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: ANSWERS TO IDIOT TEST Message-ID: <960@whuxl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 12:27:30 EST Article-I.D.: whuxl.960 Posted: Wed Feb 5 12:27:30 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Feb-86 02:28:01 EST Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 83 Okay - here are the answers. If any of you don't agree with them, well................ If anyone out there in net.land has more of these "moron" quizzes, please post. I have gotten requests, but aside from the one Eric posted (I already had that one), this is it. 1. Do they have a Fourth of July in England? Of course, but it's not Independence Day there. 2. How many birthdays does the average person have? Only one (unless you're born again!) 3. Some months have 31 days, some have 30. How many have 28? All 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? The beggar is the woman's sister 5. Why can't a man living in Salem, N.C. be buried west of the Mississippi? Because he's still alive in Salem, N.C. 6. How many outs are there in an inning? 6 7. Is it legal in N.J. for a man to marry his widow's sister? Only if it's legal for a dead man to marry anyone 8. Two men play 5 games of checkers. Each man wins the same number of games. There are no ties. Can you explain this? The did not play each other 9. Divide 30 by a half and add 10. What is the answer? 70 (30/.5=60+10=70) 10. If you have 3 apples and you take away 2, how many apples do you have? YOU still have 3 apples. (NO quibbling on this one) 11. I have 2 U.S. coins totaling $.55. One is not a nickle. What are the coins. One coin is a half-dollar, the OTHER is a nickle. 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? The match of course! 13. How far can a dog run into the woods? Only half way. Then he's on his way out. 14. A doctor gives you 3 pills, telling you to take one every half hour. How long would the pills last? One hour, if taken at 1/2 hour intervals, starting immediately 15. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many does he have left? 9 live ones (plus 8 dead ones) (Draw your own conclusions) 16. A clerk in a butcher shop is 6'6" tall. What does he weigh? Usually meat. 17. How may $.02 stamps are in a dozen? 12 18. What was the president's name in 1940? Ronald Wilson Reagan, same as it is now. (Does anyone know if that was the name he was born with or whether he adopted it for the movies?) At any rate that was his name in 1940. (really shouldn't accept Mr. President, but being a kindly old soul, I will) 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