Go To The Top Of The Class

Cue (NZERS), Issue 23, 15 May 1945, Page 10

Go To The Top Of The Class

. 1. A whisky-and-soda costs thirtyfive lire. The whisky costs thirty-one lire more than the soda. How much does the .soda- cost?

2. A shepherd had seventeen sheep. All but nine died. How many sheep did he have left? 3. A King wishing to get rid of his Prime Minister, puts two pieces of paper in a hat. He tells a Judge present that if the Prime Minister draws out the scrap marked ’’Stay”, he may remain in the Kingdom, but if he draws the piece marked ’’Go’’ he must leave. The hitch is that the King wrote ”Go” on both scraps- of paper. But when the crafty Prime Minister showed the Judge, one piece of paper,

the Judge decided in his favour. How did the Prime .Minister outwit the King? 4. Which is correct: eight and eight are fifteen ; or eight and eight P fifteen ? . 5. A little Wog and a big Wog arc walking down a path. The little Wog is the big Wog’s son. The big Wog is not the little Wog’s father. Gan: you plain this? - 6. In what book of the Bible does,i;ttell about Abel slaying Cain? 7. The number of eggs in a basket doubles every minute. The basket is full of eggs in an hour. When was the basket half-full?

1. Two lire. • 2. Nine. J 3. The Prime Minister destroyed the first scrap he drew and since the other said ”Go” the one he disposed of must have said ’’Stay’’ the Judge decided. 4. Neither: eight and eight are still sixteen.

5. The big Wog is the little Wog’s mother. 6. None. Cain slew Abel. 7. In fifty-nine minutes. If the basket* is full in sixty minutes, it was half-full a minute earlier, or at the end of fifty-nine minutes. Isn’t it a basket?