Brain Teasers 15-10

1.  Loaded Questions, Part 1.  (more in future BTs)  These are not as easy as they look.  Think twice.

a.   Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden for eating what fruit?

b.   How many of each animal did Moses take onto the Ark?

c.  What was the highest title Julius Caesar acquired:  king, emperor, dictator, or consul?

d.   Does England have a 4th of July?

2.  Find the next two numbers in this sequence:  2, 3, 5, 9, 17, ___, ___.  (Multiple ‘correct’ answers here?)
3.  If a couple plans to have four children, which is more probable:  a) 2 boys, 2 girls, or b) 3 of one sex, 1 of the other?
4.  See #3 above.  How likely is it the couple’s children will all 4 be of the same sex?


 

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