Thinking On Your Feet

Lateral thinking is a useful skill to have. The Times reports that would-be entrants to Oxford and Cambridge are asked apparently bizarre questions by tutors to test their ability to think on their feet. One question that came up last year was:

Stumbling and Mumbling provides a particularly good answer to this tricky little poser. One would hope that the tutor asking that question didn’t think this answer was given by a tricky little poseur.