Short Stories

Quiz-4

1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it? 2. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under water? 3. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?   .4. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in the center field? . 5. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move? Scroll down for answers..... ....... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ******** 1. The word "incorrectly. " ******** 2. None, the boat rises with the tide. ******** 3. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you follow the BODMAS mathematical orders of operation,then OF comes First, then only Addition comes.. So... half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three. ******** ******** 4. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack. ******** 5. The temperature or ladder/stair ******** |||||||||||||||||| email from pAuLrAj - 4th December 2008 ||||||||||||||||||||||||