A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe third room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.

 

A nightmare for some. For others, as a saviour I come. My hands, cold and bleak, it's the warm hearts they seek.
Show Answer            Hide AnswerDeath

 

A person gets onto an empty elevator moving down. He presses the button for ground floor. As soon as the elevator stops, he starts crying for his wife is dead. How did he know ?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe person is leaving hospital after visiting his wife. His wife is on a life support system. The elevator has stopped due to the power cut. If there was an emergency backup generator functioning well, the elevator would have also be running. It stopped in between means that the life system support has stopped as well.

 

A policeman saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn't give him a ticket. Why not?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe truck driver was walking.

 

A poor farmer went to the market to sell some peas and lentils. However, as he had only one sack and didn't want to mix peas and lentils, he poured in the peas first, tied the sack in the middle, and then filled the top portion of the sack with the lentils. At the market a rich innkeeper happened by with his own sack. He wanted to buy the peas, but he did not want the lentils.
Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is considered soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The farmer can't cut a hole in his sack.
How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper's sack, which he wants to keep, without soiling the produce?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerPour the lentils into the innkeeper's sack, bind it and turn inside out. Pour in the peas. Then unbind the sack a pour the lentils back to your sack.

 

A shrimping boat is at the docks with a lifeboat hanging off the side 5 meters above the water. If the tides rise at a rate of 1.5 meters per hour, how long would it take for the water to reach the lifeboat.
Show Answer            Hide AnswerThe entire shrimping boat would rise with the tides so the lifeboat would never be reached.

 

A skin have I, more eyes than one. I can be very nice when I am done. What am I?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerA potato.

 

A surgeon named Hal and a bus driver named Al are both in love with the same woman named Paige. Al needs to go for a long trip of 10 days. Before he left he gave Paige 10 apples. Why?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerAn apple a day keeps the doctor away.

 

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerALL the children are boys, so half are boys and so is the other half.

 

A woman is in the hospital for a routine procedure. The doctor leaves the room locking the door before he goes, the woman is alone. The doctor comes back to find the woman has died and there is another person is in the room. The door was still locked. How is this possible?
Show Answer            Hide AnswerShe died in childbirth.