NEW LATERAL THINKING PUZZLES

Lateral thinking builds the ability to think out of the box. There are interesting puzzles which will test your creativity ability to think.




Q1. QUARTERS

A man and his wife are dead. If the man had just one quarter, his wife would have lived. If he had two quarters, he would have lived. If he had three quarters, both the man and his wife would have lived, but his brother would have died. Why?

Hint….  The quarters he needed were coins
             He drove to a gas station
             He had a medical condition


Q2. OSKAR

Oskar Kokoschka, an Austrian abstract expressionist painter, arrived in England in 1938, after having escaped from the Nazi terror in Europe. Kokoschka was an artist and had never been a politician, yet he blamed himself for the dangerous state that Europe was in, later for the catastrophe of World War II. Why?

Hint….     Kokoschka had fought for Germany in World War I, but he was not a military man and                        hated war.
                 He had applied to study art at he academy and had succeeded in gaining entry.
                He never met Hitler.


Q3. THE FRUIT OF SARCASM
What he had intended to be a sarcastic statement resulted in an invention that’s now in common use . What is it?


Hint….    A he was displeased with the comments of a customer.
               He deliberately exaggerated certain aspects of the dish he prepared.
              It is now a very popular snack.


Q4. TIMEPIECE
Why are most watches shown in magazines fixed at the time ten to two or ten past ten?


Hint….         Advertising agencies prefer a personal, positive, and friendly image. How does ten to                          two help this?                                                                   


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