These are meant to be fun. I'll leave them up for a day before I post the answers. Let's see how you do

1. How quickly can you find out what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing was wrong with it at all, and in fact, nothing is. But it is unusual. Why? If you study it and think about it you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. I don't know. Now, go to work and try your luck.

2. Name the most recent year in which New Year's preceded Christmas.

3. What can go up a chimney down but not down a chimney up?

4. If there are 6 apples and you take away 4, how many do you have?

5. ]An electric train is moving north at 100kph and a wind is blowing to the west at 10kph. Which way does the smoke blow?

6. Imagine you are driving a bus. When you start your trip there are an old lady named Johnson and a long-haired kid on the bus. At the first stop the lady leaves and a businessman enters. At the next stop Frankie, a young boy, enters with his little sister. Then three old ladies who have been shopping in the mall get on. After a short trip the long-haired kid leaves the bus and a man and lady enter. Paul with his dog Blue gets on, while Frankie and his sister get off, and, finally, the bus arrives at the bus station. What is the name of the bus driver?

7. Start with three coins: a penny, a nickel and a quarter. Say, "Tommy's mother has three children. The first child's name is Penny." (Hold up the penny while saying this.) "The second child's name is Nick." (Hold up the nickel.) What is the third child's name? (Hold up the quarter.)

8. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made entirely of bricks?

9. A man left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home there were two masked men. Who were they?

10. Why is it against the law for a man living in North Carolina to be buried in South Carolina?

11. That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant. But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother. Who is lying?

12. Imagine a duck in a glass bottle. The neck of the bottle is too small to allow the duck through. The bottle is perfectly formed and has no trick bottoms or other openings. How do you get the duck out of the bottle without damaging either the duck or the bottle?

Well I can get some of those anyway...

1- you don't use the letter 'e'

2- 2006 (unless that doesn't count since we haven't reached Christmas yet, in that case 2005 )

6- Yuallica :grin:

10- because you can't bury someone when they're alive!

11- neither, the accountant is a woman

Are those right?

Yep

1.
2. 2006?
3.
4. 4 apples
5.There's no smoke
6. Ally
7. Tommy
8.
9.
10. You can't bury a man alive
11. No One. The accountant is the attorney's sister.

That's all I can figure out for now.

1. Ummmm lots of stuff?
2. 2006
3. Smoke or Santa?
4. 4
5. Well, it could be a trick question, it is an electric train so there is no smoke from it when it is running normally, however if it is on fire, then the smoke is travelling South South West.
6. Adrian
7. 75 cents short of a condom.....LOL
8. Depends on the house, but a lot.
9. FBI Agents since the man was slightly tanned they thought he was a terrorist fleeing.
10. Because its in the south and who gets any of that weird stuff anyways.
11. The Attorney is lying....because honestly when was the last time an attorney didn't lie?
12. The same way he got into the bottle.

1. The letter E is not found anywhere in the Paragraph.

2. 2006

3. Hmm makes me think of Mary Poppins, An Umbrella

4. I would have 4

5. It's an Electric Train there is no smoke to go any dirrection.

6. My name is Michael

7. Tells ya right there "Tommy's Mother" so my guess is Tommy lol.

8. If you are completing it you are putting in the last brick...so 1.

9. Honestly not sure on this one :/...you stumpt me on that one Grrrr.

10. Cause you'd be burying him alive lol.

11. The accountant is his sister so niether is lieing.

12. Well my guess is I would have to imagian him out if I imagianed him in there lol.

1. no letter 'e'

2. 2006, unless you're using 2005 since we havnt had a Christmas yet for 2006

3. an umbrella

4. 4

5. No smoke from an electric train

6. well, if 'Im' driving the bus... the name would be my name lol

7. last child is Tommy.. *holds up a quarter* hehe

8. It only takes one brick to 'complete' a building

9. The umpire and the catcher

10. Its illegal to bury anyone who is still living lol

11. No one is lying, the accountant is his sister

12. Imagine the duck on the outside now? *puzzled by this one*

1. No Lettter "E"
2. Since no Christmas yet, 2005
3. Smoke
4. 4
5. It's Electric, No Smoke!
6. t.guilliams (TeJay in RL)
7. Tommy
8. 1 Brick to Complete it
9. The Umpire and the catcher (Baseball! I'm a frickin genius!)
10. He's Alive!
11. I'm assuming its a sister (Prolly wrong...)
12. Think about him out of it (You thought of him in it!)

*Did this without looking at the other posts... FRICKIN GENIOUS!*

You all did great. Darri Lien and t.guilliams are both correct. I'm sending you both a cookie for your efforts

figures it would be a baseball question to knock me out of the running grrrr.