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Monday, September 19, 2011

Brain Teasers

by Dianne


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 second 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?

The answers will be posted later today! 

Answers:
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 second 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 of course

2. Meat.

3. Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet.

4. There is no dirt in a hole.

5. Incorrectly

6. Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere

7. You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera (or a cell phone) to take pictures.

8. Same as is it now - Rick Perry

9. You would be in second.. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.

10. Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow

11. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

31 comments:

Tina~in_ut said...

Good Moaning~

Tina~in_ut said...

I love these things, Di~ Thanks for sending it~ (I'm not going to answer them)

Unknown said...

good morning...

1. Johnny
2. meat
3. Mt. Everest
4. none
5. incorrectly
6. Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere
7. You can't take a picture with a wooden leg
8. Barack Obama
9. 2nd place
10. Neither, its yellow
11. One

goldie said...

Good Morning!

Nothing like having to think early this morning Dianne. If michael's answers are correct, then I got most of them. Now, if I had more coffee in me I might have gotten them all.

Flapping a wing at all the Hooters who fly in today!!

Lynn D said...

Morning Glories!

Sacbarb and I got most of them too. I agree with goldie it is hard to think before the first cup of Joe kicks in.

Unknown said...

wasn't hard for me...and I don't drink coffee...

just bam bam bam!!

Which ones did you all miss...lq

and I haven't seen any BABB pictures...whassup with that?

Unknown said...

last night on the pre red carpet emmy thing Ross said one girls dresses...named Nina Doughbread or something...

looked like a sleeping bag!!!

It was by Donna Karan and it did look like a sleeping bag...ha hahahaha!!

..it made have been on the pre red carpet pre pre emmy pre show....so stupid..

Lynn D said...

MeeMee you may not have had coffee but from your last post it looks like you might have had a drinky winky.

We missed number 9 and I totally missed the incorrectly teaser.

Unknown said...

but I don't drink....hiccup!

Tina~in_ut said...

No....but you do look this stuff up online~ ga!!!~

Unknown said...

what a bitch...

Zona said...

Good Morning!

DI: One Diet Coke..3 hours of sleep..and there were only 2 I missed..woohoo! I'm lovin' even the small successes..lol.. ;D

btw..today is the one week anniversary..once again..have to grab onto each and every victory!! :D

TINA: Helllloooo Gorgeous!

MICHAEL: Thank you for the answers to #'s 8 and 11...I was going to answer Ford to 8 and I didn't want to do the math for 11! :D

GOLDIE: Getting the ingredients for the ice cream today..no surprise that I forgot to write them down when we went to the store over the weekend..I know Nikki is going to love it! :)

LYNND: Not enough Joe eh? As BARB would say..that's your story and you're stickin' to it! ;D

Temps going back up into the 105s..looks like one more week of swimming..yay!

Have a good day everyone!!

Tina~in_ut said...

roflmbo~ omg....wheezing....Miguelito...takes one to know one~

Zona~ haven't had a DP in two days.....and don't really want one~ Got down to 1 a day and wasn't even finishing them~

Lynn D said...

Yay Zona!

MeeMee you don't drink??? Holy cats! You mean all of your posts are sober posts?????

Lynn D said...

Hi, HOoters! This is J/L. I'm having a grand time with Lynn and Barb. Barb is the hostess with the mostest. Bear, of course, is all the the hostest with the mostest and did a wonderful job hosting this year's BABB. He barbequed delicious steaks and salmon and had all the trimmings. Good times and many laughs. Thank you, Bear!

Unknown said...

Stone cold sober...


However I do take a variety of medications...

2 for my dibeetus...
2 for my high blood pressure (cutting doesn't work)
2 for my Mineres Disease...

then Pristiq with a Xanax chaser along with a hit of 1mg folic acid...

Unknown said...

Oh! ...the folic acid adds a nice touch of color to the mix...its a lovely buttery yellow...

one of the BP pills is coral and the Pristiq is pink...the rest are all white but I must say one has a pearlescent thing going on...

although I would like to improve this color mix the doctors frown upon treatment by color rather than need.

I'd like to see the drug companies get on board and start paying a little more attention to a patients ability to match their drugs to their ensemble or their home decor....or at least to a color combo that is pleasing to the eye..

Bunch of republicans I bet...

Tina~in_ut said...

I'm sad~ Dolores died~ :(

Unknown said...

102...natural causes....very sad.

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

sad for us I mean...not for her...

Tina~in_ut said...

true.....she's in Heaven now~

Tina~in_ut said...

okay....I published the answers~

Zona said...

Hi Guys!

TINKA asked me to tell you that she hasn't been able to get onto the Blog..she can't even get it to load. She's going to keep trying though and wanted me to say HI to everyone for her. Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon! :)

TINA: I had to Google Dolores..I was so cornfused.. ;D

I need to cut back on the DC..in the spirit of full disclosure I'm sipping on one as I write this.. ;)

J/LIN: I just wonder how much is slumber..and how much is partaay with you three... ;D

Zona said...

25 for TINK.. :D

Shirley(NCC-1701) said...

I got 7 out of 11 right! But I don't get #8.

Shirley(NCC-1701) said...

Evening Tina, Michael, Goldie, Lynn D, Zona and Tinka!

Shirley(NCC-1701) said...

Michael I take a red capsule, a pink capsule, a beige pill, a purple pill, a blue pill, a pink pill, 2 lg white pills, a sm white pill and an oval white pill. The only thing missing is yellow and green!

Unknown said...

Shirley..

I am sooo jealous of that purple and blue....ga!!

whabbear said...

Evening, Shirley! Well, it's halfway through the night in Nova Scotia!

Hey, we sure missed all the owls who couldn't make the BABB this year! But don't worry... we did get to talk to Zona on the phone, and as for the rest of you (Michael, Tina), well, suffice to say, did you feel your ears burning at any point on Saturday night? LOL!

Dianne/Denver said...

Hi Everyone tonight.....Thanks for the comments on the blog today. I missed a few of those questions when I first read them last week. I felt pretty dumb when I read the answers to myself

Not much new on this end of the world. Glad you all had a fun time at the BBQ. It sounded like a lot of fun and very sorry I wasn't able to come this time. I thought about all of you throughout the day.

Time for bike and bed. Have a good sleep everyone.