Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again!

No.

No.

No.

No.

YES!

Colby Nolan was the cat living with a deputy attorney general in Pennsylvania. To expose a Dallas-based diploma mill under the Trinity Southern University he was signed with a made-up application.

In fact, it’s already been played in the old thread.

I didn’t mention it earlier, in case somebody missed it and wanted to guess here.

That’s OK, several of us already did a few posts back.

Oh, damn. It was so much better stated too.

**In 1959, a little boy put a finger in each ear. No one cared at the time, but he really should not have done this. Indeed people still talk about and remember this action now. Why? **

Is it based on a real story?

Is it based on a fictional story?

Is it something that could happen in the real world?

Gregorian calendar?

Is the year relevant?

A human boy?

His own finger?

His own ears?

Did anybody cared eventually?

Would people have cared had they known?

Because of consequences the boy suffered?

Consequences that happen to something else?

People worldwide?

People in a continent?

People in a country?

People in a region?

A form of mockery?

reply to Go_Arachnid_Laser

Is it based on a real story? Yes.

Is it based on a fictional story?** No.**

Is it something that could happen in the real world? Yes.

Gregorian calendar? Yes

Is the year relevant? Not the exact year really, but it does place what happened in a time frame.

A human boy? Yes

His own finger? Yes

His own ears? Yes

Did anybody cared eventually? Yes

Would people have cared had they known? Yes

Because of consequences the boy suffered? No

Consequences that happen to something else? No

People worldwide? No

People in a continent? No

People in a country? No

People in a region? No

A form of mockery? No

Is the boy currently alive?

Is he known for anything other than putting his fingers in his ears?

Was he filmed doing it?

Was he photographed doing it?

reply to Fretful Porpentine:

Is the boy currently alive? Not sure

Is he known for anything other than putting his fingers in his ears? I don’t think so

Was he filmed doing it? Yes

Was he photographed doing it? No

Was the kid in a feature film?

Television?

Is it the kid in North by Northwest who knew some kind of explosion was going to go(or gun shots) so he plugged his ears before the “bang” happened?

Note: did not cheat, but the image of a kid with his fingers in his ears made me remember this moment in the movie.

Yes

**Detective Smith and his team were aggressively pursuing the tail of the worst serial killer in the history of their police force. 40 murders or attempted murders, probably more that went undiscovered. Suddenly, Smith and his team called off all investigations. Why?
**

Was the killer human?

Were the individuals who were killed human?

Does it matter when this happens?

Does it matter where it happens?

Was the identity of the killer known to Detective Smith?

YES

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Did someone else take over the investigation?

Was there a change in law that legalized what the killer was accused of?

Was there any change in government or civil adminstration?

Did a different police force solve the crime?

Is this based on true events?

Is this based on a fictional story?

Is this something that could happen in the real world?

Is Detective Smith working in a precinct?

Is this in the U.S.?

Was his team made of people?

More than three?

More than ten?

The tail they were pursuing was not a literal tail, was it?

Was the serial killer an actual serial killer (as in defined as such by, for instance, the FBI)?

Was the history of their police force particularly brief?

Were the attempted murders included in that 40-victim tally?

Did Smith call off the investigation?

Did an external authority call off the investigation?

Was Smith’s calling off of the investigation an ethical action (as defined by standard police professional ethics)?

Did Smith call off the investigation because of something new he learned about the suspect?

At the time Smith called off the investigation, was the suspect alive?

Is a statute of limitations relevant?

Was Smith the top authority in his police force?

Was Smith ordered by someone else to call off the investigation?