Contents
Introduction: Do You Still Think You’re Clever?
How would you poison someone without the police finding out?
How would you market a rock band?
How small can you make a computer?
How do you organise a successful revolution?
Do you believe that statues can move, and how might this belief be justified?
Why do human beings have two eyes?
Would Ovid’s chat-up line work?
Instead of politicians, why don’t we let the managers of IKEA run the country?
Here is a piece of bark, please talk about it
Which way is the Earth spinning?
Should we have laws for the use of light bulbs?
What do you think of teleport machines?
How many molecules are there in a glass of water?
How is it possible that a sailing boat can go faster than the wind?
Would Mussolini have been interested in archaeology?
Should poetry be difficult to understand?
What is the square root of –1?
Why might erosion make mountain ranges higher?
Should a Walmart store be opened in the middle of Oxford?
Is the moon made of green cheese?
Why did Henry VII call his son Arthur?
How would you compare Henry VIII and Stalin?
Why do you think Charlotte Brontë detested Jane Austen?