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Posted on 11/24/2017 1:17:22 PM PST by sodpoodle

Something for seniors to do to keep those "aging” grey cells active! 

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 another field?           Here are the Answers:  (No peeking!)   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?    Answer: Johnny, of course.    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?    Answer: Meat.    3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?    Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet.  [You're not very good at this are you?]    4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?    Answer: None. There is no dirt in a hole.    5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly?    Answer: Incorrectly    6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.  How is this possible?   Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere.    7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.  Why not?    Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg.  You need a camera to take pictures.    8. What was the President's Name in 1975?    Answer: Same as is it now – Donald Trump [Oh, come on...]    9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in?    Answer: You would be in 2nd.  Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.    10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?    Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]    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 another field?    Answer: One.  If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one. 

   

  IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE WORLD    1) You can't count your hair.  2) You can't wash your eyes with soap.  3) You can't breathe through your nose when your tongue is out.    Put your tongue back in your mouth, you silly person.      Ten (10) Things I know about you.    1) You are reading this.    2) You are human.    3) You can't say the letter ''P'' without separating your lips.    4) You just attempted to do it.    6) You are laughing at yourself.    7) You have a smile on your face and you skipped No. 5.    8) You just checked to see if there is a No. 5.    9) You laugh at this because you are a fun loving person & everyone does it, too.    10) You are probably going to send this to see who else falls for it.    You have received this e-mail because I didn't want to be alone in the idiot category.     

   

  TO ALL MY INTELLIGENT FRIENDS (Sorry Ike I forgot I sent this to you)   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.   REMEMBER I ONLY SENT THIS TO MY SMART FRIENDS   NOW DON'T LET ME DOWN   No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters.... Answer is below!     Answer:   In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.   Did you figure it out?   No


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To: SkyDancer

As many as he wants.


21 posted on 11/24/2017 1:59:32 PM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle
Something for seniors to do to keep those "aging” grey cells active!

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 another field?

Here are the Answers: (No peeking!)
>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? Answer: Johnny, of course.
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? Answer: Meat.
3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? Answer: Mt. Everest; it just wasn't discovered yet. [You're not very good at this are you?]
4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? Answer: None. There is no dirt in a hole.
5. What word in the English Language is always spelled incorrectly? Answer: Incorrectly
6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible? Answer: Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
7. In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not? Answer: You can't take pictures with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take pictures.
8. What was the President's Name in 1975? Answer: Same as is it now – Donald Trump [Oh, come on...]
9. If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in? Answer: You would be in 2nd. Well, you passed the person in second place, not first.
10. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"? Answer: Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow [Duh]
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 another field? Answer: One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big one.

IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE WORLD


1) You can't count your hair. 2) You can't wash your eyes with soap.
3) You can't breathe through your nose when your tongue is out. Put your tongue back in your mouth, you silly person.

Ten (10) Things I know about you.
1) You are reading this.
2) You are human.
3) You can't say the letter ''P'' without separating your lips.
4) You just attempted to do it.
6) You are laughing at yourself. 7) You have a smile on your face and you skipped No. 5.
8) You just checked to see if there is a No. 5.
9) You laugh at this because you are a fun loving person & everyone does it, too.
10) You are probably going to send this to see who else falls for it.

You have received this e-mail because I didn't want to be alone in the idiot category.

TO ALL MY INTELLIGENT FRIENDS

(Sorry Ike I forgot I sent this to you)
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.

REMEMBER I ONLY SENT THIS TO MY SMART FRIENDS NOW DON'T LET ME DOWN

No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters.... Answer is below!

Answer: In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word. Did you figure it out? No

22 posted on 11/24/2017 2:02:05 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: Az Joe

you just made that up - there is no such word in the English language as you describe.


23 posted on 11/24/2017 2:02:06 PM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: fruser1

half way


24 posted on 11/24/2017 2:02:29 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: SkyDancer

Chuck Norris doesn’t do pushups. He stay still and pushes the Earth away from him.


25 posted on 11/24/2017 2:04:21 PM PST by CA_soon_gone
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To: Az Joe

bookkeeper


26 posted on 11/24/2017 2:04:46 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: knarf; iowamark

Thanks, Iowamark also found a good copy on a blog site. Don’t know if there are any copyright issues.

Waiting to be hammered as a ‘blog pimp’ LOL!!!


27 posted on 11/24/2017 2:06:44 PM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: Thank You Rush
Would it be picking nits to say that there is more than one?

Bookkeeping

28 posted on 11/24/2017 2:08:28 PM PST by HusbandMan
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To: sodpoodle

Old lady geezer age 69 here...

1. The 3rd child was a boy but the parents knew he would want to be a girl so they called him errr her June Then he went to school with a boy named Sue who suggested for survival through kindergarten, he change his name...he chose Johnny.. ;)

2. He weighs his meat

3. My Everest

4. holes cant be measured

5. Incorrectly

6. Billy lives in the Southern hemisphere...however he was born in NYC so there was a snowstorm that day...hence the removal shortly there after to warmer climes ;)

7. You need a camera or a cell phone...

8. Donald John Trump

9. 2nd place

10. Neither yolks are yellow

11. one big stack...


29 posted on 11/24/2017 2:08:55 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Thank You Rush

You win - well done TYR!!!


30 posted on 11/24/2017 2:08:56 PM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: stylin19a

You are correct. If your tongue is protruding and your lips are closed around it you can breathe through your nose.


31 posted on 11/24/2017 2:09:46 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: HusbandMan

Oh ...Thats the One!


32 posted on 11/24/2017 2:10:50 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Thank You Rush

I amazed some co-workers in the break-room when the guy on the radio asked for a word that used all the regular vowels in order. I forget what his answer was, but it wasn’t the word I came up with. I said, “facetious.”


33 posted on 11/24/2017 2:11:12 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Az Joe

bookkeeper.


34 posted on 11/24/2017 2:12:48 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

don’t even have to do that. stick out your tongue keep your mouth open, then close your throat.
I can’t breath through my nose with my throat open.


35 posted on 11/24/2017 2:15:30 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: SkyDancer
Zero.

Chuck Norris does not do pushups. He pushes the earth down.

36 posted on 11/24/2017 2:15:36 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: stylin19a

Yea me too and I, yes me got the others correct, More riddles than factoids INO


37 posted on 11/24/2017 2:16:45 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

The answer is: all of them.


38 posted on 11/24/2017 2:21:32 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: sodpoodle

Brain teasers for geezers:

1) Where did you leave your car keys?
2) What is your phone number?
3) Name the prescriptions you’re taking.
4) What was the name of your bank before the last takeover?
5) There was a political party that used to seek to lower taxes. Do you remember what they were called?
6) Where did you leave your medical bracelet?


39 posted on 11/24/2017 2:23:52 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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To: dr_lew

By googling the riddle, I see some nearly correct answers, taking mine as correct, of course:

“One of its legs are both the same.”

I defend this as the correct answer because of the pivot around “legs” . We have “One of its legs ...” and “... legs are both the same” as grammatically intact phrases.

This much of the riddle is rational!


40 posted on 11/24/2017 2:31:26 PM PST by dr_lew (I)
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