Student B Puzzle 1 A baby falls out of a window of a 30-storey building. The baby lands and is only slightly injured. How did the baby survive?
Puzzle 2 You live in a house with no electrical things like a radio or TV, and there is just one clock. You forget to wind the clock up and it stops. So you walk to a friend’s place a few miles down the straight road. Your friend has a clock that tells the right time. You stay at your friend’s house for the night, and when you come back home the next morning, you know the correct time to set your clock to. How do you know? You cannot take your friend’s clock with you and you cannot use a phone at any time.
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Pieces of eight
The term ‘pieces of eight’ will be known to any lover of pirate stories or films. These silver Spanish coins became the first global currency and were used for international trade from the late 1590s through to the nineteenth century. Worth eight Spanish reales each, the coins were often cut into eight smaller pieces, which is how they gained their popular name. They originated from Spain’s colonies in the Americas, the majority coming from a mine at Potosi, in what is now Bolivia. This remote and inaccessible place became the world’s biggest producer of silver, with much of the three million kilos it produced in the 1590s being already shaped into pieces of eight.
