Thursday, September 01, 2005
Answers to Questions 31 thru 40.
31. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Charcoal.
32. Major John and some of the boys were exchanging old war stories. Art Bragg offered one about how his grandfather led a battalion against a German division during World War I. Through brilliant maneuvers he defeated them and captured valuable territory. After the battle, he was presented with a sword bearing the inscription: “To Captain Bragg for Bravery, Daring and Leadership . World War One. From the Men of Battalion 8.” Major John scoffed and discredited Art’s story immediately. What’s wrong with Art’s story?
World War I was "The War To End All Wars" and was not called “World War I” until World War II happened.
33. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
Only once, then you are subtracting from 20.
34. An electrician and a plumber were waiting in line at a theater. One of them was the father of the other’s son. How could this be possible?
They were husband and wife.
35. I have many feathers to help me fly. I have a body and head, but I'm not alive. It is your strength which determines how far I go. You can hold me in your hand, but I'm never thrown. What am I?
An arrow.
36. Forward I'm heavy, backward I'm not. What am I?
TON. Forward -- TON is heavy. Backward -- NOT is not.
37. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in three years. Which room is safest for him?
The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.
38. Two adjoining rooms are separated by a wall such that you can not see into the second room when standing in the first one. The first has three light switches, each connected to an individual light in the second room. You can only walk to the second room once. How can you determine which switch is connected to which light in one trip only?
Turn on switch one for five minutes. Turn it off and turn on switch two. Go into the next room and check to see which light is on. That light is controlled by switch two. The other two lights are off. Check which light is hot. That light is controlled by switch one. The other light that is off is controlled by switch three.
39. If there are four crows sitting on a fence and you shoot one, how many remain?
None; the others get startled and fly away. (Abraham Lincoln used to tell this one.)
40. In Miramar, Florida, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
You have to take a picture of a man with a camera, not with a wooden leg.
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