From the book of that name.

A few of my favourites.

1. At midnight it is raining hard. How likely is it that it will be sunny in 72 hours time?

2. What happened in Paris on June 31st, 1945?

3. How many queens have been crowned in England since 1831?

4. In a balloon just off the coast of Ireland, I dropped two wine bottles, one empty, and one full. Which hit the ground first?

5. Which English word do Australians always pronounce incorrectly? (Damn Aussies eh? [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

6. If all aerosol propellants burn when lit, how is it that, whilst threatened by a snake on a recent trip to the equator, I was unable to use my deodorant and cigarette lighter as a flame-thrower?

7. Can you guess the next letter in this series?
C, Y, G, T, N, L, I, T...?

Answers by PM please...

[ 12-21-2004, 10:11 AM: Message edited by: Callum ]

<font color="cyan">Hehe I found a loophole in No.6!!</font>

[ 12-21-2004, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: Lavindathar ]

Not for long you didn't! ;)

Ok, Hivetyrant is the first one to get any right, and he got 2-6 all at once, and then 1 in the next PM. Congrats.

Blunderbuss got numbers 4 and 5 right.

Lavindathar, sadly, has no points to his name, after a multitude of guesses and PMs. :(

:D

[ 12-21-2004, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Callum ]

<font color="cyan">I did have a mulittude of guesses, but they were all possible feesable answers!</font>

WOO HOO!!!!, I AM THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!!!
Ok, well maybe not, but I rule the lateral thinking world [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Sent and eagerly awaiting some sort of validation in my hollow, hollow life.

This sure was an ego-trip... to sign in and be faced with 14 PMs [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Blunderbuss got 1, 2 and 6 correct. (and 4 and 5 previously).
Iron Greasel got 1, 2, 4, and 6 correct.
Sir Goulum got 1 correct.
Azred got 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7 correct.
LennonCook got 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 correct.
armaggedon272 got 2 and 4 correct.
Illumina Drathiran'ar got 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 correct, and would have gotten 6 correct, had he not called me a tool ;) Muahahah! :D
Gabrielles blades got 1, 3, and 6 correct.
Seraph got 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 correct.
Winter wolf got 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 correct.

Well done.

Here are the answers:

1. <font color="Dark Brown">Very unlikely. In 72 hours, it will be midnight again.</font>

2. <font color="Dark Brown">Nothing, June only has 30 days.</font>

3. <font color="Dark Brown">None, princesses are crowned, not queens.</font>

4. <font color="Dark Brown">Neither. If you are off the coast, they will land in the water.</font>

5. <font color="Dark Brown">"Incorrectly"</font>

6. <font color="Dark Brown">It was roll-on deodorant.</font>

7. <font color="Dark Brown">'S'. The letters are the first letters of all the words in the question.</font>

Edit: Bleh, I used to be able to do that. What's the colour of the background?

[ 12-22-2004, 03:50 AM: Message edited by: Callum ]

They were great, I spent most of yesterday trying to work them out. :D Got any more?

What a jip!! I answered number 7 right!!!

In number 4...
I would think the full wine bottle would sink, being full and all, so it would be the first to hit the ground, if you call the sea floor the ground, unless it floats... or as it is going down it cracks under the pressure... ok so my theory has some faults, but I still say it would hit the ground first, unless it never reached the bottom and stayed floating at sea and the other bottle got swept to a beach, so it would touch the ground first.
Bah I'm thinking about this too much.