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Okay, so not real tough. But maybe you've got a little time to kill on a lazy Sunday.


Tough Test 2

1. Whose third wife was Calpurnia?

2. Grandfather demands that his eggs be boiled for exactly 15 minutes, no more, no less. One day he asks that you prepare breakfast for him, and the only timepieces in the house are two hour glasses. The larger hour glass takes 11 minutes for all the sand to descend; the smaller glass takes 7 minutes. What do you do?

3. Which side did Adolphe Hitler part his hair on?

4. Suppose it takes 7 minutes for 7 monkeys to eat 7 bananas.
a) How many minutes would it take 3 monkeys to eat 3 bananas?
b) How many monkeys would it take to eat 49 bananas in 49 minutes?

5. What’s a loons favourite food? (And no, the answer is not, “What do you like to eat, Bumper?”)

6. Each child in a family has at least 2 brothers and 2 sisters. What is the smallest number of children the family can have, assuming it has both male and female children?

7. What French town distills most of the country’s brandy?

8. An Arab sheikh told his two sons to race their camels to a distant city, with the winner to inherit his vast fortune. The one whose camel is slower will win the contest. The brothers, after wandering aimlessly for days, ask a wise man for advise. After hearing the advise, they jump on the camels and race as fast as they can to the far-off city. What had the wise man suggested?

9. Was the character Max Klinger in the film version of M*A*S*H?

10. Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man’s father is my father’s son. Who is “that man?”