COLOMA PUBLIC LIBRARY
151 W. Center Street/P.O. Box 430
Coloma, MI 49038-0430
Phone: (269) 468-3431; Fax: (269) 468-8077
JUST HOW SMART ARE YOU? ANSWERS
Thanks for visiting our first quiz page!! Really hope you enjoyed the challenges!
- An antique alarm clock would not allow you to set it for a.m. or p.m. It would ring at
9:15 p.m., only one and one-fourth hours after it was set..
- Of course they do, they also have a 5th of July, etc.
- 1 a year.
- He's still alive.
- The match.
- All of the months.
- 1 hour. (You take one at 8:00, then 8:30, then 9:00, i.e.)
- White. If all the windows face south, then the house must be at the North Pole and the bear must be a polar bear. He has to be white.
- Half way.
- In God We Trust.
- 25 men on a Major baseball team during the regular season (beginning of the season
to the end of August). 6 outs in an inning.
- A fifty cent piece and a nickel. One coin isn't a nickel, but the other one is.
- 9 sheep left.
- 70.
- They weren't playing each other.
- 2 apples.
- Nobody knew what BC/AD meant before Christ was born. 46BC did not exist on coins, etc. before Christ was born.
- Moses wasn't on the ark; Noah was.
- The beggar is a woman.
- No, the man would be dead.
- An ear of corn.
- 1990 dollar bills are worth $1990, while 1989 dollar bills are worth only $1989.
- One word
- Nowhere. You bury casualties, not survivors.
- Since the boat would rise with the tide, so would the ladder. The water level would
still be at the bottom rung four hours later.
- Counting the bus driver, there would be five.
- Your lap.
- A mirror usually has only one side.
- Throw the ball straight up.
- Go to bed during daylight.
- Elevators.
- He was never elected to a second term.
- One long word.
- Her age.
- The second room. Lions that haven't eaten in three years would be dead.
- The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.
- Freeze them first. Take them out of the jugs and put the ice in the barrel. You will be able to tell which water came from which jug.
- The answer is charcoal.
- Sure you can: yesterday, today, and tomorrow!
- The letter "e", which is the most common letter in the English language, does not appear once in the long paragraph.
- If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you
overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second.
- If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again.
Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?
- Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. Don't
believe it? Check with your calculator!
- Nunu? NO! Of course not. Her name is Mary. Read the question
again.
- Boxing.
- Niagara Falls. The rim is worn down about two and half feet each year
because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
- Asparagus and rhubarb.
- Baseball.
- Strawberry.
- The pear grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds
when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is
in place for the whole growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are
snipped off at the stems.
- Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.
- Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,
exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces and
ellipses.
- In Minnesota. The team was originally known as the Minneapolis Lakers
and kept the name when they moved west.
- Batter hit by a pitch; passed ball; catcher interference; catcher drops
third strike; fielder's choice; and being designated as a pinch runner.
- Lettuce.
- Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, snowshoes, stockings.
- The answer is "bread".
- Cows drink water.
- Greenhouses are made from glass.
- One degree.
- Oh, for crying out loud! Don't you remember? It was YOU.
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