Quiz

Monthly Quiz

Every weekday morning there is a Brainteaser on Radio 4. It is usually a fiendishly difficult question meant to challenge and amuse clever people. I listen whenever I can, safe in the knowledge that if I manage to it work out my answer will be wrong because I haven’t understood the question properly.

At Christmas I received the Brainteaser book as a present.

and I thought it would be fun to share the contents. I shall post two questions a month and give the answer the following month.

	Questions and Answers
Month
June 2002	Late one night, famished, I bought a baker’s dozen of buns but when I stopped to eat five had fallen out of my bag. I stared at the mysterious hole in the bag no explanation came, only a classic riddle: ‘I’m more powerful than God; more evil than the devil. The poor have me; the rich need me. If you eat me I will die.’ I looked up at the night sky for an answer. Distracted, I counted what I hoped where our planets. Slumbering beneath a tree, I gorged on a form of hognut, a family pack just for me…and yet four numbers leapt from my tale, to explain why I’m still hungry, tired and pale. Answer: to follow
June 2002	You roll a dice twice and get a six both times. If you roll it again, what is the probability of getting another six? Answer: to follow