Tuesday, October 30, 2007
♥ 6:27 AM
Question 1 with suggested answer:
There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
Incorrectly.
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Question 2 with suggested answer:
A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?
1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
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Question 3 with suggested answer:
A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water?
None, the boat rises with the tide.
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Question 4 with suggested answer:
There is a house with four walls Each wall faces south. There is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is the bear?
White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North Pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
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Question 5 with suggested answer:
Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
Three, if you follow the mathematical orders of operation. Division is performed before addition. So, half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.
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Question 6 with suggested answer:
There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the floor. How did sloppy die?
Sloppy is a goldfish. The wind blew the shutters in, which knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him by asphyxiation.
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Question 7 with suggested answer:
How much dirt would be in a hole 2 metres deep and 2 metres wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of dirt. Notice, too, that you don't even know how much air is in the hole because the question doesn't provide the length of the hole.
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Question 8 with suggested answer:
Suppose you are in Juneau, Alaska and drop a bowling ball from a height of three feet into a bucket of water at 10 degrees Celsius. Then, you drop a bowling ball of the same weight, mass, and size from the same height into another bucket at negative 10 degree Celsuis. Which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket fastest?
The ball in the bucket of 10 degree C water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water in the negative 10 degree C bucket is frozen? Think again. The question said nothing about that second bucket having anything in it. Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down.
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Question 9 with suggested answer:
What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.
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Question 10 with suggested answer:
What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
An umbrella.
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Question 11 with suggested answer:
If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field?
One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
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Question 12 with suggested answer:
What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
The temperature.
-----haha ORG B stuff on creativity----------
i feel so lazy to do any work now. although so much stuff due next week.. NEH.
