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QUOTE(serendib @ Feb 6 2005, 09:10 AM) Below is a quiz written by Albert Einstein. He said 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. Are you among the 2%? FACTS: 1. There are 5 houses (in a row) in 5 different colours. 2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. 3. These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet. 4. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same drink. HINTS: 1. The Brit lives in a red house. 2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. 3. The Dane drinks tea. 4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house. 5. The green house owner drinks coffee. 6. The person who smokes Pall Mall cigars rears birds. 7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill cigars. 8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk. 9. The Norwegian lives in the first house. 10. The man who smokes Blend cigars lives next to the cat owner. 11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. 12. The man who smokes Blue Master cigars drinks beer. 13. The German smokes Prince cigars. 14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. 15. The man who smokes Blend cigars has a neighbor who drinks water. The QUESTION IS .... who has a fish as a pet?   The German
I see no trick to the question other than the fact that it never actually states that any of them own a fish (it is merely implied), and thus none of them own a fish.. BUT, assuming one of them does own a fish, then it is a very well-thought-out application of pratical logic, and following the hints that are given, one can deduce that the German owns the Fish as a pet. However, don't be fooled by the thrill of having solved it, for it still takes us all very long, and can not be compared to any of the questions found within the same category on modern IQ tests. Being restricted to a time limit with dozens of questions (this being only one of them) I suspect that 98% of the people would skip this question, and move on to other questions, planning to come back to it later, but when they do, and spend 30+/- mins on that question alone, they eventually run out of time and haven't finished solving it..
Not to mention, that Einstein lived during times lacking modern education for the masses, and it is quite possible that his suggested 98% could be lower now with current standards of education. Even still, this is a brilliantly thought-out question, and deserves great appreciation, in my humble opinion. Just think, if it is that hard to solve it, how hard would it have been to have written it in the first place?
well it is a trick question due to fact that fish is never mentioned in the first place regardless who would have been the last person to have the fish.
But the fact that it is Albert Einstein's mind we are talking about, would you thinking people like Stephen Hawking would have figured it out, i know his IQ is like 212 or something like that, but i odn't know if his IQ is higher then Albert Einstein. I think the standard IQ test is like 6-8 hours long or something like that, which i wouldn't mind taken mind you i would have to study like 100 years worth of subjects in like all areas or something like that. but i think that 98% would still stand lack of the internet being the source of all information of the world. but the next question would be how about the list of the greatest thinkers of the roman era, would they have had figured it out if they where giving that question back in their day.
I'm trying to figure it out... but it is quite hard for me to think in spanglish anyways...
mmm... the NORWEGIAN does? ....dunno... this is my try...
Yes...do we know that someone owns a fish?
no one owns the fish, the fish is never mentioned in hints, thats why albert said 98% of the population would never get, due to the missing clue.
Heh... I did this quiz in my computer math class last year. The teacher gave it out to us. I was one of the two people that solved it. Mind you, most people didn't bother with it, so I'm sure more people could have gotten the answer if they tried. I really didn't think it was that hard... just time consuming. But then again, I grew up solving logic problems for fun. So, who knows.
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