Silly trick questions (part 2)

I've mentioned before that I'm a fan of trick questions, so here's another batch to get your brain around.

"Hmm, what could the answers be, I wonder?"

For some of them the answers are fairly obvious, but for others the solutions can be quite tricky. If you get stuck on any though, remember that they are trick questions.

Anyway, have a read of the following trick questions and see how many you can get right.

1) What five letter word does every genius pronounce wrong?



2) What is the least spoken language in the world?



3) A man went 50 days without sleep. How was it possible?

One dollar bills.
But which are worth more?

4) What word starts with E, ends with E, but only has one letter in it?



5) Why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than 1989 American dollar bills?



6) How many three pence stamps are in a dozen?



7) Ten percent of the residents of London have ex-directory phone numbers.

If you selected 100 names at random from the London phone directory, how many of those people would have an ex-directory phone number?



8) If a plane with German passengers crashes on the border between France and Belgium, where would you bury the survivors?

For the benefit of any younger readers*,
this is what an L.P. record used to look like.

* Like myself. **shifty eyes**

9) What important event takes place on September 31st?



Finally, if you're young, then you might have to get an old person to help you with this last question*.

* I know I certainly did. **shifty eyes**

10) How many grooves are there on each side of a standard L.P. record that has six songs on each side?

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Scroll down the page for the answers*...

* Unless you're extremely clever and you managed to work out all the answers already. However, even if that's the case, I would still recommend scrolling down the page just to confirm that you're correct.

















Answers:

Okay.

1) What five letter word does every genius pronounce wrong?

Answer: The word wrong.



2) What is the least spoken language in the world?

Answer: Sign language!



3) A man went 50 days without sleep. How was it possible?

Answer: He slept at night.



4) What word starts with E, ends with E, but only has one letter in it?

Answer: Envelope.



5) Why are 1990 American dollar bills worth more than 1989 American dollar bills?

Answer: Because there's one more of them. 1990 dollar bills are worth $1,990, whereas 1989 dollar bills are only worth $1,989.



6) How many three pence stamps are in a dozen?

Answer: Twelve! It doesn't matter how much they are worth, there's still twelve of them in a dozen.

For the benefit of younger readers, this is what
telephones looked like in the olden days.

7) Ten percent of the residents of London have ex-directory phone numbers.

If you selected 100 names at random from the London phone directory, how many of those people would have an ex-directory phone number?

Answer: None of them. If they are ex-directory then they won't be in the phone directory!



8) If a plane with German passengers crashes on the border between France and Belgium, where would you bury the survivors?

Answer: You don't bury survivors.



9) What important event takes place on September 31st?

Answer: Nothing. September only has 30 days.



10) How many grooves are there on each side of a standard L.P. record that has six songs on each side?

Answer: There's one groove on each side. It doesn't matter how many songs there are. Each side has one groove from the beginning to the end.

Related posts:
10 silly trick questions (part 1)
Puzzles and riddles