Questions-of-the-Day

1) A clerk in the butcher shop is 5'10" tall. What does he weigh?

2) Why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than 1989 American dollar bills?

3) A farmer has 17 sheep and all but 9 die. How many are left?

4) Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

5) There are five apples and you take away three. How many do you have?

6) Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?

7) There was a plane crash in the Straits between Singapore and Malaysia. where do you bury the survivors?

8) You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

9) Jean’s father has three daughters: 1. April 2. May. What is the name of the third daughter?

Answers:

1) Meat

2) One thousand nine hundred and ninety dollar bills are worth one dollar more than one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollar bills.

3) Nine.

4) Neither. The yolk of the egg is yellow.

5) Three.

6) All of them.

7) You don't bury survivors.

8) If you overtake the second person, you take his place, so you are second.

9) Jean.