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One of the girls put the apple she took, back.
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Close enough!
THE APPLE PROBLEM
The first five girls each took an apple.  The sixth girl took the basket as well as the apple in it.

Tally -
Catwoman - 1

GAME, SET AND MATCH
Two men were playing tennis.  They played five sets and each man won three sets.  How did they do this?

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THE DEADLY PARTY
A man went to a party and drank some of the punch.  He then left early.  Everyone else at the party who drank the punch subsequently died of poisoning.  Why did the man not die?End Quote

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They were in a scuba class and it was underwater. (ok, maybe I am grasping at straws here.)
Cat
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http://e4u.deltait.com.au/sport/sport10.gif  "bloop bloop bloop"?

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http://e4u.deltait.com.au/sport/sport10.gif  "bloop bloop bloop"?
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YEP!!!
SPEECHLESS
The two men were both divers.  They met on afternoon while scuba diving on the sea bed.

Tally -
Catwoman - 4
Rice Cube - 3
Princess of Pop - 1

HOW TO HUG
A boy was about to go on his first date.  Since he had never embraced a girl before he was anxious to learn a little about how to do it.  He went to his local public library and saw a book entitled How to Hug.  He took it home and was greatly disappointed; it gave him no useful advice at all. Why not?

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Was it an encylopedia that started with the word "How" and ended in "Hug"?
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YES!  I'll tally points when I get home...

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Do we need to put an A.P.B. out on Steve H?  Or does he just have a more interesting life than the rest of us?  :-/
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Unlike some of us *cough* the man actually has to work ;)

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THE HEALTHY DAIRYMAIDS
In the eighteenth century a disease called smallpox was responsible for the deaths of millions of people worldwide.  The man whom we can thank for defeating the scourge of smallpox is Edward Jenner, an English country doctor who lived from 1749 to 1823.  He noticed that dairymaids never caught smallpox.  From this observation he went on to develop a treatment to prevent smallpox and thereby became one of the world's most famous doctors.  Why did dairymaids never catch smallpox?

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They got cowpox, which was like smallpox, but less dangerous so they survived with an immunity to smallpox as well.

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THE LAKE PROBLEM
There is a large irregularly shaped lake on your estate.  It is of variable and unknown depth.  There are no rivers or streams entering or leaving the lake.  How would you find the volume of water in the lake?


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Drain it and fill it up again, with a water measurer thingie :)

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How about building a retaining wall around the lake and sandbagging the lake until it rises so you can measure it based on the wall?
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gosh rice.....that's outta my league  ::)

I think I will wait for the next question.....................

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THE BOXING MATCH
At the end of a long hard boxing match one boxer was knocked out by the other.  The judges agreed it was a completely proper victory.  Yet during the course of the match no man threw a punch.  What happened?



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Either a headbutt or it was kickboxing.

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They were female boxers!  I actually have heard this one before!  :P
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And you heard it right!  Tallying will be done when I get home from work.   :D

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They were female boxers!  I actually have heard this one before!  :P
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>:(  Dangit! I knew that before I saw the answer! Guess I just have a little need for speed.

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THE BOXING MATCH
No man threw a punch because the boxing match was between two women boxers.

Tally -
Rice Cube - 5
Catwoman - 5
Princess of Pop - 2
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Princess has 3 now ;)

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THE NEPHEW
A man and his sister were out shopping one day when the man said, "That boy over there is my nephew."  "That is right," replied his sister, "but he is not my nephew."  How come?
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Were they half-siblings?

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Take 1 off the 3 remaining tires, then all would have 3?
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That was my guess...so if SHE gets a point, I should get a point too!!!   >:(   ;)

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MOVING PARTS
Two common objects carry out the same function.  One of the objects has many thousands of moving parts while the other object has no moving parts.  What are the objects?
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Is one of these objects a cutting tool?

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Perhaps he had another copy of the same book, and destroyed that one book to make the other book worth even more since it was more rare now :P
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Exactly!  I'll tally when I get home.

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THE TWO SISTERS
One day, two sisters decided to clean out the old shed at the bottom of their garden.  When they had finished the cleaning, one of them had a dirty face and the other had a clean face.  The sister with the clean face went and washed her face, but the girl with the dirty face did not wash.  Why should this be so?
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Could it be because she didn't want to get her face even more dirty, since her hands would probably be dirty?

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THE TWO SISTERS
One day, two sisters decided to clean out the old shed at the bottom of their garden.  When they had finished the cleaning, one of them had a dirty face and the other had a clean face.  The sister with the clean face went and washed her face, but the girl with the dirty face did not wash.  Why should this be so?
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Did one of the sisters supervise while the other one did all the work?

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WATER AND WINE
There are two glasses on the table, one containing water and the other one wine.  They both contain exactly the same amount by volume.  If you take a teaspoon of water and mix it into the wine and then take a teaspoonful from the wine glass and mix it with the water, both glasses become contaminated.  But which is the more contaminated?  Doe the water now contain more wine than the wine does water or the other way around?
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Wine is partially water.  So if you put water in wine it just becomes slightly more water, but if you put a little bit of wine in water, the alcohol will spread out and it won't be as contaminated as the water-in-wine, which is still mostly alcohol.  Or something like that ???

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Wouldn't they BOTH have equal parts contamination?  Since you are transferring equal parts of each liquid?   :-/
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YES!!! Point tallied when I get home...

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Earl! (The edit would have been disallowed if it had occured prior to Taoist's correct answer)
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I know :)  I would've said something if Tao had the correct answer before me :)

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THE SINGLE STATEMENT
An explorer was captured by a tribe whose chief decided that the man should die.  The chief was a very logical man and gave the explorer a choice.  The explorer was to make a single statement.  If it was true, he would be thrown over a high cliff.  If it was false, he would be eaten by lions.
What statement did the clever explorer make that forced the chief to let him go?
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Was the statement pertaining to either torture/death method?

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THE SINGLE STATEMENT
An explorer was captured by a tribe whose chief decided that the man should die.  The chief was a very logical man and gave the explorer a choice.  The explorer was to make a single statement.  If it was true, he would be thrown over a high cliff.  If it was false, he would be eaten by lions.
What statement did the clever explorer make that forced the chief to let him go?
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Did he dissuade the chief from employing those methods?

Did he make the chief laugh?

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THE MAN WITH THE WOOD
A man had some wood.  On Monday, it was in the shape of a cube.  On Tuesday, he changed it into the shape of a cylinder, and on Wednesday he changed it into the shape of a pyramid.  He did not cut or carve the wood into these shapes.  How did he do it?

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Was he a magician?

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I was going to say firewood ^ or sawdust that he made into those shapes?  But you know how my answers can get me in trouble sometimes!  :-/
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Yeah, but you said the magic word, Princess!  Sawdust!
THE MAN WITH THE WOOD
The wood was sawdust.  He poured it into a square box to make a cube shape, a bucket to make the cylinder, and then into a pyramid-shaped box to make the pyramid.

Tally -
Rice Cube - 10
Princess of Pop - 6
Catwoman - 5
80s Cheerleader - 2
Thunderbolt - 1

STUCK TIGHT
A truck became wedged under a low bridge.  It could not move forward or back without severly damaging its roof.  The truck driver was perplexed until a little girl standing nearby suggested an easy solution.  What was it?

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COMING HOME
A man walked home after having been out drinking.  He walked down the middle of a deserted country road.  There were no street lights to illuminate the road and there was no moonlight.  He was dressed all in black  Suddenly a car that did not have its headlights on came racing down the road.  At the last moment, the driver of the car saw the man and swerved to avoid him.  How did he manage to see him?
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Did he smile?  :D

Um...it was during the day.

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THE TWO GOLFERS
Archie and Ben were professional golfers and keen rivals.  One day during a game, they had each scored 30 when Ben hit a bad shot.  Archie immediately added 10 to his own score.  Archie then hit a good shot and he had won the game. Why?
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They were bowling?

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Were they playing Tennis?  ::)
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D'oooooooh, I didn't think of that :D  Bravo!

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LORD STRATHALLEN
Lord Strathallen was an important Scottish nobleman who was used to getting what he wanted.  One day in 1746, he ordered some food and drink even though he was neither hungry nor thirsty.  What he wanted was not available and he was offered whiskey and oakcake instead.  He was glad to quickly consume a little of each.  Why?
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To pretend that that was actually what he wanted so he could keep up his reputation?

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A REMARKABLE JOURNEY
In 1930, two men drove from New York to Los Angeles in a Ford motor car.  The journey of 3,340 miles took 18 days.
This wasn't the first, the fastest, or the slowest journey of its kind.  They drove on normal roads.  The car was not remarkable and the two men were normal.  But because of this journey, these two men hold a world record that endures to this day.  What is it?
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they drove backwards?

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WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE II
In South America, a woman was being chased by a gang of bandits.  She had escaped with two solid gold balls, and the bandits wanted to kill her and take the balls.  She came to a wooden bridge over a deep ravine.  There was a notice on the bridge that said "Maximum weight on this bridge 112 pounds."  Strangely enough, this notice was 100% accurate--the bridge would break if it carried more than 112 pounds.  She weighed 100 pounds and each of the two balls weighed 10 pounds.  There was no time to leave one ball behind and come back for it later.  And yet she managed to escape across the bridge to safety with both balls.  How could this be?
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Did she shed her clothes so that she could run across naked while she could still carry the gold balls?  (Assume clothes weighed 8 pounds for whatever reason)

Did she roll the balls along?

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80s Cheerleader!
WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE II
She juggled the balls as she went over the bridge.
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TEN POUND BALLS????  You gotta be sh!ttin' me!!!  :D ::)

For a 100-pounder that's quite impressive ;)

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SILENCE ON THE TRAIN
A man boarded a train and sat in a carriage.  The only other person in the carriage was a woman who was sitting opposite him.  After a little while, she took from her bag a pencil and paper and passed it to the man.  He wrote on the piece of paper and gave it back to her.  At the next stop, she got off the train and threw the piece of paper away.
They had never met before.  Their meeting on the train was by chance and not arranged.  They did not speak to each other.
Can you determine the story behind this sequence of events?


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He gave her his phone number/autograph.

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TEN POUND BALLS????  You gotta be sh!ttin' me!!!  :D ::)

For a 100-pounder that's quite impressive ;)
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She must've had a big boyfriend!!!  It's all in the wrist baby! ;)

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Clue:
The man was an author.
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And this clue is supposed to make it easier, HOW?  Now I am totally clueless!  :P

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He blew a bubble and she caught it with the wrapper, so she had to throw it away?
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;D

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THE DISTANT IMAGE
A man was in a room.  It was ten feet square and ten feet high with solid walls, ceiling, and floor.  There were no windows and the door was close fitting and closed.  It was a dark night and no light entered the room from outside.  There was a light on in the room.  Apart from the light there was not other electrical or powered object in the room.  The interesting thing is this--althought the room was only ten feet across, the man could see something 40 feet away.  How could this be?
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He looked down?

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Years left in their life
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We got a live one ;)

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Captain Math to the rescue....

The first shepherd (A) gets 1
The second (B) gets 7

Explaination

A donates 3 loaves but eats 8/3 himself (8/3 is the proportion each man gets)
therefore he donates 1/3 of a loaf to the meal
B donates 5 loaves, eats 3/8
therefore he donates 7/3 loaves to the meal

B donates 7 times the bread

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Can you say "Google"?

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Can you say "Google"?
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Are you questioning my integrity?

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Are you questioning my integrity?
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I think you're intelligent enough to get this on your own steam :)  I probably would've figured it out except that I didn't feel like thinking last night ;D

And no, I'm not Mr. Bojangles ;)  Not to mention that to find this exact question on the web would take some creative web engine finagling ::)