trivia

[Park02]

How clever are you? 

1. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? 

2. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

3. I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?

4. If you are in a dark room with a candle, a wood stove and a gas lamp, and you have only one match, which should you light first?

5. A  man wanted to enter an exclusive club but did not know the password that was required. He waited by the door and listened. A club member knocked on the door and the doorman said, "twelve." The member replied, "six " and was let in. A second member came to the door and the doorman said, "six." The member replied, "three" and was let in. The man thought he had heard enough and walked up to the door. The doorman said, "ten" and the man replied, "five." But he was not let in.  What should he have said?

We are ok on answer to 4 and 5 but stuck on the first three

[ginnytaylor3]

Could number 3 be a sponge?

[sofa_jockey]

answer to number 4 is you should light the match first.

[smouse]

2. stamp

[bernardo]

5. He should have said "three" (the number of letters in the word given by the doorman).

[Chillum]

Could No.1 be a fish? Throw away the scales, cook it, eat the flesh, throw away the bones.

[Chillum]

one bloody star! I wonder why I bother ;-)

[Park02]

you don't cook the insides of a fish, you throw away the guts. understand your answer. we were thinking Turkey!

[amarillis]

I would have said an ear of corn

[don1]

1 corn on the cob

2 postage stamp

3 sponge