Understanding Information: The 2 Minute Challenge

2 Minute Challenge

Time duration: 5-15 Minutes including all the discussions.

Aim:
To assist participants to focus during a training session and and also;

To underscore the importance of understanding information before acting on it.

Tools needed

- Adequate copies of the accompanying question sheet for participants to have one each.

- Pen or pencil for each participant.

Instructions

1.Give each participant a copy of the question sheet which should face down.

2.Inform them they must not turn the paper over until you say so as this is a speed test.

3.Inform the group that their aim is to answer each question correctly, but they only have two minutes to complete the test. Tell them you will give them one minute, 30 second and

2 Minute Test - Questions

1.Write your name in the square provided. 2.How many animals did Moses take aboard the ark?

3.Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10, divide by 1/2 again and add another 10. (No calculators.)

4.Some months have 30 days, some have 31. How many have 28?

5.You go to bed at 7 o’clock in the evening and set the clockwork alarm to get you up at 8 o’clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would this allow?

6.If a doctor gave you four tablets and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last?

7.How many sides in a circle?

8.How far can a dog run into the woods?

9.Which country has a 4th of July - the USA or Jamaica?

10.A man built a house of rectangular structure, each side having a southern aspect. A bear came wandering by. Which color was it?

11.If you were alone in a deserted house at night and there was a lamp, a fire and a candle and you only had one match, which would you light

13.Why can’t a man living in York be buried west of the River Trent?

14.If you have 2 coins and they total 11 pence, but one of them is not a 10 pence coin, what are the 2 coins?
15.How much soil is there in a 2’ by 2’ by 4’ hole?

16.If two monkeys sit in a corner and looked at another pair in a corner and so forth until every pair is looking at another pair. How many monkeys can say they are looking at another pair?

17.Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?

18.If you drove a bus leaving Pittsburg with 40 passengers, dropped 7 off and picked up 2 at Andiamo, stopped at Salisburg and picked up 10, went on to Southampton, dropped 8 there and picked up 5 then drove on to arrive at Gatemall hours later, what would the driver’s name be?

2 Minute Test - Answers

1.Write your name in the square provided. Participants name should be in the box at the bottom of the page
2.How many animals did Moses take aboard the ark?
None – Noah built the Ark
3.Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10, divide by 1/2 again and add another 10. (No calculators.)
150

4.Some months have 30 days, some have 31. How many have 28?