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5. What is the minimum number of active baseball players on the field during any part of an
inning?
7. Take the number 30, divide it by 1/2, then add 10. What number do you get?
8. There are 3 apples and you take 2 away. How many apples are you left with?
9. A doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How long will the pills
last?
10. A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 of them die. How many sheep are left?
11. How many animals of each sex did Moses bring with him on the ark?
15. Why cant a man living in Winston-Salem, N.C. be buried west of the Mississippi?
16. If you had one match and entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil
burner, and a wood-burning stove, which one would you light first?
17. A man builds a house with 4 sides to it and it is rectangular in shape. Each side has a
southern exposure. A bear comes wondering by. What color is the bear?
18. A woman gave a beggar 50 cents. The woman is the beggars sister, but the beggar is
not the womans brother. How come?
19. An archeologist claimed he found some coins dated 46 B.C. Do you think he did?
2. One
3. Some months have 31 days. How many have 28? All of them. 12.
7. 70 Have the students who take calculus of honors math explain it.
9. ONE hour (1st pill = 12:00, 2nd pill = 12:30, 3rd pill = 1:00) The question is how long will the
pills last, not the effects of the pill.
10. 9 all the rest are dead.
12. Meat
13. 2 every dozen has twelve. (For fun, ask the students if they know what a bakers
dozen is?
14. The name of the current president, he was just a little bit younger, but that was still his
name in 1980!
15. No because he is alive (unless he might owe the mafia a large amount of money.)
19. NO the time period BC was named AFTER Christ was born. No coin would ever have a
date of B.C. on it because most if not all people (depending on your belief about ESP)
cannot predict future events.
20. Halfway, then the dog would be running out of the words.