Albert Einstein's quiz.

[Ed Poore]

This quiz was made up by Albert Einstein and according to him 98% of people will not solve it. So according to Einstein there should be 6000 people on CP who can, so come on then! There is a row of five houses, each having a different colour. In these houses live five people who do different jobs. Each of them nurtures a different pet, likes different drinks and uses a different form of transport.

1. The Architect lives in the red house
2. The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
3. The IT Manager drinks Latte's
4. The green house is to the left of the white house
5. The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
6. The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
7. The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
8. The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
9. The Tester lives in the first house
10. The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
11. The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
12. The man who drives a moped drinks milk
13. The Developer drives a 4x4
14. The Tester lives next to the blue house
15. The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.

Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]

[Red Stateler]

There were IT Managers back in Einstein's day? Interesting.

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"You act like jew." -Score: 1.0 (3 votes).

[Dezhi Zhao]

Here is the Code Project answer:-D: http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/Einstein.asp[^]

[David Crow]

Ed.Poore wrote:

Who has Goldfish at home?

The one who does not have a dog, cat, iguana, or tarantula at home.

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[Chris Losinger]

Ed.Poore wrote:

The IT Manager drinks Latte's

how does Latte feel about this?

Ed.Poore wrote:

The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's

does Tarantula not have a parking place of his own ?

Ed.Poore wrote:

The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's

how do you drink a house?

Ed.Poore wrote:

The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan

iguana's what ?

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[JWood]

Just to state the obvious - he's dead and you seem slightly deranged.

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
-H.L. Mencken

[Duncan Edwards Jones]

Since the sentence capitalisation and possesive apostrophe suggests that Iguana and Tarantula are names it kind of depends on what the goldfish is called...

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[Chris Buckett]

Ok, Assuming it's not a trick question, and the person who has the goldfish is the person who doesn't have any other pet mentioned, then it's the Developer who lives in the 4th Green house, who drinks Guinness and drives a 4x4 who also keeps goldfish. ChrisB

[Bob X]

I just found the same answer you did.

[Chris Buckett]

Must be right then! Phew. (either that or we've both made the same logic error :-D ). ChrisB

[Baconbutty]

Developer.

I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

[Ed Poore]

JWood wrote:

you seem slightly deranged.

I'll take that as a compliment ;P - better than being a boring "normal" person.

[Ed Poore]

Nah, he found it, you seem to have worked it out.

[Ed Poore]

Very good, now did you work that out yourself? ;)

[RC_Sebastien_C]

Came to the same answer, assuming that the clue The green house is to the left of the white house is meant to say ...'immediatly' to the left...

[Chris Buckett]

Of course - it's just a case of making notes and reading some of the statements backwards (e.g. he man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea == the man who drinks tea has a neigbour who drives a coupe). I can post the complete list of who lives where etc... if anyone's interested. ChrisB

[Ed Poore]

Chris Buckett wrote:

reading some of the statements backwards

Interesting technique, have to remember that.

Chris Buckett wrote:

I can post the complete list of who lives where etc... if anyone's interested.

I'm not fussed, I've got the answers, maybe someone else would like them.

[Stuart van Weele]

This was pretty easy. Just lay things out in a spreadsheet and start filling in the blanks.

[Chadlling]

Heh that was fun... took me three cracks... but the Developer has the goldfish. Chadlling

[Marc Clifton]

Hey Einstein! SysOps, IT Managers, sports cars, campervans, probably Martini's, testers, mopeds, and 4x4's weren't around in Einstein's days. Marc

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