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20 QUESTIONS

Post by Carpe Diem » Sun, 14 Aug 2005 3:05 pm

1. Name ten parts of the body that are spelled with three letters each

2: What are the only two questions you will NEVER be able to answer?

3: A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

4: Who or what can speak every language in the world?

5: This sign was posted in ancient rome. TOTI E HORS ESTO What does it mean?

6 There are five words in the English language that end in "cion". Can you name just two of them?

7: There are many words in the English language that ends in "eny". Can you name two?

8: Name five of the 11 adjectives in the English language that are in use that end in "dous".

9: There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced incorrectly. What is it?

10: What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978, thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.

11: What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

12: Paul is 20 years old in 1980, but only 15 years old in 1985. How is this possible?

13: What two words, each of ten letters, can be created by using ONLY the top row of letters on the computer keyboard... those letters would be: Q W E R T Y U I O P

14. What English word has three consecutive double letters?

15. Five hundred starts me, five hundred ends me and five is in between the first of all letters, the first of all numbers take their places in between

16. A women pulls up her car to a hotel and begins to cry! WHY???

17. Can you name a word in the English Language that has 8 consonants and one vowel?

18. What four letter word added to dress and just will create two new words?

19. What's the next number, in the following sequence? 1 4 7 11 15 13 ?

20. What seven letter word is missing from the following, to make sense? A ------- surgeon was ------- to operate, because he had -------


Answers end of next week, when I am back in town...
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Post by balloons » Sun, 14 Aug 2005 4:15 pm

Does that mean no more jokes from you until the end of the week? :cry: thnx for them, they really cheer me up =)

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Post by Saint » Mon, 15 Aug 2005 9:54 pm

I start off with a few I hope?

9) Incorrectly
11) Temperature
12) Born in BC
13) TYPEWRITER is one
14) Bookkeeper or bookkeeping
17) Strenght
20) Notable

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Re: 20 QUESTIONS

Post by briceloh » Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:05 pm

4) Echo

5) To Tie Horses To
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Post by banana » Wed, 17 Aug 2005 8:34 am

1) toe, eye, ear, lip, ass :wink: umm...the rest of your toes...individually
6) suspicion, scion
7) progeny, deny
19) 11

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Post by Bafana » Fri, 19 Aug 2005 4:12 pm

banana wrote:ass :wink:
Its actually spelt arse LOL :wink:

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Post by banana » Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:07 pm

Bafana wrote:
banana wrote:ass :wink:
Its actually spelt arse LOL :wink:
Depends on which side of the Atlantic you're from.

But yeah, arse is the preferred spelling and pronunciation.
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Post by Carpe Diem » Sun, 21 Aug 2005 8:58 pm

Thanks for the support and the hard work!
I am back, so as promised here are the answers...

1. 10 body parts with three letters each
ear, arm, leg, toe, lip, eye, hip, jaw, rib, gum, gut

2. The two questions you can never answer?
Are you dead and are you sleeping?

3. The dad gave one son 15 cents and another 10 cents what time is it?
1:45 (A quarter to two)

4. an echo

5. To tie horses to

6. suspicion, epinicion, scion, coercion, and internecion

7. biogeny, deny, endogeny, homogeny, larceny,
ontogeny, pathogeny, phylogeny, phytogeny, progeny, spleeny, teeny

8. tremendous, hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and jeapardous

9. Incorrectly

10. The time and month/date/year are 12:34, 5/6/78.

11. Temperature

12. He was born in B.C.

13. there are actually 4, TYPEWRITER. PROPRIETER PERPETUITY and
REPERTOIRE

14. Bookkeeper

15. DAVID

16. The woman is playing monopoly with the car as her token, and she just went bankrupt on a red hotel!

17. Strength

18. Read is the most common answer

19. the next # is 17
Count the number of letters in the words, for each of the numbers.
one =3
four =4
seven =5
eleven =6
fifteen =7
thirteen =8
seventeen =9

20.Answer:NOTABLE
A NOTABLE surgeon was NOT ABLE to operate, because he had NO TABLE
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