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Pop Quiz Answers



Here are the answers to the Pop Quiz at the beginning of the month.  How many did you get right?  Did you cheat?  :)





1.  Start with the sequence of non-zero digits 123456789. Place plus or minus signs between them so that the result of thus described arithmetic operation will be 100.




Answer:   We got one answer



12 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9 = 100


and suggested there existed at least one more. I do not claim to have made an exhaustive search but there appear to be more than just two answers. One of this is


123 + 4 - 5 + 67 - 89 = 100



I am sure there it at least another one. Want to find it?




2. Name four days of the week that begin with the letter "t".





Answer: Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow





3. What word has five letters but is pronounced as only one?





Answer:  The word Queue.





4.  I have 2 arms, but fingers none.  I have 2 feet, but cannot run.  I carry well, but found I carry best with my feet off the ground.  What am I?




Answer: I am a wheelbarrow.



5.  What is big and yellow and comes in the morning to brighten mom's day?



Answer: A schoolbus



6.  You are in a room with 3 monkeys.  One monkey has a banana, one has a stick and one has nothing.  Who is the smartest primate?



Answer: You



7.  I am part of the bird that is not in the sky.  I swim in the ocean yet remain dry.  What am I?



Answer: A bird's shadow.



8.  What is half of 2 + 2?



Answer:  3.  Work from left to right (half of 2)= 1 + 2 = 3.



9.  Forward I am heavy, backward I am not.  What am I?



Answer: The word "ton", which backward becomes "not".



10.  What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?



Answer: A River





Back-To-School: Pop Quiz!




Pop Quiz!!




Here we have found 10 stumpers for you.  Please don't cheat and use the internet- try to figure them out yourself!  We'll be back later in the month with the answers!






  1. Start with the sequence of non-zero digits 123456789. Place plus or minus signs between them so that the result of thus described arithmetic operation will be 100.

  2. Name four days of the week that begin with the letter "t".

  3. What word has five letters but is pronounced as only one?

  4. I have 2 arms, but fingers none.  I have 2 feet, but cannot run.  I carry well, but found I carry best with my feet off the ground.  What am I?

  5. What is big and yellow and comes in the morning to brighten mom's day?

  6. You are in a room with 3 monkeys.  One monkey has a banana, one has a stick and one has nothing.  Who is the smartest primate?

  7. I am part of the bird that is not in the sky.  I swim in the ocean yet remain dry.  What am I?

  8. What is half of 2 + 2?

  9. Forward I am heavy, backward I am not.  What am I?

  10. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?







Please keep the game fun for everyone and do not post the answers in these comments!  We'll be revealing the answers later in the month!