The Not-So-Complicated Giraffe Test

Found this mail from Mun Foong early this morning

and found it to be a greater "motivation" to study more=p

Try yourself and you'll know what I mean...

[Highlight the space instructed to know the answer]

Question 1 
How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

Highlight ...[ The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way. ]...Here

Question 2 
How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Highlight...[ Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator?

Wrong Answer.

Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions. ]...Here

Question 3 
The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attended ..... EXCEPT one. Which animal does not attend?

Highlight...[ Correct Answer : The Elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there.  This tests your memory. Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you still have one more chance to show your true abilities. ]...Here

Question 4 
There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

[Highlight... Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across. Have you not been listening? All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes. ...Here]

According to Anderson Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the Professionals they tested got all questions wrong, but many preschoolers got several correct answers.  They say this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals do not have the brains of a 4-year-old.

(No idea this is true or not, but it's one annoying test for sure... The giraffe aka me the panjang feels so stupid taking this test...)

And talking about using your brains how about this story for a change? 

(It's time to give your poor brain a rest, don't you think so?) 

An old man lived in Idaho. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who used to help him was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament. 

Dear Son, 

I'm feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year. I am just getting too old to be digging up the garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me. 

Love Dad 

A few days later, he received a letter from his son. 

Dear Dad, 

For heaven's sake, Dad, don't dig up that garden, 

that's where I buried the BODIES. 

Love Son

At 4 a.m. the next morning, F.B.I. agents and local police showed up and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son. 

Dear Dad, 

Go ahead and plant the potatoes now. 

That's the best I could do under the circumstances. 

Love Son

And the moral of the story is to make full use of your brain to work smarter not harder!