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Jan-17-2007 14:31

I'm going to post a couple of quiz type questions.PM me when you think you have the right answer . After I get a few responses I'll post the answer & the names of those that got it right.

Q 1. Duncan Drivel thought it might be nice to join the army,
so he went to the local library to find a book on volunteers.
While walking along the rows of books,he sees one with VOLIX
written on its spine. How should the title of this book be
pronounced?

Q 2. A trafic cop was stopped at a red light. Professor Bumble,
who had his mind on a lecture he was about to give, drove his
car right by him and through the light without stopping. The
cop witnessed the entire scene but made no attemp to stop him.
Why not?

Q 3. What is the next letter in the following sequence?
M A M J J A S O

Q 4. All the letters of the alphabet, except Z,are printed above or below the line. Where does the Z belong and why?
A E F H I K L M N T V W X Y
--------------------------------------------
B C D G J O P Q R S U

Jan-17-2007 20:41

2. (Amended after some thought): Too wise you are, too wise you be, I see you are too wise for me.

Jan-18-2007 00:52

*gets all paternal and enrolls Ara in a school for gifted children who like wine*

I got as far as "Wise", then I decided to eat some chips and just kinda let it go...

Jan-18-2007 04:39

LMAO I was just wondering why everyone was so high on writing 42...

yay for 44! 42 is pretty arbitrary anyways. ;)

Jan-18-2007 09:13

Everyone did great on those.Cousin is correct for number 1 but its b/c the others refer to a specific gender.Although in this day & age I guess you can have an Aunt Richard. :)

Jan-18-2007 11:02

Or a boy named Sue.

Jan-18-2007 15:15

Q 1. Which of the two sums would you estimate to be the largest,the numbers on the right or the numbers on the left? NO CHEATING!!

987654321 123456789
87654321 12345678
7654321 1234567
654321 123456
54321 12345
4321 1234
21 12
1 1
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Q 2. Before the research on cholesterol provoked such due concern, people believed that:
M N X R L T 4 U
What did people believe?

Q 3. There is a certain crime, that if attempted, is punishable, but if committed is not punishable. What is the crime?

Jan-18-2007 15:17

1. If I'm reading your formatting correctly, its the numbers on the left. Every number is larger (or equal) than its counterpart on the right side.

2. Ham and eggs are healthy for you. Gotta love text-speak :)

3. Suicide.

(oh, and 42)

Jan-18-2007 15:18

Skip question 1 it didn't show up right.I guess because there were too many spaces or something :)

Jan-18-2007 15:20

ok i'm going to give this a go...

1. if i'm assuming correctly the sum is going down... not across... so the numbers on the left would be far greater than the numbers on the right.

2. minutes are late for you?

3. suicide

Jan-18-2007 15:21

serges might love text speak... i don't ... i prefer shorthand