Hospitality management quiz

Questions

What psychological methodology does NLP stand for?
David Mc Lelland's motivational theory identified three principal motivational needs which he said each of us possesses to varying degrees, and which characterise our motivational behaviour; what are these three motivational needs?
Which organisation produces the UK's ABC1C2 (etc) Social Grade Classifications Statistics?
What does the selling acronym AIDA stand for?
Who developed the 'Equity Theory' of job motivation in the 1960's?
What does the financial abbreviation P&L stand for?
Who developed the ten stages of corporate life cycle, starting with Courtship and Infancy and ending in Bureaucracy and Death?
The Ansoff matrix correlates what two aspects of business development from the 'new' and 'existing' perspectives?
In selling and communications, what do 'open questions' generally achieve?
Albert Mehrabian researched and published a now widely referenced set of statistics for the effectiveness of spoken communications; what three types of communication did he identify and what percentages for each did he attach to each type in terms of the percentage of meaning (or understanding) that each communication type conveyed from person to person in his study?
In business accounts and financial reporting, expenses which change according to scale of performance or usage or demand are known as what?
What is the name of Ingham and Luft's model and theory which deals with hidden and open areas of knowledge about a person?
The '360 degree' appraisal method collects feedback from whom, about whom?
What are the four levels of learning evaluation defined in Donald Kirkpatrick's model?
What is the correct ascending order of these human needs according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Esteem, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Self-Actualisation, Biological and Physiological?
What part of our brains typically handles process-type functions, according to brain theorists such as Katherine Benziger?
What does the accounting acronym FIFO mean?
One of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing is abbreviated to the initials WOM; what is it?
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains divides learning development into three main aspects: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor; what might these three aspects of personal development more commonly be called?
Who wrote the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People?
The 'Big Five' personality dimensions, by which modern day psychologists believe every person's personality and behaviour tendencies can be measured are commonly abbreviated to the OCEAN acronym; what does OCEAN stand for?
What are the four metaphorical terms used to describe products/services in Boston Matrix model according to market share and market maturity?
The financial ratio which divides a company's 'liquid assets' by 'current liabilities' is known by what popular term?
What three important things should be confirmed and understood before conducting a brainstorming ideas session?
What does the SWOT stand for in SWOT analysis?
What are the 'Four Functional Types' within Carl Jung's theory?
With what was the Kyoto Summit concerned?
What are the four sequential stages of the 'conscious competence' learning model?
What is the '1st Law of Cybernetics' (aka the 'Law of Requisite Variety')?
What are the four main 'Temperament' types called within David Keirsey's Temperaments personality theory?
According to the Tannenbaum and Schmidt theory relating to delegation and team development, what must be reduced in order for the team's area of freedom (and growth) to increase?
What does the financial term ROI stand for?
Whose experiential learning theory comprises the learning styles named: Concrete Experience (feeling); Abstract Conceptualization (thinking); Active Experimentation (doing); and Reflective Observation (watching)?
Daniel Goleman was responsible for popularising and defining what management and behavioural concept in his eponymously titled (ie., the title is also the subject) 1995 book?
What is psychometrics?
What is the management technique that is commonly abbreviated to MBWA?
Large size hand-writing generally indicates what characteristics in the personality of the writer?
Since October 2004, UK employers must follow a minimum process of three-stages for handling disputes with employees, including disciplinary and grievance matters; what are the basic minimum three stages required?
Douglas McGregor defined two main styles of management; what did he call them and how are each of the two styles typified?
Bruce Tuckman's theory about team development uses what four sequential rhyming words to describe the four stages of a group's progression?
What are Howard Gardner's seven (original) Multiple Intelligences?
According to Herzberg's motivational theory, which of these are 'hygiene needs' (or 'maintenance factors') and which are true 'motivators': work conditions, salary, achievement, advancement, work itself, responsibility, company car, status, recognition, and personal growth?
What does VAK stand for in the learning styles theory?
What does the business acronym IPO stand for?
What does the PEST stand for in PEST analysis?
What do 'open questions' typically begin with?
What visionary management thinker wrote The Age Of Unreason and The Empty Raincoat?
What are the names of the (nine) Belbin 'team roles'?
In marketing, what are the The Four P's?
A lot of the traditional 20th century sales theory and training was influenced by the 1937 book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'; who wrote it?

Answers (IN Yellow)

What psychological methodology does NLP stand for? Neuro-Linguistic Programming
David McLelland's motivational theory identified three principal motivational needs which he said each of us possesses to varying degrees, and which characterise our motivational behaviour; what are these three motivational needs? Achievement (n-ach), the need to achieve things; Authority/Power (n-pow), the need to have impact, influence and authority; and Affiliation (n-affil), the need for relationships, interaction and acceptance among other people (or words to similar effect as these definitions)
Which organisation produces the UK's ABC1C2 (etc) Social Grade Classifications Statistics? NRS Ltd (National Readership Survey)
What does the sales acronym AIDA stand for? Attention, Interest, Desire, Action
Who developed the 'Equity Theory' of job motivation in the 1960's? J Stacey Adams
What does the financial abbreviation P&L stand for? Profit and Loss (Profit and Loss Account)
Who developed the ten stages of corporate life cycle, starting with Courtship and Infancy and ending in Bureaucracy and Death? Dr Ichak Adizes
The Ansoff matrix correlates what two aspects of business development from the 'new' and 'existing' perspectives? Products and Markets
In selling and communications, what do 'open questions' generally achieve? Open questions gather information, improve understanding, and build rapport by encouraging the other person to talk and explain things, including how they feel about things.
Albert Mehrabian researched and published a now widely referenced set of statistics for the effectiveness of spoken communications; what three types of communication did he identify and what percentages for each did he attach to each type in terms of the percentage of meaning (or understanding) that each communication type conveyed from person to person in his study? Mehrabian's research stated that: 7% of meaning conveyed is in the words that are spoken; 38% of meaning conveyed is in the way that the words are said (paralinguistic); and 55% of meaning conveyed is in facial expression.
In business accounts and financial reporting, expenses which change according to scale of performance or usage or demand are known as what? Variable Costs
What is the name of Ingham and Luft's model and theory which deals with hidden and open areas of knowledge about a person? The Johari Window
The '360 degree' appraisal method collects feedback from whom, about whom? A '360 Degree' feedback appraisal collects the views from people who work with the appraisee, about the appraisee, including subordinates, peers, upline managers; effectively anyone who comes into contact with the appraisee and who is happy to provide constructive feedback about the appraisee's strengths and areas for improvement
What are the four levels of learning evaluation defined in Donald Kirkpatrick's model? 1. Enjoyment; 2. Transfer of learning; 3. Application of learning; 4. Effect of application (or words to the same effect as these four definitions)
What is the correct ascending order of these human needs according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Esteem, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Self-Actualisation, Biological and Physiological? Biological and Physiological Needs (basic life needs - shelter, food, drink, sleep, etc); Safety Needs (security, protection, law, etc); Belongingness and Love Needs (family, affection, relationships, etc); Esteem Needs (achievement, status, responsibility, reputation, etc); Self-Actualisation (personal growth, self-fulfilment, etc)
What part of our brains typically handles process-type functions, according to brain theorists such as Katherine Benziger? Left Basal (left rear)
What does the accounting acronym FIFO mean? First In First Out (a convention for writing down the balance sheet value of assets of the same type - oldest are written-off first)
One of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing is abbreviated to the initials WOM; what is it? Word Of Mouth
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains divides learning development into three main aspects: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor; what might these three aspects of personal development more commonly be called? Knowledge, Attitude, Skills
Who wrote the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People? Dr Stephen Covey
The 'Big Five' personality dimensions, by which modern day psychologists believe every person's personality and behaviour tendencies can be measured are commonly abbreviated to the OCEAN acronym; what does OCEAN stand for? Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion/introversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
What are the four metaphorical terms used to describe products/services in Boston Matrix model according to market share and market maturity? Dog, Cash Cow, Problem Child and Star (or Rising Star)
The financial ratio which divides a company's 'liquid assets' by 'current liabilities' is known by what popular term? Acid Test (or 'Quick Ratio')
What three important things should be confirmed and understood before conducting a brainstorming ideas session? The purpose or aim of the exercise; a time limit; the fact that all ideas are welcome and to be respected (ie., sometimes the craziest-sounding ideas are the best ones).
What does the SWOT stand for in SWOT analysis? Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
What are the 'Four Functional Types' within Carl Jung's theory? Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, Intuition
With what was the Kyoto Summit concerned? Global climate change (in other words, greenhouse gas emissions)
What are the four sequential stages of the 'conscious competence' learning model? 1. Unconscious Incompetence, 2. Conscious Incompetence, 3. Conscious Competence, 4. Unconscious Competence
What is the '1st Law of Cybernetics' (aka the 'Law of Requisite Variety')? "The unit within the system with the most behavioural responses available to it controls the system." (or words to that effect)
What are the four main 'Temperament' types called within David Keirsey's Temperaments personality theory? Artisan, Idealist, Guardian, Rational/Rationalist
According to the Tannenbaum and Schmidt theory relating to delegation and team development, what must be reduced in order for the team's area of freedom (and growth) to increase? The manager's use of authority
What does the financial term ROI stand for? Return On Investment
Whose experiential learning theory comprises the learning styles named: Concrete Experience (feeling); Abstract Conceptualization (thinking); Active Experimentation (doing); and Reflective Observation (watching)? David Kolb
Daniel Goleman was responsible for popularising and defining what management and behavioural concept in his eponymously titled (ie., the title is also the subject) 1995 book? Emotional Intelligence
What is psychometrics? The science of measuring (or testing) personality type (or mental abilities)
What is the management technique that is commonly abbreviated to MBWA? Management By Walking About (or Wandering Around) - the term is generally attributed to Tom Peters (In Search Of Excellence, 1982) although it was probably part of a new management ideology first pioneered by a few bright American companies as far back as the 1940's
Large size hand-writing generally indicates what characteristics in the personality of the writer? Extraverted or out-going nature
Since October 2004, UK employers must follow a minimum process of three-stages for handling disputes with employees, including disciplinary and grievance matters; what are the basic minimum three stages required? 1. Write a letter to the employee explaining the issue; 2. Have a meeting with the employee to discuss the issue; 3. Hold or offer an appeal meeting with the employee if required.
Douglas McGregor defined two main styles of management; what did he call them and how are each of the two styles typified? X-Theory (or Theory-X) which is authoritarian, autocratic and repressive; and Y-Theory (or Theory-Y) which is participative, delegating, and developmental (or words to similar effect as these two descriptions)
Bruce Tuckman's theory about team development uses what four sequential rhyming words to describe the four stages of a group's progression? Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
What are Howard Gardner's seven (original) Multiple Intelligences? Linguistic (words and language), Logical-Mathematical (logic and numbers), Musical (music, sound, rhythm), Bodily-Kinesthetic (body movement control), Spatial-Visual (images and space), Interpersonal (other people's feelings), Intrapersonal (self-awareness)
According to Herzberg's motivational theory, which of these are 'hygiene needs' (or 'maintenance factors') and which are true 'motivators': work conditions, salary, achievement, advancement, work itself, responsibility, company car, status, recognition, and personal growth? Of the examples listed, hygiene needs are: work conditions, salary, company car, status. True motivators in the list are achievement, recognition, work itself, responsibility, advancement, and personal growth.
What does VAK stand for in the learning styles theory? Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic/Kinaesthetic (three different learning styles or methods - seeing, listening, doing)
What does the business acronym IPO stand for? Initial Public Offering, meaning the initial sale of privately owned equity (stock or shares) in a company via the issue of shares to the public and other investing institutions
What does the PEST stand for in PEST analysis? Political, Economical, Social, Technological
What do 'open questions' typically begin with? Open questions typically begin with Who, What, How, When, Where, and Why, (or for particularly capable or intelligent respondents, 'Tell me about...')
What visionary management thinker wrote The Age Of Unreason and The Empty Raincoat? Charles Handy
What are the names of the (nine) Belbin 'team roles'? Coordinator (was called 'Chairman'), Shaper, Plant, Monitor-Evaluator, Implementer (was called 'Company Worker'), Resource Investigator, Team Worker, Completer-Finisher, Specialist
In marketing, what are the The Four P's? Product, Price, Promotion, Place.
A lot of the traditional 20th century sales theory and training was influenced by the 1937 book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'; who wrote it? Dale Carnegie.

How did you do? (Scores and grading have absolutely no scientific basis whatsoever - it's for fun.)
0-10 - you've made an excellent start and you have some exciting and fascinating learning ahead of you
11-20 - pretty good - you could run a small team or department and fair sized general store at weekends
21-30 - very good - you could run a small company or a biggish department and do a bit of part-time consultancy
31-40 - seriously impressive - you could run a biggish company or a small country and perhaps both
41-45 - outstandingly brilliant - you are probably a professor of management at Harvard
46-50 - unbelievable - you should be running the website

OK HERE ARE SOME MORE QUESTIONS.
1. What is the longest word in the English Dictionary, that you can type using only the top row of a "qwerty" keyboard?

2.Can you find a five letter word, which, when typed in upper case, reads the same upside down?

3. Would you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?

4. What does this represent?
Knee
Light Light

5. You are in a room with 2 doors leading out. Behind 1 door is a chest overflowing with jewels and gold, along with an exit. Behind the other door is an enormous, hungry lion that will pounce on anyone opening the door? You do not know which door leads to the treasure and exit, and which door leads to the lion. In the room you are in are 2 individuals.The first is a knight, who always tells the truth, and a knave, who always lies. Both of these individuals know what is behind each door.
You do not know which individual is the knight, or which one is the knave. You may ask one of the individuals exactly 1 question. What should you ask in order to be certain that you will open the door with the chest behind it, instead of the hungry lion?

6. Forward I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What am I?

7. What shape completes the bottom line?
triangle pentagon square square hexagon hexagon square pentagon hexagon hexagon hexagon square triangle hexagon octagon octagon octagon octagon ==?==

8. Which one of these sentences is the odd one out - the answer is nothing to do with food.
Jackals are mean, eager scavengers. Koalas eat in the heat. Sheep invariably munch old newspapers. Seals are rare and hungry. Foxes rich appetite never kicks.

9. Gib is to llams as nepo is to desolc as pu is to ==?==

10. Can you calculate (clue!) which word is the odd one out:
giggle, soil, bells, gobble, gosh, hole, blesses, coil

11. How many letter S are there in the name of the longest river in the world?

12. A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of one optic to an equine quadruped utterly devoid of any visionary capacity. Translate.

13. By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word. Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards. Therefore, what now reads VOKAHLIUPPW will be a real word.
OVAL
POST
SKIN
MALT
WHEN
SLAB
MISS
FUND
APED
SPED
SWAY

14. A bookworm eats from the first page of an encyclopaedia to the last page. The bookworm eats in a straight line. The encyclopaedia consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the usual order. Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does the bookworm eat through?

15. Can you find two words that contain two consecutive Us?

16. Which word of four letters can be added to the front of the following words, to create other valid words:

17. Why did the inventor of man-hole covers choose round ones, since square ones were easier to make?

18. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?
The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

19. What is represented by letters?
ABCDEFGHJMOPQRSTUVWXYZ

20. Pear is to apple what potato is to:
banana, radish, strawberry, peach, lettuce

21. A well known seven letter word can be created, by starting with a single letter and adding a letter, one at a time, then mixing the letters, each time making a proper word. Using the clues below, which are not necessarily in the correct order, can you find all seven words. For example, A, AT, TAR, RATE, etc.
Expressing position within limits of space and time.
The subject of self-consciousness.
Frozen atmospheric vapour falling to earth. To utter musical sounds with the voice.
Cause to oscillate.
Scattering on the earth.
The breaking of divine law.

22. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

23. It burns no coal, no oil, no nuclear fuels and has no need for electricity. It uses no man made explosions. Yet it is far hotter than all ovens and fires and furnaces. What is it?

24. Can you find something, which has keys that open no locks, with space but no room, and allows you to enter but not to go in?

25. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

26. Maggie Mathematical has five sons. One is called Alpha, another is called Beta, the third is called Gamma and the fourth is called Fred. What is the fifth son's name.

27. A man and his grandson have the same birthday. For six consecutive birthdays the man is an integral number of times as old as his grandson.
How old is each at the sixth of these birthdays?

28. You have two ropes. Each takes exactly 60 minutes to burn. They are made of different material so even though they take the same amount of time to burn, they burn at separate rates. In addition, each rope burns inconsistently. How do you measure out exactly 45 minutes?

29. The results for a recent Chess tournament between five close rivals is described below:
Dave finished before Adam. Eileen finished after Bernadette. Adam finished before Charlie. Eileen finished after Dave. Bernadette finished before Adam. Dave finished after Bernadette. Charlie finished before Eileen. Who finished where?

30. You look at the change in your piggy bank. It totals £58.29 and is made up of an equal number of five coins. You have 67 coins of each value.
Can you tell us what the coins are?

31. Can you complete the following grid? Each row and each column adds up to 290.
61 78 63 25 63
80 ?? ?? ?? 26
60 ?? ?? ?? 56
36 ?? ?? ?? 90
53 31 53 98 55

32. I'm amazing 'cause I've got the force To hold down a cow or a horse
As you've doubtlessly found,
I am always around,
And I'm constantly working, of course. What am I?

33. At a recent Pets Anonymous reunion, the attendees were discussing which pets they had recently owned. James used to have a dog. The person who
used to own a mouse now owns a cat, but the person who used to have a cat does not have a mouse. Kevin has now or used to have a dog, I can't remember which. Becky has never owned a mouse. Only one person now owns the pet they previously had. Rebecca kept quiet throughout the meeting and nobody mentioned the hamster. Can you determine who owns which pet
and what they used to own?

34. Once upon a time, an old lady went to sell her vast quantity of eggs at the local market.
When asked how many she had, she replied:
Son, I can't count past 100 but I know that...
If you divide the number of eggs by 2 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 3 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 4 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 5 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 6 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 7 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 8 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 9 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 10 there will be one egg left.
Finally...
If you divide the Number of eggs by 11 there will be NO EGGS left!
How many eggs did the old lady have?

35 What starts with an E, ends with an E and usually contains only one letter?

36. Below you will find 15 well-known seven letter words, with only their endings remaining. Can you determine the words?
....rem
....oct
....pso
....dma
....edo
....rre
....sfy
....ott
....hma
....dpa

37. Using the clues from below can you find ten words. Once you have placed the words into the correct order you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter. For example, DOG may be followed by DIG, etc.
...in the back of the net
...sock material
...forest
...baby horse
...hooded robe
...spiral of wire
...not too hot
...roasting metal
...earthy ground
...not bad

38. How can you get 10 horses in to 9 stables, bearing in mind that each horse must have its own stable?

39. How many gifts, in total, were received during the Twelve Days of Christmas - according to the song?

ANSWERS

1.What is the longest word in the English Dictionary, that you can type using only the top row of a "qwerty" keyboard?
TYPEWRITER.

2. Can you find a five letter word, which, when typed in upper case, reads the same upside down?
SWIMS.

3. Would you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?
I would rather the crocodile attacked the alligator, read it again!

4. What does this represent?
Knee
Light Light
Neon lights!

5. You are in a room with 2 doors leading out. Behind 1 door is a chest overflowing with jewels and gold, along with an exit. Behind the other door is an enormous, hungry lion that will pounce on anyone opening the door? You do not know which door leads to the treasure and exit, and which door leads to the lion. In the room you are in are 2 individuals.The first is a knight, who always tells the truth, and a knave, who always lies. Both of these individuals know what is behind each door.
You do not know which individual is the knight, or which one is the knave. You may ask one of the individuals exactly 1 question. What should you ask in order to be certain that you will open the door with the chest behind it, instead of the hungry lion?

You ask one of the individuals what the other one would say if you asked him which door is holding back the hungry lion and then open this door.

6. Forward I am heavy, but backwards I am not. What am I?
TON

7. What shape completes the bottom line?
triangle pentagon square square hexagon hexagon square pentagon hexagon hexagon hexagon square triangle hexagon octagon octagon octagon octagon == ? ==
Square; consider the number of sides involved. Square the first shape's sides and the remaining shapes add up to this number. hexagon = 6, 6 * 6
= 36, 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + square = 36.

8. Which one of these sentences is the odd one out - the answer is nothing to do with food.
Jackals are mean, eager scavengers. Koalas eat in the heat. Sheep invariably munch old newspapers. Seals are rare and hungry. Foxes rich appetite never kicks.
Seals Are Rare And Hungry; the initial letters spell Sarah. All of the
other sentences spell boys name.

9. Gib is to llams as nepo is to desolc as pu is to ==?==
Nwod. Opposites reversed; big, small; open, closed; up, down.

10. Can you calculate (clue!) which word is the odd one out:
giggle, soil, bells, gobble, gosh, hole, blesses, coil
Coil as this is the only word which cannot be spelled using a calculator. For example, enter 379919 into a calculator and look at the number upside down, you can read giggle. The other words can be spelled
using, 7105, 57738, 4509, 3704 and 5355378.

11. How many letter S are there in the name of the longest river in the world?
None; neither the Nile nor the Amazon contain an S, both of which can be classified as the longest in the world. You are tricked into thinking of the Mississippi, which has 4.

12. A slight inclination of the cranium is as adequate as a spasmodic movement of one optic to an equine quadruped utterly devoid of any visionary capacity. Translate.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

13. By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word. Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards. Therefore, what now reads VOKAHLIUPPW will be a real word.
OVAL
POST
SKIN
MALT
WHEN
SLAB
MISS
FUND
APED
SPED
SWAY
Paperweight; opal, past, spin, melt, wren, swab, mess, find, aged, shed, stay.

14. A bookworm eats from the first page of an encyclopaedia to the last page. The bookworm eats in a straight line. The encyclopaedia consists of ten 1000-page volumes and is sitting on a bookshelf in the usual order. Not counting covers, title pages, etc., how many pages does the bookworm eat through?
He eats through 8,000 pages.

15. Can you find two words that contain two consecutive Us?
Vacuum and Continuum.

16. Which word of four letters can be added to the front of the following words, to create other valid words:
CARD, BOX, CODE, BAG, HASTE
POST

17. Why did the inventor of man-hole covers choose round ones, since square ones were easier to make?
A circular cover is the only shape that cannot fall through its own hole and, therefore, cannot be accidentally dropped into the hole.

18. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?
The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
This teaser is usually attributed to Einstein, who may or may not have written it. The German owns the fish and the table below details the full answer:

Nationality: Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Colour Yellow Blue Red Green White
Beverage water tea milk coffee beer
Smokes Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Pets cats horses birds fish dogs
19. What is represented by letters?
ABCDEFGHJMOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Missing link.

20. Pear is to apple what potato is to:
banana, radish, strawberry, peach, lettuce
Radish; both grow underground.

21. A well known seven letter word can be created, by starting with a single letter and adding a letter, one at a time, then mixing the letters, each time making a proper word. Using the clues below, which are not necessarily in the correct order, can you find all seven words. For example, A, AT, TAR, RATE, etc.
Expressing position within limits of space and time.
The subject of self-consciousness.
Frozen atmospheric vapour falling to earth. To utter musical sounds with the voice.
Cause to oscillate.
Scattering on the earth.
The breaking of divine law.
Snowing, sowing, swing, sing, sin, in, I.

22. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
1:45. the man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two!

23. It burns no coal, no oil, no nuclear fuels and has no need for electricity. It uses no man made explosions. Yet it is far hotter than all ovens and fires and furnaces. What is it?
The sun.

24. Can you find something, which has keys that open no locks, with space but no room, and allows you to enter but not to go in?
A keyboard

25. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
Counterfeit money

26. Maggie Mathematical has five sons. One is called Alpha, another is called Beta, the third is called Gamma and the fourth is called Fred. What is the fifth son's name.
What; 'What is the fifth son's name' is a statement - so the fifth son is called What!

27. A man and his grandson have the same birthday. For six consecutive birthdays the man is an integral number of times as old as his grandson.
How old is each at the sixth of these birthdays?
Grandfather 66, grandson 6.

28. You have two ropes. Each takes exactly 60 minutes to burn. They are made of different material so even though they take the same amount of time to burn, they burn at separate rates. In addition, each rope burns inconsistently. How do you measure out exactly 45 minutes?
Take one rope and burn it at both ends. At the same time, burn one end of the other rope. When the first rope finishes burning, light the other end of the remaining rope. When it burns out, that's 45 minutes.

29. The results for a recent Chess tournament between five close rivals is described below:
Dave finished before Adam. Eileen finished after Bernadette. Adam finished before Charlie. Eileen finished after Dave. Bernadette finished before Adam. Dave finished after Bernadette. Charlie finished before Eileen. Who finished where?
Bernadette won, then Dave, Adam, Charlie and Eileen.

30. You look at the change in your piggy bank. It totals £58.29 and is made up of an equal number of five coins. You have 67 coins of each value.
Can you tell us what the coins are?
2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p.

31. Can you complete the following grid? Each row and each column adds up to 290.
61 78 63 25 63
80 ?? ?? ?? 26
60 ?? ?? ?? 56
36 ?? ?? ?? 90
53 31 53 98 55
There are many solutions, this is just one:
61 78 63 25 63
80 10 75 99 26
60 78 47 49 56
36 93 52 19 90
53 31 53 98 55

32. I'm amazing 'cause I've got the force To hold down a cow or a horse
As you've doubtlessly found,
I am always around,
And I'm constantly working, of course. What am I?
Gravity.

33. At a recent Pets Anonymous reunion, the attendees were discussing which pets they had recently owned. James used to have a dog. The person who used to own a mouse now owns a cat, but the person who used to have a cat does not have a mouse. Kevin has now or used to have a dog, I can't remember which. Becky has never owned a mouse. Only one person now owns the pet they previously had. Rebecca kept quiet throughout the meeting and nobody mentioned the hamster. Can you determine who owns which pet and what they used to own?
Becky has a hamster and used to have a hamster. Kevin has a dog and used to have a cat. James has a mouse and used to have a dog. Rebecca has a cat and used to have a mouse.

34. Once upon a time, and old lady went to sell her vast quantity of eggs at the local market.
When asked how many she had, she replied:
Son, I can't count past 100 but I know that...
If you divide the number of eggs by 2 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 3 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 4 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 5 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 6 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 7 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 8 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 9 there will be one egg left.
If you divide the number of eggs by 10 there will be one egg left.
Finally...
If you divide the Number of eggs by 11 there will be NO EGGS left!
How many eggs did the old lady have?
25,201 eggs.

35 What starts with an E, ends with an E and usually contains only one letter?
Envelope

36. Below you will find 15 well-known seven letter words, with only their endings remaining. Can you determine the words?
....rem
....oct
....pso
....dma
....edo
....rre
....sfy
....ott
....hma
....dpa

Theorem, concoct, calypso, grandma, torpedo, bizarre, satisfy, boycott, drachma, grandpa.

37. Using the clues from below can you find ten words. Once you have placed the words into the correct order you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter. For example, DOG may be followed by DIG, etc.
...in the back of the net
...sock material
...forest
...baby horse
...hooded robe
...spiral of wire
...not too hot
...roasting metal
...earthy ground
...not bad

Good, wood, wool, cool, cowl, coil, soil, foil, foal, goal.

38. How can you get 10 horses in to 9 stables, bearing in mind that each horse must have its own stable?
[T][E][N][H][O][R][S][E][S]

39. How many gifts, in total, did I receive during the Twelve Days of Christmas - according to the song?
364; for example, on the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: five gold rings + four calling birds + three French hens + two turtle doves + a partridge in a pear tree.