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<p>[QUOTE="jaceravone, post: 708392, member: 9474"]OK, quick contest...... Here are some riddles. The person who answers the most correctly will win their choice of a prize. I will have four prizes, so there will be four winners. Contest starts now and will end Wednesday night at 9pm EST. I will be giving away a Virginia Bicentennial Medal, a 2009S Proof Nickel, a 2007 1 Florin Aruban coin and a 1951D BU Roosevelt dime. <b><u><span style="color: Red">Please PM me your answers.</span></u></b> Let the brain smoke commence. </p><p><br /></p><p>1. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container?</p><p><br /></p><p>2. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?</p><p><br /></p><p>3. What is broken every time it's spoken?</p><p><br /></p><p>4. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying?</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?</p><p><br /></p><p>6. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters?</p><p><br /></p><p>7. What work can a painter never quite finish?</p><p><br /></p><p>8. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers?</p><p><br /></p><p>9. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have?</p><p><br /></p><p>10. What has a mouth but can't chew?</p><p><br /></p><p>11. How many letters are in the alphabet?</p><p><br /></p><p>12. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?</p><p><br /></p><p>13. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?</p><p><br /></p><p>14. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I?</p><p><br /></p><p>15. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Last but not least...... If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jaceravone, post: 708392, member: 9474"]OK, quick contest...... Here are some riddles. The person who answers the most correctly will win their choice of a prize. I will have four prizes, so there will be four winners. Contest starts now and will end Wednesday night at 9pm EST. I will be giving away a Virginia Bicentennial Medal, a 2009S Proof Nickel, a 2007 1 Florin Aruban coin and a 1951D BU Roosevelt dime. [B][U][COLOR="Red"]Please PM me your answers.[/COLOR][/U][/B] Let the brain smoke commence. 1. You have a barrel of oil, and you need to measure out just one gallon. How do you do this if you only have a three-gallon container and a five-gallon container? 2. If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair? 3. What is broken every time it's spoken? 4. How did Mark legally marry three women in Michigan, without divorcing any of them, becoming legally separated, or any of them dying? 5. Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family? 6. What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? 7. What work can a painter never quite finish? 8. Why wasn't John able to take a photo of his mother with curlers? 9. If there are three cups of sugar and you take one away, how many do you have? 10. What has a mouth but can't chew? 11. How many letters are in the alphabet? 12. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries? 13. What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? 14. Food can help me survive, but water will kill me. What am I? 15. Take away the whole and some still remains. What is it? Last but not least...... If it has a quart capacity, how many pennies can you put into a empty piggy bank?[/QUOTE]
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