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Wednesday Quiz Answers

Q. 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?

A. Johnny

Q. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

A. Meat

Q. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

A. Mt. Everest - it just had not been named yet

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

A. None - a hole is empty

Q. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

A. Incorrectly

Q. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?

A. She lives in the Southern Hemisphere

Q. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

A. You cannot take a picture with a wooden leg - you need some type of camera

Q. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

A. 2nd

Q. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?”

A. None - yokes are yellow.

Q. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?

A. One

Q. Eskimos are very good hunters, but they never hunt penguins. Why not?

A.  Wrong Hemisphere

Q. It goes in dry, comes out wet, the longer it's in the stronger it gets. What is it?

A. Tea bag

Q. A certain five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is the word? 

A. Short

Q. How many times can you subtract 10 from 100?

A. One

Q. While some months have just 30 days, others have 31 days. How many months have 28 days? 

A. 12

Q. How far can a dog run into the woods?

A. Half way

Q. A doctor and a nurse have a baby boy. The boy's father is not the doctor and the mother is not the nurse. How is this possible?

A. Father was the nurse and Mother was the Doctor

Q. There are 3 stoves; a gas stove, a brick stove and and a wood stove. You only have 1 match. Which would you light first?​.

A. The match

Q. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?

A. One

Q. How can you drop a raw egg on a concrete floor without cracking it?

A.  Eggs cannot crack concrete

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