Question: Below is a Quiz written by Einstein in the lst century. He said 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. Are you among the other 2%?
FACTS
1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors.
2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3. These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
4. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.
HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the Blue House.
15. The man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
THE QUESTION IS....WHO KEEPS FISH?
There is no trick to this - it needs deductive reasoning and definitely a pen and paper.
Answer:
Nationality Beverage Cigar Pet House Color
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Norwegian Water Dunhill Cat Yellow
Dane Tea Blend Horses Blue
Brit Milk Pall Mall Bird Red
German Coffee Prince Fish Green
Swede Beer Blue Master Dog White
Therefore the answer is the German.
There is one more possible answer, if we remove "immediate" from the Hint 4 i.e. read it as "The green house is on the left of the white house, not necessarily on the immediate left"
Nationality Beverage Cigar Pet House Color
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Norwegian Coffee Blend Fish Green
German Water Prince Cats Blue
Swede Milk Dunhill Dogs Yellow
Brit Beer Blue Master Horses Red
Dane Tea Pall Mall Birds White
Thus, either German or Norwegian keeps the Fish, if the green house is not necessarily on the immediate left of the white house.