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Brainteasers 1. According to Rolling Stone magazine, what were the top seven Beatles songs? 2. An Arab sheikh tells two young men to race their camels to a distant city to see who will marry his daughter and inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is slower will win. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly in the desert for days, ask a wise man for advice, since they were at a stalemate. After hearing his advice they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to the distant city. What did the wise man tell them? 3. What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years? 4. Two girls are born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same year and yet they're not twins. How can this be? 5. Imagine you are in a room with 3 light switches. In an adjacent room there are 3 bulbs, each switch belongs to one bulb. All are off at the moment. It is impossible to see from one room to another. No help from anybody else is allowed. How can you find out which switch belongs to which bulb, if you may enter the room with the bulbs only once? 6. You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify which one is the magnet? Scroll down to see answers on second page below. Solutions 1. The top 7 Beatles songs (in order) were: a. “A day in the Life” (Lennon-McCartney, 1967) b. “I want to hold your hand” (Lennon-McCartney, 1963) c. “Strawberry fields forever” (Lennon, 1967) d. “Yesterday” (McCartney, 1965) e. “In my life” (Lennon-McCartney, 1965) f. “Something” (Harrison, 1969) g. “Hey Jude” (McCartney, 1968) 2. He told them to switch camels. 3. The letter “m”. 4. They are two babies of a set of triplets. 5. Turn one switch on only for a few minutes to warm the bulb. Turn another switch on and leave it on. Enter the room; one bulb will be warm, one lit, and one will be off. 6. Hang each one from a string attached to the center of the rod. The one that points north will be the magnet. Alternate solution: Break one or both rods and the one whose pieces attract or repel each other is your magnet. .

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