Pop Quiz Answers



Here are the answers to the Pop Quiz at the beginning of the month.  How many did you get right?  Did you cheat?  :)





1.  Start with the sequence of non-zero digits 123456789. Place plus or minus signs between them so that the result of thus described arithmetic operation will be 100.




Answer:   We got one answer



12 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9 = 100


and suggested there existed at least one more. I do not claim to have made an exhaustive search but there appear to be more than just two answers. One of this is


123 + 4 - 5 + 67 - 89 = 100



I am sure there it at least another one. Want to find it?




2. Name four days of the week that begin with the letter "t".





Answer: Tuesday, Thursday, Today and Tomorrow





3. What word has five letters but is pronounced as only one?





Answer:  The word Queue.





4.  I have 2 arms, but fingers none.  I have 2 feet, but cannot run.  I carry well, but found I carry best with my feet off the ground.  What am I?




Answer: I am a wheelbarrow.



5.  What is big and yellow and comes in the morning to brighten mom's day?



Answer: A schoolbus



6.  You are in a room with 3 monkeys.  One monkey has a banana, one has a stick and one has nothing.  Who is the smartest primate?



Answer: You



7.  I am part of the bird that is not in the sky.  I swim in the ocean yet remain dry.  What am I?



Answer: A bird's shadow.



8.  What is half of 2 + 2?



Answer:  3.  Work from left to right (half of 2)= 1 + 2 = 3.



9.  Forward I am heavy, backward I am not.  What am I?



Answer: The word "ton", which backward becomes "not".



10.  What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?



Answer: A River