# Who is buried in Grant's tomb? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128 "2010-11-28T01:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/21 "2010-11-28T06:30:33Z")
A very old one that still works: Wise guy: Spell “joke.” Kid: J-O-K-E. Wise guy: What do you call the white of an egg? Kid: The yolk. Wise guy: No! You call it the white (or the albumen, if you’re a show off). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/22 "2010-11-28T06:40:26Z")
If four people can dig four holes in four days, how long will it take two people to dig half a hole? There’s no such thing as half a hole. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/23 "2010-11-28T06:49:50Z")
> [@Lubricious\_Integument](#): > > No. The square root of a positive number is positive. The answer is |X|. The square root of a number is any number that can be squared to provide that number. Hence, the square root of 9 is 3 or -3, because -3 \* -3 = 9. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/24 "2010-11-28T07:33:48Z")
How long was the One Hundred Year War? [Oh, wait…](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War) 😛 116 years. From 1337 to 1453 OK – How long was the Six Day War, then? Yup, you guessed right this time… 6 days 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/25 "2010-11-28T07:46:30Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > OK – How long was the Six Day War, then? Yup, you guessed right this time… 6 days 😃 That also works for the Thirty Years’ War: which was exactly 30 years long: 1618-1648 > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Sort of dated at this point, but “What’s black and white and red/read all over?” > > A newspaper… Huh…and here I was thinking it’s a nun in a blender. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/26 "2010-11-28T08:15:22Z")
How Long is a Chinese man. This one can only be spoken, of course. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/27 "2010-11-28T13:19:22Z")
> [@AllShookDown](#): > > In 8th grade our science teacher would put these types of questions on our tests as freebies. What color was Washington’s white horse? Aren’t white horses classified as “grey” (unless they are albinos)? Brian ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/28 "2010-11-28T22:36:52Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > BZZZT. Wrong answer. Nobody is _buried_ in Grants tomb. They are entombed in Grant’s tomb. [BZZZZT!](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bury) I think this covers either situation. > [@Lubricious\_Integument](#): > > Awesome! Well, the answer’s the same, but not for the reason you’re thinking. Moses did have an ark. Exodus 2:3. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/29 "2010-11-28T23:03:54Z")
How much dirt is in a hole six feet deep and four feet wide? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/30 "2010-11-28T23:46:47Z")
A ship is at anchor at low tide. There is a rope ladder hanging over the side, just touching the water, and the rungs are one foot apart. How many rungs are under water after three hours if the tide rises one foot per hour? ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/31 "2010-11-29T00:42:37Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > How many of each animal did Moses take on the ark? I’ll bite…one? ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/32 "2010-11-29T05:24:38Z")
> [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](#): > > I’ll bite…one? Psst… Moses was the Red Sea parting dude, not the ark guy. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/33 "2010-11-29T05:30:12Z")
Well, actually Moses had an ark, just not the kind full of animals. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/34 "2010-11-29T11:55:22Z")
John’s mother has three children. The oldest child is named April. The middle child is named May. What’s the youngest child’s name? John. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/35 "2010-11-29T12:53:35Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Haw far can you walk into the woods? > > Halfway. After you reach that point, you’re walking _out_ of the woods. I dispute that answer. You can walk all the way into the woods, at which point, you are in the deepest part of them. Walk any farther, and you are now more than halfway _through_ the woods. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/36 "2010-11-29T13:07:14Z")
What kind of noise annoys an oyster? A noisy noise annoys an oyster. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/37 "2010-11-29T13:38:55Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > What kind of noise annoys an oyster? > A noisy noise annoys an oyster. How do you tittilate an ocelot? Oscillate its tit a lot. Ok, not suitable for 10 year olds but still the perfect counterpoint. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/38 "2010-11-29T13:42:55Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > What kind of noise annoys an oyster? > A noisy noise annoys an oyster. I suppose a ten-year-old is too young for the similar “How do you titillate an ocelot?” joke though. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/39 "2010-11-29T15:03:52Z")
what’s the largest human hand? 11 inches. If it was any longer it would be a foot. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128/40 "2010-11-29T15:35:33Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > what’s the largest human hand? > > 11 inches. If it was any longer it would be a foot. [Sad Trombone](http://www.sadtrombone.com/)😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-buried-in-grants-tomb/562128.md?page=3)