#17 A

#29 27


#32 A Kite Flying Contest.

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Here are today's Riddles for Thur 24rd February 2005

#19
A farmer had a stone that he used to measure grain on his scale. One day his neighbor borrowed the stone, and when he returned, it was broken into four pieces.
The neighbor was very apologetic, but the farmer thanked the neighbor for doing him a big favor.
The farmer said that now he can measure his grain in one pound increments starting at one pound all the way to forty pounds (1, 2, 3, 17, 29, 37, etc.) using these four stones.
What is the individual weights of the four stones
[Correctly Answered By jfarley ]

#22
Every Tuesday evening Sam Mann drives up to his cottage to visit his wife.
On these weekly visits he drops off his clean clothes and picks up the dirty laundry.
Since Mrs. Mann changes her underwear each morning, what is the minimum number of underwear she can own?
[Correctly Answered By Caniche ]

#29
In cubic feet, how much dirt is in a hole 3 feet long, 3 feet deep, and 3 feet wide?
[Correctly Answered By smcclarigan ]

#30
Two brothers were talking. One said, "I am fed up with living in Birmingham because I have to drive all the time.
Why don't we move to London?" His brother replied, "But that would mean that I would have to drive all the time."
Why?
[Correctly Answered By smcclarigan ]

#34
What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
[Correctly Answered By smcclarigan ]

#35
There was a shipwreck at sea and Buck, Lance and Jack were washed ashore on a small island.
Reaching the shore, exhausted, they all fell asleep.
Buck woke first and saw that a box of bananas had been washed ashore.
He ate one third of the bananas and went back to sleep.
Next, Lance woke up an seeing the box of bananas, ate one third of what was left and fell asleep.
Jack woke up next and assumed that the other two hadn't eaten any bananas, so he ate one third of what remained.
When Jack had finished, there were eight bananas left over.
How many bananas were in the box originally?
[Correctly Answered By jfarley ]

#38 [Submitted by Caniche]
If you have 60 arrows and you start to shoot them at noon and shoot 1 arrow every minute after that, at what time will you run out of arrows?
[Correctly Answered jfarley ]

#43 [Submitted by Caniche]
In what year did Christmas and New Year fall in the same year?
[Correctly Answered Dreamshaper ]

#45 [Submitted by Caniche]
There is a train 1 km long traveling at 1 km/min through a tunnel that is 1 km long. How long does it take the train to get entirely through the tunnel?
[Correctly Answered Dreamshaper ]

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#19 1,3,9,27
#35 27
#38 Just after you shoot the 60th arrow at 12:59

After one minute, the engine has travelled the entire tunnel, just as the caboose is entering the tunnel, so the caboose takes one more minute to travel the entire tunnel. The answer is 2 minutes for the entire train.