Some difficult ones, some easy ones, and one or two that you should know but might not.
As usual if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please, NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: Take a quarter, multiply it by a dime, divide that total by 2 bits and add 3 nickles, and what have you got?
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Q. 2: Name the top three cork-producing countries in the world. (And take a point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 3: You’ve seen it thousands of times, but why was the dollar symbol ($) designed this way?
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Q. 4: What was the name of the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth? (A point for his last name, a bonus if you know his first name as well.)
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Q. 5: Where in North America is the largest water clock?
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Q. 6: What is the only letter in the alphabet that has more than one syllable?
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Q. 7: There are six words in the English language with the letter combination “uu.” Two of them you have probably heard of, the rest are more obscure, but you get a point for each one you can name correctly.
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Q. 8: Who are the only three angels mentioned by name in the Bible? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 9: What do you call the little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side?
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Q. 10: Why has the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, twice as many bathrooms as is necessary?
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Q. 11: What are residents of the island of Crete called? (If you spell this wrong it will be very stupid.)
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Q. 12: And, what are residents of the island of Lesbos called?
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Q. 13: Who was the only American president to be wounded in the Civil War?
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Q. 14: If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) what is the total?
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Q. 15: Where were Venetian blinds invented?
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Q. 16: What is the southern most city in the United States?
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Q. 17: Everyone thinks that a ‘qwerty’ computer keyboard is just the same as a typewriter keyboard, but it isn’t. What is missing from the typewriter keyboard that is always on a computer keyboard?
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Q. 18: Where do Panama hats come from?
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Q. 19: How many ‘Die Hard’ movies have there been – so far? (Bonus points for each one you can name correctly. Double bonus if you know the years.)
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Q. 20: What was the first video ever played on MTV Europe?
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: Take a quarter, multiply it by a dime, divide that total by 2 bits and add 3 nickles, and what have you got?
A. 1: Answer = 25 (25 x 10) / (2 x 12.5) + (3 x 5) = 25
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Q. 2: Name the top three cork-producing countries in the world. (And take a point for each correct answer.)
A. 2: The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
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Q. 3: You’ve seen it thousands of times, but why was the dollar symbol ($) designed this way?
A. 3: The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
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Q. 4: What was the name of the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth? (A point for his last name, a bonus if you know his first name as well.)
A. 4: Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth … and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
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Q. 5: Where in North America is the largest water clock?
A. 5: The largest water clock in North America is at the shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.
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Q. 6: What is the only letter in the alphabet that has more than one syllable?
A. 6: ‘W’ is the only letter in the alphabet that has more than one syllable… it has three.
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Q. 7: There are six words in the English language with the letter combination “uu.” Two of them you have probably heard of, the rest are more obscure, but you get a point for each one you can name correctly.
A. 7: The six words in the English language with the letter combination “uu” are: Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum.
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Q. 8: Who are the only three angels mentioned by name in the Bible? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 8: The three angels mentioned by name in the Bible are Gabriel, Michael, and Lucifer.
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Q. 9: What do you call the little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side?
A. 9: The little hole in the sink that lets the water drain out, instead of flowing over the side, is called a “porcelator”.
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Q. 10: Why has the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, twice as many bathrooms as is necessary?
A. 10: The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary because when it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
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Q. 11: What are residents of the island of Crete called? (If you spell this wrong it will be very stupid.)
A. 11: They are called Cretans. (Deduct a point if you said Cretins!)
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Q. 12: And, what are residents of the island of Lesbos called?
A. 12: Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians. (Of course, lesbians are called lesbians because Sappho was from Lesbos.)
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Q. 13: Who was the only American president to be wounded in the Civil War?
A. 13: Rutherford B. Hayes was the only president to be wounded in the Civil War — not once, but four times. Four horses were shot out from beneath him.
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Q. 14: If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) what is the total?
A. 14: If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
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Q. 15: Where were Venetian blinds invented?
A. 15: You’d think it should be Venice, but Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
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Q. 16: What is the southern most city in the United States?
A. 16: The southern most city in the United States is Na’alehu, Hawaii.
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Q. 17: Everyone thinks that a ‘qwerty’ computer keyboard is just the same as a typewriter keyboard, but it isn’t. What is missing from the typewriter keyboard that is always on a computer keyboard?
A. 17: The back slash is missing. Before the age of computers, typewriters only had one type of slash, the forward slash (/). Even earlier versions hadn’t even got that! Bet you never even noticed.
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Q. 18: Where do Panama hats come from?
A. 18: Panama hats are made in Equador.
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Q. 19: How many ‘Die Hard’ movies have there been – so far? (Bonus points for each one you can name correctly. Double bonus if you know the years.)
A. 19: There have been five ‘Die Hard’ movies so far, ‘Die Hard’ (1988), ‘Die Hard 2’ (1990), ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’ (1995), ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ (2007) and ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ (2013).
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Q. 20: What was the first video ever played on MTV Europe?
A. 20: The first video ever played on MTV Europe was “Money For Nothing” by Dire Straits.
It said, PUN: a play on words; the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications; the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning.
And, do you know, it was right.
Enjoy!
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I’ve never been to our basement.
I think it’s is beneath me
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Did you hear about the scarecrow that won an award?
He was outstanding in his field.
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First thing this morning, there was a tap on my door.
Funny sense of humor my plumber has.
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When I was younger my Grandma used to rub lard into my Grandpa’s back when he was ill.
He went down hill fast after that.
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I was reading this book today, The History Of Glue.
I couldn’t put it down.
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I went in to a pet shop.
I said, “Can I buy a goldfish?”
The guy said, “Do you want an aquarium?”
I said, “I don’t care what star sign it is.”
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Just seen a sign outside the hardware store:
“Stainless Steel Sinks”.
Bit obvious, I thought.
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I went to the Video Shop the other day.
I said, “Can I take out Batman Forever?”
They said, “No, you have to bring it back tomorrow.”
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God is talking to one of his angels.
He says, “Boy, I just created a 24-hour period of alternating light and darkness on Earth.”
“What are you going to do now?” asks the angel.
“Call it a day,” says God.
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A Freudian slip is one where you say one thing but mean a mother.
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I recently took up meditation.
It beats sitting around doing nothing.
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I was chopping up carrots with the Grim Reaper yesterday…
….You could say I was dicing with death.
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I went to the doctors.
He said, “You’ve got hypochondria.”
I said, “Oh no, not that as well.”
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My dog is a blacksmith.
Every time I open the front door he makes a bolt for it.
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I don’t understand how people call me homophobic.
I love my house.
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Did you hear about the guy that trashed a Chinese restaurant?
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