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Brain Teasers
Here you will find
trivia challenges and other word games and activities to use in
training, meetings or just to have a little fun.
Guitar Maze
Which
popular fad of the 80s started off as part of an art exhibit?
“Baby on Board” signs,
Koosh balls, or
Cabbage Patch Dolls?
Answer: It’s
Cabbage Patch Dolls. Sculptor Xavier Roberts
showcased the dolls as part of an art exhibit. His assistants would
dress up like maternity nurses and put the dolls up for adoption.
Once they were sold in stores, sales of the ugly, but loveable,
dolls
exploded from 60 million dollars to 600 million bucks by 1985.
When was the
Slinky invented? In 1945 by Richard James.
Betty James conceived the name "Slinky" and it is now considered to
be one of the most famous toys of all time. The Slinky jingle is the
longest running jingle still on TV.
About 63 Feet.
Did You Know?
What do you call a group of...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of animal_names
Fun Quiz
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Letters of the Alphabet |
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Wonders of the Ancient World |
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Arabian Nights |
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Signs of the Zodiac |
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Cards in a Deck |
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Planets in our Solar System |
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Piano Keys |
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Stripes in the American Flag |
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Degrees Fahrenheit to which water freezes |
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Holes in a golf course |
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Degrees In a right angle |
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What you get for passing go in Monopoly |
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Sides on a Stop Sign |
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Blind Mice |
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Quarts in a gallon |
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Hours in a day |
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Wheel on a Unicycle |
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Digits in a zip code |
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Heinz Varieties |
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Words that a Picture is worth |
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Players on the field of a Football team |
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Days in February in a leap year |
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Squares on a Checkerboard |
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Days and Nights of the great flood |
Click here now for a blank version you can use at work
Halloween Riddles
What is a vampires favorite test?
Answer: A blood test
What does a skeleton order at a restaurant?
Answer: Spare ribs
Silly Riddles
Why shouldn't you tell a
joke in the kitchen?
So the dishes won’t crack up
What do you call a pig in the bath
tub? Hog wash
What did one chimney tell the other? You are too young to smoke
What did one math book tell another? You are full of problems
Why don’t Eskimo’s sit
on ice cubes?
So they don’t get Polaroids
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How smart are you really?
This test has been used for over 50 years. If you don't score high, remember, you can always improve. It has been said Bill Gates once took this test and scored a 3 on it.
Do they have a 4th of July in
How many birthdays does the average man have?
Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
How many outs are there in an inning?
Is it legal for a man in
Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half
hour.
How many minutes would the pills last?
A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?
How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
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Brain Teasers
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YGETARTS |
COF FEE |
NAWHAT'SME |
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IMPROVEMENT IMPROVEMENT
IMPROVEMENT IMPROVEMENT |
IKD |
OVER OVER |
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LO VE
HEELS
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PETS A |
staying the game |
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WORD YYYY
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BACK
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scotheop |
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MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE |
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| Reverse Strategy | Coffee Break | What's in a name |
| Room for Improvement | Mixed up kid | Left overs |
| Head Over Heels in Love | A step backwards | Staying ahead of the game |
| A word to the wise | Full back, Half back, quarterback | The inside scoop |
| Mutiny On The High Seas | Room for one more | Painless Operation |
Amazing Animal Trivia and Riddle Questions
Trivia
Questions:
Answer:
What is the only
mammal with four knees? Elephant
What do gorilla’s
do when they get nervous? Beat their chest
Riddle Questions: Answer:
What does a dog do
that a man can step into? Pants
What do you call a
line of rabbits hopping backwards? A receding hare line
What do cows do on Saturday nights? Go to the mooooovies
What is a cats favorite color? Purrrrple
An elephant always remembers, but what animal always forgets? An Owl, because he is always
saying, Who?", "Who?", "Who?"
Why do dogs scratch themselves? They are the only one who knows
Where it itches.
Graphic portrayal
of a nursery rhyme
Copy graphic onto a flip chart. Display it for a period of time and see if anyone can guess which one it is. This is great way to win extra points for teams in training.
Can you guess which one?
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It's Little Ms. Muffit
1. Little Miss Muffit, 2. Sat on her tuffit, 3.
Eating her curds and whey. 4. Along came a spider 5. Who sat down
beside her 6. and frightened Ms. Muffit away.
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More Brain Teasers
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me just you
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Busines |
Bending
_________ uoy rof |
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Man Board |
O M.D. B.A. PH.D
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R R O A D A D |
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He's / Himself |
LE VEL |
| Answers: Just between you and me | Unfinished Business | Bending over backwards for you |
| Man over board | Three Degrees below zero | Cross Roads |
| High Chair | He's Beside Himself | Split Level |
Who Said It?
| "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." | Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily |
| "Go ahead make my day." | Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry |
| "Stifle yourself, Edith." | Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family |
| "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." | General Douglas Mac Arthur |
| "All the world's a stage..." | William Shakespeare, As You Like It |
| "Give me liberty, or give me death." | Patrick Henry |
| "Let them eat cake." | Marie Antoinette |
| "Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad." | W.C. Fields |
| "To boldly go where no man has gone before." | William Shatner as Capt. Kirk in Star Trek |
| "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." | Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz |
| "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." | Mark Twain |
| "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." | Marlon Brando as The Godfather |
| "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." | Karl Marx |
| "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." | Neil Armstrong |
| "Girls just wanna have fun." | Cyndi Lauper |
| "Call me Ishmael." |
Herman Melville, the opening line of Moby Dick |
| "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." | Muhammad Ali |
| "I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens." | Woody Allen |
| "How do I
love thee?"
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 |
| "You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." | Abraham Lincoln |
| "...in spite of everything I
still believe that people are really good at heart." |
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl |
| "If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all." | Ronald
Reagan |
| "Round up the usual suspects." | Claude Rains as Capt. Renault in Casablanca |
| "That's all folks." | Porky Pig |
Claire Wingate takes the saying from the above exercise and prints them in quote bubbles on individual pieces of bright paper. She splits them up between the groups and they have to develop the answers for "Who said this." They can use the cards with the sayings to give their answers back to the class.
For a blank to use in class click here now: Who said it
Holiday
Trivia, Riddles and Jokes
Trivia Questions:
What
was the first instrument on which the carol "Silent Night" was
played?
A
guitar
The
worlds largest Christmas cracker was made and pulled in what
country?
What
does the name Kwanzaa mean?
It
comes from the Swahili phrase meaning "first fruits".
Who
was the author of "A Christmas Carol"?.
Charles Dickens
In
Electric Christmas lights were first used in what year?
1895
If
you were born on Christmas day what would your zodiac sign be?
Capricorn
What
did the Grinch use as a substitute for a reindeer?
His dog
What
was the Grinch's dogs name?
Max
What
were Frosty’s eye’s made of?
Coal
What
European country originated the Christmas card?
How
many reindeer did Santa have including Rudolph?
Nine
Why
does Santa go down the chimney on Christmas eve?
Because it suits him
Why
did the elf push his bed into the fireplace?
He
wanted to sleep like a log
If
athletes get athletes foot, what do astronauts get?
Mistletoe
What
do elves learn in school?
The
elf-abet
Why
is Santa’s helper depressed?
He
had low elf esteem
What
does Santa do in his three gardens?
Hoe,
hoe, hoe