could be run - each driver would go slower and slower and the race would never end. Another driver suddenly said he had a solution. What was it?
They would switch race cars.

I can make a match burn under water.
Hold a cup of water over a match, the match isn't in the water.

A man took his wife to a theater that was showing an action movie. During one of the gun fighting scenes, he shot his wife. When the movie was done, he took his wife's body from the theater and no one stopped him.
It was a drive in theater, he drove out with her in the car.

How can you drink the remaining wine from a half-filled, corked bottle without removing the cork from the bottle?
You would push the cork into the bottle, so you could pour out the wine.

[kazthorn]

First of all unless I can't count - isn't there 11 questions?

Last week I turned off the light in my room and jumped into my bed that was 15 feet away from the switch before the room got dark

You clap to turn off the lights

man found a dead fly in his soup and asked the waiter to get him a different bowl. The waiter obliged him and returned with a bowl of soup. A moment later the man angrily called out to the waiter "This is the same bowl of soup!" How did he know?

It still had the fly in it?

[surkdidat]

Originally Posted by Hyno

Last week I turned off the light in my room and jumped into my bed that was 15 feet away from the switch before the room got dark.

It was day time.

One night my uncle was reading a book when my aunt turned off the light. The room was pitch black, but he kept on reading anyway.

Your uncle is blind

I can make a match burn under water.

The match is inside an upturned container. ie there is an air pocket.

A man took his wife to a theater that was showing an action movie. During one of the gun fighting scenes, he shot his wife. When the movie was done, he took his wife's body from the theater and no one stopped him.

His wife was in a wheel chair. :cry:

My friend can put a soda bottle in the middle of a room and crawl into it.

He crawls into the room not the soda bottle.

A man who lived in a small town legally married twenty different women. None of the women died, and the man never got a divorce.

The man is actually a priest who performs the ceremony.

The pet shop owner told a customer that the parrot would repeat every word it heard. A week later, the customer angrily returned the bird and said it would not say a word, but the pet shop owner had not lied about the bird's ability.

The parrot is deaf.

I'll leave the rest for someone else. ;-)

Six correct! 150 of my earth tokens are on the way to you!

[surkdidat]

Originally Posted by Alaizabel

Some of these Hyno already answered, however I got different answers for some of them.

A man found a dead fly in his soup and asked the waiter to get him a different bowl. The waiter obliged him and returned with a bowl of soup. A moment later the man angrily called out to the waiter "This is the same bowl of soup!" How did he know?
He heavily salted his soup because he found it too bland, and so when he got the "new" bowl of soup he found it also heavily salted, not bland.

An eccentric billionaire offered a prize of 1 million dollars to the race car driver whose car came in last in a race. One driver wodered how the race could be run - each driver would go slower and slower and the race would never end. Another driver suddenly said he had a solution. What was it?
They would switch race cars.

I can make a match burn under water.
Hold a cup of water over a match, the match isn't in the water. Sorry already answered correctly!

A man took his wife to a theater that was showing an action movie. During one of the gun fighting scenes, he shot his wife. When the movie was done, he took his wife's body from the theater and no one stopped him.
It was a drive in theater, he drove out with her in the car.

How can you drink the remaining wine from a half-filled, corked bottle without removing the cork from the bottle?
You would push the cork into the bottle, so you could pour out the wine.

75 tokens on their way!!!!

[surkdidat]

Originally Posted by kazthorn

First of all unless I can't count - isn't there 11 questions?

Last week I turned off the light in my room and jumped into my bed that was 15 feet away from the switch before the room got dark

You clap to turn off the lights

man found a dead fly in his soup and asked the waiter to get him a different bowl. The waiter obliged him and returned with a bowl of soup. A moment later the man angrily called out to the waiter "This is the same bowl of soup!" How did he know?

It still had the fly in it?

Sorry both are wrong, however, for being observant and noticing there were 11 questions not 10, I award 50 tokens!

[surkdidat]

To clarify there is only one question outstanding to be answered, which is:

My wife dropped her wedding ring into a full cup of water, but it didn't get wet.

To add a bit of spice to it, the price for MY answer is 20 tokens, every day it goes unanswered, I will add 20 tokens to it, so the longer you leave it, the more tokens you can potentially win, but someone may jump in ahead of you and you end up with nothing.

Competition date still as above, all days are based from days in the UK, today being Wednesday, 2nd August at 21.27 at the time of writing the question