I demand to be allowed to perform a practical investigation to find this out 
We get our English word noon from a Latin word referring to which time of the day?
Which Drifters song reached the highest chart position in the UK?(not just trivia!)
Where does a Jerusalem artichoke get its name from?
Yup.
My god, I just got the joke in Pratchett’s Fifth Elephant. :smack:
noon: from the ninth hour after sunrise?
Of the others, I have no idea.
Correct!
But then wouldn’t you be traveling west?
St. John’s Lateran. (Not St. Peter’s)
No, the canal cuts southeast across the country from the Caribbean to the Pacific. Here’s a map.
I see. Pretty sneaky, sis.
Midnight
Since nobody’s attempting the bra size question, the answer is 28 to 29 inches.
The first one was sponsored by Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World newspaper.
I’m going to have to say Ireland.
Correct
Nope, that’s an urban legend.
I came here to look for a brain teezer, but found none still open, so I’ll add this one recently learnt from the dope.
Which weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?
Depends on where they’re located. The feathers would weigh more if on earth and the gold on the moon.
However, if both are on earth, then they would weigh the same. Both one pound.
Erm, what?
IIRC the real answer is that gold is weighed in a different scale (avoirdupois) so a pound is indeed different for gold, but I can’t remember whether it’s more or less than a standard pound.
Here’s a clue: A (troy) ouce of gold weighs 480 grains. But an (avoirdupois) ounce of feathers weighs 437.5 grains.
So, which is heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers, then?
It’s uncertain, but possibly from the Italian word girasole, “sunflower”.
Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on April 23, 1616. Approximately how much time elapsed between their deaths?
I suppose the possible trick here is whether 23 April 1616 actually fell on the same day in England and Spain. Spain implemented the Gregorian calendar reforms in 1582, whereby 10 days were excised from the calendar, with 4 October being followed immediately by 15 October. However, Great Britain did not implement the calendar reforms until 1752. So presumably the 23 April 1616 when Cervantes died in Spain occurred 10 days before the 23 April 1616 when Shakespeare died in England.
WAG, one day because of the International Date Line.
Here’s mine -
Who starred as Dorothy in the first Wizard Of Oz?
Who Starred as the Monster in the first Frankenstein?
What year did the first Maltese Falcon come out?