TODAY'S EXAMINATION
  Your examination today will be in four parts.  Please answer all
  questions to the best of your ability.  There are a total of 58
  questions; several are duplicates.  Each correct answer is worth 2
  points, each wrong response is 3 points. 10 points will be awarded
  if you don't look at the answers below.  Partial credit will be
  given impartially. You will have 7 minutes to complete the entire
  examination. In the event you finish early, please turn in your
  completed test booklet and you will be excused.  Don't forget to
  read chapters 34-167 for tomorrow's examination.  Good luck.

                QUIZ #1
   1. If a plane crashes on the border of the US and Canada where are
      the survivors buried?
   2. An electric train is travelling due south. The wind is coming
      from the east, which way will the trains' smoke blow?
   3. A rooster is sitting on the roof of Joe's house. If he lays an
      egg and it rolls to the right, it lands in Joe's property. But
      if rolls to the left, it will be on his neighbor Sam's land.
      Should Sam be allowed to keep the eggs?
   4. Joe also has a potato plant that is growing near the edge of his
      property. Sam says he wants to pick any potato he sees growing
      over his fence. Can Sam pick the potato?

                QUIZ #2
   1. Do they have a 4th of July in England?
   2. How many birthdays does the average man have?
   3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
   4. A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar's
      sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. How come?
   5. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
   6. How many outs are there in an inning?
   7. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?
      Why?
   8. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same
      number of games. There are not ties. Explain this.
   9. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
  10. A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have
      southern exposure. A big bear walks by, what color is the bear?
      Why?
  11. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
  12. I have two US coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel.
      What are the coins?
  13. If you have only one match and you walked into a room where
      there was an oil burner, a kerosene lamp, and a wood burning
      stove, which one would you light first?
  14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
  15. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every
      half hour. How long would the pills last?
  16. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?
  17. How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
  18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10" tall. What does he weigh?
  19. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
  20. What was the President's name in 1950?

                QUIZ #3
   1. How long did the Hundred Years War last?
   2. Which country makes Panama hats?
   3. From which animal do we get catgut?
   4. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
   5. What is a camel's hair brush made of?
   6. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
   7. What was King George VI's first name?
   8. What color is a purple finch?
   9. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
  10. How long did the Thirty Years War last?

                QUIZ #4
   1. There is one word in the English language that is always
      pronounced incorrectly. What is it?
   2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15
      cents.   What time is it?
   3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot
      apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The
      tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in
      one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are
      under water?
   4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There
      is a window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows.
      What color is the bear?
   5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?
   6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken
      glass on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find
      Sloppy dead on the floor. How did Sloppy die?
   7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide
      that has been dug with a square edged shovel?
   8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of
      water which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the
      same weight, mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, them at
      the same time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket
      first? Same question, but the location is in Canada?
   9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978,
      thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.
  10. What can go up a chimney down, but can't go down a chimney up?
  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 the center field?
  12. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?
  13. Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985.
      How is this possible?
  14. What has four legs but only one foot?
  15. How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark?
  16. Kindly old Grandfather Lunn
      Is twice as old as his son
      Twenty-five years ago
      Their age ratio
      Strange enough was three to one
      When does Grandfather celebrate his centenary?
  17. Said a certain young lady named Gwen
      Of her tally of smitten young men
      "one less and three more
      Divided by four
      Together give one more than ten"
      How many boyfriends had she?
  18. There was a young fellow named Clive
      Whose bees number ten power five
      The daughters to each son
      Were as nineteen to one,
      A truly remarkable hive.
      How many sons (drones) were in the hive?
  19. A team's opening batter named Nero
      Squared his number of hits, the big hero!
      After subtracting his score
      He took off ten and two more
      And the final result was a "zero".
      How many hits did Nero make?
  20. Some freshman from Trinity Hall
      Played hockey with a wonderful ball;
      Two times its weight
      Plus weight squared, minus eight,
      Gave "nothing" in ounces at all.
      What was the weight of the ball?
  21. The Bar Z ranch was a dude ranch. One day a new "dude" asked
      one of the stable hands how many men were tending the horses
      in the corral. Having a mischievous sense of humor, he
      replied, "I saw eighty-two feet and twenty-six heads". He
      then walked away, leaving the dude scratching his head trying
      to figure it out. How many men were tending the horses?
  22. One morning as Paul was getting his newspaper, he noticed on
      his new house something that needed to be fixed. Heading over
      to the hardware store, he spoke to the manager, describing his
      problem. The manager said, "I know just what you need". He led
      Paul down some aisles and stopped in front of some bins.
      Digging down into some of the bins, he set something up on the
      shelf. "I saw your house when it was built", the manager said.
      "Here's all that you'll need and how much it'll cost... five
      will be 15 cents while fifty will be 30 cents, 250 will be 45
      cents, while 2507 will only cost you 60 cents. One lady, about
      20 blocks from your house, bought 30247 and only paid 75
      cents! These are black, but they also come in gold and
      silver." What was the manager selling?
  23. If it takes 3 people to dig a hole, how many does it take to
      dig half a hole?
  24. What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space,
      the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?



           ANSWERS: QUIZ #1
   1. survivors aren't buried
   2. electric trains don't have smoke
   3. roosters don't lay eggs
   4. potatoes grow underground

           ANSWERS: QUIZ #2
   1. Yes
   2. One
   3. All of them (12)
   4. The beggar is her sister.
   5. He can't be buried if he isn't dead.
   6. 6
   7. No - because he is dead.
   8. They aren't playing each other.
   9. 70
  10. White. The house is at the North Pole so it is a polar bear.
  11. 2 (You are taking them)
  12. 50 cent piece and a nickel. (The other one is a nickel)
  13. The match.
  14. Half way. Then he is running out of the woods.
  15. 1 Hour
  16. 9
  17. None - Noah took them on the ark.
  18. Meat
  19. 12
  20. Same as it is now.

           ANSWERS: QUIZ #3

   1. 116 years, from 1337 to 1453.
   2. Ecuador.
   3. From sheep and horses.
   4. November.  The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours.
   5. Squirrel fur.
   6. The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.
   7. Albert.  When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected the wish
      of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be called Albert.
   8. Distinctively crimson.
   9. New Zealand.
  10. Thirty years, of course.  From 1618 to 1648.

           ANSWERS: QUIZ #4
   1. Incorrectly.
   2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it
      between two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.
   3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Duh.
   4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the north
      pole, and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.
   5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if
      you follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is
      performed before addition. So... half of two is one. Then add
      two, and the answer is three.
   6. Sloppy is a goldfish. The wind blew the shutters in, which
      knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke,
      killing him.
   7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence
      of dirt. (And those of you who said 36 cubic feet are wrong for
      another reason, too. You would have needed the length measurement
      too. So you don't even know how much air is in the hole.)
   8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F
      water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the
      water in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen?  Think again.  The
      question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it.
      Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down...
   9. The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.
  10. An umbrella.
  11. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become
      one big stack.
  12. The temperature.
  13. The years are in B.C., not A.D. as you probably assumed. Based
      on the system we use to number the years, the years counted down
      in B.C. (but they weren't counting backwards back then.)
  14. A bed.
  15. None. Moses didn't take animals on the ark. Noah did.
  16. This year. He is 100, and his son is 50.
  17. Gwen had forty-two boyfriends. 42-1=41. 41+3=44. 44/4=11.
      11-1=10.
  18. Five Thousand. Ten power five = 100,000. Divide that out
      (it was a 19:1 ratio) and you get a ratio of 95,000:5,000
      (daughters:sons)
  19. Four. If you square it, you get 16. Subtract his number of
      hits and you get 12. Subtract 10 and then 2 more and you get 0.
  20. Two ounces. (Beach ball, or ping-pong ball?) 2x2=4. 4+22=8.
      8-8=0.
  21. Eleven men (and 15 horses). 11 (men) x 2 (feet per man)=22,
      15 (horses) x 4 (feet per horse)=60, and 22 (men's feet) +
      60 (horse's feet) = 82 feet. Also, 11 (men) + 15 (horses) =
      26 (total heads).
  22. House numbers. Each digit costs 15 cents.
  23. It's impossible to dig a half of a hole. Either you have a hole,
      or you don't.
  24. The letter E.











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