Topic: A QUIZ to keep your mind sharp

[oldcoastie6468]

1.  Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May....What was the third child's name?
 
2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers....What does he weigh?
 
3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered...what was the highest mountain in the world?
 
4. How much dirt is there in a hole ...that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
 
5. What word in the English Language ...is always spelled incorrectly?
 
6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.....How is this possible?

7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg....Why not?
 
8. What was the President's Name...in 1975?
 
9. If you were running a race...and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
 
10. Which is correct to say..."The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?
 
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 another field?

[Septugenarian]

I aced it! 

[Alphabet Soup]

I wonder if they even teach this stuff anymore?

(aced it too)

[oldcoastie6468]

I wonder if they even teach this stuff anymore?

(aced it too)

Reasoning and logical thought are not taught any more. Common Core, ya know......it makes everyone as common as everyone else.

[IronDioPriest]

OK, I have to admit... Unless the answer to #7 is "because wooden legs can't take pictures", I don't understand #7. And if that's the answer, that's a dumb one.

[Septugenarian]

IDP, sometimes the joke is not for the recipients benefit.  Sometimes the enjoyment comes from the look on their face. 

[ChrstnHsbndFthr]

Wooden legs do not take pics, cameras do.

[oldcoastie6468]

Wooden legs do not take pics, cameras do.

Unless you're James Bond. 

[AmericanPatriot]

James Bond had a wooden leg?

 

(I was going to say something about woodies but that may be inappropriate)

[Weisshaupt]

8. What was the President's Name...in 1975?
 

How could you people "ace"  this? No one knows the answer to this question.  Barry Sotero?  Barrak Obama?  Agent Pothead?
The man is a con man, he has multiple  ss numbers, and there is no reason to suspect we know the jerks real name, now or in 1975.

[oldcoastie6468]

8. What was the President's Name...in 1975?
 

How could you people "ace"  this? No one knows the answer to this question.  Barry Sotero?  Barrak Obama?  Agent Pothead?
The man is a con man, he has multiple  ss numbers, and there is no reason to suspect we know the jerks real name, now or in 1975.

GOOD POINT!!!! 

[Alphabet Soup]

8. What was the President's Name...in 1975?
 

How could you people "ace"  this? No one knows the answer to this question.  Barry Sotero?  Barrak Obama?  Agent Pothead?
The man is a con man, he has multiple  ss numbers, and there is no reason to suspect we know the jerks real name, now or in 1975.

You're right - since these are logic and linguistic traps whose true answer relies on an interpretation of the framed sentence, the "correct" answer is whatever the author decided the correct answer would be. I chose to interpret the framing to mean the name of the president who was serving in 1975. That would be Gerald R. Ford.

It is equally valid to presume that the author meant to inquire the name that Øbongo was going by in 1975. Like you said, that would be anybodies guess and I don't think Øbongo even knows.

I have challenged examinations before wherein they ask awkward questions that can have multiple correct answers. I've reminded them that in legal theory, in contract law, whenever there is an ambiguity the court will invariably rule against the author of that ambiguity. I've prevailed more often than not ;')

So I aced it because I say so.