Tests for Lateral Thinking

1. Made by:-
Keerti Singh
Shruti Singh
Jyoti Bhatt
Ayushi Bhati

6.  Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, a
Maltese psychologist, physician, and writer in the year
1967
 Ed de Bono defines Lateral Thinking as methods of
thinking concerned with changing concepts and
perception
 Many problems require a different perspective to solve
successfully

7. Types of Thinking Tools
• Break the Status Quo
• Search for New Ideas Idea Generating Tools Harvest
Tools
• Receive more value from Idea Generation Focus Tools
Treatment Tools
• Face the Reality

9.  1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild,
stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you
see three people waiting for the bus:
 1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.
2. An old friend who once saved your life.
3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.
 Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your
car, whom would you choose?

10.  Solution: The old lady of course! After helping the old
lady into the car, you can give your keys to your friend,
and wait with your perfect partner for the bus.

11.  2. Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid
a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don't
know what he looks like but they know his name is
John and that he is inside the house. The police bust in
on a carpenter, a lorry driver, a mechanic and a
fireman all playing poker. Without hesitation or
communication of any kind, they immediately arrest
the fireman. How do they know they've got their man?

12.  Solution: The fireman is the only man in the room.
The rest of the poker players are women.

13.  How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building
onto the ground and live?

14.  Solution: The baby fell out of a ground floor window.

15.  A man and his son are in a car crash. The father is
killed and the child is taken to hospital gravely injured.
When he gets there, the surgeon says, 'I can't operate
on this boy - for he is my son!!!' How can this possibly
be?

16.  Solution: The surgeon can not operate on her own son;
she is his mother.

17. .
 A police officer saw a truck driver clearly going the
wrong way down a one-way street, but did not try to
stop him. Why not?

18.  Solution: The truck driver was walking

19.  A New York city hairdresser recently said that he
would rather cut the hair of three Canadians than that
of one New Yorker. Why?

20.  Solution: Because he would earn three times as much
money!

21.  How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have
it come back to you, even if it doesn't hit anything,
there is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches
it and throws it back ??

22.  Solution: Throw the ball straight up in the sky.

25.  Solution : TOP SECRET

27.  SOLUTION : man in the moon

29.  Solution : first aid

31.  Solution : once upon a time