Coffee-time puzzlers

At your next coffee break, here are some questions you might discuss – and answer:

1. Do they have a Fourth of July in England?

2. How many birthdays does the average man or woman have in their lifetime?

3. Why can’t a man living in New York City be buried west of the Mississippi River?

4. If you have only one match when you entered a room in which there were a kerosene lamp, an oil heater, and a wood-burning stove, which would you light first?

5. Some months have 30 days, some have 31 days. How many have                                                                                28 days?

6. How far can a dog run into the woods?

7. What is the minimum number of active baseball players during any part of an inning?

8. In a baseball game how many outs are there in an inning?

9. I have two U.S. coins totaling 55 cents in my hand. One is not  nickel. What are those coins?

10. A farmer had 17 sheep and but nine died. How many sheep did he have left?

11. Divide 30 by one-half and add ten. What is the answer?

12. An archaeologist claimed he found some coins dated B.C. Do you think he really did.

13. How many animals did Moses take aboard the Ark?

Here are the answers:

1, Of course. The fourth of July occurs in every country. So do the fifth, sixth, etc.

2. Only one.

3. It’s against the law to bury people alive.

4.The match.

5. All of them. Some have more.

6. Half-way, then he’s running out of the forest.

7. Ten players.

8. Six outs.

9. A 50 cent piece. One is not a nickel, but one is. See?

10. Nine.

11. Seventy.

12. Nope.

13. None. Moses wasn’t on the Ark. Noah was.

(Fugleberg is the former owner of the Flathead Courier.)