1. Whatever your name is, it says in line 1, "You're the pilot..."
2. Yes, you can if you stand back to back.
3. The man would have to be dead to have a widow,so he couldn't marry anyone.
4. Three. You might have a pair after taking out two, but the third one must match either the black or the white stocking already removed.
5. On the 28th day. At the end of the 27th day, he had ascended 27 feet. On the 28th day, he reaches the top.
6. They will never be underwater. Ship and ladder both rise with the tide.
7. The two sons go first; one son comes back and dad rows over by himself; the other son returns to pick up his brother.
8. The half-trunk full, since dimes are smaller and are worth twice as much as nickels, more value will be in the half-trunk.
9. He's not tall ehough to reach past the 8th button. So unless someone else is on the elevator with him, he must get off at 8. [MY NOTE: That's the answer, BUT in my experience, elevator buttons are double-rowed, so the 12 button would be at the bottom. Also even if they were in a straight line, 1 would be at the top. They rarely count from bottom to top. So again, 12 would be at the bottom.]
10. One
11. Horse racing.
12. The feathers. In America, feathers are weighed by avoirdupois, according to which pound is equal to 7,000 grains. Gold is weighed by the troy system, according to which a pound is 5,760 grains. (But if we were on the metric system, they would be the same.)
13. At the minute they pass each other, both will be the same distance from New York. (Take time zones into account).
14. He eats duck eggs
15. The answer was given on the quiz page.
16. Ten. Both parents, the seven daughters and one brother to all.
17. The president. He doesn't die, just his vice president.
18. Only once. From then on, you would be subtracting from 19, then 17, etc.
19. Two friends at the same time. Then you would have to buy only three admissions. If you took one friend twice, you would have to buy four admissions. You would have to pay twice.
20. None. Apples don't grow on plum trees.
21. No. She belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty and she was Greek.
22. You have two apples.
23. She would be your mother.
24. An elevator. |
