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I went out to Amsterdam this summer. I spent the entire day there asking the same question to everyone I came across. Though I met around 7700 people from 23 different countries, everybody had a different answer to the same question.

What question did I ask?
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    What is the Time Now?

    dyj Expert Answered on 8th June 2016.

    Many different people may not have watch, or they don’t know the time!!
    Then simply they may say: “Sorry I’m not sure”.
    So your answer is not complete one!!

    on 9th June 2016.

    Its the correct one, for an idelistic condition, time is different at every point of time if questioning,
    I’ll show them my watch and ask what time is this?

    on 9th June 2016.

    Yes!
    That’s awesome!
    But people usually don’t say the second hand value.
    So u can ask two persons the same question within one minute!!
    Then the answer will not differ?

    on 9th June 2016.
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    First I want to make sure that whatever I ask them , they surely give the answer to me!!( I’ll ask very very secret one!!! 🙂 )
    Otherwise my mission will fail if everybody say: sorry, we don’t have time..lol

    Okay then I will take a mini white board with a marker!
    Now I will write 1 on the board.
    And I will ask the person I met for the first time: “What is the number written on the board?”
    After I meet him, I deleted the number and write 2 on the board!
    And I will ask the 2nd person the same question..
    Now every time I meet one , I will increase the number by one. So their answer will differ!!
    The question will be the same every time though!!

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     Read carefully the puzzle!!
    “I spent the entire day there asking the same question to everyone I came across”
    “everybody had a different answer to the same question.”
    If they don’t understand the question, they how they answered?
    If they ignored him or, simply they didn’t understand his jargon they couldn’t answer.
    So everybody of course knows the speaker’s language !!!!
    Yes..one person may say I don’t know the answer/ your language. But two can’t. Because their answer must be different.

    thesucker Expert Answered on 9th June 2016.

    Well, “I met around 7700 people from 23 different countries” — Means those people may NOT understand the language in which you ask the question. e.g. If you ask the question in English to someone who doesn’t understand English much (may be a tourist just reached from another country where English is not widely understood), he may not even understand what you asked, and may not respond the way the puzzle says. (Some of them might say ‘I don’t know English’ or ‘I didn’t understand’ or something like that.)

    on 9th June 2016.

    Read carefully the puzzle!!
    “I spent the entire day there asking the same question to everyone I came across”
    “everybody had a different answer to the same question.”
    If they don’t understand the question, they how they answered?
    If they ignored him or, simply they didn’t understand his jargon they couldn’t answer.
    So everybody of course knows the speaker’s language !!!!

    on 9th June 2016.

    That logic applies to your comment to the answer given by dyj below as well. There, you counted “I’m not sure” as an answer. Then why can’t “I don’t know English” be an answer as well?  Also, what if the person whom you asked didn’t understand your style of writing the number? (Say, I could write the Numeral ‘1’ in any other script (say, Arabic or Devnagari (Hindi) or some other Indian language, which many people may not understand. On the other hand, if I wrote the number as ‘1’ as in the answer, and the person I asked happens to be someone who understands numerals in his own regional language only, he might ask, ‘oh.. is that a number?’ (Of course, the possibility may be one in a million, but you can’t rule it out since you ask ‘everyone came across’.)

    on 9th June 2016.

    “everybody had a different answer to the same question”…….How it possible?
    Because everybody understands the question…Otherwise at least two of them may say : “Sorry we don’t know  English/ the answer”!

    Yes , may be one of them may say: Sorry, I don’t know. But not two. Because two answer will differ.. must differ by statements!!

    So you can’t argue that someone may not know the speaker’s language! They may be Arabic ,may be from India…China….But they answer differently!! so all of them understood what the speaker told then . We can guarantee here only one may don’t know the speaker’s language but, except that person all of them know that language…

    on 9th June 2016.

    Suppose I asked two Arabic people the same question .Suppose they don’t know English.They will answer:
    A: Sorry I don’t know(In Arabic)
    B:Sorry I don’t know (In Arabic)
    But their answers don’t become different!
    Now u can also argue…..One may say:
    A:Sorry(In Arabic)
    B:Sorry, I don’t know English(In Arabic)
    The answers are different…Then I will say I’m sorry.

    on 10th June 2016.
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    What is the time Now?
    What is your mobile number and date of birth?

    Detective Expert Answered on 10th June 2016.
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    What is your name?

    Nima Starter Answered on 8th June 2016.
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