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Lateral Thinking – Great Question

Mathematician: How do you write 4 in between 5?

Doctor: Are you crazy ?

Philosopher: Impossible!

Lecturer: The question is all wrong!

Engineer: Is this a question?


Dear Reader, What do you think could be the answer; give below in the Comments Section !!

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86 Responses to Lateral Thinking – Great Question

  1. Saeed Ullah Khan January 10, 2013 at 3:14 PM #

    F-IV-E

  2. Imran Ehsan January 4, 2013 at 10:25 AM #

    Engineer (another one): Are u asking for your knowledge or testing my skills?

    • Ali - Admin January 5, 2013 at 12:32 AM #

      Good one Imran.

  3. Sultan January 2, 2013 at 2:38 PM #

    F(IV)E — IV is 4 in roman

  4. Asim January 1, 2013 at 11:39 AM #

    Can anybody please tell me how did it hurt the egyptians? I have spent half an hour searching for it but couldnt find anything!

  5. Amir Hameed Dar January 1, 2013 at 5:50 AM #

    The answer is 12345. 4 is written in between 5.

  6. Moktadir Rahman Shourav December 31, 2012 at 11:02 PM #

    I was thinking drawing five lines of one type and drawing four others in between of another type, but then I saw F(IV)E. Ehh, required wit is exceptional

    • moony January 2, 2013 at 12:10 AM #

      cool

  7. Nabeel Sharif December 31, 2012 at 6:57 PM #

    F(iv) e

  8. suhaib December 31, 2012 at 5:16 PM #

    F(iv)e

  9. Aziz June 14, 2012 at 5:48 AM #

    F (IV) E

    • Malik Imran December 31, 2012 at 3:47 PM #

      Well done Aziz

  10. Hanane May 9, 2012 at 2:54 PM #

    The answer is 5 4 ?

  11. sadia May 6, 2012 at 1:13 PM #

    F IV E

  12. Marium April 22, 2012 at 6:39 AM #

    545
    F (IV) E

  13. Who Cares!! April 14, 2012 at 9:43 PM #

    ??????????????????
    ?? ?? ????? ???? ??? ???? ?? ???? ??????
    ???? ?? ???? ????? ?????? ????? ????? :@:@
    ???? ????? ??? ????? ??????? ??? ?? ???? ????? ????? ?? ???? ???????

  14. Shamshad April 14, 2012 at 8:01 AM #

    I don’t think he made fun of any country, he simply asked a hard question which normally most of ppl won’t be able to answer.

  15. skybeen April 13, 2012 at 9:40 PM #

    its iv …….means 4…..which lies in f iv e.

  16. Gusen April 11, 2012 at 11:02 PM #

    Salamaleykum,

    plz relax

  17. SALAH April 11, 2012 at 7:35 AM #

    f-IV-e
    FIVE = 5
    IV = 4

    • HAIDER ALI786 April 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM #

      right

      F IV E

  18. shahbaz April 10, 2012 at 11:51 PM #

    FIVE (IV is in between 5 FIVE) and it means 4…

    • Qudratullah April 11, 2012 at 6:12 PM #

      Agree with you!!

  19. shahbaz April 10, 2012 at 11:50 PM #

    FIVE (IV is in between FIVE) which means 4,,,,,

  20. Eng. Abdullah April 10, 2012 at 11:20 PM #

    The answer is 545 < 4 in between 5 🙂

  21. Mohd April 10, 2012 at 10:08 PM #

    This is tricky question, many people will understand as an insult. No need to mention any nationality to avoid confusion.

  22. a.n.toni April 10, 2012 at 9:36 PM #

    Dear all
    egyptians and readers I acnot see any insult in the question or what so called the joke.
    dear tan(v)eer forgive the poor language we were not colony of the British Impire for ages,
    thanks for all

  23. Hemaid M. Hemaid April 10, 2012 at 5:46 PM #

    To mention a specific nation on a joke is an insult. Smart people and good persons do not issue a subject that may leave a bad impression of some nation.
    This may cause me to unsubscribe at SARA club.
    The whole world know who the Egyptians are.
    They are (the old Pharaohs, Salah-Din, Quttoz, Nasir, Sadat, Zweil, Dr. Yaaqub ,,,,,,,,etc,) and many other famous pioneers in the world came from EGYPT.
    So, whatever people say, Egyptians are still proud of their nationality, and, in the near future all the world will see how the Egyptians will be.

    Hemaid

    • imran April 11, 2012 at 11:26 AM #

      Mr. Hemaid You can praise and feel proud and act like Pharaohs but we priase Moosa ‘AS’……….Anywaz use your brain if u’ll unsubscribe from SARA club it will not closed…………….Then it was to praise the egyptians but u morons never understood.

      • Khaled April 23, 2012 at 4:32 AM #

        whom do you mean by morons? tell us then your nationality then before you insult Egyptians & let us see if you even deserve to talk about’em

    • Saba April 11, 2012 at 11:52 AM #

      yes u r right. I have very great respect for all Egyptian and Egypt. Such a great and honoranle nation!!! Egypt , Mother of the world!!!

    • Nevin April 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM #

      May Allah bless you.

  24. helmy April 10, 2012 at 3:17 PM #

    this is 5 : I I I I I

    this is 4 : I I I I

    it will be this way
    I I I I I I I I I

  25. Osama April 10, 2012 at 3:00 PM #

    This is for an indication that the countries were to be used and not reflecting about their true talents or untalented. By the way, if all people are proud of their country saying…….I am Egyptian, American, British, Arab, Indian, Pakistani…..etc, then who is worse among you?So, none of you are greater or unimportant than anyone.
    “30:22 ?????? ???????? ?????? ????????????? ??????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ??????????????? ? ????? ??? ??????? ???????? ???????????????”
    “And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the variations in your languages and your colours: verily in that are Signs for those who know.”

    However, we see many of Egyptians as the generation of King Fir awn as 90%of Egyptians are not seemed as true Muslims. Attitudes, behaviors etc are out of Islam. specially, how-many of them are having beard grown and moustache trimmed by following the Hadeeth, which was requested to do negative to Christians and Jews?

    Follow the Islam as it has solutions for all the problems.
    Thanks.

  26. Tanwir April 10, 2012 at 2:25 PM #

    People! (Egyptians who are upset)

    Your command of English is poor. This riddle is actually praising Egyptian is a Good Manner.

    Also the word ‘Egyptian’ was only used to give you a clue to the answer

    ‘roman numerals’ IV=4

  27. siman April 10, 2012 at 1:39 PM #

    Some people here r weird who talks about Egyptians? It was a joke dnt take a personal, zara thanks for sharing with us

  28. aamir mirza April 10, 2012 at 11:59 AM #

    it should be FIVE——–> IV (its 4)

  29. Jawad April 10, 2012 at 10:58 AM #

    We can say 4 eggs between 5 pens or
    xxxxx rrrr xxxxx

  30. Mubarek AL-Amin April 10, 2012 at 9:48 AM #

    4our/`~`/5ive
    ———————————————-
    5:04 PM\AM O’clock :)) YEah!
    ———————————————-
    1234 + 4321= 5555 (*5?+)
    ———————————————-
    1+2+3+4=10
    ———————————————-
    ¿ 1 2 3 4 – 4 3 2 1 = 1 & ??

  31. ash April 10, 2012 at 9:44 AM #

    FIVE……F(1V)E…..roman letter 4 (1V)in between 5

    • sara April 10, 2012 at 11:52 AM #

      yup

  32. olaniyi salau April 10, 2012 at 3:48 AM #

    E-Mail

  33. Ayman Zaafran April 10, 2012 at 3:45 AM #

    By the way the answer of EGYPTIANS is this five or 5 is my five fingers and i can hold four of many thing between them its a very silly question .

  34. Ado April 10, 2012 at 3:42 AM #

    1,2-5-3,4.

  35. Ayman Zaafran April 10, 2012 at 3:27 AM #

    First of all loudly & proudly I am EGYPTIAN (DO NOT FOR GITE THE SPILLING)

    This is not a joke this is pull shit , we ( EGYPTIANS ) will not give any body the permition to tell jokes about us you can tell jokes about your nationality.
    We ( EGYPTIANS ) will fight for our repetition and no one will take our freedom like before again.
    (flex)

  36. KHALID AHMAD KHAN April 10, 2012 at 2:43 AM #

    44 4 44

  37. Hytham April 10, 2012 at 1:37 AM #

    Mathematician: How do you write 4 in between 5?

    Doctor: Are you crazy ?

    Philosopher: Impossible!

    Lecturer: The question is all wrong!

    Engineer: Is this a question?

    Egyptian: F(IV)E 🙂

  38. siraj April 9, 2012 at 11:15 PM #

    good question.
    my answer is “fifourve”

  39. Nipun Gupta April 9, 2012 at 9:14 PM #

    F(IV)E

  40. Fawaz April 9, 2012 at 8:57 PM #

    F IV E

    Fawaz

  41. Labib daloub April 9, 2012 at 8:13 PM #

    5 4 ?

  42. sama soliman April 9, 2012 at 7:55 PM #

    F(IV)E ……. IV is 4 in latin

    • alidoghame April 10, 2012 at 3:14 AM #

      This is the right answer.Bravo Sama

  43. Jad Huda April 9, 2012 at 5:51 PM #

    we can write 545 🙂
    so the 4 in between 5

  44. laila April 9, 2012 at 4:50 PM #

    why are some ones destort the idea?I think its good. no one should be angry..the answer is smart and it’s clear the joke praise egyptians, I like it.. its all for fun simply…

  45. Emad Ahmed April 9, 2012 at 4:22 PM #

    Not funny at all
    Best Regards,
    Egyptian

  46. Jebanec April 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM #

    Are you all retarded? The joke says nothing bad about Egyptians. It actually shows how smart they are. But obviously some ‘beoble’ here don’t understand English.

  47. salma April 9, 2012 at 3:42 PM #

    This sure is so biased and unfair to other nationalities, caution should be put in posting some type of joke plsss. Dis is definately a crab

  48. ABDUL REHMAN KHOT April 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM #

    Dear Sara,

    What a scrap is this???? You should not post such waste joke and above that pertaining to nationality you should not do this. It will hurt lot of Egyptian people so please make sorry to all Egyptian nationals.

    Thanks & Best Regards,
    Khot Abdul Rehman.

    • Sarim April 9, 2012 at 4:07 PM #

      Are you mad man Abdul Rehman??? What do you mean by egyptions. Who is talking about ejyptions here. Fool. Control your self

    • Tictac April 9, 2012 at 9:57 PM #

      If you can’t take a simple joke go get a life. Tfeh seriously

  49. Aqeel Meraj April 9, 2012 at 2:21 PM #

    it is impossible for egyptions to think like that. It was the most biased joke i have ever read.

  50. Egyptian April 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM #

    Lets see this from another point of view:

    Mathematician: How do you write 4 in between 5?
    Chinese: Are you crazy ?
    Egyptian: Impossible!
    American: The question is all wrong!
    British: Is this a question?
    The Japanese wrote down:
    F(IV)E
    that is why Japanese are considered as smart people!! Enjoy!!

    Let try this again:
    Mathematician: How do you write 4 in between 5?
    Chinese: Are you crazy ?
    Japanese: Impossible!
    American: The question is all wrong!
    British: Is this a question?
    The Cow wrote down:
    F(IV)E
    that is why Cows are considered as smart people!! Enjoy!!

    Guys this kind of posts are just lame, instead of adding nationalities just say “A person” or whatever.

    • Shamshad April 9, 2012 at 1:47 PM #

      dude, don’t mind, it was just for fun

      • Who Cares!! April 13, 2012 at 4:54 AM #

        and if we make fun of Ur country, then U’ll say, it’s fun, never mind
        U won’t, It’s just the same 🙂

        • Egyptian April 14, 2012 at 1:50 PM #

          but I am egyptian…