The Friday quiz

06/07/2007 by Lee.

A bit lacking in subject matter today, so here’s some questions for you that have always puzzled me. Answers on a postard or the back of a stuck down envelope please.

1) Who discovered you could milk a cow and what were they trying to do at the time?

2) Who pulled a potato out of the ground, covered in dirt and thought, “I’ll eat that”?

3) At what point did rolling up tobacco leaves, putting them in your mouth and setting fire to them seem like a good idea?

4) Back to cows for this one. Who looked at one and thought, “I bet if I killed it, skinned it and then dried its skin, it would make a cracking pair of shoes”?

5) Why are there 10 commandments? Is that not a rather fortunate number to receive from on high for a race using the decimal system? Why not 7 or 12? Or even better, 3. I’m God, only me and nobody else, don’t be a criminal, respect other people.

6) Still with commandments. Why do they all start, “You shall not…” It’s hardly a positive message is it. Why not, “You will be good” and so on.

7) Jade Goody. Just why? What is the point of her?

Why have people got different accents? What started that?

9) Why are people from the Netherlands called Dutch?

10) In a library, is the Bible stored under fiction or non-fiction?

11) Who thought “Rock-a-bye baby” would make a good lullaby? The baby falls out of a tree and dies

12) Why is there an Easter Bunny? When was the last time you saw a rabbit with eggs?

13) What do atheists swear on in court?

14) If you only have one eye, do you blink or wink?

15) Why do we only breath out of one nostril at a time and why does it swap over every 20 minutes or so?

16) If I stand exactly on the North Pole, what time is it?

17) Why isn’t “Phonetic” spelled the same way that it sounds?

18) How important do you have to be before being murdered becomes being assasinated?

19) Why isn’t Donkey Kong a donkey?

20) Why can’t I have my cake and eat it? What’s the point of having a cake if you’re not allowed to eat it? 

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