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TO ALL MY INTELLIGENT FRIENDS

 Keep that brain working; try to figure this one out....See if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common?

 1 Banana

 2 Dresser

 3 Grammar

 4 Potato

 5 Revive

 6 Uneven

 7 Assess

 Give it another try....Look at each word carefully.  You'll kick yourself when you discover the Answer  This is so cool.....

 

Just to annoy you, I'll keep the answer until tomorrow. Give you time to think.

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OK. Try these on for size,

 

 Testing for Grey Cells

1 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?

 

2 There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers.  What does he weigh?

 

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

 

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

 

5 What word in the English Language... is always spelled incorrectly?

 

6 Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.  How is this possible?

 

7 In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.  Why not?

 

8 What was the President's Name...in 1975?

 

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

 

10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

 

11. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in a third field?

 

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1. Johnny.

2. Meat.

3. Mt Everest.

4. None, it's a hole devoid of dirt.

5. Incorrectly.

6. He was born in the Southern Hemisphere.

7. Because only cameras can take pictures, not wooden legs.

8. Donald Trump. His name has stayed the same since he was born!

9. 2nd place.

10. The yolk of an egg is yellow.

11. One haystack, once he combined them all.

 

 

(and I must be old, Red - because these are all old riddles, and I didn't use Google to find the answers!)

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  • 3 years later...

What are the next two letters in the following sequence:     S    S   F   T   W   __     __

 

 

If Marc was born at the beginning of March, and Gus was born in the middle of August, who was born at the beginning of January?

 

 

Replace the asterisk with a single diigit to complete the pattern.    802   3511    226   91   43*

 

 

What single letter can be added to the following word to make it a three syllable English word?      CAME__

 

 

What dish is half quince, half cheese?

 

 

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No-one but Clinton has bothered to have a go. Here are the answers:

 

 

 

S    S   F   T   W   T   M       -   First letter of the days of the week in reverse order.

 

who was born at the beginning of January?              Jan

 

 

802   3511    226   91   43*            3.   Each group adds up to 10.

 

 

a three syllable English word?      CAME__            The letter is O, creating CAMEO  ....CAM-E-O

 

 

What dish is half quince, half cheese?             QUICHE --   QUI/NCE   CHE/ESE

 

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