When I was in High School, a friend of mine and I came across a Hallmark card with the following question on it:
“If a Chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day in a half, how long would it take a grasshoper with a wooden leg to beat all the seeds out of a dill pickle?”
Needless to say, we laughed our butts off, and then became inspired to create new “stupid questions”, among which are some of our finer ones:
“If your left shoe fits your dog’s nose, how often do you take the garbage out?”
“If fish chew bubblegum, then who owns the blue Chevy on the neighbor’s roof?”
“If your riding down the road on a motorcycle and a monkey in a wheelchair breaks in while you’re rubbing chocolate pudding on your cats’ legs, and he starts wildly beating the rubber chicken with the barbequed dog’s tail, what would you do?”
Anyway, I’d like to see your submissions for some really “Stupid” questions… and answers if you like.
Incidently, we did come up with an answer for the “Monkey in a wheelchair” question: “Turn on your lights and beep twice”. Ironically, a friend of mine and I were driving in the early evening and the turned on her lights and then beeped her horn twice. I immediately said, “Monkey in a wheelchair, right?”
Ok, non-nerds probably won’t get this, but this was a real question on the graduate-level physics comprehensive exam a few years ago:
Given that the sky is blue, estimate Avagadro’s Number.
I ain’t posting the solution until someone gives an indication that they know what that’s asking, or care.
Avagadro’s number is 6.02 x 10(23), but that’s how many molecules is in a mole. I don’t see what that has to do with the color of the sky. Though, I guess that’s why it was a stupid question, right?
