MindTrap Friday
You really need to enlarge the picture to get the full effect of what is staring back at you. I’ll warn you first–avert your eyes, lest she/it makes contact with you. You’ll just have to trust me on that one.
Say that last week you read Retro Trivia and answered the questions in your mind. You never put them in the comment section, but rather played the game by yourself (kind of like the games you played when you were a child). Now, say you answered in order: Gary’s Tavern, Living Dolls, Frances, Terrorists, Earthquake. That would mean that you would have beaten last week’s winner–Darren–and become the Smarty Panted Winner of the Week. Instead, you didn’t win, you just sat in that fancy chair you bought at Staples and did nothing. Kind of like what is going to happen on voting day. You’ll definitely make up your mind as to who would get your vote, but voting is such a hassle, and let’s not forget about your fear of small pencils.
Anyway, let’s move on and play us some MindTrap trivia!
Here are some MindTrap questions that, to me, are pretty darn special. I hope you enjoy them and love them as much as I have enjoyed and loved them over the many years I have spent on this earth.
1) Old Mr. Terminus was lying on his deathbed while his wife was about to give birth. Father Clement was at his bedside when Mr. Terminus dictated his will. “I leave 2/3 of my estate to my child, should it be a boy, and 1/3 to my wife. If the child is a girl, I want 2/3 to go to my wife and 1/3 to my daughter.” Mr. Terminus passed on and left Father Clement with a rather peculiar problem, since Mrs. Terminus gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. How should the estate be divided in order to comply as closely as possible with his wishes?
2) A man left home one morning. He turned right and ran straight ahead. Then he turned left. After awhile, he turned left again, running faster than ever. Then he turned left once more and decided to go home. In the distance he could see two masked men waiting for him. Who were they?
3) There was a shipwreck at sea and Buck, Lance, and Jack were washed ashore on a small island. Upon reaching shore they promptly fell asleep from exhaustion. A short time later, Buck awoke and saw that a box of bananas had been washed ashore. Buck ate one third of the bananas and went back to sleep. Lance soon awoke and upon seeing the box of bananas, ate on third of what was left and then fell asleep. Jack woke next and assumed that the other two hadn’t eaten any bananas, so he ate one third of what remained. When Jack finished, there were 8 bananas left over. How many bananas were in the box originally?
Not easy questions in the least, but I have faith that one of Mitchievillian’s brilliant readers will take these questions to task and kick them right in their questiony balls.
Congratulations to Darren, he is last week’s winner and I am proud to put his picture up on the Wall of Fame at City Hall. His picture is going to go right next to the picture of Roberta Bondar’s (but Darren’s will be strategically placed 1cm higher than Roberta’s).
Every soul is welcome to play MindTrap, it’s encouraged really. We love to see new faces, and we love to hear the new voices of diversity. You are welcome here, this is your home. And since it is your home, all I ask is you pick up after yourself, cook your own meals, and shut the hell up when Dexter is on.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:10 am
1) Boy gets 1/3, Wife gets 1/2, and girl gets 1/6
2) Guardians of the Space Twats? Or…I don’t know.
3) There were 27 bananas.
October 31st, 2008 at 7:51 am
Holy Christ! I have never been drunk enough to get me some of that! And trust me, I have been plenty drunk in the past.
1. Steamboat was right, 1/3 for the boy, 1/2 for the wife, and 1/6 for the girl.
2. The catcher and the ump.
3. Steamboat, right again, 27 from the jump.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:01 am
Two Dogs – you got #2! I knew there was a trick to it, but couldn’t get it. “Home”! As in home plate! Geez. I’ve often regretted not being a “sports” person.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:08 am
1. A boy is entitled to twice as much as mommy, mommy entitled to twice as much as a girl, so boy gets 4/7 of fortune, mom gets 2/7 and girl gets 1/7 of fortune.
2. catcher and umpire
3. 27 bananas.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:27 am
1) The man is obviously a misogynist and wanted his boy to have twice as much as the wife. Because the man felt an emotional attachment to his wife (for whatever reason), she was to have twice as much as his daughter.
Therefore, using inheritance distribution laws of that particular sect of the Church of Latter Day Saints, the distribution would be:
4/7 to the boy
2/7 to the wife
1/7 to the daughter
2) I’m thinking this is the umpire and catcher at home plate.
Or, depending on the time of day, it’s the catcher and pitcher back in the guy’s bedroom.
3) Yes, I have 27 bananas.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:27 am
1
divide it in 1/2 for each kid thus boy gets 2/6ths mom 3/6ths and girl 1/6th
or
1/3 boy
1/6 girl
1/2 mom
2 Rob Huck has a good answer I’ll steal his. heh!
3 35 bananas but dmorris ate the rest then when he used the bathroom the ship wrecked so there were 27 left.