Quick Quiz

How about taking a quick quiz? Pay attention!

1. What is 5 divided by 1/2 plus 3?

2. I have two coins making 55 cents but one is not a nickel.
How can that be?

3. Why are 1977 dollars worth more than 1976 dollars?

4. What word in the English language does nearly everyone
pronounce incorrectly?

5. In the United States is it legal for a man to marry his
widow's sister?

6. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by
three feet by four feet?

7. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days; how
many have 28?

8. Which is correct - eight and eight IS fifteen or eight and
eight ARE fifteen?

9. A 10 foot rope ladder hangs over the side of a boat with
the bottom rung at the surface of the water. There is one
foot between rungs and the tide goes up at the rate of
6 inches per hour. How long until three rungs are covered?

10. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six daughters and each daughter
has one brother. How many people in the family?








Answers:

1. 13. 5 divided by .5 = 10 + 3 = 13

2. Only one is not a nickel, because it is a 50 cent piece.
The other is a nickel.

3. Because $1977.00 is more than $1976.00.

4. The word 'incorrectly'.

5. No. If he has a widow, then the man is dead and cannot
marry anyone.

6. There is no dirt in a hole.

7. All the months.

8. Neither. Eight and eight equals SIXTEEN.

9. The rungs will never be covered because the boat rises
with the tide.

10. 9 family members total. 6 daughters, 1 brother and
Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith.

Thanks Randy H.!