Mushroom's Impossible Trivia  prompted me to post this quiz!
It isn't an original... it is taken from Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader :D ;D
If you own one of these books... Please, No Cheating!

No Limits!

1. What unusual natural phenomenon is capable of speaking in any language?   karen - An Echo


2. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What do you have to add to make it weigh 12 pounds?  FussBudgetVanPelt - Holes


3. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on earth?    Odyssey - Mount Everest


4. What word starts with and "e," ends with and "e," and usually contains one letter?   jacks - envelope


5. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?      ktelqueen - A Ton


6. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?    Mushroom - A Priest


7. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?    karen - one (the last one completes it)


8. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?      Mushroom - Only once (After you subtract 5 from 25 you will then be subtracting 5 from 20, 5 from 15 etc...)



9. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?    kairi747 - A Secret


10. In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?   karen - you need a camera to take a picture


11. The more you have of it the less you see. What is it?         maddog - Darkness


12. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?      crazymom - footsteps


13. The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The one who uses it, never knows that he's using it. What
      is it?                                                                               crazymom - A coffin


14. What can go up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?              Philip Eno - An Umbrella 


15. What crime is punishable if attempted, but is not punisable if committed?       Mushroom - Suicide


16. What happened in the middle of the 20th century that will not happen again for 4000 years?   Paul - The year 1961. It reads the same upside down. Won't happen again till the year 6009

   
17. What is the center of gravity?    ktelqueen - "V"


18. What question can you never honestly answer yes to?     maddog - Are you asleep?


19. You can't keep this until you have given it. What is it?        karen - A Promise

3. Mt Everest

18. Are You Lying?

18 (alternate answer) Is Tam a b!tch?

4. Envelope

5. yvaeh ;D
14. smoke
18. Are you dead?

6. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?   
The priest

7. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?   
all of them

8. How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 25?     
once.  after that, it is 20, not 25

15. What crime is punishable if attempted, but is not punisable if committed?       
suicide

I can see where the similarity is.  These are much more "word games" then trivia though.  But they are also fun.  :)

is 19 your word? :)

..and 5 might be ton?

..and 17 the letter v..how'm i doin' here girl?LMAO!!! ;D

9 wealth?

Ya'll are doing great! Obviously, if you've guessed but I haven't added it.... Try Again!!

;D 8)

I can see where the similarity is.  These are much more "word games" then trivia though.  But they are also fun.  :)


That's why I thought you read it as well.
Tells a lot about what I do in the Cammode!!! LMAO! ;D

Ya'll are doing great! Obviously, if you've guessed but I haven't added it.... Try Again!!

;D 8)


Both my guesses for #18 were wrong?! :-[

hmm...

18 (alternate answer) Is Tam a b!tch?


Both my guesses for #18 were wrong?! :-[

hmm..


I prefer the alternate answer Andrea! ;D
Keep tryin Girl!

2. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What do you have to add to make it weigh 12 pounds?

A hole, 12/20ths of the way up ?  :o

2. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What do you have to add to make it weigh 12 pounds?

A hole, 12/20ths of the way up ?  :o


Close enough FB!!! ;)

Close enough FB!!! ;)


Eeeeeeee  :P :P :P :P :D

Mushroom's Impossible Trivia  prompted me to post this quiz!
It isn't an original... it is taken from Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader :D ;D
If you own one of these books... Please, No Cheating!

No Limits!

1. What unusual natural phenomenon is capable of speaking in any language?   
   
Is it sneezing?

11. The more you have of it the less you see. What is it?

Blindness?  Glaucoma?  :o

14. What can go up a chimney down but can't go down a chimney up?     

An umbrella.

1. What unusual natural phenomenon is capable of speaking in any language?    an echo


7. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of brick?    one (the last one completes it)


10. In Okmulgee, Oklahoma, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?   you need a camera to take a picture

     

#16. Is this the 'upside down year' question?
It last happened in 1961 and the next one (to my knowledge) will be 6009...

Swiping at #18. 'How do you pronounce N-O?'

Wild stabs at a couple here:

#11 darknesss?
#18 are you asleep?

Wild stabs at a couple here:

#11 darknesss?
#18 are you asleep?


bugger ! pipped at the post on #11

#9 - a secret  :-X

Keep on Peeps!
Excellent job all around so far!! ;)

#19 a promise

12. Steps ?
13. A coffin

12. is close enough Kim! ;) ;D