1. How can you arrange for
two people to stand on the same piece of newspaper and yet be unable to touch each other without stepping off the newspaper?
2. How many 3-cent stamps
are there in a dozen?
3. A rope ladder hangs over
the side of a ship. The rungs are one foot apart and the ladder is 12 feet long. The tide is rising at four inches an hour.
How long will it take before the first four rungs of the ladder are underwater?
4. Which would you rather
have, a trunk full of nickels or a trunk half full of dimes?
5. Steve has three piles
of sand and Mike has four piles of sand. If they put them all together, how many do they have?
6. In which sport are the
shoes made entirely of metal?
7. If the Vice President
of the United States should die, who would be President?
8. How can you throw a golf
ball with all your might and--without hitting a wall or any other obstruction--have the ball stop and come right back to you?
9. Find the English word
that can be formed from all these letters: PNLLEEEESSSSS
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