Weekly Brain Teasers – Week #1

9. Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. One girl drank very quickly and drank five iced teas in the time it took the other to drink one. The girl who drank one died while the other survived. All of the drinks were poisoned. Why did the girl that drank more iced tea survive?



10. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks them, “Would you all like a drink?” The first logician says, “I don’t know.” The second logician also responds, “I don’t know.” The third logician says, “Yes!”
How does the third logician know this?


11. What is a thing that nothing is, yet it has a name?
It is better than heaven, yet worse than hell. The dead eat this always, but when the living eat this, they die slowly.


12. If you have three, you have three. If you have two, you have two. But if you have one, you have none.

What is it?

 

Answers
5. It’s an airplane cabin.

6. The song was “Happy Birthday.”

7. He was murdered for cheating at a card game.

8. Push the cork into the bottle.