Try your hand at these six puzzles:
1. What can I put in my left hand that I cannot put in my right hand?
2. If two peacocks lay two eggs in two days, how may eggs can one peacock lay in four days?
3. How may cubic feet of earth are there in a hole measuring 3 feet wide by 4 feet long by 5 feet deep?
4. Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men?
5. In what sport do half the contestants wear metal shoes?
6. What do you call people born in San Francisco?
Please make a note of your answers. These are the first six puzzles in a new book, Kick Yourself Puzzles, by Paul Sloane and Des MacHale. The book contains 290 mean, low, nasty, trick questions designed to catch you out. Many of the questions will stump you but then the answer is obvious once you hear it.
Here are the answers to the questions above:
1. My right elbow
2. Peacocks do not lay eggs
3. There is no earth in a hole.
4. There are more of them.
5. Horse racing
6. Babies
If you like hearing these kinds of riddles and inflicting them on your friends and family then this is the book for you. Details below.
