WORKING YOUR GRAY CELLS OVERTIME

     The following are questions originally asked to test the gray cells of senior citizens, but I think you other readers ought to try it too, even though it may not be fun discovering how clueless you are. The test originator was not named, but must be someone sly and devious, probably with an agenda to embarrass us and make himself/herself feel superior. But, if this is not enough warning, then, by all means, press on. See if you are, as you perceive yourself, Mensa material.

1.Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April; the second was named May. What was the third child's name?

2. A clerk at a butcher shop is five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

3. How much dirt is in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

4. Which word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

5. Billy was born on December 28, yet his birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?

6. You cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg in California. Why not?

7. What was the President's name in 1975?

8. You are running a race and pass the person in second place, so what place would you now be in?

9. Which is correct to say: "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white."

10. A farmer has five hay stacks in one field and four in another field. How many hay stacks would he have if he combined them all in a third field?

ANSWERS:

1 Read the question again. The answer is "Johnny", of course.
2. He's a butcher. He weighs meat.
3. A hole doesn't have any dirt in it.
4. Incorrectly, according to the dictionary, must always be spelled "incorrectly".
5. This is the really "cute" question. Billy lives in the Southern Hemisphere.
6. You just can't take a picture with a wooden leg. Didn't you read the question?
7. Same as his name is now, Barack Obama.
8. Well, you passed the person in second place, so you take his place: second.
9. Neither. The yolk of the egg is yellow. Are you color blind?
10. He combines the nine stacks, so he now has one big stack. What don't you understand about the word "combine"?

Maybe your reading skills and comprehension just need upgrading!