Contents

Introduction: Do You Still Think You’re Clever?

How would you poison someone without the police finding out?

Will this bag ever be empty?

How would you market a rock band?

Is Wittgenstein always right?

How small can you make a computer?

How do you organise a successful revolution?

If there were three beautiful, naked women standing in front of you, which one would you pick? And does this have any relevance to economics?

Do you believe that statues can move, and how might this belief be justified?

Why do human beings have two eyes?

Was Shakespeare a rebel?

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

My little girl says she knows she’s going to get a brother when my wife gives birth in seven months’ time. Is she right?

If a wife had expressed distaste for it previously, would her husband’s habit of putting marmalade in his egg at breakfast be grounds for divorce?

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?

Why does a tennis ball spin?

Would Mussolini have been interested in archaeology?

Should poetry be difficult to understand?

What is the square root of –1?

Imagine we had no records of the past at all, except everything to do with sport – how much of the past could we find out about?

How do you see through glass?

Can a thermostat think?

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?

What makes a strong woman?

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?

If you are in a boat in a lake and throw a stone out of the boat, what happens to the level of the water?

Are Fairtrade bananas really fair?

How does geography relate to A Midsummer Night’s Dream?