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Q & A
1. If you went to bed at 8 o'clock at night and wound up your
clock alarm to get you up at 9 o'clock the next morning, how many
hours sleep would you get?
2. Do they have a 4th of July in England?
3. How many birth days does the average man have?
4. Why can't a man living in Winston-Salem, NC, be buried west of the Mississippi River?
5. If you had only one match and entered a room in which there
was a kerosene lamp, an oil heater, and
a woodburning stove, which would you light first?
6. Some months have 30 days, some have 31; how many months have 28 days?
7. If a doctor gave you 3 pills and told you to take one every half hour, how long would they last you?
8. A man builds a house and all four sides have a southern exposure. A bear wanders by - what color is the bear?
9. How far can a dog run into the woods?
10. What four words appear on every denomination of U.S. coins?
11. In baseball, how many outs in an inning?
12. I have in my hand only 2 U.S. coins which total 55 cents in value. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?
13. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left?
14. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add ten. What is the answer?
15. Two men were playing checkers. Each played five games
and each man won the same number of
games. No draws. How can this be?
16. Take two apples from three apples and what do you have?
17. An archaeologist claimed he found some coins of gold dated to 46 B.C. Do you think he did?
18. How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the Ark with him?
19. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
Here are the answers:
1. 1 hour of sleep. Wind up clocks don't have am/pm settings.
2. Yes, and a 5th, a 6th, ...
3. 1
4. He could be buried alive but that would be awful.
5. Light the match first.
6. All 12 have 28 days
7. 1 hour
8. White. The North Pole is the only place where all four
sides
face south.
9. halfway, then he would be running out of the woods.
10. In God We Trust
11. 6 outs per inning
12. A half-dollar and a nickel. (Only one was not a nickel)
13. 9 sheep
14. 70
15. They weren't playing against each other
16. 2 apples
17. How can coins be dated B.C. if the designation didn't exist until A.D.
18. I thought Noah brought 2 of each animal, not Moses
19. No. Can't marry someone if you're dead.
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