Einstein wrote the following quiz last century. He claimed that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. How about you?

"There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here's the question: Who owns the fish?

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 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 middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
12. ...

A bowl of dim sum contains forty noodles and is split between two people. Each person can take between one and six noodles per bite. If the first person to take the bite wants to guarantee he eats the last bite as well, how many noodles would he eat on his first bite?


Source: 2006 World's Smartest Person Challenge