Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!amk From: amk@whuxl.UUCP (KRONISH) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: IDIOT TEST (NOT Eric's) Message-ID: <923@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 13:57:42 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.923 Posted: Tue Jan 28 13:57:42 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jan-86 06:31:03 EST Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 60 If you liked Eric's test, I have an Idiot Test for you. Will post answers in a week or two. 1. Do they have a Fouth of July in England? 2. How many birthdays does the average person have? 3. Some months have 31 days, some have 30. How many have 28? 4. A woman gives a beggar $.50. The woman is the beggar's sister, but the beggar is not the woman's brother. Why is this? 5. Why can't a man living in Salem, N.C. be buried west of the Mississippi? 6. How many outs are there in an inning? 7. Is it legal in N.J. for a man to marry his widow's sister? 8. Two men play 5 games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no ties. Can you explain this? 9. Divide 30 by a half and add 10. What is the answer? 10. If you have 3 apples and you take away 2, how many apples do you have? 11. I have 2 U.S. coins totaling $.55. One is not a nickle. What are the coins. 12. If you walked into a room, and had only one match, and the room contained an oil burner, a kerosene lamp and a wood burning stove, what would you light first? 13. How far can a dog run into the woods? 14. A doctor gives you 3 pills, telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last? 15. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many does he have left? 16. A clerk in a butcher shop is 6'6" tall. What does he weigh? 17. How may $.02 stamps are in a dozen? 18. What was the president's name in 1940? 18 correct = genius 16 = above normal 14 = normal 10 = subnormal 8 = idiot 6 = nincompoop ======= ==----===== Arden M. Kronish ==------===== AT&T Bell Laboratories ===-----===== Whippany, N.J. ===---===== whuxl!amk ======= 201-386-2701 Reach out and grep someone -- ======= ==----===== Arden M. Kronish ==------===== AT&T Bell Laboratories ===-----===== Whippany, N.J. ===---===== whuxl!amk ======= 201-386-2701 Reach out and grep someone