A child went to the doctor. The doctor took the child’s temperature. On his note pad the doctor noted the temperature as 97.6. After the examination the doctor told the child that he was perfectly healthy. How can this be? Answer98.6 degrees Fahrenheit is only an average of people’s body temperatures. Someone’s true temperature may […]
Saku was feeling hungry one summer day, so she decided to make herself a strawberry jam sandwich.She spread the jam on the bread and when she had finished making her sandwich she went to pick up the jar of jam, only to find that it was now sitting in a puddle where previously there had
Lisa is on the top of the mountain. Snow is all around her and she is freezing. She lost her tent. However, she is warm enough now and has a place to sleep. What did she do? AnswerShe made a hole in the snow in the shape of a big sock and that is where
What is the most amount of times that a dry, square piece of ordinary paper can be folded in half? AnswerSeven (any size of paper)
It is estimated that the earth weighs 6 sextillion tons. How much more would the earth weigh if one sextillion tons of concrete and stone were used to build a large wall? AnswerIt would weigh the same since all materials are taken from the earth’s original weight.
“Hello folks, I am a man with a weird situation. Every week I will give you a situation in which you will have to find the answer to the question. Okay, here is the scenario:“Two men were talking about water. One man was a chemist, and the other was a doctor. The doctor said, ‘If
Without the aid of anyone or anything, how is it possible to tell how far away a thunderstorm is, from where you stand? AnswerLight travels at 1,86,000 miles per second and sound travels about one mile every five seconds. Since thunder is the product of lightning, when you see lightning you should begin to count
Mike was a very intelligent kid. He told his fifth grade Science teacher that he knew how to create thousands of volts of electricity with only a comb. The teacher didn’t believe him and told him to prove it to her. Next day, Mike proved it and brought information on the subject.How did Mike do
A man was in the middle of the Arctic Ocean with only a kerosene stove and a pickaxe. He had plenty of food but he didn’t have water. He somehow got water each day.How did he do this? AnswerHe chipped off the pieces of icebergs with his pickaxe, then he melted them with his stove.
Rick was highly in debt, so he figured out a way to make money by doing something no one else could. He went around to all of his friends and people he worked with and bet them $50 that he could put a pin into a balloon without popping it. He let his friends and
Mumbo was entered into a game show. If he answered one question correctly, he would win one million dollars. If he missed the question, a buzzer would sound and Legal would have to donate $50,000 dollars to a local charity. The question was “What does three fluid ounces of water plus three fluid ounces of
On a hot summer day, a man who had no air conditioning decided that he would cool off his home by leaving the door to his refrigerator open. Does he succeed in cooling off his home? AnswerNo. All a refrigerator does is take heat from inside the unit and pump it to the back. So
There are two secret agents who want to send letters to each other but think that someone might try to read them. The first agent came up with an idea to send a letter to the other agent by writing with invisible ink. He then put the letter in his mailbox for delivery. When the
Jeff and I were playing on the Merry-Go-Round at the local park. It was very large. We stood on opposite sides and spun the Merry-Go-Round counter-clockwise. I threw a ball to Jeff. From my perspective, did the ball go to Jeff, or did it go to the right of him or the left of him?
Tinman is very afraid of going outside. He is very obsessive, and one thing he obsesses about is cancer. He is constantly afraid that he will get skin cancer from the sun, and therefore stays inside as much as possible. One cloudy day, his parents finally persuade him to go out and play. He gets