Take out a piece of scratch paper and write down the answers to these questions. Have fun! ^_~

1. If there is a basket of 13 apples and you take three apples, how many apples do you have?

2. How many 2-cent stamps does it take to make a dozen?

3. If a rooster is perched on the top of a barn, with the barn roof sloping east and west, and just as the sun rises the rooster lays an egg, on which side of the barn will the egg roll?

4. Name 5 United States presidents that are not buried in the United States.

5. If you threw a white hat with a blue ribbon into the Red Sea, what would it become?

6. If you divide 14 by 1/2, what do you get?

7. If there are 9 flies on the table and you swat one, how many will be left?

8. If there are 12 sheep in a field and one gets away, how many will be left?

9. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?

10. What is brown, made of paper, is found in a grocery store, and is as hard as concrete?

ANSWERS

1. You have 3. Nobody asked how many remained in the basket.

2. It takes 12 2-cent stamps to make a dozen. It takes 12 of anything to make a dozen.

3. Neither. Roosters don't lay eggs.

4. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton.

5. Wet.

6. 28. 14 divided by 1/2 equals 28. Try it on your calculator if you don't believe it.

7. One: the dead one.

8. None. An old story tells of a farm boy who answered this question in school. "Johnny, you don't know your arithmetic," said the teacher. Johnny answered, "Teacher, you don't know your sheep."

9. At the bottom of the document.

10. A paper grocery bag filled with concrete. I just added the concrete to make it harder.

Your Score Your Rating
10 Correct Genius
9 Correct Gifted
8 Correct Exceptionally Smart
7 Correct Head of the Class
6 Correct Excellent
5 Correct Pretty good
4 Correct O.K.
3 Correct Dummy
2 Correct Out of date
1 Correct Lost touch
0 Correct May be booksmart, but lack common sense