Stimulate that thing on ur shoulders-brain teaser!

1
Supposing you are captain of a ship and it has three red funnels and it leaves New York on a Tuesday and gets to Southampton on Saturday and on the return trip reaches New York on Thursday, what is the name of the captain of the ship.

2
So you can spell coke, joke, poke but how do you spell the white of an egg?

3
A person who picks up cigarette butts from the streets finds that he can roll a new cigarette from the tobacco of seven butts. One Saturday he picks up forty-nine butts and on the Sunday decides to smoke all the cigarettes he can make from them. How many cigarettes did he smoke?

4
Generally speaking, birds lay their eggs in nests up in trees or down at ground level. Where do peacocks lay theirs?

5
An electric train is heading north at 60 mph. If the wind is blowing west at 30 mph, what direction is the smoke blowing?







Here are the answers gang:


1
You

2
'Albumen' - Which is the white of an egg. It is a natural reaction to think 'yolk'

3
8 new (yeah..yucky indeed) cigarettes. (He makes 7 new cigarettes from the 49 butts found, but after smoking these this creates 7 new butts so he can make another one.)

4
Peacocks do not lay eggs, Peahens do

5
What smoke? Electric!