The five questions everyone played that day, in the order they were asked, with the correct answers and why they are right.
Too few players took part this day for results to be shown.
Shown for 3 seconds, then hidden:
5 9 2 7
Which number was NOT shown?
The numbers were 5, 9, 2 and 7, so 3 was missing. With short lists, checking each option against your memory works well.
All robins are birds. Pip is a bird. What follows?
Robins are only some of the birds, so being a bird doesn't make Pip a robin, or rule it out. “All A are B” never means “all B are A”; reading it backwards is a classic reasoning slip.
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much is the ball?
If the ball were 10¢, the bat would be $1.10 and the total $1.20. Ball 5¢ + bat $1.05 = $1.10.
Counting one number per second without stopping, how long would it take to count to one million?
1,000,000 seconds ÷ 86,400 seconds per day ≈ 11.6 days.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
You invest $1,000 at 10% a year, and the interest is added every year. Roughly what is it worth after 25 years?
1.1²⁵ ≈ 10.8. Money growing 10% a year doubles roughly every 7 years: 25 years is about 3½ doublings.
