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No problem Barbara...........don't forget to seperate the answers... ;-)

Hi Mr Magoo
If you don't mind, I will turn these into a PowerPoint which will make an excellent end of term quiz for my classes.

Many thanks
Barbara

No need to post the correct answers they are all here ..... :-D

1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May.
...What was the third child 's name?

Johnny.

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers.
...What does he weigh?

meat

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered,
...what was the highest mountain in the world?

Mt Everest

4. How much dirt is there in a hole
...that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

None

5. What word in the English Language
...is always spelled incorrectly?

incorrectly

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.
....How is this possible?

Lives in the Antipodes

7. In California , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.
...Why not?

You would need a camera

8. What was the President 's Name...in 1975?

If you mean the USA president it was Barack Obama, although I believe he took his stepfather's name for a while.

9. If you were running a race,
...and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

Second and the wrong place - I should have been in the pub.

10. Which is correct to say,...
"The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

The yolks of the eggs are yellow.

11. 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 another field?

Just the one.

1...Johnny

2... Meat

5...incorrectly

6... Billy lives in the Southern hemisphere

10... The yolk of an egg isn't white

All I have time for MM ...give someone else a 'go' >>>>>> :-D

1 – Johnny
2 – Not meat because he is the Butcher’s Clerk
3 – Mount Everest
4- There is no dirt in the hole because it has already been removed
5 – Incorrectly
6- He lives in the southern hemisphere
7 – You need a camera to take a photo; a wooden leg won’t work!
8 – Mr President? Edit - President of which country? The UK has a Prime Minster. 2nd edit - the same as it is now?
9 – 2nd place
10 – Neither. Egg yolks are yellow
11 – one

I really need to get a life!!!

I'm not playing cos i've got an overhang and i'm nursing a sore head.

:-S :-S :-S

Answers later.........

1. Johnny 's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May.
...What was the third child 's name?

2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers.
...What does he weigh?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered,
...what was the highest mountain in the world?

4. How much dirt is there in a hole
...that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English Language
...is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billy was born on December 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.
....How is this possible?

7. In California , you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.
...Why not?

8. What was the President 's Name...in 1975?

9. If you were running a race,
...and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

10. Which is correct to say,...
"The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"?

11. 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 another field?