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(Message started by: Lupin on Jul 19th, 2016, 5:37pm)
Title: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by Lupin on Jul 19th, 2016, 5:37pm
1.
Some months have 31, how many have 28?
2.
Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10, what is the answer?
3.
Can a California man legally marry his widow's sister?
4.
What cheese is made back to front?
5.
The city which has the maximum number of Rolls-Royce luxury cars per capita in the world is the city-state of Hong Kong.  Where is a Volkswagen more valuable than a Rolls Royce?
6.
Mary’s mother had three children.  She named the first one April and the second one May.  What was the name of her third child?
7.
What was the name of the President of the United States in 1962?
8.
Two girls played chess.  They played five games and each girl won the same number of games.  If there were no ties, how was this possible?
9.
Why do English men use more soap that Irish men?
10.
On what day(s) of the year does the sun rise and set at the same time of the day
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by towr on Jul 19th, 2016, 10:40pm
1 [hide]~3 out 4 Februaris have exactly 28 days, all months have at least 28.[/hide]
2 [hide]70, because dividing by half and dividing in half aren't the same.[/hide]
3 [hide]Dead people can't do much. However his widow's sister might be able to marry him. Under certain circumstances it's allowed to marry someone posthumously. But probably not in this case.[/hide]
6 [hide]Mary[/hide]
7 [hide]The name of the person who is US President now was still the same in 1962, Barack Hussein Obama. The name of the person who was US President in 1962 is John F. Kennedy.[/hide]
8 [hide]They didn't play each other, or didn't finish any of the games, or played together against someone else.[/hide]
9 [hide]Because there's a lot more of them.[/hide]
10 [hide]On the edge of arctic circle at midwinter, or on the edge of the antarctic circle at midsummer. The moment the sun touches the horizon and is rising it reverses and sets. For the rest of the interior of both circles it's a bit harder to give a definite date, because it varies per latitude.[/hide]
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by alien2 on Jul 19th, 2016, 11:06pm

on 07/19/16 at 17:37:49, Lupin wrote:
8.
Two girls played chess.  They played five games and each girl won the same number of games.  If there were no ties, how was this possible?

Each girl won 2.5 games. Or perhaps games have a specific number. Or games like Monopoly are given as an additional prize regardless of the outcome.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by Grimbal on Jul 20th, 2016, 1:00am
11. John and Mary have 5 children.  Half of them are girls.  How is it possible?
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by alien2 on Jul 20th, 2016, 4:26am

on 07/20/16 at 01:00:44, Grimbal wrote:
11. John and Mary have 5 children.  Half of them are girls.  How is it possible?

John and Mary had never met. So we are talking about ten kids altogether.  
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by rloginunix on Jul 20th, 2016, 5:54am

on 07/20/16 at 01:00:44, Grimbal wrote:
11. John and Mary have 5 children.  Half of them are girls.  How is it possible?


Let C = set of all children, c = one child:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/YaBBImages/symbols/forall.gif c http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/YaBBImages/symbols/in.gif C G(c)=female
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by rmsgrey on Jul 20th, 2016, 9:13am
3. [hide]If someone has been declared legally dead, they may be able to remarry.[/hide]
4. [hide]Edam[/hide]
5. [hide]On a Scrabble board, but only if your opponents decline to challenge - otherwise, as illegal words, they're both worth nothing[/hide]
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by rmsgrey on Jul 20th, 2016, 9:14am

on 07/20/16 at 01:00:44, Grimbal wrote:
11. John and Mary have 5 children.  Half of them are girls.  How is it possible?


[hide]John's a boy and Mary's a girl (or vice versa) and one of two is half.[/hide]
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by alien2 on Jul 21st, 2016, 3:52am
How about 12 stupid questions? I want more.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by dudiobugtron on Jul 21st, 2016, 10:15pm

on 07/20/16 at 01:00:44, Grimbal wrote:
11. John and Mary have 5 children.  Half of them are girls.  How is it possible?

[hide]The other half are also girls[/hide]
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by Grimbal on Jul 22nd, 2016, 9:26am

on 07/21/16 at 22:15:26, dudiobugtron wrote:
[hide]The other half are also girls[/hide]

Yes.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by Lupin on Jul 22nd, 2016, 5:34pm
Posted by: alien2 How about 12 stupid questions? I want more.
OK

11 Do they have a fourth of July in England?
12 What was the first man-made object to travel faster than the speed of sound?
13 If the Vice President of the United States should die, who would be President?
14 Where was Cleopatra’s temple located?
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by rloginunix on Jul 22nd, 2016, 9:16pm
11. [hide]Yes - all day long[/hide].
12. [hide]A tip of a bullwhip[/hide].
13. [hide]Vice is not the President[/hide].
14. [hide]On her head[/hide].

15. A Turing test (works best if heard, not read):

Judy and Dench
Were sitting on a bench.
Away Judy skated.
Dench went home irritated.

What remained on a the bench?
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by alien2 on Jul 23rd, 2016, 4:36am

on 07/22/16 at 21:16:45, rloginunix wrote:
What remained on a bench?

Is it greater than God and more evil than the Devil?

Or you said 'a bench' rather than 'the bench' and so Nobody knows the answer.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by rloginunix on Jul 23rd, 2016, 7:48am

on 07/23/16 at 04:36:10, alien2 wrote:
Or you said 'a bench' rather than 'the bench' and so Nobody knows the answer.

Corrected, 'the bench'.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by rmsgrey on Jul 23rd, 2016, 5:24pm
The dog's temper.

Wait, wrong question, but related.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by rloginunix on Jul 23rd, 2016, 7:21pm
rmsgrey is correct.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by alien2 on Jul 24th, 2016, 2:50am

on 07/19/16 at 17:37:49, Lupin wrote:
7.
What was the name of the President of the United States in 1962?

1962 was a moment lost in time like tears in the rain. And just like the Pacific ocean, which has no memory, I too remember not this president. But I am certain that he was but a man, serving a great nation in order to preserve democracy, pride and dignity.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by Lupin on Jul 24th, 2016, 11:51am

on 07/24/16 at 02:50:13, alien2 wrote:
1962 was a moment lost in time like tears in the rain. And just like the Pacific ocean, which has no memory, I too remember not this president. But I am certain that he was but a man, serving a great nation in order to preserve democracy, pride and dignity.


Indeed, JFK was a very capable president and deservedly admired by almost everyone.

But, what was the name of the President of the United States in 1962?
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by alien2 on Jul 25th, 2016, 1:04am

on 07/24/16 at 11:51:14, Lupin wrote:
(...) what was the name of the President of the United States in 1962?

There were several presidents to-be?
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by Lupin on Jul 25th, 2016, 8:49pm

on 07/25/16 at 01:04:55, alien2 wrote:
There were several presidents to-be?


In 1962 there were nine presidents to-be.  One of them didn't speak.
Title: Re: Ten Stupid Questions
Post by alien2 on Jul 26th, 2016, 12:45am

on 07/25/16 at 20:49:54, Lupin wrote:
In 1962 there were nine presidents to-be.  One of them didn't speak.

Perhaps the one who did not speak was the best president.


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