These are the last five ques­tions of the pop­u­lar 25-​​​​question quiz. If you have missed the pre­vi­ous four install­ments, you can find them all here on our web­site: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Oth­er­wise, sharpen your mind for the final install­ment of ques­tions that are typ­i­cally not as easy as you might think.

Appar­ently the aver­age per­son gets only about seven right answers…

Our pop­u­lar series of seem­ingly easy ques­tions con­tin­ues. This is part four of five, ques­tions 16 through 20, about things we see around us every day.

As always, remem­ber that this can be more dif­fi­cult than it looks. Put your think­ing caps on, and don’t cheat by look­ing around or using any­thing on your desk.

16. Do books have even-​​​​numbered pages on the right or left side?

17. How…

This is part three of our pop­u­lar Q&A, based on a set of 25 ques­tions that arrived in our e-​​​​mail inbox the other day.

The ques­tions are about things we see every day, or have known about all our lives. Still, the aver­age per­son sup­pos­edly only gets seven right answers out of the twenty-five. We have divided the 25 ques­tions into five five-​​​​question batches, so a cou­ple of…

In Sep­tem­ber we ran the first five of 25 ques­tions that recently in our e-​​​​mail inbox. Here is the next batch. The ques­tions are about things we see every day, or have known about all our lives. Appar­ently, though, the aver­age per­son gets only seven cor­rect answers out of the twenty-​​​​five, so if you get more than one of these right, you’re in good shape.

Be…

Recently there arrived a set of 25 ques­tions in our e-​​​​mail inbox. They are ques­tions about things we see every day, or have known about all our lives. Appar­ently, though, the aver­age per­son gets only seven right answers out of the twenty-​​​​five.

We have divided the batch into smaller batches. In this and each of the next four elec­tronic newslet­ters from SRI at Home, we…