Saturday, 8 November 2025

Silly questions

 

Silly questions (answers tomorrow)

1: An average hen’s egg is two inches long and weighs five ounces.
 An average peacock’s egg is exactly twice the length and two and a half times the weight.
Which has the greater circumference?

2: What is impossible to hold for half an hour yet weighs almost nothing?

3: Eight crows were on a wall. After a farmer shot one, how many crows were left?

4:  What is the next letter in the sequence O T T F F S?

5: What is full of holes but holds water?

6: I’m halfway up inside a building that has no windows or balconies, but I have a wonderful view of the city around me. What sort of building am I in?

7: Mr Smith eats three eggs a day. He never buys eggs, he doesn’t keep chickens, and no-one gives him any eggs. Where does he get his eggs?

 

 

  

18 comments:

  1. Arrggg,, my brain is mush again. I'll probably groan when I see the answers!

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  2. 1. The hen egg?
    2. Air
    3. None, they all flew away
    4. ???????
    5. ??????
    6. A parking structure??
    7. ????

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  3. These are tough, Too tough!

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  4. Ohhh gee.... I can only guess 3 and 5. Sigh... These are hard!

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  5. 2: breath; 3: none, the rest flew away. Not a clue about the others.

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  6. It's too early in the morning! My brain is still asleep

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  7. I got 1,2,3 and 7. Would have to think about the others later

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  8. I think I know a couple of the answers.

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  9. No 1 sounds like the kind of math problems I hated back in my school days, although even more annoying as I suspect it may not be about math at all... ;-) I think I know 2 and 3, but I give up on the rest for now.

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  10. DH said, “Poached,” for the last one.

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  11. I've got 1, 2, and 3. The rest i'm struggling with!

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  12. Some made my head hurt and some I got, or at least THINK i got!

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  13. I'll wait for the answers 😂
    Alison in Devon x

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