Mind Teazer's

[TalonRider]

The Questions:
1. The maker doesn't want it, the buyer doesn't use it and the user doesn't see it. What is it?
2. A child is born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents who were both born.
in Boston, Massachusetts. The child is not a United States citizen. How is this possible?
3. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?
4. Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
5. Captain Frank and some of the boys were exchanging old war stories. Art Bragg offered one about how his grandfather led a battalion against a 20 German division during World War I. Through brilliant maneuvers he defeated them 20 and captured valuable territory. After the battle he was presented with a sword bearing the inscription "To Captain Bragg for Bravery, Daring and Leadership in World War One From the Men of Battalion 8" Captain Frank looked at Art and said, "You really don't expect anyone to believe that yarn, do you?" What's wrong with the story?
6. What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agreed is between heaven and earth?
7. In what year did Christmas and New Year's fall in the same year?
8. A woman from New York married ten different men from that city, yet she did not break any laws. None of these men died and she never divorced. How was this possible?
9. Why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than 1989 American dollar bills?
10. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?
11. A taxi driver was called to take a group of passengers to the train station The station is normally an hour away, but with extra heavy traffic, it took a full hour and a half. On the return trip the traffic was still as heavy and yet it took only 90 minutes. Why?
12. How could you rearrange the letters in the words "new door" to make one word? Note: There is only one correct answer.
13. Even if they are starving, natives living in the Arctic will never eat a penguin's egg. Why not?
14. Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?
15. In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
16. There were an electrician and a plumber waiting in line for admission to the "International Home Show" One of them was the father of the other's son. How could this be possible?
17. After the new Canon Law that took effect on November 27, 1983, would a Roman Catholic man be allowed to marry his widow's sister?

The Answers:
1. A coffin
2. The child was born before 1776
3. Mount Everest, it just hadn't been discovered!
4. Clara lives in the Southern Hemisphere
5. World War I wasn't called "World War I" until World War II
6. The word "and"
7. They fall in the same year every year, New Year's Day just arrives very early in the year and Christmas arrives very late in the same year
8. The lady was a Justice of the Peace
9. One thousand nine hundred and ninety dollar bills are worth one dollar more than one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollar bills
10. Only once, then you are subtracting it from 20
11. An hour and a half IS 90 minutes
12. "one word"
13. Penguins live in the Antarctic
14. Neither, the yolk of the egg is yellow
15. You have to take a picture of a man with a camera, not with a wooden leg
16. They were husband and wife
17. He can't because he's dead

[Graeme]

I got most of these, though I had an alternate answer for number 2. The child would not be a citizen of the USA if they weren't human.... For example, if both parents and child were cats

[Lugnutz]

Meow. If they were born in a different country they would be citizens of that land. It's like speaking English to a Russian.

[Cole Parker]

And I had a different one for number 6: fog. It comes between heaven and earth, not only literally, but in the dictionary.

[Bruin Fisher]

I got them all except the first and last - and I really should have got the last one. I particularly liked the one about taking a picture of a man with a wooden leg.

Reminded me about the Lufthansa flight carrying Japanese tourists between Vienna and Moscow that crashed exactly on the border between Romania and Hungary - the question being where they should bury the survivors...

[Graeme]

Thinking about it further, there are other legitimate answers to question 3, too. "Before Mt. Everest was discovered" covers a very broad period of time, and tectonic changes means that Mt. Everest was not always the highest mountain on Earth. Proving an alternative answer would be challenging, of course....

[Merkin]

I like Bruin's attitude...