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A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

icyfroth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:25:55 GMT

1.Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name?

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer How is this possible?

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

8. What was the President's Name in 1975?

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

11. 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 another field?

Here are the Answers

1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? Answer: Johnny of course.

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? Answer: Meat.

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? Answer: Mt. Everest ; it just wasn't discovered yet. [You're not very good at this are you?]

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? Answer: There is no dirt in a hole

5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly? Answer: Incorrectly

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible? Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.

8. What was the President's Name in 1975? Answer: Same as is it now - Barack Obama [Oh, come on ...]

9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now? Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"? Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]

11. 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 another field? Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

You can go back to sleep now ...

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

crystal**flake — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:34:58 GMT

I got most of them LOL

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

icyfroth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:45:11 GMT

Yeah they've been around a few times.

The wooden leg one had me stumped tho' :^O

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

izabsmiling — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:37:06 GMT

I was wondering how a urine test could keep the grey matter active

B-)

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

icyfroth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:56:27 GMT

I wondered that at first too, Iza, until I realised they meant a "small" test.

I kept thinking where's the wee punchline ?:|

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

twinkles**stars — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:25:14 GMT

number 8 ......fail!

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

icyfroth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:20:47 GMT

yeah I wondered about that too, Twinkles....

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

lis351 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:29:03 GMT

number 8 ......fail!

What makes you say that??

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

izabsmiling — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:34:29 GMT

meaning his name was the same in 1975 as it is now ?

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

icyfroth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:35:33 GMT

because... the president of the US in 1975 was surely Gerald Ford wasn't he?

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

izabsmiling — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:37 GMT

the President Barack Obama was not called Gerald Ford in 1975

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

lis351 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:46:17 GMT

Because it doesn't ask who WAS the president in 1975, it asks what the president (relating to the current president) name was in 1975. The answer quite clearly is Barack Obama, unless, he changed his name some time after 1975.

The questions were all exercises in semantics, I don't know why you would single out #8, that was one I didn't even have to think about.

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

icyfroth — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:49:57 GMT

but who in 1975 would have known about Barack Obama?

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

nevynreally — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:53:11 GMT

Oh FGS do some of you have to argue about every lttle thing? Is it because you didn't *get* it?

It's a bunch of riddles. After the first couple, most people would get that there's a catch in them.

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

lis351 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:53:36 GMT

Why does it matter whether he was known or not, he still had a name didn't he??

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

twinkles**stars — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:02:46 GMT

I failed number 8 ! maybe had I been not sotired and stressed I might have given it more thought. who knows

Re: A Wee Test, to Keep the Grey Matter Active!

lis351 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:07:11 GMT

LOL that's alright Twinks, I failed 7 and 11. :8}

They made complete sense when I read the answer though.