Award one point for each correct answer below.
1. Which month of the year has 28 days?
ANSWER:
All 12 months have 28 days.
2. What question can you never honestly answer "yes" to?
ANSWER:
Are you asleep? Are you dead? [Award an extra point for both.]
3. I appear twice in a week though you only see me once in a year. What am I?
ANSWER:
The letter E.
4. A girl was ten on her last birthday and will be twelve on her next birthday. How can this be?
ANSWER:
Today is her eleventh birthday.
5. A man shaves several times a day and still has a beard. Who is this man?
ANSWER:
A barber.
6. Tom's mother has four children. The children's names are April, May, June and ?? Based on the available information given, can you determine the fourth child's name?
ANSWER:
Yes. The fourth child's name is Tom (Tom's mother...)
7. Below are three related words from which the same two vowels have been removed. Which missing vowels are needed to complete the words?
ANSWER:
The missing letters are E & A: Sea, Lake, Ocean are bodies of water.
8. If you are travelling eastbound at 75 mph on an electric train from Chicago to New York while the prevailing wind is moving north to south at 25 mph and the sun is setting in the west, which way is the smoke going?
ANSWER:
Nowhere. Electric trains do not have smoke.
9. The Sounds of Science. The following is a clue for what science-related word?
ANSWER:
Forensics (four N six).
10. A Shiek has two sons but under local law, only one son may inherit the Shiek's title and vast fortune. The Shiek tells his sons to race their camels from the desert; the camel that finishes last will win. The sons set out into the desert and meander there for three days unsure about what to do until they encounter a wiseman. After explaining their predicament and hearing the wiseman's sage words, the sons leap onto their camels and hurriedly race to the finish line. What did the wiseman tell them?
ANSWER:
He told the sons to trade camels.
FIVE POINT BONUS QUESTION. Complete the following series:
9 = 72
8 = 56
7 = 42
6 = 30
5 = 20
3 = ??
ANSWER:
Six. The next in the series should be 4 = 12 (the product of 4 and 3). And so 3 = 6 (the product of 3 and 2) and so on...
How did you do?
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Those questions don't say nothing about how skilled or experienced or how professional a person can be.
By @PaintedKitty
You do realize that that is just humor and not a real life situation, don't you?
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