Brainteaser

Today's brainteaser is a quiz called 'Job Lot' and today we give you the answer to the question being asked. All you have to do is decide which of the four possible answers is the right one.

01 What does an underwriter do?
Supervise the preparation and burial of the dead.
Deal in insurance.
Edit manuscripts.
Write the captions for cartoons and advertisements.

02 What does a speleologist do?
Study the use of spelling.
Practice black magic.
Study and explore caves.
Keep a record of proceedings in a court of law.

03 What does a lexicographer do?
Codify the law.
Compile dictionaries.
Take bets at sporting events.
Send messages by Morse code.

04 What does Black Rod do? Does he.
Carry MPs to imprisonment in the Tower of London.
Act as an usher to the Lord Chamberlains department.
Administer the birch in the Isle of Man.
Look after the dogs in the royal household.

05 What is the name of a man who makes his living by collecting flotsam?
A beachcomber.
A longshoreman.
A docker.
A dustman.

06 What does a purser do? Does he.
Make wallets.
Act as an official carrying money between banks.
Supervise the stocking and issue of provisions on board ship.
Track down missing persons.

07 What does a stenographer do? Does he.
Design automatic weapons.
Act as a public orator.
Write in shorthand.
Produce stencils.

08 What does a cartographer make? Is it.
Maps.
Transport vehicles.
Paper.
Legal documents.

09 What did alchemists try to do? Was it.
To make gold out of base metals.
To find the secret of eternal youth.
To event a means of making man fly.
To prove that the world was round.

10 What does an orthodontist do? Does he.
Study pronunciation.
Correct the malformation of teeth.
Manipulate a patients back to relieve pain.
Study evolution.

Interesting questions, some quite hard. Good Luck.