Vocabulary
switches - выключатели
bulbs - лампочки
injured – получили травму
ambulance – скорая помощь
surgery – хирургическая операция
surgeon - хирург
pay - платить
Riddles
1. You are standing next to three switches. You know these switches belong to three bulbs in a
room behind a closed door – the door is tight closed, and heavy which means that it’s
absolutely impossible to see if any bulb is on or not. All three switches are now in position off.
You can do whatever you want with the switches and when you are finished you open the door
and go into the room. While in there you have to tell which switch belongs to which bulb.
How will you do that?
2. There is father and son in a car. As it happens on the roads from time to time they have a
terrible accident. They are both seriously injured and ambulance carries them to two different
hospitals.
The son is on a surgery table while the surgeon walks in and says: „I can't do the surgery on
him he is my son!"
How is it possible?
3. Which direction is the bus going, left or right?
4. Three lords enter a hotel. The receptionist at the front desk tells them that one room is 10
pounds so each of the gentlemen pay – 30 pounds altogether.
When the porter wants to bring the luggage to lord’s rooms, hotel director rushes in to tell him
that it was supposed to be only 25 pounds for the three rooms and he gives him the extra 5
pounds to return them to lords.
The porter had no idea know how to divide 5 pounds between 3 gentlemen so he gave one
pound to each of them and kept the remaining 2.
Each lord paid 9 pounds (10 originally and got one back). 3x9=27. The porter kept two
pounds. 27+2=29. What happened with the remaining one pound?
5. There are nine children in the house, and only them in the house so
A is ironing
B is watching tv
C is cooking
D is playing chess
E is bathing
F is listening radio
G is sleeping
I is dressing
And what is H doing right now?
6. Two fathers and two sons riddle
Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each
person had an egg. The riddle is for you to explain how.
7. Why is 6 afraid of 7?
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