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Question

1. A man and his son were on a tour of an atomic power plant. In the control room, the boy asked if he could see the controls for the reactor core. The head physicist said yes, and explained how the controls worked. After the boy left, the head physicist turned to an assistant and said, "That was my son." How could that be?



2. Three kids from Bristol went for a walk. About a mile into the walk, they came to a deep, wide river. There was no bridge. They didn’t have a boat or raft, or any materials to make one. None of them could swim. How did they get across?



3. Lisa walked out the back door of the farmhouse on a Thursday afternoon and found a man’s pipe, a scarf and three lumps of coal lying on the wet grass near the barn. The nearest neighbours lived a mile away, and no-one had visited that day. Where did the objects come from?



4. A true story: a white horse jumped over a castle and landed on a bishop, who immediately disappeared from the landscape. Where did this take place?

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Answer 1

1. The man is the head physicist. OR...The head physicist was the boy's mom!

2. ?

3. The snowman melted.

4. a chess board

Answer 2

1 The head physicist is the man mentioned in the first line.
2 They walked (doesn't say there was any water in the river).
3 The snowman had melted.
4 On a chessboard.

Answer 3

4. a chess game


3. a neighbor who visited yesterday? Oh, a scarecrow? the lumps of coal were for eyes? Oh, from a snowman!!! Ha, ha.

1. The head physicist never toured before, just stayed int he control room? Whoops! I'm so sexist. The head physicist was a woman!! I just realized. (I haven't so far peeked, but #2 is a bit hard)

2. Did they float across?
Was it a dried-out river? So they could walk in the riverbed?

Answer 4

1. Head physicist was the boy's mother.
2. The river was frozen.
3. They came from a melted snowman.
4. On a chessboard.

Answer 5

1) either the physicist was the son's mom, or any family member, or it was his father or the "Man" cuz the man did not leave, only the boy did

2) They went around.... or one guy threw the other two and just stayed there... since they could be people of two...

3)snowman???? or lisa is the snowman.... or lisa is a stupid theif that steals stupid stuff?

4) the bishop, this is the chess board....

Answer 6

1.It is a woman.
2.They went for a walk.
3.A snowman had melted.
4.It took place on a chees board.
These were all trick questions, but very clever ones. Nice work on finding these! It really challenged my mind.

Answer 7

1. the physicist was the mother
2. The river was either dry or frozen
3. It was a snow man
4. chess

Answer 8

The person was a women
they never got across
the objects are from a snow man
and a chess board

Answer 9

The man on tour was the head physicist himself. Or hes a she. Either one works.

Zen Buddhists would say, "And they got across"

Airplane.

Chess set

Answer 10

1. the physicist was his mother
2. there was no water in the river
3. a snowman had melted
4. on a chess board