GO TO THE TOP OF THE CLASS!

Cue (NZERS), Issue 22, 30 April 1945, Page 19

GO TO THE TOP OF THE CLASS!

1. You have two minutes in which to catch a train two miles away. If you go the first mile at the rate of thirty miles per hour, at what rate must you travel the second mile in order to catch the train?

2. Two fathers and two isons each shot a duck, and none of them shot the same duck. Only three ducks were shot. Why ?

3. A rope ladder ten feet long is hanging over the side of a ship. The rungs are a foot apart, and the bottom rung is resting on the surface of the ocean. The tide rises at the rate of six inches an hour. When will the first three rungs be covered with water?

4. If three cats can kill three rats in three minutes, how long will it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats?

5. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister? .

6. What is the smallest number of ducks that could swim in this formation: two ducks in front of a duck, two ducks behind a duck, and a duck between two ducks? •

7. A monkey is at the bottom of a thirty foot well. Each day he jumps up three feet and slips back two. At that rate when will the monkey reach the top of the well? ;

8. Take two apples from three apples and what have you got?

9. The archaeologist who said he found a silver coin marked 649 B.C. was either lying or kidding. Why?

10. A boat will carry only.; 200 pounds. How may a man weighing 200 pounds and his two sons', each of whom weighs 100 pounds, use it to cross a river? :

1. Too bad you missed it. You used up all your time going the first mile. 2. They were a grandfather, father, and sen. The father was both father and son. 3. Never. The ladder and ship will rise with the tide. 4. Three minutes. It takes each cat three minutes to kill each rat. 5. Only dead men have widows. 6. Three ducks in a row, one after the other. 7. On the twenty-eighth day. At the end of the twenty-seventh day he ascended twenty-seven feet. On the twenty-eighth day, he reac es the top. 8. Two- apples, of course. 9. How did anyone know Christ was coming in 649 years? 10. The two sons go first. One brings back the boat and the father rowover. Then the ether son returns for his brother.