This lesson contains 19 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
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Black stories
Slide 1 - Slide
A man is found in the middle of the countryside dead, with the only company of a box closed next to him. What happened?
Slide 2 - Open question
A man is found in the middle of the countryside dead, with the only company of a box closed next to him. What happened?
The box is a parachute that didn't open... It wasn't the luckiest day in the man's life.
Slide 3 - Slide
Anthony and Cleopatra are lying dead on the floor of a villa in Egypt. Nearby is a broken bowl. There is no mark on either of their bodies and they were not poisoned. How did they die?
Slide 4 - Open question
Anthony and Cleopatra are lying dead on the floor of a villa in Egypt. Nearby is a broken bowl. There is no mark on either of their bodies and they were not poisoned. How did they die?
Anthony and Cleopatra were goldfish whose bowl was knocked over by a clumsy dog.
Slide 5 - Slide
A man goes into a bar and asks for a glass of water. After finishing it, the waitress takes a gun from the bar and points at him. He says "thank you" and goes away. What did the man have?
Slide 6 - Open question
A man goes into a bar and asks for a glass of water. After finishing it, the waitress takes a gun from the bar and points at him. He says "thank you" and goes away. What did the man have?
Hiccups
Slide 7 - Slide
A lonely woman jumps from the rooftop of a skyscraper. Just before crashing, she completely regrets doing it. What happened?
Slide 8 - Open question
A lonely woman jumps from the rooftop of a skyscraper. Just before crashing, she completely regrets doing it. What happened?
She was the only survivor (or that she thought) of a nuclear war. After a year all by herself, she decides to commit suicide. In the moment when she jumps from the building, she hears a phone ringing. Obviously, there is another survivor out there...
Slide 9 - Slide
There's a black car driving on a black road. Both the street lights and the car lights are turned off, and the buildings are also black. A black cat is crossing the road, the car stops to let it pass. How could he have seen the cat?
Slide 10 - Open question
There's a black car driving on a black road. Both the street lights and the car lights are turned off, and the buildings are also black. A black cat is crossing the road, the car stops to let it pass. How could he have seen the cat?
Because it was daylight
Slide 11 - Slide
A woman dies because of a long telephone conversation. What happened?
Slide 12 - Open question
A woman dies because of a long telephone conversation. What happened?
She was just coming from the mechanic, where she had picked up her car. The mechanic forgot to fix the brakes, and he was trying to reach her and tell her, but it was impossible because she was talking the whole time.
Slide 13 - Slide
A woman buys a new pair of red high heels. Hours later, she dies. What happened?
Slide 14 - Open question
A woman buys a new pair of red high heels. Hours later, she dies. What happened?
Her husband was a magician that was doing a gun trick with an apple on her head. He didn't realize she was wearing high heels so he didn't calculate the height accurately... he closed his eyes and killed her...
Slide 15 - Slide
There are a man and his son in a car. The car crashes and the father dies. When the ambulance takes the son to the hospital, the surgeon says: "I can't do the surgery, because he is my son". How can that be possible?
Slide 16 - Open question
There are a man and his son in a car. The car crashes and the father dies. When the ambulance takes the son to the hospital, the surgeon says: "I can't do the surgery, because he is my son". How can that be possible?
Because the surgeon is a woman, and she is his mother.
Slide 17 - Slide
A taxi stops, the taxi driver opens the door and a dead man falls on the road. What happened?
Slide 18 - Open question
A taxi stops, the taxi driver opens the door and a dead man falls on the road. What happened?
The previous passenger was a spider lover and he forgot a box with a spider in it. This dead man panicked when he saw the spider and got a heart attack.