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2. How many birthdays does the average man have?
Answer: One.
3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
Answer: All of them (12).
4. A woman gives a beggar 50 cents; the woman is the beggar's sister,
but the beggar is not the woman's brother. How come?
Answer: The beggar is her sister.
5. Why can't a man living in the USA be buried in Canada?
Answer: He can't be buried if he isn't dead.
6. How many outs are there in an inning?
Answer: 6
7. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?
Why?
Answer: No -- because he is dead.
8. Two men play five games of checkers. Each man wins the same
number of games. There are no ties. Explain this.
Answer: They aren't playing each other.
9. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
Answer: 70
10. A man builds a house rectangular in shape. All sides have southern
exposure. A big bear walks by, what color is the bear? Why?
Answer: White. The house is at the North Pole so it is a polar bear.
11. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
Answer: 2
12. I have two US coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel (5
cents). What are the coins?
Answer: 50 cent piece and a nickel. (One is a nickel, the *other* one
isn't.)
13. If you have only one match and you walked into a room where there
was an oil burner, a kerosene lamp, and a wood burning stove, which
one would you light first?
Answer: The match.
14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
Answer: Half-way, then he's running out of the woods.
15. A doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half
hour. How long would the pills last?
Answer: 1 hour.
16. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?
Answer: 9
17. How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
Answer: None -- Noah took them on the ark, not Moses.
18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5' 10" tall. What does he weigh?
Answer: Meat
19. How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
Answer: 12
20. What was the President's name in 1950?
Answer: The same as it is now.