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1) If an airplane crashed on the border between the US and Canada, where would the survivors be buried?
Usually, survivors are not buried.
2) If you were offered a conversation with one great person, living or dead, which one would it have to be?
If it was to be an actual conversation, it would have to be with the living person. Dead people may be good listeners, but they are not brilliant conversationalists.
3) What was the first US state attacked by the Japanese during world war II?
Hawaii
Alaska
California
Hawaii was not a state when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The US had a naval base there, like they had in the Philippines and elsewhere in the Pacific. California was the first state attacked by Japanese submarines, and Oregon was later attacked by sea and air.
4) No matter how hungry an Eskimo gets, he will never eat a penguin. Why?
Eskimos live at the North Pole, Penguins at the South Pole.
5) You see Venus, the brightest star in the night sky, directly overhead at midnight. What would astronomers call this?
The end of the world. Venus is between the Earth and the Sun in the solar system. In order for Venus to appear directly overhead at midnight, the Earth would have to have changed places with Venus in the solar system so we could look straight up and see it at night. Velikovsky, anyone?
6) No one has ever seen a peacock lay an egg. Why?
Peacocks don't lay eggs. Peahens do.
7) When an airplane crashes, you always hear about the “black box” that is used for crash investigation. What color is this box?
Orange. Although this type of equipment falls into an aircraft equipment category known as "black box", it would be stupid to paint something black that everyone is looking for in a bunch of smoldering wreckage.
8) How long was the 100 years war?
116 years. (1337 - 1453) But there is some discussion about the actual duration.
9) Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
All of them (duh). Some even have more.
10) If you had only one match and entered a COLD and DARK room, where there was an oil lamp ,an oil heater and a candle, what would you light first?
The match.
11) How many animals of each species did Moses take with him in the Ark?
Moses wasn't there. Noah ran the show.
12) Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?
That man wouldn't be doing much with his widows anything, cause that man is dead. That is why his wife is a widow. I don't think that states allow a woman to marry a dead man.
13) What was the (American) President's name in 1990?
It was Joe Biden back then, and he will probably keep it until he dies.
14) Which of these is not true:
The guy who invented artificial coffee creamer did it to spite his dad, who was in the dairy business
Genghis Khan conquered the known world to get girls, and fathered over 1000 children
The battle of New Orleans, which has a famous song written about it, ended the war of 1812.
Velcro was invented by a guy who got the idea from cockleburs stuck in his dogs fur.
3. is not true. Although it was the last battle of the war, the war was actually over a few weeks before the battle. The new world did not get news of the treaty until much after the battle was fought.
15) How many National Football League teams play home games in New York?
One. The Jets and the Giants play in New Jersey, but the Buffalo Bills play in western New York.
16) How many National League Baseball Teams Play home games in Florida?
Lots of them, during spring training.
17) What is the definition of the word : CLEAVE?
adhere closely; stick; cling, push together,
split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow
None of the above
Both of the above
It actually has both meanings. Women and rocks have cleavage, but a butcher uses a cleaver to cleave meat. An example of a contronym. Don't you love English?
18) Which of these is False:
ILC Data Devices, which manufactures sophisticated electronic circuits for spacecraft, was originally International Latex Corporation, specializing in women's foundation apparel.
True. When ILC was failing in the early 60s (AKA Playtex, which made girdles - they went out of style, now what?), they found out that NASA was looking for very tightly woven, tough fabric - which ILC knew a lot about from making corsets and girdles. As they improved their microloom technology, NASA mentioned to them that they had problems manufacturing very small circuits. It turns out that the same machinery and techniques that could make the tightly woven fabric could be converted to make miniature electronic circuitry. This drastically reduced the size and lowered the weight of the electronics used on space missions.
FMC, which manufactures the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, is named Food Manufacturing Company, who originally made tin cans for food.
True. Bending metal is bending metal, and they converted their factories to making tanks in WWII.
Motorola, a prominent electronics corporation, originally manufactured electronic motors.
Not true. Motorola started out making radios, and some were put in early cars. Motoring was all the rage, electronics were nowhere. So they picked a name with "motor" in it for their electronics company, to tag along with a fad.
Same thing for the Telecaster Guitar, by the way. Television was all the rage at the time it was introduced. So Fender named the guitar to be in tune with the latest fad, even though the instrument had little to do with television.
19) What color is a “Green Card”?
It comes in lots of colors, depending on the exact status of the alien.
20) This is a drawing of a bus, and it is moving fast. Which direction is it moving? (Elementary School kids always get this one right).
Every elementary school kid knows that one side of the bus has a door on it, the other doesn't. The side you are looking at has no door, so the bus must be going to the left.
21) During the 1920s, before the Hays Code was adopted, one of the biggest box office stars of the time appeared completely naked in at some point in practically every one of their films. Who was it?
Rin Tin Tin, a dog that starred in some of the biggest box office hits of that time, and was a hell of an action hero. Did all his own stunts. He got top billing, and rarely wore clothes. Neither did his wife, Nanette.
22) You are driving the bus above. There are 10 passengers on the bus. At the first stop, 3 people get on, 2 get off. At the next stop 4 get on, 5 get off. At the next stop, a volleyball team gets on.
What color are the bus drivers eyes?
I don't know, but you do. They are the color of your eyes, since you are the bus driver.
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