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tstapleton
26th April 2005, 18:17
How many can you get right, post your answers.

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from he 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?

4. 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?

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

6. 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. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that has been dug with a square edged shovel?

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water which is 45! degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight, mass and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon! on May 6th.

10. 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?

11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

SaxoAL
26th April 2005, 18:26
no 1: would be the word 'incorrectly'

no 5: would be 3

no 6: is sloppy a fish, thats bowl was knocked over by the shutters?

no 7: there would be no dirt in the hole.

Rather confused about alot of them... hmmmm

SaxoAL
26th April 2005, 18:30
no 3: 3 rungs would be under water ?

higgzy03
26th April 2005, 18:31
i was never any good at riddles smileys/smiley5.gif smileys/smiley24.gif

tstapleton
26th April 2005, 18:33
SaxoAl - 4/11

SaxoAL
26th April 2005, 18:40
4 rungs under water??

tstapleton
26th April 2005, 19:21
no no no, think about it

SaxoAL
26th April 2005, 19:30
Doh !
No rungs are under the water.. smileys/smiley2.gif

tstapleton
26th April 2005, 19:56
SaxoAl - 5/11 smileys/smiley32.gif

SaxoAL
26th April 2005, 20:01
come on people , help me out ! smileys/smiley17.gif

higgzy03
27th April 2005, 00:51
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

Temperature

I've been trying since early on and this is the only one i could answer

Certi
27th April 2005, 01:02
is the answer to no.10: 1? And for no.4: is the bear white?