Post by gandalf the untidy on Mar 26, 2020 23:37:19 GMT
Max 3 answers per 24 hour period
some quite tricky ones here
1.What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word? Starting
2.What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? a penny coin
3.David's father has three sons : Snap, Crackle and _____ ? David
4.Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?yesterday, today,tomorrow
5.A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why? an apple a day keeps the doctor away
6.What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
7.When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?in a dictionary
8.What has many keys, but can't even open a single door?Piano
9.A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet? Your Exact weight
10.Re-arrange the letters, O O U S W T D N E J R, to spell just one word. What is it?Just one word
11.I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?Fire
12.Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?9 only 1 brother
13.What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it? A die
14.My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I? Candle
15.A man rode out of town on Sunday, he stayed a whole night at a hotel and rode back to town the next day on Sunday. How is this possible? Sunday was his Horse
16.A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? its a photograph
17.They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they? Gloves
18.I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I? Balckboard
19.Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?there was only 3 in the party Grandfather,father and son
20.Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth? Mount Everest
Scores so far
Daveuk 10
Tommo 3 + 0.5 chronology bonus
NeilH 3
chunky 2
SAv 2 + 1 bit bonus
Millhouse 2
some quite tricky ones here
1.What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word? Starting
2.What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? a penny coin
3.David's father has three sons : Snap, Crackle and _____ ? David
4.Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?yesterday, today,tomorrow
5.A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why? an apple a day keeps the doctor away
6.What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?
7.When does Christmas come before Thanksgiving?in a dictionary
8.What has many keys, but can't even open a single door?Piano
9.A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet? Your Exact weight
10.Re-arrange the letters, O O U S W T D N E J R, to spell just one word. What is it?Just one word
11.I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?Fire
12.Mr. and Mrs. Mustard have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Mustard family?9 only 1 brother
13.What has six faces, but does not wear makeup, has twenty-one eyes, but cannot see? What is it? A die
14.My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick. Fat, I am slow. Wind is my foe. What am I? Candle
15.A man rode out of town on Sunday, he stayed a whole night at a hotel and rode back to town the next day on Sunday. How is this possible? Sunday was his Horse
16.A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be? its a photograph
17.They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they? Gloves
18.I am white when I am dirty, and black when I am clean. What am I? Balckboard
19.Two fathers and two sons went fishing one day. They were there the whole day and only caught 3 fish. One father said, that is enough for all of us, we will have one each. How can this be possible?there was only 3 in the party Grandfather,father and son
20.Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth? Mount Everest
Scores so far
Daveuk 10
Tommo 3 + 0.5 chronology bonus
NeilH 3
chunky 2
SAv 2 + 1 bit bonus
Millhouse 2
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