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Question: A smart landscaper is given the task of placing 4 trees so that they are all the same distant away from each other.

How does he do this?

Answer: He puts three trees into a triangle then one on a hill in the middle (this forms a tetrahedron).

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Question: I'm not a pool, a tree, a slave, a website, or a shirt.

What am I?

Answer: A book. Not a pool but it has a cover, not a tree but has leaves, not a slave but is bound, not a website but has pages, and not a shirt but has sleeves.

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Question: Under pressure is the only way I work,
and by myself is the only way I'm hurt.

What am I?

Answer: A diamond.

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Question: Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both of them.

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Question: Sum Sam and Product Pete are in class when their teacher gives Sam the Sum of two numbers and Pete the product of the same two numbers (these numbers are greater than or equal to 2). They must figure out the two numbers.

Sam: I don't know what the numbers are Pete.
Pete: I knew you didn't know the numbers... But neither do I.
Sam: In that case, I do know the numbers.

What are the numbers?

Answer: The numbers are 3 and 4.

Since Sam knows the sum of the numbers (x + y) he would only know the answer immediately if the sum was 4 (2 + 2) or 5 (3 + 2). Then when Pete (who knows x*y) knew that Sam didn't know the answer the product must have several numbers that add up to the sum (7 = 3 + 4, 7 = 5 + 2). When Pete doesn't know the answer at this point we know the product must have more than one pair of viable factors (12 = 3 * 4, 12 = 6 * 2). At this point Sam knows the numbers are 3 and 4 because they are the only numbers that meet these criteria.

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