Albert Einstein's quiz.
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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.
- The Architect lives in the red house
- The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
- The IT Manager drinks Latte's
- The green house is to the left of the white house
- The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
- The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
- The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
- The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
- The Tester lives in the first house
- The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
- The man who drives a moped drinks milk
- The Developer drives a 4x4
- The Tester lives next to the blue house
- The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.
Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]
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Ed.Poore wrote:
Who has Goldfish at home?
The one who does not have a dog, cat, iguana, or tarantula at home.
"Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15
"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb
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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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.
- The Architect lives in the red house
- The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
- The IT Manager drinks Latte's
- The green house is to the left of the white house
- The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
- The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
- The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
- The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
- The Tester lives in the first house
- The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
- The man who drives a moped drinks milk
- The Developer drives a 4x4
- The Tester lives next to the blue house
- The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.
Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]
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
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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
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Must be right then! Phew. (either that or we've both made the same logic error :-D ). ChrisB
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Just to state the obvious - he's dead and you seem slightly deranged.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
-H.L. MenckenDeveloper.
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 :)
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Just to state the obvious - he's dead and you seem slightly deranged.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
-H.L. Mencken -
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
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Must be right then! Phew. (either that or we've both made the same logic error :-D ). ChrisB
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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
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...
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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
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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
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.
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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.
- The Architect lives in the red house
- The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
- The IT Manager drinks Latte's
- The green house is to the left of the white house
- The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
- The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
- The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
- The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
- The Tester lives in the first house
- The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
- The man who drives a moped drinks milk
- The Developer drives a 4x4
- The Tester lives next to the blue house
- The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.
Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]
This was pretty easy. Just lay things out in a spreadsheet and start filling in the blanks.
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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.
- The Architect lives in the red house
- The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
- The IT Manager drinks Latte's
- The green house is to the left of the white house
- The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
- The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
- The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
- The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
- The Tester lives in the first house
- The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
- The man who drives a moped drinks milk
- The Developer drives a 4x4
- The Tester lives next to the blue house
- The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.
Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]
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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.
- The Architect lives in the red house
- The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
- The IT Manager drinks Latte's
- The green house is to the left of the white house
- The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
- The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
- The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
- The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
- The Tester lives in the first house
- The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
- The man who drives a moped drinks milk
- The Developer drives a 4x4
- The Tester lives next to the blue house
- The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.
Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]
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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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.
- The Architect lives in the red house
- The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
- The IT Manager drinks Latte's
- The green house is to the left of the white house
- The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
- The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
- The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
- The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
- The Tester lives in the first house
- The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
- The man who drives a moped drinks milk
- The Developer drives a 4x4
- The Tester lives next to the blue house
- The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.
Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]
Yay, fun. We need more quizes (sp?!). I don't think I agree with the 98% comment though. I have just posted it on my old work forum and there are only about 50 people on that forum - I don't think I would be the only person able to solve it, and I think a lot of said people would be able to, if they at least give it a try. On the other hand, I once had to make an intelligence test for a school project and then test people, I thought the questions were easy but a lot of people got upset when they couldn't do them. I still don't really understand that. They really weren't hard. Like, I'm not trying to be an idiot here and say I am smarter than those people; my confusion is that I thought we were all as smart as each other, but for some reason they couldn't answer those questions. I don't understand what makes them different. So anyway, maybe I am biased on this quiz too and it is really harder than it seems? It is fun though, logic puzzles, especially ones that I can actually solve. Not like my ugly confusing programming I am trying to do at work right now.
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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.
- The Architect lives in the red house
- The SysOp keeps a dog as a pet
- The IT Manager drinks Latte's
- The green house is to the left of the white house
- The owner of the green house drinks Guinness
- The person who drives a sports car keeps Tarantula's
- The owner of the yellow house drives a campervan
- The man living in the centre house drinks Martini's
- The Tester lives in the first house
- The man who drives a coupe lives next to the one who keeps cats
- The man who keeps iguana's lives next to the man who drives a campervan
- The man who drives a moped drinks milk
- The Developer drives a 4x4
- The Tester lives next to the blue house
- The man who drives a coupe has a neighbour who drinks tea.
Who has Goldfish at home? [Recieved from GreyMatter]
Interesting one - here is the answer in less than 5 minutes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HOUSE :: Yellow - Blue - Red - Green - White JOB :: Tester - IT Manager - Architect - Developer - SysOp Drinks :: Tea - Latte - Martini - Gunieas - Milk Trasport :: Cat - Iguana - Truntala - GOLD FISH - dog Meets all the points !
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Interesting one - here is the answer in less than 5 minutes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HOUSE :: Yellow - Blue - Red - Green - White JOB :: Tester - IT Manager - Architect - Developer - SysOp Drinks :: Tea - Latte - Martini - Gunieas - Milk Trasport :: Cat - Iguana - Truntala - GOLD FISH - dog Meets all the points !
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
Web based Project Management
Universal DBA | Ajax Rating | ExplorerTree | Globalization in 20 minutesI'd expect you to get it quickly ;P (with all the brain teazers you've posted here before - some of which I've enjoyed I should add). Took me just over 20 mins to figure out it was the developer (good ol' pen & paper).
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