Tricky

tricky questions to while away the hours in lockdown

1. What is the biggest flower in the world? (I'll accept either of 2 possible answers)

2. Where can you push your car just a few inches to receive $200?

3. In any 24 hour period how many times does the minute hand go past the hour hand?

4. What number begins with the letter A?

5. What gets wetter the more it dries?

6. What is at the end of every rainbow?

7. What do you call the device that allows you to see through walls?

8. If two's company and three a crowd what are four and five?

9. A postman has 3 letters, going forward they are a weight, but backwards not. What are they?

10. What do you have that you hardly use? (Your friends use it all the time!)

tricky questions to while away the hours in lockdown

1. What is the biggest flower in the world? (I'll accept either of 2 possible answers) - Sunflower

2. Where can you push your car just a few inches to receive $200? - "Monopoly" board

3. In any 24 hour period how many times does the minute hand go past the hour hand? - 22

4. What number begins with the letter A?

5. What gets wetter the more it dries? -Ice

6. What is at the end of every rainbow? - A mist

7. What do you call the device that allows you to see through walls? - X-Ray

8. If two's company and three a crowd what are four and five? - Voyeurs

9. A postman has 3 letters, going forward they are a weight, but backwards not. What are they? - LBS

10. What do you have that you hardly use? (Your friends use it all the time!) - Phone number

@wolfe63 said
tricky questions to while away the hours in lockdown

1. What is the biggest flower in the world? (I'll accept either of 2 possible answers) - Sunflower

2. Where can you push your car just a few inches to receive $200? - "Monopoly" board

3. In any 24 hour period how many times does the minute hand go past the hour hand? - 22

4. What number beg ...[text shortened]...
10. What do you have that you hardly use? (Your friends use it all the time!) - Phone number

3 points

2,3,10 are good

@wolfgang59 said
3 points

2,3,10 are good

5 -a towel
7-a window

@venda said
5 -a towel
7-a window

bingo

@wolfgang59

6 - 'w'
8 - 9
9- ton

@blood-on-the-tracks said
@wolfgang59

6 - 'w'
8 - 9
9- ton

Correct.
8/10 for the team.

The remaining two are quite fiendish!

@wolfgang59

4. Avogadro's number

1. Nile

@wolfgang59

4. Could also be anesthesia.

@bigdoggproblem said
1. Nile

.... probably the longest. By volume it is easily Amazon.
Nile or Amazon is what I was looking for. Well done!

And congrats HandyAndy, Anesthesia was the number I was looking for.

@wolfgang59 said
1. What is the biggest flower in the world? (I'll accept either of 2 possible answers)
2. Where can you push your car just a few inches to receive $200?
3. In any 24 hour period how many times does the minute hand go past the hour hand?
4. What number begins with the letter A?
5. What gets wetter the more it dries?
6. What is at the end of every rainbow?
7. What do y ...[text shortened]... s not. What are they?
10. What do you have that you hardly use? (Your friends use it all the time!)

1. A river is a flow-er. Nile or Amazon
2. On a Monopoly board of course.
3. 22
4. Anesthesia is the numb-er.
5. A towel.
6. W
7. A window.
8. 4 and 5 are 9.
9. The 3 letters are T, O and N.
10. Your name. Or phone number, or email address, etc.

Thanks for playing.

THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED

@wolfgang59 said
.... probably the longest. By volume it is easily Amazon.
Nile or Amazon is what I was looking for. Well done!

And congrats HandyAndy, Anesthesia was the number I was looking for.

Help came from bigdogg. When he named Nile as a flow–er, I thought of anesthesia as a numb–er.

Thanks for the puzzles.

You know, I still think Avogadro's number is a better answer. It's 6.02214129 x 10^23, or (say the experts) the number of hydrogen atoms in 1 gram of hydrogen.

@handyandy said
You know, I still think Avogadro's number is a better answer. It's 6.02214129 x 10^23, or (say the experts) the number of hydrogen atoms in 1 gram of hydrogen.

As a chemist I have to disagree:

the number is in fact : 6.02214076×10^23

And it refers to the number of Carbonatoms in isotopically pure C12. Natural Hydrogen has an atomic Mass of 1.008, so the numb er is About 0.8 percent off, since you gave an accuracy of 1 in 10^9 this is significant...